Betray Back Better
By definition, only your friends can betray you
Early on in March 2020 I was leery of the hysteria surrounding Covid and decided my course of action was to be wait and see. At the time I was under the impression that I was a freeborn citizen with a number of unalienable rights, including sovereignty over my bodily choices. So when the talk started about new vaccines being imminent, I again decided I would wait and see whether the vaccines were all they were cracked up to be. This was then, and is now, an entirely reasonable position to take, screeching from media and twitter hounds notwithstanding. I didn’t expect it would turn out to be more like “wait and see how totally out of hand this will get.”
Wait and see how the government will forcibly close businesses
Wait and see how treatments will be suppressed
Wait and see how hysteria captured the media
Wait and see how healthy populations will be subject to house arrest
Wait and see how police will shoot protesters
Wait and see how a pregnant mother will be arrested for a Facebook post
Wait and see how medical services across state borders will be denied
Wait and see how ‘wait and see-ers’ will be demonized
Wait and see how family and friends will betray their loved ones
Well, I’ve waited long enough and I’ve seen more than enough. Thankfully the worst, most violent excesses have abated for. now, if you exclude the ongoing carnage of short and long term vaccine injury. There are lingering abominations from the blitzkrieg of lockdowns and vaccine mandates, but generally there is a sense that an uneasy peace, or maybe a phoney war, has descended on us.
Of course, there is still a serious amount of Covid pantomime going on. Exhibit A: a TV news report recently showed a road accident victim doing rehab with a mask on, then happily chatting without a mask to the reporter, also without a mask. If he was worried about Covid he’d leave it on for the interview, or if he wasn’t worried he wouldn’t wear it while doing rehab. Seems you can have it both ways these days provided you don’t think about it too much. Exhibit B: Last year cricket teams in the BBL were decimated if one of the players had a positive test, and others were ‘close contacts’. Umpires refused to hold a bowler’s cap or sunglasses for fear of the spicy cough. Last night, two players on one team played despite not only testing positive, but also feeling unwell. If there is no practical change when a player has Covid, why do we need to know about it? Answer: we don’t, but it has become normalised to disclose players’ private health statuses, just as it is normalised now to ask anyone any kind of detailed personal health question that satiates the questioner’s ghoulish fetishes. While player fitness has always been a matter of interest to sports fans, especially those who like a bet, illness used to be dealt with in a formulaic way, such as “Player X is not playing tonight due to illness.” There’s no need to know any further details. Exhibit C: The memorial concert for aboriginal singer Archie Roach included a pre-concert ‘smoking ceremony’ in which footage aired for a news report showed a woman dancing through the ceremonial smoke - while wearing a mask. This example is probably less deliberate pantomime and more genuine irrationality. Anyone donning a mask and expecting to keep a virus out but let smoke in has taken leave of their rationality. Ironically, in this case the mask may actually do some good in preventing larger smoke particles entering the lungs - what firefighters call ‘smoke inhalation.’
It is counter-productive to scoff at these insanities - those who have not yet come in their own time to see the inconsistencies are not suddenly going to see the light because of a witty remark. The most likely reaction is an equally irrational, and possibly heated defence of the person or the rule. In valued relationships, the only sensible course is studied silence. Even a raised eyebrow in front of the TV can crank the tension in the room up a notch or two.
But these annoyances over masks and ‘Covid protocols’, that overused euphemism for voodoo superstitions, are yesterday’s skirmishes in a war that has moved on to other theatres. The central battle is about freedom and autonomy. To the extent that the spoils of the ‘mask and protocol’ incursions can be re-weaponised against us, winning the freedom and autonomy battle will be that much harder. How can we resist curbs on movement having once complied with QR scanning for going to the shops? Think it couldn’t happen? Oxford city council in the UK is moving ahead with a scheme to confine residents to one of 6 zones using electronic gates on roads and limited number of trips across zones. How could we resist a forced medical treatment having once rolled over to experimental gene therapy? How can we fight against programmable digital currency when once we have accepted ‘card only’ cashiers and accommodated the idea of shopping for ‘essential items’ only and allowing a cop to rummage around in our shopping trolley?
The legislative bricks in the wall continue to be put into place with little if any scrutiny. Doctors are now unable to give opinions that depart from government health advice without risking de-registration. Pandemic laws born as bastard sons of parliaments suspended under state of emergency powers are now legitimised as permanent statutes, requiring only a declaration to bring them all into force once again. Digital ID’s are now compulsory for all company directors, including Mums and Dads who happen to be directors of their own superannuation funds. Ordinary citizens are surely next.
How is it that our lawmakers feel it appropriate to make these kinds of changes? No-one asked for them. How is it they can ignore letters and petitions? Why do they partner with unelected globalists and make treaties we won’t be allowed to vote on? How is it that our civil rights institutions were so toothless? They didn’t even utter a whimper, let alone a growl. How is it that our professional bodies and business associations were silent? Only a few brave souls protested. How is it that our police forces humiliated themselves to the point where they were taping off children’s playgrounds and fining elderly women for sitting on a park bench? We long ago gave up on the idea that the mainstream media would hold authorities to account.
In the end the explanations, whether we get them or not, whether they make sense or not, are beside the point. Nothing can change what happened. By some miracle we might avert what they have planned, but it’s going to be a hell of a fight.
Once upon a time, we sweated on daily case numbers when the new cases per day were less than 10; now we barely think of them, and they are in the thousands, if not the tens of thousands. There’s only one conclusion to be drawn - it was never about public health, and it still isn’t. It was always about control.
When I tell people that I will never forgive the premier nor the former chief health officer for the cruelty they inflicted on my fellow Queenslanders, either their eyes glaze over or they look at me like I’m speaking gibberish.
I railed against each illogical diktat forced upon us over the last three years and continue to argue that there has to be some accountability for the damage done.
There is a lot of memory-holing going on, making it much easier for it all to happen again. Sane people need to speak up.
I’m from down under as well, and there’s bad news . The governor of the reserve bank Phillip Lowe was speaking at meet the press around the time national debt became a trillion dollars. A reporter asked what he was going to do ? Print more money- he’s response was don’t be silly it’s all digital. Not one reporter followed up 🆙 n that, they’re all lefties. I had information several years ago from an unlikely source that Dan had spent 25 million on AK 47’ s. If you go back to the first plane landing at Tulla one reporter commented incoming passenger’s we’re surprised that cops had sub machine guns- that would be 7,10or Sky can’t remember which one.Dan is militarising our police force. Cast your mind back to the protests- our boys in blue are now dressed in black like thirties blackshirts and with body arm like something out of Star Wars. As for digital I.D. If you sign up for myGov account to access Medicare Centrelink or ATO as a regular citizen, you’re expected to provide every piece of ID from info from original birth certificate, passport licence etc plus facial recognition.I remember Bob Hawke having a referendum on the Australia card, and it was a no vote. This is far worse and more intrusive and will all be handed over to the WHO pandemic treaty and the woke agreement signed at G20. At 3000/ piece that’s around 1000 AK47’s. I also recently found out that APRHA- the group that deregistered doctors who disagree with the public narrative was reorganised into n 2018, and despite having a gov.au address and n not part of our government. As a country we are much further down the rabbit hole of socialism than most people realise. They have also had another “ tabletop” exercise. They plan to release an enterovirus targeting children around the end of 2024. About the same time of US elections, and when the WHO pandemic treaty becomes binding. We will be handing over our medical sovereignty to an unelected bunch of bureaucrats.