COVID-19 or COVID-1984?

Here is a collection of images to make the case that COVID-1984 is more appropriate term, certainly in Australia where the images are taken from.

Figure 1: a group of more than two people on the beach!

Figure 2: you can't sit on a park bench!

Figure 3: Australian Defence Forces personnel help police clear the streets

Figure 4: police patrol Bondi Beach after it was closed to the public

Figure 5: police close the border between NSW and Queensland

Figure 6: don't try it!

So, Aussies!

Don't think you live in a police state?

THINK AGAIN

Figure 7: source

You Shouldn't Be Stationary

Here are two interesting links to alternative takes on how to respond to the Corona virus:

• https://off-guardian.org/2020/03/24/12-experts-questioning-the-coronavirus-panic/
• https://off-guardian.org/2020/03/28/10-more-experts-criticising-the-coronavirus-panic/

The first article begins with an interview with Dr Sucharit Bhakdi, a specialist in microbiology. He was a professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and head of the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene and one of the most cited research scientists in German history. He says, in reference to the German government's corona virus containment measures (similar to those in many other countries):

The government’s anti-COVID19 measures] are grotesque, absurd and very dangerous […] The life expectancy of millions is being shortened. The horrifying impact on the world economy threatens the existence of countless people. The consequences on medical care are profound. Already services to patients in need are reduced, operations cancelled, practices empty, hospital personnel dwindling. All this will impact profoundly on our whole society. All these measures are leading to self-destruction and collective suicide based on nothing but a spook.

An embedded YouTube video in which Dr Bhakdi expressed his views in more depth no longer exists as the good doctor has had his YouTube channel deleted:
  

Some have quipped that COVID-19 would be better referred to as COVID-1984. In Australia at least, it really does feel like 1984 has arrived. This chilling video (opening screenshot below) is clear evidence of it and is contained in an article from news.com.au titled:

Coronavirus Australia:  

Can you sit down at the park? 

The short answer is no. The problem is with plenty of people stopping at the same time, the park ends up with 50 people in it. NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller said there were a lot of what ifs, like if you were exercising, which is still allowed in all states in Australia. Asked whether a mother and kids could sit on the grass in the park and let them crawl and run around, Mr Fuller told the Today show that could count as exercise. “But again, the problem is, I guess if everyone went down to the park at the same time it becomes a complicating factor,” he said. “But do the kids have it or do you have it without symptoms and you are spreading it to someone else who comes in contact with your kids – and I know there is a lot of what ifs in this space, that's why I've asked police to continue to show high levels of discretion. “And I think they have been doing such a wonderful job with that regardless of some of the reporting.”

It good that police are showing "high levels of discretion" but the fact that they even have the discretion to decide such matters in the first place is alarming. More disturbing is that many Australians, like my friend, seem to be OK with this level of control being imposed upon them. 

The article continues:

“You shouldn’t be stationary. You shouldn’t be sitting anywhere – especially if 50 people might be social distancing, but if they’re all sitting in a park, that’s not acceptable. “That’s why police have had to act.” She said “if a number of people are stationary (in a park) that’s an unsafe place”.

It is bizarre to suggest you shouldn't be stationary in a park but NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian was serious. Who would have imagined this rather creepy looking woman issuing such a prohibition at the start of the year? Oh and here's a photo of her with you-know-who.

Needless to say she's up close and friendly with the Jewish community. In her own words, Israel is "a state that embodies the best of Jewish tradition, free speech and debate, innovation, ingenuity and above all else, resilience". 

Orwellian Oz

Australia is on course to ban cash transactions in excess of $10,000. Worldwide, it's clear that the cashless society is coming, it's just a question of how soon. For Australia, it will be sooner rather than later. The primary reason for abolishing cash is CONTROL.

To films, football, beer and gambling, the bread and circuses of the modern world, will be added the cashless society in which our every transaction can be tracked and control becomes absolute. This transactional currency will be totally digital and amount to no more that a number in a database. It can be manipulated as desired by powers far beyond any individual's control, decreased by fines for what is deemed antisocial behaviour and perhaps augmented by rewards for displays of good citizenry (such as reporting ones neighbour for antisocial behaviour).

In such a system, it will be easy to block donations to organisations such as the BDS movement or any other group that the government does not approve of. Either overtly or covertly, a Chinese social credit score system will be introduced that will allow for restrictions to be imposed on travel both within the country and outside of it. Australia is already well on its way to such an Orwellian dystopia. Here is a chilling excerpt from a mindless article that appeared in the Brisbane Times. It's an opinion piece titled School kids already get free vaccines. Add one more and is written by Jenna Price, a columnist and academic at the University of Technology, Sydney.

So what can we do to improve the take up of flu vaccines in Australia? You can’t make people have immunisations although I’d very much like to. One positive step we could take is to roll-out a flu vaccination scheme through our schools. It would have to be free, added to the national immunisation program and funded by the federal government. Schools already do an excellent job of organising vaccination schedules; they provide the venue and the relevant health departments provide the vaccine and staff. As one school principal said to me, “We’ve already got the kids lined up. We could just add another jab to the schedule.” Every year without fail, that would reduce the spread.

Note the mindset of the journalist: You can’t make people have immunisations although I’d very much like to. If mandatory vaccination were put to a popular vote, Jenna Price would be supporting it. What's chilling however, is the focus on schools as a means of facilitating and eventually helping to enforce such vaccinations. For me, Australia has become an unsettling place to live which is why I choose not to live there. 

Even entering the country can be an unpleasant experience. On my last visit, following an overnight flight, I was taken aside by a customs official, given the third degree and told that my "attitude sucked". In fact I was too tired to have an "attitude" because I hadn't slept on the flight and was struggling to coherently answer the questions that were being put to me. The attitude of customs officials and airport police is that they can feel they can say and do what they want to anyone who attracts their attention. As another return to Oz is imminent, I'll be on my guard as I pass through Perth airport because last time I was certainly caught off guard. 

There's no point in mentioning the limitless authority that ASIO has to spy on Australian citizens. Australia has become a surveillance state as well as a police state. With the arrival of 5G cellular networks, the extent of the surveillance will increase further and limits on police powers will decrease proportionately.

Access to alternative news sources is also been curtailed. BitChute, an alternative site to YouTube for uploading videos, is an example of just one of the many sites that have been blocked at the whim of ISPs. This just makes it harder for someone casually browsing the Internet to chance upon alternative news. In Australia, mainstream television is unwatchable and newspapers unreadable. An accumulation of laws, regulations and ordinances have subjugated Australians, many of whom dutifully line up or have their children line up for flu shots and any other recommended vaccinations. They fear the media-created Moslem bogeyman and accept Orwellian surveillance and police brutality as the price to play for being kept safe.