I thought I would post this here, in a... community, I guess, that would hopefully listen. I did consider including links to articles about the situation, but... Aside from say, The Spectator and maybe a couple of News Corp sites (The Australian and Sky News aren't too bad), everything else produced "locally" about what is going on is so fucking biased that it is just... Barely distinct from propaganda. :-/
So... Firstly, I would like to clarify that I am not anyone important. I'm not... Trained in anything relevant to this (though I am a biologist and statistician, but all that has really taught me is to be even MORE cynical). I don't have any power. I don't really have an "agenda" here, except to attempt to restore the personal freedoms that I thought, until recently, belonged to myself and my fellow citizens, and to... Honestly try to push back against this shit, before it kills me (the lockdowns and restrictions, not the fucking virus itself), and other young people in this country.
Australia is... Not a great place to be, right now. Hell, it isn't even "good". I'm not proud of my country, or what it is doing; how it is acting. Then again, I can't remember that many times in my lifetime when I have been proud of it, to any real extent.
I think, internationally, Australia is known as this... Rugged, individualist, "self reliant", conservative place. This is a myth. Outside of, at a significant stretch, rural areas, Australia has not been that way since at least 1972, and probably longer.
We are highly urbanised, deeply collectivist, entirely reliant on others (not to mention China and the US) for pretty much everything, weak, cowardly, extremely multicultural, and just... Honestly, a deeply divided, broken-spirited place. Our middle class is bloated. People are... "Privileged", in the sense that the standard of living (as bullshit as that may be) is so high, here, that people aren't willing to do anything, anything at all, which might jeopardise their precious picket fence, speedboat and four cars (generalising a bit).
The two biggest cities here, Melbourne and Sydney, are currently in lockdown, as you may know. Melbourne had something like... 10 new cases, yesterday. In a city of more than 5 million. Sydney had just over 100. That is enough to "justify" locking down nearly 11 million people, and closing nearly all the state borders.
But it's worse than that. Earlier in the year, our cities would close down over 1 (1!) case of the Delta/Indian strain. And people lapped it up. The media cheered it on. And the push polling they conducted called for MORE restrictions, not less.
Australia is not like America. We don't have a bill of rights. Our Constitution is fucking useless. And people here don't... Stand up for themselves. "Tall poppy syndrome", maybe. I really don't know, but doing ANYTHING against the prevailing mainstream, leftist narrative, at this point, is seen as bad. Victoria tried to ban anyone from ever displaying the Swastika again (no, I'm not a Nazi, but come on), within the state, in any context, just last year...
So yeah, those rights that I took for granted, like... Being able to leave the country, or just... Being able to go interstate. They're gone. Hell, the "right of return", to my home state, without having to give all my personal details, digitally "check in", and then, potentially be shoved into hotel-managed solitary confinement, has even been ripped out from under me, even if I was vaccinated (yes, we even "quarantine" the vaccinated in solitary, because we are insane...).
Protest, in Victoria at least, against these restrictions, is now banned. But not BLM or anti-white Australia Day protests. Nah, they're sanctioned by the state, and we are told that they "don't contribute to the spread" (see: Tim Pool, plus also the fact that fucking Victoria had 900 deaths, in the months after BLM poisoned our society last year)...
All of this shit. All of it. And we have only had less than 10 local deaths in nearly a year. All of whom were a) very old, or b) from the... Let's be honest, shithole, that is Papua New Guinea. Or on a ship and left to rot (kudos to the appalling West Australian Government for that one).
People will die, from these latest lockdowns, if they stretch for the months which they are planned to. Hell, I'm not sure I will make it to the other side myself. It is absolutely fucking disgraceful, and I've only touched on less than half of it, even just from briefly glimpsing at the "news" (read: propaganda), earlier today.
So yeah, there you go. Thought some of you might like to hear, from the belly of the beast, just how utterly fucked our test case for the "new world order" has been, and, to some extent, how it has effected me personally.
Yeah. :-/ Nice to see a fellow Aussie on here, hey! Haven't encountered very many of us, so far tbh!
But yeah, I'm genuinely sorry to hear that, mate...
I'm... Fortunate enough to not currently be in a lockdown state, though I do need to travel interstate (to Qld) for Uni, ASAP, so... I don't hold out much hope of continuing to largely avoid all that noise... :-/ How about yourself? If you're in NSW or Vic, or hell, SA now, as of tonight, I really do feel your pain, and I'm sorry for all you're going through.
Hold in there, hey? <3
But nah, seriously, I really, very much understand. My girlfriend, as it were, is from Adelaide originally, and she hadn't seen her Mum for like, six months, until recently... Even for me, my grandfather is in a nursing home, and I've had to come to terms with the fact that... It's possible that something might happen while I'm either interstate, or locked down, or even just unvaccinated (you have to have the flu vax, at minimum, to visit), and I might not get to say goodbye...
So yeah, I totally understand, feel your pain, and just... Fuck this shit, my dude. Fuck this absolute bullshit.
Yeah I hear ya. I lost my job last year to this shit. Thankfully I got another job in Regional NSW and had to make the move last year to accommodate it. So I got out of Sydney just after it first hit.
I haven't seen my family since Christmas. Haven't seen my friends in a year. Thankfully I do live out in Regional NSW so we don't have it too bad (yet) but last year I was in Sydney for the first wave and it was bad then and I can only imagine what it's like now.
I told my parents last year to pack it up and get up to where I was going...they should have listened. I will say where I am now is easier than dealing with Sydney, but at the same time, I fear it won't be long before a case works its way to where we are (just conveniently)...I do wonder how long it will be.
I got out last year and got to regional NSW...it's been a little better where I am as most people around here tend to ignore the mainscheme media. So that is one thing I guess.
I feel ya, man. I worry about my folks too and my grandmother just had a heart attack last month before this shit started up again so I totally feel ya. I don't want to say it but if something should happen then it worries me as a whole.
You're right about this country having no backbone, we rely on everyone else and the truth is we're fucked and can't stand on our own two feet. But I suppose this is the NWO plan and we're just casually fall into line before anyone realizes what even happened.
But what can we do? Protest? Ha, yeah right! Unless you're BLM or some other lefty shit then good luck with that. It's amazing to me how the virus can be SO selective? ;)
Also its amazing, if this really was an epidemic then why wasn't the streets filled with dead homeless people when it first broke out? If it was so deadly and so contagious, why the fuck aren't the streets lined with dead homeless people? No disrespect to the poor saps out on the street intended, but yeah, all this hysteria for a virus that has killed what? 915 people...that's nothing when you consider that roughly 170,000 people die annually in this country.
I'm just so over the hysterics...I'm over the brain washing...I'm over being painted as a bad guy whenever you point out simple facts because everyone is so afraid of having their fee fees hurt. Soft times created a bunch of wimps.
This shit has gotten ridiculous. People have become so fucking pampered and brain dead that they're willing to overlook simple fact and buy into whatever the newscaster tells them.
It's funny...I overheard something at my doctors today. I have to go for routine check up for reasons I won't disclose (nothing life threatening mind you)...one of the locals was talking to the receptionist about the vaccine and asking the receptionist if she was going to get it. In a hush voice, she shook her head no. When the lady asked her "why?" She mentioned "if you knew what we knew then you wouldn't want it either. None of us here want it."
Mind you, my doctor went on to tell me he was fully vaxxed...which just leaves me even more skeptical to this shit.
Anyways...this is me ranting...I just needed to get it all off my chest...I'm with you...fuck this god damn spineless country of ours.
Stay out of Orange, Blayney and the surrounding area, then, if you're anywhere near there, my dude! They've just gone into lockdown, as well, as of tonight... :-/ But you probably already knew that.
Tassie has been remarkably insulated from all this - it's quite amazing.
Still a bunch of bullshit restrictions, but I'm fully aware that once I get back to fucking SEQ, that's where I'll see the real bullshit (like Sydney, as you mention... Though not quite as bad, at present), once again... :-S
Will reply more once I get some work done! But anyway, hold in there, dude! Just thank christ neither of us is in Syd, Melbs or Radelaide right now, lol...
Also, re the docs - yeah, I had to go to a specialist dentist recently (expensive, and shit, but I digress), and the three staff I encountered there had very much the same attitude, lol...
Then again, the receptionist in that one flew up to the Gold Coast to go for a "tattoo holiday", and was disappointed in how much that cost, so... I wouldn't, uhh, count her as a beacon of wisdom, in this particular case (stereotypes hold true?), lol...
But that's interesting that you heard that, too. Makes you wonder, hey?
*just quietly, I’d say many of the homeless guys are back in free hotel accomodation...if they want it. Same as last time.