Victoria, Australia, 2021: “Calm down or you will get f**king gassed”
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Text from the Australian, because it is paywalled and unarchivable (I tried, trust me):
"A Victorian teenager has been sentenced to three months in jail after he embarked on an anger-fuelled rampage in hotel quarantine, a court has heard.
Victoria Police charged 19-year-old Stawell man Jessie Thomas with intentionally damaging property — valued at up to $10,000 — after he punched holes in the walls and door of his room at the Element by Westin hotel in Richmond.
Thomas became violent on Saturday because he believed he was due to leave quarantine at midday on September 4 but staff would not let him out. In fact, he was not due to leave until a minute before midnight.
The court also heard Thomas smashed a TV, broke a kettle and the dining table after he was forced into hotel quarantine on August 22 because he tried to bypass authorities when he returned from NSW.
The judge described the incident as a “significant rampage” and according to police at the hotel, Thomas attempted to escape the facility on Saturday.
Thomas’ lawyer Peter Schumpeter said his client admitted to the damages, and asked for a community corrections order with unpaid community work and counselling for anger management, drugs and alcohol.
He said Thomas conceded he had anger management issues and sought counselling from Headspace. The court also heard Thomas breached a family violence intervention order this year, abused marijuana and had been sleeping rough since the age of 15.
But magistrate John Doherty sentenced him to three months in prison.
“Thomas went on a) significant rampage of his hotel designed not only to protect him but to protect the rest of us Victorians,” he said.
“In my opinion he should receive a jail sentence and he will.”
Video and audio emerged online of Mr Thomas’ episode at the hotel.
Reality television star Danny Hayes posted the video to YouTube that documented Thomas’ breakdown. He can be heard swearing loudly and punching the walls of his room at hotel quarantine on Swan St.
Between loud thuds and yelling, Mr Thomas could be heard screaming: “take me somewhere where the f**king walls won’t cave in”.
In response, a man’s voice said: “We can’t help you if you keep doing this”.
Mr Hayes filmed himself calling staff to ask what happened in the room next door.
“There is a guy going off his head — you obviously know that … he is punching walls,” he said.
“I think he is my next door neighbour. I heard him say … he was supposed to be released.”
It is understood it was a Victoria Police officer who can be heard telling the 19-year-old to “calm down or you will get f**king gassed”.
The 2021 Big Brother star and Melbourne based real estate also posted a video to Instagram and said people go berserk in hotel quarantine.
“People go crazy in here. You know why? It’s not normal to lock people in a place,” Mr Hayes said.
“This is the second guy that has smashed the place up since I have been here. You can hear the babies crying, this is sad,” he said.
“This is the reality of hotel quarantine.”
He later said: “It’s like we are inmates”.
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It's not, unless you have an exemption (compassionate or whatever)...
In this case, I believe he jumped the border and was then caught. Which... These are state borders, here. They should NEVER have been allowed to be closed. And it also implies, I suppose, that someone dobbed him in...
Re your second question, that really depend on how rich and powerful you are, and who you know...
If you're Zac Efron, or mining magnate Twiggy Forrest, or Chris Hemsworth, or a politician, you can come and go as you please, and you WON'T be subjected to this hotel prison situation...
For you, or I, or anyone else, like in this video? No, we cannot leave (even if you normally reside overseas, as of last month), and the waitlist to enter has some 40,000 people on it, has done for six months, and the wait time keeps blowing out, month after month, as Vic and NSW, for example, put interstate travellers (as here), in the hotels instead...
Alternatively, you may end up in a literal quarantine "camp", like Howard Springs, in Darwin. 35 degree heat, and 100% humidity.
You can go outside, there, but the cops are even more oppressive, and heavy-handed, and I fully expect they would be happy to kill, or at least permanently maim you, if you cause a fuss, as here...
So really, not much better. They're building more camps like that, too. And yes, Godwin's law, but you... Get that this isn't a great look. They plan to send us unvaccinated, there, in future, too...
Does that sort of answer your questions?
People can't allow themselves to be put into quarantine, and angry mobs should be burning those places to the ground in Minecraft.
It's the latter. You MAY be given an exemption, to travel, as you say, for work, but then you may not get back in, at least for many months...
However, far more importantly, those exemptions are rarely granted. I couldn't get one to go study a course in Sweden, as a personal example...
But see my reply to the parent comment below. I go into more detail there, to try and explain it, at least a bit...
It's so fucked, here, dude. I just... Can't explain how fucked it is. :-(
Were you the one posting about giving up a while ago, anon?
So now he's going to actual prison.
Melbourne needs to be nuked by China.
Their judges don't value a democracy. Sad.