If you watch the official press conferences and government announcements of rules and restrictions in Australia and New Zealand, you see some of the most bizarre and dystopian reactions from the government. It really is jaw-dropping and almost unbelievable how the citizens of the area are under the complete control of their government and ministries of health.
Today the extreme far-left New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, announces a “level four” emergency shutdown as a result of a single case of COVID being identified yesterday. A single case.
There have been numerous people discussing how global health leaders choose Australia and New Zealand as testing grounds for how much control can be put upon society and still permit those in government to retain their authority. Previously, I dispatched those discussions, because they seemed a little, well, ‘out there’; however, I did keep watching and researching. I no longer dismiss those claims. Something really weird is going on down under, and it is alarming in the extreme. First, watch the general announcement:
As a result of the renewed ‘level-four’ restrictions, the people in New Zealand are instructed to stay at home, “Do not talk to your neighbors”, wear a mask, maintain 2 meters social distance, and stay away from others if you leave your home for the three approved reasons: Emergency food shopping, healthcare or testing.
There is something really dystopian about government officials telling citizens to remain compliant, use QR codes, activate their bluetooth tracing and stop talking to their neighbors. There is something exponentially more alarming about citizens actually complying with these instructions. WATCH this next video:
[Video at 15:08 Prompted]
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Are the people in Australia and New Zealand not connected to the internet?
COVID is not more dangerous than the flu. The Delta variant is less dangerous although seemingly more transmissible. There is virtually no remote possibility for any region, place or country to isolate themselves to the point they will not get COVID in the community. Even the vaccinated population carry, shed and get sick from the virus. Almost all recover. What the heck is going on in New Zealand.
Something is really, really, really screwy here….
Your thoughts?….
Do Kiwi stick their heads in the sand?
Dodos sticking it in others poop chute might be a more accurate drawing…
Dodo’s are extinct, maybe these Communists can follow ?.
They only know this type of government. It’s all about control. They don’t have our Foundation (which is rapidly being destroyed).
Is the cited case even an actual case of the China virus?
Should we prepare for refugees from Australia and New Zealand? Unfortunately as we know from experience with Kalifornians fleeing oppression, they usually just bring the same level of stupidity with them that caused the oppression in the first place. In a representative republic the people would be to blame in every case. Now we know, the wish of the people is not necessarily expressed in our representation. Most of us knew this our entire lives but, many are just beginning to realize it. The left as expressed through the deep state sees big tech as their savior this time. They may enjoy some success in this endeavor for a while. I think Orwell may come closest as a prognosticator to what we are already experiencing. Almost all my facebook shares over the past year have been deleted with my comment attached still there but the links are all gone. An iron curtain has descended on vaccines but, essentially everything political almost overnight on social media.
There certainly won’t be any refugees from Australia – Aussies are not permitted to leave Australia except in very special circumstances and with government approval. Dystopian doesn’t begin to cover it.
I live in Sydney. Now we are not allowed to leave the state (NSW) without permission and we could not leave the country without permission for more than a year. So I doubt refugees will be coming anytime soon.
The 2 best things we did was dump farcebook and never signed up for any other social media and now participate in none.
In a world of crazy, the New Zealanders and Australians have jumped off of the deep end with COVID.
Why? What is about that part of the world that has them so terrified?
Is it about whom got inserted into offices (and/or whom are not there)?
[ and whom was involved with implementing the insertion? ]
I do not know
imho
Maybe the sheep to human ratio in the country is 100% now.
Whilst I live in Queensland I listen to radio from Sydney and Melbourne every day and its all Covid, Covid, Covid. The rhetoric is over the top and has me laughing out loud at least once an hour. Breathlessly dramatic narration is the best I can describe it. I think we are close to the point when those who want the jab have registered for it and so the theme of vaccine passports is starting to be pushed again together with companies starting to offer incentives to get jabbed.
In Queensland, we currently have this ‘rule’ that when outside our home we must wear a mask even though we haven’t had a case of Covid for 10 days in Queensland. Our Premier and chief health officer smugly congratulate and gushingly thank us for our cooperation. I live in a building with close to 200 apartments and by far most people are unmasked in public areas of the building. We keep our masks in our car parked in the sub-basement.
It seems to me that most people I come in contact with follow the ‘rules’ only when they have to. At this point it’s the approach of least resistance. A shrug of the shoulders and get on with it. When we had a week of lockdown a couple of weeks ago there was a level of resistance and open disobedience that was noticed. I had a small procedure in a private hospital that has never shut down and was told I could remove my mask once away from view of other patients. There’s a lot of difference between what people think is happening and what is actually happening.
Sadly, that’s what the Russians did at the heyday of the USSR. It doesn’t mean you’re free.
It also reminds of the book They Thought They Were Free, researchd by a man who went to live in Germany for some time about 8-9 years after WWII, with the purpose of interviewing families who had largely escaped unscathed in their communities, living under the radar.
He basically wanted to know “What were you thinking during those years?” and “How do you see it now that it’s all over?” The majority of them, after it was over, still defended their clueless as to what was actually happening.
Doesn’t surprise me. You live in a socialist country.
State.
For leftists, government is literally their god (NZ is 37% Christian, the USA is 70%. Very different cultures).
After so much time and effort, the Kiwis are frightened and angry that their god has failed them.
Masking and lockdowns are punishment of the people for the continuing blasphemy of getting sick.
This is not science, it’s ersatz religion.
You would be surprised how many Christians in Australia worship their governments.
NZ is the country of the All Blacks! Where is the warrior spirit????
People unfamiliar with their National Rugby team might interpret this as something else, here in the States.
Gone
And the government is mass-vaccinating their children without their consent and they’re still not rebelling!
They have no means of administering justice to tyrants–and this is tyranny, as they have no arms. They gave them up decades ago.
Hope we are never so silly as to give up our arms.
They are part of the Commonwealth. That is what they do. Socialist countries.
I believe because of the relatively smaller and more homogeneous populations they can gain and enforce compliance. Right now both countries seem to be cult like populations and their rulers have tapped into that. The Nazis were able to get larger numbers of people to cooperate.
If BSL-2 level safety protocols couldn’t contain this in Wuhan, how will this work? Oh yeah, don’t confuse this with reality.
Statistic from our county:
https://www.facebook.com/BrevardCountyGovt/photos/a.124010410990714/4351964234861956/?type=3&theater
No offense, Coast but, I don’t believe that statistic for a second. Know for a fact that Orange County’s health department has been lying since Mar of 2020. (We have a literal Cuban commie health director.) Know for a fact that our two big hospital systems have been lying too. So I’m afraid I can’t give Brevard the benefit of the doubt.
Also, we’re about 2 months behind the UK and Israel in vaccination trends and they have totally flipped where more vaxxed folks are hospitalized. If on the oft chance Brevard’s data isn’t bogus….give it time.
There is not much comparison of political ideology between Orange County and Brevard.
Probably need to dig deeper. Are hospitals reporting these numbers? Who are in control of the hospitals?
Even if true, I don’t give a rat’s pastootie and neither should you. Cases mean nothing. Getting lost in these weeds is what the left wants you to do. It’s a distraction from the main thing, that COVID is not the plague and everything the government has done in the last eighteen months – EVERY. THING. – has done nothing but massively damage American society. And thus it ALL needs to be stopped NOW. Masks, anti-social distancing, mass testing, mass vaccinations, ALL OF IT.
Really…an extended hospital stay is ok and no big deal?
She lost me when she started saying that if I am alone in a bubble it’s ok to find another person to come in my bubble, but only if I will be faithful to him and he will be faithful to me.
LOL ( I know, not really funny, but I can’t stop laughing.)
That’s appropriate laughter when someone says something creepy.
Sounds like a Marriage.
Maybe she doesn’t know that many Marriages end in Divorce.
think of it like a nest in a tree of trust…
haha.
protege of Tony Blair, nuff said
What about Boris the Moron? He is Mr. Lockdown. NZ is a socialist (doesn’t matter the party) country like the UK.
Key crazy phrase:
“Somehow this virus got through the grasp of officials.”
You can’t make this BS up!!! ???
Ah, but a paper mask will stop it!
Incompetent ignorant leadership.
Too nice by half. They’re evil.
I think it’s pretty obvious what’s going on. You have a dictatorship entity seeking control of the populace using fear tactics spread by the media using the smartphone as the delivery method. Millions believe this is real while millions don’t or don’t care either way. The ones that don’t believe it are not unified which means they have no power to stop it. The ones that do believe it have the power of the state to enforce their mandates.
Seems pretty simple to me.
100% correct in my opinion. From my perspective this whole COVID propaganda kabuki theater is driven by a Cabal of twisted leftists (the visible face is Soros but I’m certain the true people driving it are behind the curtain) who are trying to “save the world from anthropogenic climate change” by kneecapping the Western world and our energy intensive standard of living (travel, leisure, heating/cooling our homes). They are like Cultists of the past who convince themselves that even though they are profiting hand over fist from their authoritarian takeover that it is “good for humanity”. When in fact they are handing the world over to the CCP on a silver platter. The CCP will rape and ravage the natural world 1,000 times over what the West would do and they have ZERO regard for human rights, animal rights, environmental rights or any rights at all. The people implementing this are the business partners of the CCP. I’d rather an asteroid decimate everything than live under their boot.
Why are these 3 folks standing right next to each other?? Other people are only to be in a bubble with ONE other person????
They’re better than we are.
Maybe, they’re ‘vaccinated and sophisticated’? You know, like the obama party?
Her political career is now dependent on her Covid strategy. She has recently gone down in the polls so she needs to reintroduce her totally naive and futile agenda to “ stamp out” the virus and prevent anyone dying. A lot of New Zealanders are won over by the simplistic message. The media are all on her side and have elevated her to “saviour status” and any political opposition is stifled. What is so obvious is that her personality traits mean she is revelling in this role. She is known to have issues with anxiety so worrying. about Covid is right up her street. The facial expressions and body language are just juvenile.
https://ugetube.com/watch/aug-16-2021-situation-woo-update-clif-high_OEIGZlHkbP3oQzq.html
Sent this yesterday and so good for anyone who needs to know the truth about the jab, the military and biden, China, etc. He is good.
Good to hear Cliff is still out there even if a woo update.
Zip it Australia! Big Brother is watching your every word.
I’m sorry but that’s not part of the approved propaganda.
Works hand in glove with this:
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is partnered with a self-described “socialist” internet foundation run by the branch of the Chinese Communist Party spearheading its digital campaign to censor factual narratives and push fraudulent information about COVID-19.
https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/gates-foundation-partnered-with-socialist-china-internet-foundation/
https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2021/08/10/what-we-now-know-about-how-to-fight-the-delta-variant-of-covid-column/
Punchline: The vaccine shows an 8-fold reduction in the development of any symptomatic disease secondary to delta. For hospitalization, it is a 25-fold reduction.
This is also what we are seeing in the hospitalizations where I live.
Judith Collins supports Trump.
This makes one wonder if their voting machines are built in China like Dominion and Smartmatic. Yeah, the ones with the WIFI chips.
All votes in Australia are by paper ballots, run by the electoral commission and the votes scrutinised by representatives from each party. Then sent to the aec for inclusion in the numbers. No voting machines as such. All manual work.
And everyone has to vote…
I saw a poster to this effect:
“I think I am learning who around me would have informed on Anne Frank and who wouldn’t have.”
It didn’t reference specifically any particular political issue. But it seemed obvious, after having read the totalitarian tendencies of those who comment on NextDoor, that it would apply equally to the masking and the vaxxing.
Sounds like an idea for a T-shirt.
Boy you are good, they invited us after we moved. Dumped them in 2 weeks and hoped my hoood had none of those folks in it.
Some of this advice is good. Over the last year I have excluded all Liberals from my bubble.
https://twitter.com/21WIRE/status/1427515514071527437?s=20
I am repelled by these handtalkers being used as virtue props. Every leftist spox uses one now. I am a staunch proponent of ASL so that is not my issue… it’s a big prog thing to have a distraction like that next to every podium.
I see a lot of discussion about the variants of the virus. I have been following nextstrain.org for well over a year and the virus has mutated all along. With the development of relative low cost desk top gene sequencers these machines are widely available in labs around the world. (I’ve seen them even on ebay.) Nextstrain.org is an “open source” group of researchers that have been doing the sequencing of SARS-CoV2 and tracking the mutations since December 2019. They have mapped both the genome and the locations over time. This has shown the virus was first found in Wuhan. In the US two initial strains hit, one on the west coast and the other in New York. The West coast variant was from Wuhan. The East coast variant came through Europe. I’m attaching a link to the genome map. The map shows the “Greek” named variants and where in the sequence they originated. Very interesting and there is a lot of information on the site. And, yes the virus has been sequenced and tracked.
For those that want to actually look at the progression of the virus this site provides some detail. It does show the “scary” Delta and Lambda strains and others.
https://nextstrain.org/ncov/gisaid/global
Jacinda Ardern should not be tolerated in a position of authority in New Zealand. Did I say that carefully enough?
Were you w/in earshot of a neighbor?
If so, the answer is a NO.
Push to vax 24,000 12th graders in Aus.
The pusher tries to “sell” the idea at the beginning >>> Bank Arena Vax site is the same one Madonna played in and Olympic Stars went to, so …..”Go for the Gold”.
Parents not allowed inside. There’s buses and parents can drop you, or you can drive yourself.
Curtis mentions Doctors as Pushers. Leaves out Politicians and Journalists. Things have evolved quite a bit since he wrote it.
https://twitter.com/nicola1charles/status/1427499688756858887?s=20
They won’t stop. They’ll never stop!
Citizens have to stop them.
This was entirely predictable. It’s absolute evil. People need to go to prison over this. And the rest need to make sure they do. When something like this happens, the time for peaceful marches is over.
Simply put, it’s a case of the “precautionary principle” taken too far. Daniel Kahnemann in Thinking, Fast and Slow talks about risks in terms of trading on the stock exchange but the “intense aversion to … increased risk” plays out in health and safety too. Talk about governments being “hoist on their own petard”! The petard in this case is their health and safety Acts and Regulations.
The purpose of a Sign Language Interpreter is to translate Bullshit.
Every time I see one, I know the person at the mic is speaking bullshit.
I wonder if the Kiwis and Aussies miss their guns yet.
I recently heard an interview done with a Belgium Psychologist who specialized in mass terror psychosis producing a type of hypnotic response by the public. Sorry can’t remember the name or most of the presentation but he said there were 4 factors necessary to be in place for it to happen and all 4 factors have been met and are being maintained. Media terror propaganda 24/7 was one, false information by trusted leaders such as doctors was another, WHO, CDC, etc; isolation from family and friends was the third, not sure what was the fourth. But he said it was a real phenomenon causing people to believe something horrible to be true when the facts clearly show the opposite. This may be what is going on in NZ and Australia.
But actually sounds like a bunch of Psychology BS to me : )
Or it just may be stupidity and cowardice.
https://academyofideas.com/2021/04/manufacturing-of-a-mass-psychosis-can-sanity-return-to-an-insane-world/
During a mass psychosis madness becomes the norm in a society and delusionary beliefs spread like a contagion. In a totalitarian society the population is divided into two groups, the rulers and the ruled, and both groups undergo a pathological transformation.
The rulers are elevated to an almost god-like status which is diametrically opposed to our nature as imperfect beings who are easily corrupted by power. The masses, on the other hand, are transformed into the dependent subjects of these pathological rulers and take on a psychologically regressed and childlike status.
The social transformation that unfolds under totalitarianism is built upon, and sustained by, delusions. For only deluded men and women regress to the childlike status of obedient and submissive subjects and hand over complete control of their lives to politicians and bureaucrats. Only a deluded ruling class will believe that they possess the knowledge, wisdom, and acumen to completely control society in a top-down manner.
But what triggers the psychosis of totalitarianism? As was explored in the previous video of this series, the mass psychosis of totalitarianism begins in a society’s ruling class. When a ruling elite becomes possessed by a political ideology of this sort, be it communism, fascism or technocracy, the next step is to induce a population into accepting their rule by infecting them with the mass psychosis of totalitarianism.
Priming a population for the crime of menticide begins with the sowing of fear. For as was explored in the first video of this series, when an individual is flooded with negative emotions, such as fear or anxiety, he or she is very susceptible to a descent into the delusions of madness. Threats real, imagined, or fabricated can be used to sow fear, but a particularly effective technique is to use waves of terror.
Under this technique the sowing of fear is staggered with periods of calm, but each of these periods of calm is followed by the manufacturing of an even more intense spell of fear, and on and on the process goes, or as Meerloo writes:
Yikes, sounds kind of familiar ?
Calling in from Melbourne, Australia (wish it was FLA!)
A few thoughts:
Historically a very high trust society – people still believe the civil institutions they have always trusted, can still be trusted
Fear of the virus – cranked up massively by those same ‘trusted’ institutions and media. A recent survey indicated respondents believed they had a 30%(!) chance of dying. Brings out the worst in people.
Coercion- our police forces have been rapidly expanded and very aggressively enforce the ‘emergency’ diktats from political leaders hiding behind public health officials. Essentially assaulting people in the streets for ‘non-compliance’.
We continue to live under ‘state of emergency’ and ‘state of disaster’ declarations 18 months in. These overrule all existing laws, including the human rights act, Parliament doesn’t sit, no checks or balances.
Thanks for your report, Perf.
We wish you were in Melbourne, Florida, too!
Succumbing to the fear is simply inexcusable in adults. Not believing your own eyes is inexcusable.
“who you gonna believe? Me, or your own, lying eyes”.
People need to stop using the terms “case” and “cases”.
PCR testing for CoV2 is not and never was a diagnostic test to determine infectiousness. It’s a study tool that looks for specific viral RNA by “amplifying” swab samples. “Amplify” means like making Xerox copies. The amplified sample is then examined for the RNA the PCR machine is looking for.
The correct terminology for test results is “viral RNA fragments found” or “viral RNA fragments not found”. “Positive” and “case” are not applicable terms to what the test actually does and actually finds. And if the Cycle Threshold of the PCR test is 35 or greater, there’s 97% chance what the test identifies as “positive” is a false positive. See recent WHO guidelines on how to run PCR tests. See Fauci interview on YouBoob.
And, even if PCR identifies a CoV2 viral RNA fragment, it can’t tell if the fragment is living RNA or dead RNA. If it’s dead you ain’t got CoV2. If it’s living, it needs to be cultured to determine if you carry enough of the virus to be “infected” or, in plain language, sick and contagious with CoV2.
New Zealand’s Jacinda is a kook.
Her mentioning that the D variant has been called a “game changer”…that was the grifter Fauci’s take on it.
BTW: Here’s a great article by Dr. Mercola about how the idea that it’s a pandemic of the unvaxxed is a total lie.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-manipulated-data-create-pandemic-unvaxxed-narrative/
Stay in your “bubbles” ??? Oy vey! What are they drinking in NZ & Australia?
There are two words that have preceded this goofiness – in the last 18 months, I started hearing equity and cohort in a variety of contexts.
The introduction and use of those two words was consistent and expanded over time. Central planning got it done very nicely.
What they are drinking in NZ and Australia is no different than what people at all levels of influence in the United States are drinking.
People aren’t thinking at all. Infectious diseases have an R0 value. If it is less than 1, the disease dies out. If >1, it exponentially rises to infinity. A vaccine that reduces the R0 to < 1 is what halts a pandemic.
The Pfizer/Moderna vaccine is 46% effective against the Delta variant. The R0 for Delta is between 5 and 8 because Delta is much more transmissible than the Alpha (original) Covid which had an R0 of 2 with a vaccine that was 90% effective, so (1-.90) x 2 = 0.2 effective R0. The Vax works on the alpha variant.
So. (1-0.46) * 5 = Effective R0 of 2.7. Runaway infection. Therefore, humanity can NEVER get rid of Delta with a vaccine.
Natural Immunity is the only way forward. And, because animals can catch Covid, the virus will NEVER be eliminated from the biosphere. Just like the Cold virus has never been eradicated.
The nice thing is that the Delta variant is much less deadly than the Alpha, so once you catch it and get over it, you’re good to go for Life. The bad thing is that if you have natural immunity and THEN get the vax, the vax will wipe out your natural immunity and the side effects are greatly amplified so the vax might actually kill you.
Read the whole thing at this Czech physicist website . He explains it on an understandable level:
Immunology, Vaccinology, and Epidemiology 101
https://motls.blogspot.com/2021/08/immunology-vaccinology-epidemiology-101.html
C’mon man! Stop with the science and common sense! /sarc
Cowboy79,
The “leaky” vexxines seem to be pushing the evolution of the variants! The Delta variant appeared in India after a massive testing of one of the first jabs; and all the others seem to be linked to countries where testing took place!
The only way forward is to use therapeutics and natural immunity to control the viruses; eventually there may be a safe vaccine, but we don’t have one yet!
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/asymptomatic-fully-vaccinated-texas-governor-abbott-tests-positive-covid
He’s being tested daily! Why is this being done?
This tics me off. Not one GOP pol has the guts to say “NO, I will not be tested every day if I don’t have symptoms. I will NOT normalize irrational behavior” ! If you’re not boldly part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.
NZ Prime Minister Adern, by the way, is a biological male. You can find the proof on Bitchute.
We now have 5 cases and the sky is falling in! This is not good news for our Dear Leader Jacinda who is in thrall to the UN and sees her dream of becoming relevant there fast disappearing if her claim that we can completely eliminate this virus does not pan out. Which means we will be a hermit state forever.
She’s a left-wing ideologue, steeped in Marxist theory, and slowly destroying this country with green ideology to appease the gods of the United Nations.
It is real simple for me to understand, those leaders are being controlled by the CCP. The CCP tells them to jump and they say how high. The CCP is telling these 2 leaders to lock the people down. This is how you destroy your people. The mental anguish of going through this several times a year has a debilitating effect on the minds of the people. And it has been about 18 months of this BS. They keep doing this and the results are that they people will just GIVE UP and once you get to that stage you have total control. Why the people are putting up with this is beyond me.
I would sooner die and get it over with than live like that again and again. That isn’t living.
The Kiwis desperately need their own 2nd Amendment, as well as their Aussie brethren…. They both need to “import” a lot of the tools that are mentioned in the amendment, which then makes it very effective….
Jacinda Ardern, the NZ Prime Minister, has been an avowed Leftist since she was very young.
Josef Stalin would be proud of this communist dictator.
She is a total lunatic.
Make fun of them all you want but Americans are doing the same stupid stuff. I think there really is a plague. It is the plague of cowardice and stupidity and it is in merica.
https://therightscoop.com/breaking-governor-greg-abbott-tests-positive-for-covid/
Could they wait until US elites bug out there, and THEN lock down?
I’m from Melbourne, Australia. We’ve been living with this nonsense for well over a year. We spent most of 2020 in lockdown. We’d just started to come out of it, and now we’re back in lockdown.
Despite the surface-level similarities between Australia and America, there are defining cultural traits that are completely unique. Americans are far more vocal in demanding their rights be respected. Australians have never been that way. We have a very ‘just get on with things’ attitude. But our culture, like America’s, has been under assault for some time in the form of creeping socialism.
Increased government authority combined with a culture that typically ‘just gets on with things’, is a dangerous combination. Add to that, the government in Victoria is encouraging snitching (which is happening); huge fines and penalties for breaking the rules – fines which most people simply can’t afford as the cost of living in Australia (and Victoria particularly) is extremely high.
And for some bizarre reason, the media is still trusted in Australia to a far larger degree than it is in America. The media demonises anyone who protests. The politicians demonise anyone who breaks any of the rules. And all you hear in the media is ‘vaccinated people good’, unvaccinated ‘bad’.
People obeying the rules get a thank you, people who don’t are labelled selfish. The goal is to separate people, to make sure they can’t trust each other. People are angry here, they’re frustrated – but they have absolutely no outlet as protests are pretty much illegal, any planning for them is monitored on social media, and public examples are made of anyone who tries to initiate anything.
There’s a lot of token adherence to the rules, enough so people won’t snitch, but it takes only a few words of conversation and you realise how many people are over this. The problem is that we’re now looking over our shoulders to check who’s hearing us speak etc.
In Victoria, many of us are suspecting that this current lockdown (our sixth) will probably go on until the end of the year. There are plenty of people in Victoria who are quietly terrified of what the government is doing.
But understand, there’s nowhere to turn. Our doctors pretty much go along with whatever the public health bureaucrats mandate because the government controls medical licenses.
Like I said, creeping socialism – only now I’d say it’s overt facism. And they did it without firing a single shot.
algues, if you haven’t visited this site, it is in AU and has lots of good information. I don’t always agree with the positions taken, but the comment threads on each topic spare no one and nothing. Everything gets well thrashed in a good way. The comments section is where the real and varied information is found. Some odd balls, but majority of sane and good people.
https://joannenova.com.au/
The site is independent and allows a wide range of discussion. You might enjoy it if you haven’t visited yet.
I am very family with Joanne Nova. I check her wesbite daily, along with Sundance’s.. I’ve been following her work since I first started exploring the ‘global warming/cooling/climate change’ hysteria. She’s been a touchpoint for any time I want actual scientific exploration of any matter requiring that kind of analysis. Like you, I don’t necessarily agree with every position but I am very grateful that the data is presented and analysed. It’s a reminder to me that there are people who will examine the facts wherever they may lead.
‘Familiar’ not ‘family’ … grrrr.
Coming soon to a western country near all of us!
Dang. That’s quite a report, algues.
….” The problem is that we’re now looking over our shoulders to check who’s hearing us speak etc.”….
The part about people being afraid to be to vocal among each other reminded me of my friends from China and Taiwan back in the 80’s/90’s.
Both were afraid to speak plainly w/ anyone except *extremely* trusted family members and friends. And it had to be in a private setting. Like inside a home, never in a restaurant or out on the street.
The Chinese were afraid of reports back to CCP members – or worse, embeded CCP spies in the Unis in the US when the 1st students were allowed to come here- and the Taiwanese were still getting over the fear of the Martial Law era of the Guomindang which had just ended when I got there.
Until now, I have never heard people say that since. And frankly, it’s creeping me out.
Release the Ivermectin!
Australian here – we have this problem for a few reasons:
Australia & New Zealand are far more along the path to socialism than the United States – I would say we are 10-20 years ahead. People here gladly accept big government as a good thing in our society, and the only solution is always more government largesse.
“The lockdowns caused Covid cases to be virtually negligible here”
Lockdowns don’t prevent infections. What works is closing the borders early, especially if you’re an island, like Australia and NZ. But you cannot keep them closed indefinitely…
Has anyone tallied the daily Covid totals in America?
20 months in and we’re at 150,000+ a day for long periods at a time. Surely everyone has gotten it like 4 times already, right?
I mean from November 2020 to March 2021 every day was allegedly well in excess of 150,000 daily cases.
There’s only 350mil Americans… how can we have endless daily case counts like that?
It doesn’t add up… the CDC reports 37mil cases total in the US. And we’re about 600 days in, so that works out to an average of just 61,000 cases per day.
Today they are reporting 250,000 Covid cases in the last 24 hours….. how is this possible??
They learned math in Oregon where 2 + 2 no longer equals 4. (That’s racist!)