Displaying items by tag: covid19
Othering the Great Unvaccinated – a New Phase in the Blame Game
The great unvaccinated hordes are not only selfish granny killers. They (we) are trashing the economy as well. Treasury says so.
Isolation Notes
Those of us confined to lockdowns will know the pain of Covid politics. Add to that the pain of useless isolation and you get the full, purgatorial picture.
Australian Prime Minister says Take the Jab or Else
Fred Nile says enough is enough, and invites all who cherish freedom to respectfully remind the Prime Minister of his obligations to his citizens.
Lockdown Blues (The W.H. Auden Variant)
Whacko Hazzard, No Moral Hazard
We expects thugs like Daniel Andrews to behave like thugs. What we do not expect is that members of a party and a government with "liberal" in their names will take to abusing citizens, locking people up for dissent and imposing house arrest on its people.
Gladys and the Blue Gum
Scotty's Jab
Is Australia the champion of Covid management, or did we - despite the current furore - just get lucky with a low number of deaths from the not-so-killer virus? Explaining Australia's performance is important for many reasons, not least because what has been achieved has come at a great cost. And on close inspection, our performance is nothing about which to write home.
What Gladys Is Really Up To
Those who thought that the NSW Government's approach to Covid management was both liberal and proportional have been delivered a rude shock, with escalating Covid State totalitarianism that is only just beginning. This article first appeared at Politicom.
Lab Leak Blues
After being cast as a conspiracy theory, the idea that the Covid virus originated in a Wuhan laboratory and leaked - or was leaked - into the Wuhan community has now gained currency and respect. Even reputable scientists and others now hold that the leak theory is at least plausible.
Covid Capers Down Under
Originally published in the UK's The Conservative Woman. Explaining Australia's false claim to be a Covid policy superstar.