For all her faults, Gladys Berejiklian is emerging from the pandemic dumpster fire as perhaps the only Australian politician with even half a commitment to freedom.
While the rest of Australia’s premiers keep their fingers hovered over the lockdown buttons, like so many bureaucratic swords of Damocles, and PM Scott Morrison scuttles along in their wake, Berejiklian is pushing back against endless COVID protectionism.
Gladys Berejiklian says Australians should be able to move freely around the country irrespective of whether they have been vaccinated, putting her at odds with Scott Morrison’s plan for those who have had the jab to be exempt from COVID-19 restrictions.
The NSW Premier, who has consistently resisted border closures and sweeping lockdowns during the pandemic, said vaccinations should only be used to reopen the international border.
Of course, “vaccine passports” are just a conspiracy theory, remember.
Except…
The warning sets up a new national cabinet stoush, after the Prime Minister suggested domestic vaccination passports could be developed to help entrench free movement in Australia.
He wants the states to exempt fully vaccinated people from local COVID-19 restrictions during outbreaks, which have triggered lockdowns and border closures.
Even that may be too much for lockdown-addicted premiers.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk labelled the idea “another thought bubble” but ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr said he would consider the passports “if a well-formed proposal comes before national cabinet”.
West Australian Premier Mark McGowan, who has imposed the toughest border restrictions, said he would need to see “strong evidence from a health perspective” to consider domestic vaccine passports, suggesting he would maintain a cautious approach to letting in interstate travellers.
The Australian
These clowns have been stupidly rewarded at the ballot box for stripping away our hard-won freedoms with hysterical fear campaigns against the sort of virus that barely made the news in the late 1960s.
Speaking of hysterical fear campaigns…
The creator of Australia’s most controversial television commercial says the government needs to shock citizens into taking COVID-19 seriously with a message like his ‘Grim Reaper’ AIDS awareness campaign.
Siimon Reynolds was responsible for a 1987 public health advertisement which depicted the Grim Reaper in a bowling alley knocking down human ‘pins’ representing AIDS victims.
Daily Mail Australia
“Siimon” (he changed the spelling of his name for “numerological” reasons) succeeded in terrifying the wits out of Australians about a disease that almost all of them had absolutely no reason to fear. But, thanks to his ridiculous fear campaign, millions of people became somehow convinced that gay reapers with blood-filled syringes were lurking under the bed.
At the same time, Oprah was ominously intoning that no man, woman or child was safe. In 1983, a rising star in US health bureaucracy fed hysteria that AIDS could be spread by routine household contact.
That young doctor was one Anthony S Fauci.
As Johnny Rotten bitterly asked the audience at the Sex Pistols’ final show: “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?”
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