Should We Stay Stuck in COVID-Mode for an Unfortunate Few?

As I keep saying, they will never let us be free again, if they can help it. “They” being the cabal of politicians and bureaucrats, and their media camp-followers, who’ve gotten a taste for absolute power, thanks to the pandemic, that they’re in no mood to relinquish. Remember “two weeks to flatten the curve”, anyone? Two years later, that’s become a seemingly never-ending regime of border closures, lockdowns, masks, “health passes”, and vaccine shots for as long and as often as our covid overlords decree, from birth to death.

Anyone who dares dissent is smeared as an “anti-vaxxer”, “white supremacist” and “far right”. Failing that, they try to shame dissenters as heartless granny-killers. Then they turned to “But think of the children!”

Now, as more and more people begin to shake off the shackles of the Covidians, the shameless manipulators are trotting out the disabled.

At an increased risk of serious and potentially fatal complications from the virus, they are encouraged to stay home and limit contact to protect themselves as the rest of the world moves on around them.

Ok, so what are we supposed to do? Lock everyone in their homes, just to make them feel better?

What’s worse is how the unhinged media and official hysterics over covid has practically paralysed people with fear.

When the coronavirus pandemic hit Australian shores, Tammy Milne knew she would have to call time on her 33-year teaching career.

“I decided to retire, or resign,” she says. “It was basically because of the risk factors of COVID and just not feeling safe.”

Tammy is one of the 47 per cent of Australians who live with a chronic condition.

She has Arthrogrophosis Multiplex Congenita, which affects her legs, and requires her to use calipers or a mobility scooter to get around.

Her lung capacity is also limited, and she knows that, should she contract COVID-19, the likelihood of developing pneumonia is high […] Unsure of where COVID may be circulating in the community, Tammy now limits her movements in order to protect herself.

The same is true of severe respiratory infections like the flu. In 2017, Tasmania had a particularly devastating flu outbreak. Far more people died from that in Tasmania than have died in this state from covid. Clearly, she didn’t chuck in her job and become a hermit, then.

Hidden in these heart-string pullers, incidentally, is the tacit concession of just how horrible lockdowns really are.

But as the virus spread, their studies and coaching business were forced online. Friendships were lost, festivities became synonymous with Zoom, and Jules’s track and athletics aspirations were temporarily dimmed as competitions were limited or cancelled entirely.

“I’ve missed social events, professional development opportunities and just living life in my early 20s,” the 23-year-old from Dural, NSW, says.

ABC Australia

Didn’t everybody? Yet we were told that lockdowns were for our own good and to stop being a bunch of cry-babies.

Constant in all the stories the ABC trots out are: fear and demanding. People who are living in a covid-induced fear, demanding that everyone else shape their lives to fit around their exceptional circumstances. Continued mandatory check-ins, endless booster shots.

Most especially the booster shots: in each of the left-media (ABC, Age, SMH, etc.) near-identical stories, oddly enough, all appearing on the same day, there is the same overt narrative: booster shots! Get yer booster shots! Boosters for everybody. Third, fourth, why stop there!

In none of this is there even the slightest acknowledgement that the vaccines are doing little to nothing to curb virus spread. That the most-vaccinated countries on earth also has record new infections. Don’t ask questions, just do as you’re told. It’s your “community responsibility”.

Look, we get it: it sucks to have a disability. It sucks that you have to fit your lifestyle around that. There are things I’d like to do, too, that I just can’t. That’s just the tough titties. Demanding that the rest of the world stay in covid-mode, forever, actually sounds like the real selfishness.