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As Trends Journal has been reporting for some time (for example, on 8 June, in “DESPITE FLAWED TEST RESULTS, LOCKDOWNS PERSIST”), Australia has been the COVID War’s poster child for draconian restrictions meant to control COVID-19 but which frequently appear to be extreme overreactions, informed by a perceived threat that is grossly out-of-proportion to the actual number of cases, let alone the number of fatalities.
So the news from Melbourne, capital of Victoria, according to The New Daily on 10 August, shouldn’t come as a big surprise. The city’s strict lockdown has been extended for another week in reaction to 20 new local cases, 5 of which the authorities admit are “mystery cases,” with no clear tracing of their chains of transmission.
That means that some 5 million people will continue under lockdown for another week. There was no mention of whether any of those cases involved symptoms, hospitalization or death.
Did He Really Say That?
The premier of Victoria, Daniel Andrews, made some remarkable statements in conjunction with extending the lockdown. He declared that “only a fool” would disagree with Victoria’s tightening of border rules (which went into effect at 1 p.m. on 11 August (not at noon or at 2 p.m. since they are only making number and times up) with neighboring New South Wales, requiring even residents of the cross-border communities to obtain an Extreme Risk Zone Permit.
And, while acknowledging how “challenging” the extended restrictions are to people “who would like to be going about their business,” he also declared that the freedom to which Victorians have become accustomed is “simply not possible because of this Delta variant.”
When the history of the COVID-War is written, freedom may be listed among the casualties; something that had to be sacrificed in order to vanquish the virus, and “stupidity,” “arrogance,” and tyranny as the new ABnormal among so-called democracies.
Again, as we have detailed in this and numerous Trends Journals, despite the scientific data of the less than one percent chance of getting the virus outdoors, Danny Andrews declared that playgrounds and skate parks must close… while also ignoring the fact that children are not dying from the virus and have a recovery rate of 99.997 percent.
The shift to tighten rules follows concerns that Melburnians were “turning footpaths into impromptu beer gardens” during the weekend’s warmer weather, plus revelations that 69 people gathered for an engagement party.
It was revealed that doctors may have been among the illegal guests and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency is now investigating. Each adult at the party is facing fines of $5000.
But Wait, There’s More!
In New South Wales, where 580 troops are already deployed to patrol the streets of Sydney (streets already near-empty; the city of some 5 million has been under lockdown since 26 June), NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says (as reported on 12 August by RT.com) she expects the state police commissioner to request even more troops be deployed.
Despite the fact that some of the areas involved reported only one new case, Berejiklian added three more areas to the lockdown, insisting that restricting movement is called for to “stop the front of the spread moving forward.”
The current outbreak is blamed on the Delta variant, and on those who are “recklessly” not abiding by the lockdown measures. “Just last week,” said a NSW police official, “we saw a person travel out to [a neighboring town] without a valid excuse.”
On 12 August NSW reported 345 new cases and 2 deaths, both of which were men in their 90’s, and in the preceding 24 hours police issued 407 fines for lockdown violations, including 176 for failing to wear a mask.
UPDATE: On 14 August Al Jazeera and Reuters reported that NSW had imposed, on that date, a new seven-day “snap lockdown” in response to a sharp rise in COVID infections and 4 more deaths, bringing the state’s total death count in this outbreak to 42 out of a population of over 4.4 million.
Premier Berejiklian announced that “this is the worst situation New South Wales has been in since Day One,” and also “the worst situation Australia’s been in.” She also predicted that “September and October are going to be very difficult.”
Hundreds more troops will be deployed to enforce the lockdown; fines for breaching lockdown rules have been increased from $1000 AUD up to $5,000 AUD ($3,700 USD) for violating stay-at-home orders or lying to contract-tracing officials, and a new $3,000 AUD fine will be levied on anyone entering the state without a special, official permit. An NSW police official stated, “Those people that have been getting around the orders, taking family vacations to other premises—that is over!”
The head of the Australian Retailers Association said the statewide lockdown could cost the economy $1.5 billion AUD per week ($1 AUD = $.74 USD).
TRENDPOST: Totally ignored by the Presstitutes and politicians of who is dying from the virus, why and what the percentage of the population that is dying from it.
With a population of just under 26 million, Australia has, since the start of the COVID War, logged just over 38,600 cases and 966 deaths… and of those, just 56 fatalities for 2021.
Thus, 966 deaths out of 25,831,095 is a death rate of 0.0037 percent of the population. And for 2021, 56 deaths out of 25,831,095 is 0.00022 percent. And over the course of 8 months, seven deaths per month would be 0.000027% per month.
Thus, Australia’s leading the world in lockdown insanity.
Moreover, as we have reported, the vast majority of the COVID deaths in Australia are people 80 years of age or older. In fact, just 55 people, according to statista, under the age of 69 have died from the virus.
Yet, despite these facts, they are NEVER reported in the mainstream media. And rather than taking measures to protect the most vulnerable, much of the nation is in lockdown and the lives and livelihoods of millions are being destroyed.
TRENDPOST: As we have forecast, since it is a Drug Lord’s world, the push by politicians in locking down most of Australia is to increase the low vaccine rate which is just 21 percent… compared, for example, to the U.S. where the jab rate is nearly 52 percent.
And, the AstraZeneca shot the government is pushing has suffered from a barrage of negative press due to blood clots and other concerns.
Indeed, Switzerland’s health agency said it would not administer the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine because the data “available and evaluated to date [is] not yet sufficient.” And in May, Norway banned the use of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 shot due to harmful side-effects. Thus, while the media calls those who do not want the vax conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxers… there is resistance among Australians to getting a jab with a bad reputation that other nations have banned.