I warned at the beginning of the pandemic that we need to watch out for governments striking our rights in the name of “keeping us safe.”

So in Victoria they have curfew and house arrest, a compliant Parliament thinks that the Premier should do it for another 6 months, and police arrested a pregnant woman for posting details of an anti-lockdown protest on Facebook.

Apparently marches in support of Marxist groups such as Black Lives Matter are fine, but question the government’s handling of the pandemic and they will send in the storm troopers to arrest and intimidate you.

Meanwhile in northern NSW a woman carrying twins lost one of them because “Queensland hospitals are for Queenslanders; they have NSW hospitals for NSW people.” True, but if you live in Lismore, Brisbane is much closer than Sydney.

If you live in Mungundi which literally straddles the border,too bad if you want to buy groceries. After their only supermarket burnt down, resident could travel to Moree, their nearest town, but it’s out of the bubble and so anyone doing that would have to self-isolate for 14 days if they want to enter Queensland, which is where their town’s medical services are. That’s in a region that has not had a single case of coronavirus.

Building supplies companies and tradies in SE Qld are losing work because much of their business relies on projects in northern NSW outside the bubble.

The Queensland tourism industry is facing devastation because people from interstate are unable to travel there.

But at least they got the AFL Grand Final… because football is more important than lives. It’s called bread and circuses, a political tactic that goes back at least to the Roman Empire. Entertain the plebs so they won’t complain as you slaughter them.

What a happy coincidence for Anastasia. Her state election is a week after the Queendalnd AFL Grand Final for Queenslanders.

This is Australia in 2020, and maybe some of these things are necessary to contain a virus that is less deadly than the flu to all except the over 70’s and people with other severe and chronic illnesses. In the USA, this week the CDC downgraded the number of official deaths due to Covid from over 100,000 to about 5,000- because all of the others had other issues that contributed to their death.

I am not a conspiracy theorist- most people and organisations are too inept to run a proper conspiracy. Australia needs to wake up to the power grabs and the petty restrictions on our way of life.

UPDATE:

Shortly after posting this, I received an email from Service NSW offering a special service to businesses. They can give you a QR code for people to scan when entering a business. This sends their contact information straight to the NSW Government so that if they need to use the information, they can get it straight away. I would suggest that people refuse to use this “service.”