Vikki Campion: Qld Health should be focused on fixing hospitals, not sex education

Queensland’s Covid response has been disastrous and a new state- sanctioned sex education guide is just another misguided attempt to distract voters from the government’s incompetence, writes Vikki Campion.

The message from the Queensland Premier couldn’t be clearer or more perverse: For the unvaccinated, the only state-sanctioned pleasure available to you is to follow the Chief Medical Officer’s strict “toss-at-home” orders.

Unjabbed Queenslanders, banned from pubs, clubs, hotels, cafes, stadiums, museums, libraries, aged care, disability services, or even hospitals have been handed a new state-endorsed masturbation guide, titled: “Give yourself a hand: the health benefits of masturbation”, and told how to talk to kids about it.

The last thing parents need is a dumbed-down leaflet from the state on something as complex as the development of psychosexuality on toddlers and kids.

I don’t want the state teaching children how to masturbate; I want them to teach children how to read.

It claims masturbation reduces menstrual cramps in “women, trans and gender-diverse people” and promotes masturbation during labour to “make contractions progress faster … while also promoting bonding with your newborn”. Haven’t our nurses suffered enough? The same government that espouses a remark of sexual nature by a cafe owner as sexual harassment, is promoting masturbating in front of a working midwife, who they employ, in her place of employment. Governments need to stop giving sex lessons and educate themselves on what their remit is.

Saturday Telegraph columnist Vikki Campion. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

The whole show is simply a strategy to pivot from the disastrous handling of the Covid response.

Going so far as to refuse medical treatment to the unvaccinated from public hospitals is a masquerade to disguise that the Queensland hospital system would not cope with an influx of Covid cases.

Without a single case of Covid, regional hospitals in southern Queensland are full. With just 27 active cases last month, North Queensland’s public hospitals went “into Code Yellow”, and patients “ramped” in ambulances.

It says all you need to know about Queensland Health when the bureaucrats are banning the unjabbed and telling them to go home literally and f..k themselves, with a webpage and social strategy devoted to it. It is a key responsibility of the states to fund and manage public hospitals and deliver preventive services such as cancer screening. Under mandatory vaccination “freedoms”, a fifth of the state which remains unvaccinated will be banned from government health except for childbirth or end of life emergencies from December 17.

Queensland Health has had time to author masturbation guides but hasn’t had the time or the will to fit out a floor of it’s Hervey Bay hospital - described as “an empty pigeon coop”, while the former Chief Medical Officer, now Governor gallivants around the state saying thank you to under-resourced and stressed-out staff.

The Queensland Government has prioritised picking fights with Canberra, putting short term political wins ahead of the long term public interest gain of fixing its health system. If there is no room in their hospitals, what have they been doing for the past 18 months?

How is it lecturing parents about talking to their children on the benefits of masturbation while simultaneously locking unjabbed mothers of sick children out of hospitals where their babies are?

It’s hard to believe that it is not a deliberate distraction, a screaming excuse for incompetence. Why wouldn’t the Queensland Government have learned from the NSW Health’s embarrassing guide, which has now been scrubbed from its website, to “minimise the spread of coronavirus by masturbating in front of our partners while maintaining a minimum distance of 1.5 metres at all times” published last year?

Or Canada’s British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, which suggested sex through barriers “like walls (e.g., glory holes), that allow for sexual contact but prevent close face-to-face contact,” which trended internationally? Of course, they knew. They are desperate for a distraction since the Queensland Government signed a contract to develop a 1000 bed quarantine facility at Wellcamp, already dubbed a white elephant.

The Palaszczuk government’s Covid response has been disastrous, writes Vikki Campion. Picture: John Gass

Why would you fly to Brisbane from overseas, get locked up in Wellcamp, and spend two weeks in quarantine detention when you can fly directly to Sydney or Melbourne and walk out on the street? Those who missed the pre-collapse of the wall at East Berlin have the opportunity now to go to Queensland and get locked up on top of a hill at Toowoomba. From December 17, you need a negative Covid test from Australia and vaccination to get into Queensland. What’s the difference between a vaccine and a negative covid test in Munich or Maryborough? In Berlin or Brisbane? There is no difference, and there is a word for people who think there is.

When discussing Queensland’s vaccination rates at Cherbourg this week, Premier Palaszuck urged anyone concerned about the vaccine to talk to an “expert”.

An expert? Such as Queensland’s former chief health officer now Governor Dr Jeannette Young? The same “expert” who told Queensland teens to stay away from AstraZeneca, saying:” ‘Wouldn’t it be terrible that our first 18-year-old in Queensland who dies related to this pandemic died because of the vaccine?”

Yet these same experts want us to fill kids heads with their weird masturbatory oeuvre. Perhaps the sexual counsellor for Queensland is moonlighting as the statistician for WA Health, whose modelling warns that opening at 80 per cent vaccination would record more than 104,000 symptomatic cases in the first year of the virus. That’s more than what our second most populous state Victoria racked up in two years without a vaccine when the Andrews Government allowed security guards to fraternise with Covid-positive returnees who forgot to follow the health “experts” the 1.5m masturbation rule.