Andrew Bolt: Politicians treating freedoms as rewards, not rights
Daniel Andrews has given us more reason to think it will take a war to become free again, telling us that even hitting the 80 per cent target wouldn’t be “a Freedom Day thing”.
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How kind of the NSW Premier. Gladys Berejiklian has lifted Sydney’s curfew “as a token of our appreciation” for people getting vaccinated.
Berejiklian is actually Australia’s most freedom-friendly Premier. So we’re in strife when even she treats our freedoms like good-doggie biscuits.
In Melbourne, the curfew remains. Why? No state health officer can point to evidence that they work.
It’s not just the curfew. Making people wear face masks outside?
Useless, given a massive Irish study showing just one in a 1000 infected people caught this airborne virus in the open air.
Banning children from playgrounds, basketball courts and skate parks?
Useless and cruel.
Limits on outdoor exercise? Bans and limits on going to the beach or a park? Bans on golf? All pointless.
The bans on children going to school?
More harm than good.
How can so many useless bans be imposed?
Simple: because of a dangerous contempt for freedom.
So I no longer trust our politicians to hand back the freedoms they took “for our own good”.
Wednesday gave us more reason to think it will take a war to become free again.
Politicians talked as if even getting 80 per cent of adults vaccinated would not be when we’re set free, but when we’re just tossed a few more good-doggie biscuits – a few of the freedoms we once considered our right, not reward.
Even Berejiklian said reopening international travel would then be just “on the cards”. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said it wouldn’t be “a Freedom Day thing” and “It’s not back like it was in 2019.”
It’s not just our freedom that’s being doled out only as rewards or inducements. So is the truth.
On Tuesday, Victoria’s health department announced scary news.
We might think this virus kills mostly the very old, but now even a man in his 20s had been killed.
That was news to his family, who said the man’s doctor told them he’d died of a heart attack, after suffering a serious lung condition.
On Wednesday, Victoria’s chief health officer, Brett Sutton, would not apologise for officials misleading Victorians, now claiming it was for the coroner to determine “the exact cause of death”.
But who cares if such “Covid deaths” are false, any more than if some bans are useless?
The aim is to train you to be obedient, and if you’re very good your political masters might just give you back a few freedoms “as a token of appreciation”.
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