Politicians should stay out of our lives with their Covid restrictions
The deal was that politicians would end draconian Covid rules when we joined the world’s most vaccinated countries. We lived up to our end of the bargain — it’s time they did the same.
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Get the hell out of our lives.
That’s my message to public health bureaucrats and the feckless politicians who listen to them.
The deal was that we’d become among the most vaccinated populations in the world and they would cease imposing draconian Covid restrictions on our lives.
We lived up to our end of the bargain and it’s time they did the same.
Once we reached 80 per cent double vaccinated we were meant to be free.
That was the national roadmap leaders signed up to.
We are now around 90 per cent double jabbed and they want to reimpose further restrictions and mask mandates in the middle of summer because of a Covid-19 variant that has thus far proved to be the mildest yet.
That’s not learning to live with the virus.
They’re not so much shifting the goalposts as playing a different game in a different stadium.
Anyone who uses the phrase “let it rip” when talking about a heavily vaccinated population is an imbecile and best ignored.
We must allow adults to again make decisions about their own welfare.
The argument that people cannot be trusted to decide lest our hospital system be overwhelmed is absurd.
If that is the new standard, then we’d lock down or deny medical care to all those with self-inflicted illnesses and injuries from the morbidly obese and addicts to daredevil athletes.
Right now we have the likes of chief catastrophist Brett Sutton pushing for further masking mandates and restrictions.
No wonder #BedwetterBrett was trending in Australia on Twitter.
It seems the only rational adult showing leadership in this country is NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet who is holding his nerve under enormous pressure from the chronically wrong scaremongers.
“We are treating the people of our state like adults. There will also be new variants of this virus. It is not going away, we need to learn to live alongside it,” he said.
The Australian population did as we were told and are among the most vaccinated in the world.
Those who want to isolate, mask or take other measures are free to do so, but to impose new restrictions is insane overreach and utterly undermines the vaccination message.
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