James Doogue

Australia Panics While UK Parties

People in the UK got tired of giving up basic freedoms and trashing their economy. Last month they celebrated Freedom Day and are learning to live with Covid-19. Many other countries around the world are doing the same.

In Australia we seem to have gone the other way with most states, and the majority of the populations locked-down or under severe restrictions. Many people living in fear. 'Phew! I'm vaccinated' is the type of comment many young, healthy very low risk people are posting on Social Media.

The media and government hype has got into their heads.

In Australia we are living under conditions we would have only expected from communist countries and tin-pot dictators. We have night-time curfews. Police will body tackle you for not wearing a face mask. Fines for breaches of Covid-19 restrictions can be up to many thousands of dollars.

If you want to challenge the validity of fines, prepare to lose your house. One woman who was wearing a mask, taking her legally allowed one hour exercise outside (she wasn't in prison, just in the state of Victoria), was arrested for wearing a political placard protesting against the state Premier. She challenged the fine she was given, lost her appeal in the state Supreme Court. The government has asked the court to find all their costs against her. Sending a signal to anyone else who wants to challenge their authority. https://youtu.be/wFfsopU5Db0

I hope she takes the matter to Australia's Federal High Court as the Victorian Supreme Court has often been found wanting in the High Court. In the case of the appeal against the jury conviction of George Pell, the Victorian Supreme Court upheld the conviction on appeal with a 2-1 majority. Later the Federal High Court quashed the conviction with a 7-0 decision in favour of Pell and were scathing of the State Supreme Court's decision. But I digress.

If they are so easily scared, we need the same hype about road injuries and fatalities as we have about Covid-19. It would take half of the panic people off the roads and make driving nicer for me.

The UK is getting close to 6.5 million positive cases. That's nearly 10% of the population. In Australia that would be 2.5 million. We've had just over 30,000. The UK are getting that many per day and they are living with it. Meanwhile we are panicking over a few hundred per day.

In the UK, restaurants and schools are open. They got sick of futile and damaging lock-downs. Eventually Australians will twig and revert to the same approach. Protect the vulnerable, boost your health services. Get on with life.

And don't claim the UK can only do that because of higher vaccination rates. Many fully vaccinated people are among the new Covid-19 cases, hospitalisations and deaths.

From July 19 to August 2, 55.1% of the 1,467 people hospitalized with the Delta variant were unvaccinated, 10.0% had just one jab and 34.9% – or 512 people – had received two doses. https://eturbonews.com/3000042/hundreds-of-vaccinated-people-hospitalized-in-uk-with-delta/

July 19 was the date when the lockdown restrictions were significantly eased in UK. Their Freedom Day.

In addition to more than 30,000 new cases a day they are getting over 700 new hospitalisations and 100 deaths each day and they aren't panicking! https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

In Australia we are calling much lower rates a 'crisis'. In the UK they are calling it living sensibly with Covid.

Australian politicians are killing us with Covid-19 restrictions while claiming to be 'keeping us safe'. They will long be out of office with nice perks and pensions, while we'll all still be paying for their mismanagement.

The UK Reverted To Personal Responsibility Rather Than Government Police State Mandates

Here's the Level 4 Covid-19 Government Statement For The UK - Citizens Are Being Trusted

'Although most legal restrictions have been lifted at step 4, and many people have been vaccinated, it is still possible to catch and spread COVID-19, even if you are fully vaccinated, and we are still in the third wave of this pandemic in the UK.

COVID-19 will be a feature of our lives for the foreseeable future, so we need to learn to live with it and manage the risk to ourselves and others.

As COVID-19 restrictions are lifted, it is important that we all use personal judgement to manage our own risk. All of us can play our part by exercising common sense and considering the risks. While no situation is risk free, there are actions we can take to protect ourselves and others around us. Following this guidance will help you stay safe and protect others by controlling the spread. Every action to help reduce the spread will reduce any further resurgence of the virus in the coming months.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/covid-19-coronavirus-restrictions-what-you-can-and-cannot-do#england-has-moved-to-step-4 in

When will Australia see the light? When will we get our freedoms back?

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