{"id":674,"date":"2022-09-27T12:04:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T12:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conservativealliance.com.au\/?page_id=674"},"modified":"2022-09-27T13:25:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T13:25:28","slug":"covid-disgrace","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/conservativealliance.com.au\/?page_id=674","title":{"rendered":"Covid Disgrace"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"674\" class=\"elementor elementor-674\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0f115b9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0f115b9\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a883546\" data-id=\"a883546\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5ed56ba elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5ed56ba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-684 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/conservativealliance.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Police-in-Melbourne-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/conservativealliance.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Police-in-Melbourne-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/conservativealliance.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Police-in-Melbourne-768x429.jpg 768w, https:\/\/conservativealliance.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Police-in-Melbourne.jpg 982w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>ROWAN DEAN &#8211; SPECTATOR AUSTRALIA\u00a0 AUGUST 23, 2022<\/p><p>The behaviour demonstrated by political leaders and public health officials within Western democracies will linger to their eternal shame. There will be a bookmark wedged in 2020 to ensure we never forget the hysteria and demonising of the so-called filthy, disgusting, dirty unvaccinated underclass.<\/p><p>\u2018The virus hunts down the unvaccinated,\u2019 said Queensland Premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, while justifying what amounted to house arrest.<\/p><p>\u2018Life will be miserable without being vaccinated. You won\u2019t be able to hide. You won\u2019t be able to get a doctor to sign off that you got an exclusion [to the mandate] because there are quite set rules on that and doctors will be audited to see [if they were valid]. Every one of their exclusions will be looked at very carefully. They\u2019ll get fined. They\u2019ll get struck off,\u2019 said Dr Chris Perry, of the Australian Medical Association.<\/p><p>You\u00a0<em>bastards<\/em>.<\/p><p>This is how Australian governments and their \u2018expert\u2019 advisers decided to treat citizens during Covid. The insults, slurs, and fear-mongering was frequently interspersed between physical assaults on ordinary citizens by over-zealous police. These citizens committed great crimes \u2013 such as sitting alone on park benches, exercising their right to peaceful protest, or \u2018liking\u2019 posts on Facebook contrary to the government\u2019s authoritative opinion.<\/p><p>We have seen thousands of people either quit in protest or lose their jobs because of vaccine mandates. Brave airline pilots. Police men and women. Nurses. Doctors. Any number of people from a wide variety of companies whose workers were demonised long after state mandates were dropped. They were expelled from their employment for daring to question the legitimacy of vaccine mandates or simply for exercising what is their inalienable right to decide, in consultation with their doctor, what to stick in their body.<\/p><div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfdGltZWxpbmVfbGlzdCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOlsibGlua3RyLmVlIiwidHIuZWUiLCJ0ZXJyYS5jb20uYnIiLCJ3d3cubGlua3RyLmVlIiwid3d3LnRyLmVlIiwid3d3LnRlcnJhLmNvbS5iciJdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdGltZWxpbmVfMTIwMzQiOnsiYnVja2V0IjoidHJlYXRtZW50IiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd190d2VldF9lZGl0X2JhY2tlbmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib24iLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3JlZnNyY19zZXNzaW9uIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9uIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19jaGluX3BpbGxzXzE0NzQxIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6ImNvbG9yX2ljb25zIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd190d2VldF9yZXN1bHRfbWlncmF0aW9uXzEzOTc5Ijp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InR3ZWV0X3Jlc3VsdCIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0Zndfc2Vuc2l0aXZlX21lZGlhX2ludGVyc3RpdGlhbF8xMzk2MyI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJpbnRlcnN0aXRpYWwiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2V4cGVyaW1lbnRzX2Nvb2tpZV9leHBpcmF0aW9uIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6MTIwOTYwMCwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19kdXBsaWNhdGVfc2NyaWJlc190b19zZXR0aW5ncyI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdHdlZXRfZWRpdF9mcm9udGVuZCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvZmYiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfX0%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1559706946957352960&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.spectator.com.au%2F2022%2F08%2Fthe-bastards-of-australias-pandemic-tyranny%2F&amp;sessionId=ed65146f66625a8e2d077a592d28eed3b7652751&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=1bfeb5c3714e8%3A1661975971032&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1559706946957352960\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div><div class=\"middle-promo\"><div class=\"sub-content-promo big-bottom\"><div id=\"div-gpt-ad-Aus-Mag-MidArticleBanMPU\">\u00a0<\/div><\/div><\/div><p>I was, I believe, one of the very first people in the Australian media to speak out against mandatory vaccination and vaccine passports during Covid. For that, I was labelled a granny killer and all sorts of other grotesque insults. Two years on, how has the Covid \u2018science\u2019 held up? It seems the science that was used to justify the denial of basic citizen rights and allowed health officials to appear on national TV and actively encourage society at large to treat the unvaccinated like lepers is crumbling\u2026<\/p><p>Did we really need to beat peaceful protesters? Pepper spray grannies? Shoot at crowds full of families with pepper rounds and tear gas?<\/p><p>At the time of the despicable overreach by the Victorian Police, I \u2013 and many others \u2013 queried the claim that vaccination prevented transmission. It was a claim made by all the politicians and health authorities to varying degrees. Science, in this case, was presented as an unquestionable absolute and it has since been thoroughly debunked as \u2013 dare we say it \u2013 fake news.<\/p><p>Talking about legitimate protesters and dissenters on everything from masks to lockdowns and mandates, Victoria\u2019s \u2018sexy pin-up boy\u2019 chief medical officer of Brett Sutton suggested they were all mentally ill: \u2018They are literally in a fantasy world. So, if they have taken mandated vaccination as a hook, so be it. Let\u2019s not pretend that these are otherwise rational individuals. They are absolutely whacky.\u2019 That insult, coming from a chief medical officer, essentially demonised normal everyday people.<\/p><p>It is strange for a government to insist allegedly free citizens refrain from questioning a health mandate for a technology that is, even two years on, in its infancy. Did the last few thousand years of medical history skip Brett Sutton? Have we learned nothing from previous scandals and failed trials? Questioning is healthy. Censorship is not.<\/p><p>As the months drag on, the health advice continues to be questioned. Groups of medical professionals are forming to oppose the gag orders placed upon their industry that demand they ignore statistical fact in favour of government health orders.<\/p><p>A few weeks ago, former federal chief health officer Nick Coatsworth \u2013 one of the few actually worth listening to \u2013 called for vaccine mandates to be ditched. Last week, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in America announced it would no longer distinguish between vaccinated and unvaccinated people. This is the same mob who spent the last two years screeching about \u2018the pandemic of the unvaccinated\u2019 \u2013 another falsity that has quietly dropped out of print without apology or retraction.<\/p><p>I have repeatedly called for a Royal Commission into the abuse of power during Covid. In my opinion, an apology is not nearly good enough. The key question we must answer regards why both the federal and state governments ignored perfectly good and time-honoured health measures. All the norms of reason were abandoned, not only in Australia, but around the world.<\/p><p>If it is discovered that there have been abuses of power \u2013 and as far as I\u2019m concerned, there most certainly were \u2013 then individuals must be held to account. If that means a spell at Her Majesty\u2019s Pleasure, so be it. Perhaps it\u2019s time to give Covid lockdowns a whole new meaning for our politicians and bureaucrats\u2026<\/p><p>Last Friday, I saw a newspaper headline that filled me with anger, sorrow, disbelief, and absolute fury.\u00a0<em>Lockdown feared to have killed more than Covid<\/em>\u00a0and the sub-head,\u00a0<em>Virus fatalities outstripped by other excess deaths as medics call figures \u2018terrifying\u2019<\/em>. The story was not hidden away in some conspiracy theory website, but rather straddled the front page of the\u00a0<em>UK Daily Telegraph<\/em>.<\/p><p>The article points out that over a thousand people above the seasonal average are dying each week in Britain \u2013 and not because of Covid. Their Department of Health fears that these excess mortalities are linked to cancers and other diseases that went undiagnosed during lockdowns. It is a phenomenon replicated in other nations and we wait to see if it happens here.<\/p><p>While myself, and others, were raising these legitimate concerns, former Prime Minister Scott Morrison was too busy rushing around inventing idiocies like National Cabinet at the same time as he was secretly dis-empowering his ministers by swearing himself into every portfolio under the sun.<\/p><p>As I revealed on\u00a0<em>Outsiders<\/em>\u00a0last Sunday, I spoke off the record to a Coalition minister during the early days of Covid who told me that they, and others, within Cabinet were appalled by the way Scott Morrison had removed them from the critical decision-making process \u2013 instead choosing to hand power to the state premiers. And look what they did with it.<\/p><p>Australians should be furious about what they were put through. 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