TonyAbbott said..
From Mark Latham, former leader of the labor party. What a crazy society we have become when Latham has become a voice of reason:
WHAT YOU WON'T READ IN THE MEDIA THIS WEEKEND
1. Remember all the hype and hysteria about the 'SuperSpreader' event from the protest march in Sydney two weeks ago? How it was going to be a new Covid cluster? Not surprisingly, the media have not followed up on this story because none of it turned out to be true. There have been no transmissions confirmed by NSW Health from the march. A classic example of Fake News.
2. Nearly 600,000 Covid tests in NSW over the past week produced a positive rate of 0.25%. Anyone with symptoms should get tested, but (other than those made to do it to get to work, or have visited listed venues) I can't understand why thousands of people with no symptoms line up for hours in long car queues for the tests. Maybe some people think it's better than being locked in small apartments under house-arrest.
3. On the NSW Parliament Notice Paper in answer to my Question 6869, Health Minister Hazzard has said there have been no confirmed cases of Covid transmission on NSW public transport since the beginning of Covid 18 months ago. Yet the Government has scared the pants off people about Covid and the trains and buses are empty. And for the small number of people using them, the mask mandate remains. How about some evidence-based policy for a change?
4. Also since the beginning of last year, there hasn't been a single Covid transmission outdoors in NSW. Now we see the so-called 'virus experts' from universities pointing to the young people who had a party on the Blacksmiths Beach near Lake Macquarie (which has led to the Hunter Valley outbreak), saying this is evidence of outdoor transmission. But is 'close personal relations' on a beach really an outdoor transmission or transmission of a different kind?
5. The media has gone crazy in its authoritarian push to force AstraZeneca upon people. Every Thursday the Federal Government's Therapeutic Goods Administration publishes data on the safety of its approved vaccines. So far AZ has killed 7 Australians, caused 93 other blood clotting episodes and created nearly 30,000 reports of adverse reactions. If you read the full TGA data anywhere in the mainstream media, I will buy you a lottery ticket. The public has the right to know, especially on something as sensitive as a medical procedure pushed upon people in the urgency of a global pandemic. Individual safety must come first, and that can only be achieved if each individual has accurate information and evidence available to them. Media biases are betraying the public interest.
6. The NSW Government Senior Minister Damien Tudehope (in response to my questions) has refused to rule out the introduction of Vaccine Passports in NSW for two purposes: a) allowing businesses to force their staff to be vaccinated; and b) requiring companies winning NSW Government contracts to have a fully 100% vaccinated workforce. Minister Dominello has already gone onto social media brazenly holding up the Vaccine Passport he plans to introduce. Why hasn't this picture, shown on Mark Latham's Outsiders, appeared anywhere in the mainstream media? Their lack of accountability for government is stunning.
Finally, let me be clear: Covid is real; Covid conspiracy theories are nonsense; I have always supported safe, well-established vaccines for myself and my family: and I believe the Pfizer vaccine can offer protection against Covid.
I have always disliked fanaticism and wacky conspiracy theories in politics. But just as much, I am dismayed by the current media and political campaign deliberately trying to push and intimidate the public into certain conclusions about Covid, namely:
1. We should be in a state of panic, hiding under our beds, when the natural human response to a challenge like this is to calmly and logically assess factual information. In truth, the Covid deaths in Australia have overwhelmingly been of people 70 years and older, mainly those with existing health conditions and/or nursing home residents.
2. Somehow you are a traitor or 'unAustralian' if you don't line up automatically for the AstraZeneca vaccine because some bloke with a 50 IQ keeps yelling at you on radio to do it. We should respect the vaccine choices of all Australians as they go about this decision privately, based on research and discussions with their doctor. The doctor-patient relationship in our country used to be sacred. Now it has been wiped as authoritarian politicians and media blowhards with no medical qualifications tell people what to do, deliberately under-reporting the truth from the Therapeutic Goods Administration about the risks associated with AZ. It's a dreadful thing that governments and media have planted themselves in between patients and doctors.
3. We all need to carry a Vaccine Passport, handing over our private health information to Tech giants like Google and Apple, and then show this information to strangers at the shops just to buy food. Are we living in Australia or North Korea and China when this stuff is proposed? If the official Government objective is 70-80% vaccination rates, achieving Herd Immunity so that the virus no longer circulates through communities, then why are Vaccine Passports needed? This is just another grab for government control over people. Political leaders are drunk on power during this Covid period, and they keep on thinking of new ways to maintain control over society.
Personal likes or dislikes aside, this is Truth as I see it.
and he is still talking rubbish and attacking people not their argument.
