Posted on 08/18/2021 6:59:01 PM PDT by Nextrush
Troops will be deployed to the Queensland border in a bid to block New South Wales' rampant COVID-19 outbreak from breaching the state line.
The military deployment, in the form of 100 soldiers based along the border, was requested by Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.
Last night, a spokesperson for the Premier said she was delighted with the federal government's agreement to the deployment, but the timing of the soldiers' arrival was still to be finalized.
The military call-up is the latest in a series of measures brought in to try and stem the spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19 that has overtaken NSW...
(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...
Let The Insanity Continue...sarc
What world am I living in?
Loonies!
Damn did you see that germ float right past us?
Fire bullets at the Delta Variant, its sure to kill the virus!
Kinda like a border wall...
All for 677 new cases and 3 deaths in the last 24 hours.
Australia is #125 on the Covid list- what a bunch of p_ssies. But they do love their tyranny now!!
You’re living in George Orwell’s “1984”. This is how it happens. Slow and steady like a frog in cooking pot.
Oh, and there are 76 people in the hospital NATIONWIDE…
They have had a few cases and a very small number of deaths.
There are good treatments available.
This is insanity.
Interesting enough many countries have in theory kept their borders closed because of COVID but the exceptions in Australia leading to this outbreak laughable like letting people in to do reality television like Caitlyn Jenner.
Some anger in the country over the closed border that was very porous in recent months.
Australia MUST be kidding.
Sending troops to attack a virus is Monty Python-worthy.
This wasnt even that slow…but I think one of the reasons this lockdown insanity succeeded worldwide was that they imposed it suddenly, people weren’t prepared and didn’t fight back in time, and now the control is so iron-handed people can’t fight back.
Fire all your guns into the air scare it off. Use smart bombs to target the individual viruses.
Australia can’t fight back - they gave up their guns willingly.
They chose poorly.
People forget that our first breathless CNN reports of COVID showed frenzied film of people in Wuhan falling in the streets as if they’d just been gassed, and aid workers in full hazmat suits coming to their aid.
They got THE FEAR going right away.
This is insanity.
You are correct. There are a few exceptions, such as Maggie Thatcher, but female executives are usually just a bad idea. If they're determined to be the boss, it tends to be for all the wrong motives.
I’ve seen this story...it was called “Stasi”.
They are providing a perfect example that this is not about health at all, it's about "World Socialism."
Old hippie "activists" -- some of them billionaires -- their Prozac'd kids and their Adderalled grandkids trying to make Grampa's (and Gramma's) dream come true before they kick the bucket.
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