Totalitarian madness comes to Australia's New South Wales: With COVID as excuse, the state where Sydney is located has taken the lockdown to manic, paranoid extremes

American Thinker ^ | 08/12/2021 | Andrea Widburg

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Perhaps because of its incredibly brave troops in WWI and WWII, not to mention the Crocodile Dundee films, Australia shared with America a reputation for being a wild and free place.  That's not so anymore.  New South Wales, home to Sydney, the largest city in Australia, has gone so overboard with COVID hysteria that the state is under martial law, and people are not only being told not to talk to each other anymore, but also being urged to spy and report on scofflaw neighbors.  North Korea couldn't have done it better.  And all this is happening in a state with 5.3 million people solely because of 12,588 cases and 91 deaths since last February.

The Daily Mail summarized where New South Wales stood vis-à-vis COVID as of August 11:

New South Wales has recorded 345 new cases of Covid-19 and two deaths of men in their 90s - as more suburbs are slapped with harsher restrictions in Sydney's west.     

One of the men had a single dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine while the other had two doses of Pfizer.

Both vaccines are around 90 per cent effective at stopping death after two doses.

One died at Liverpool Hospital after catching the disease as part of the hospital's outbreak which has now killed seven.

The other died at Royal North Shore Hospital and was a resident at Wyoming Residential Aged Care Facility in Summer Hill, in Sydney's inner west.

Here, you can see it in graphic form:

We are not talking about the Black Death or Ebola here.  This is a flu.  Nevertheless, the nannies governing New South Wales have imposed martial law and are trying to isolate people so completely that rebellion is impossible.  The Western Journal explains:

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From THE WESTERN JOURNAL

And yet, parts of the state are currently in nearly total lockdown, with stay-at-home orders for the Greater Sydney area and people only able to leave their home if they "have a reasonable excuse" — including obtaining food, going to work, getting medical treatment and exercising, according to the state government website.

No visitors to your residence unless you live alone — in which case, you can have a "nominated visitor," provided they aren't a nominated visitor for someone else. Places of worship aren't open to the public. Outdoor gatherings are limited to two people. Most retail outlets are closed.

And in what was once a liberal democracy, on July 27, Gladys Berejiklian, the premier, told people to inform on each other:

Can I also stress that people should expect a greater police presence, a greater focus on compliance because we know the recurring incidents where the disease is transferring — it's in workplaces and it's within households.

[ConservativeDude]

...and there goes the immune system, which should be naturally developing, adapting and doing what the immune system does

[ClearCase_guy]

None of this is about a virus.

They don’t care about your immunity.
They don’t care if you get sick.
They don’t care if you die.

It’s not an existential crisis, and they know it.

This is an opportunity for them to exert social control in a thousands ways. How much will you submit?

[CitizenUSA]

It does seem like the totalitarian impulse is strong, but we really cannot know what motivates them. At the risk of sounding sexist, Australia is primarily controlled by women, and women tend to be more emotional and interested in safety. Maybe they simply fear the virus so much, they believe the loss of liberty is worth the perceived safety. I say perceived, because I doubt very much their extreme measures are going to stop COVID.

[brownsfan]

Scratch the surface of every liberal politician and you will find a totalitarian. It’s just their nature.

[SmokingJoe]

We might as well let the Chinese take over Australia whenever they want to.The Australians won’t notice much difference apart from they will be a bit freer under the Chinese.

[1FreeAmerican]

Population stat quoted by Ms. Widburg is incorrect.

NSW population 8.17 million as of 2020.

[Petrosius]

At the risk of sounding sexist

Maybe we should all stop being afraid of sounding sexist and once again start acknowledge the real differences between the sexes. (There are, by the way, only two sexes. Just in case you someone would have to ask.)

[lewislynn]

Never forget Australia’s blanket gun confiscation not all that long ago.

[Bigbrown]

I go there fairly often as a crew member. We are put in an isolated (quarantine) hotel and escorted to our room where must remain for the duration of our layover. Sucks.

[Responsibility2nd]

I read with horror these reports coming from Down Under.

The similarities to 1938 are scary....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto

[tips up]

From Waltzing Matilda to Achtung!

[cgbg]

The Aussies are the subject of a beta test to see how they will handle Chinese rule.

It looks like green lights for the future Chinese invaders...all the way...

[BfloGuy]

Of the entire Anglosphere, I had always considered the Aussies to be the most sensible. Guess I was wrong.

[P.O.E.]

The idea is to stay inside and watch the news tell you how bad it is outside. You probably shouldn’t even look out the window, it’s that bad.

Meanwhile, criminals and protestors and the higher-ups that are “in with the in-crowd” and etc. can roam free and party hardy.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

BTTT!

[PUGACHEV]

How true.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Even Victoria (SE Australia)is expecting the possibility today of a 7 day lockdown with one case recently found.

[servantboy777]

Bet they wish they still owned firearms.