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The culture of fear Surrounding Covid is destroying society in Australia. Hospitals are seeing more and more children committing self harm. The federal treasurer Josh Frydenburg has talked of this as a shadow pandemic. ("NSW COVID: Mental health crisis as self-harm presentations surge during lockdown" https://amp.smh.com.au/national/nsw/more-than-40-nsw-children-and-teenagers-rushed-to-hospital-for-self-harm-every-day-20210827-p58mg7.html) When governments imprison people in their own homes ..... God Bless Governor De Santis Freedom works ......... It isn't easy ........

In response to a COVID death toll of 91 people out of a population of 5.3 million (a rate of 0.0017%), the state of New South Wales government has issued a severe lockdown decree. Every resident has been ordered to stay in his home and can only leave to buy food, see a doctor, or go to work in businesses declared essential. If they do leave the house for one of the approved purposes they are under strict orders to wear a mask and not talk to anyone they might encounter while outside. Premier Gladys Berejiklian called on all citizens...

resident Biden is not being swept along by the currents of history, he is turning every challenge he faces into crisis and disaster.The first seven months of Joe Biden’s presidency have been fraught with crises. First it was the coronavirus pandemic and the vaccine rollout. Then it was the border crisis. Then it was the economy. And now Afghanistan, where the Taliban are now reportedly hanging people by the neck from U.S.-supplied Blackhawk helicopters, and the U.S. withdrawal has left behind hundreds of Americans and perhaps thousands of Green Card holders in what now amounts to the largest hostage crisis...

This week, as President Joe Biden attempted desperately to distract from his ongoing surrender in Afghanistan and the attendant chaos in its wake, the White House turned its eyes once again to the issue of COVID-19. On Monday, Biden pressed private industry to mandate vaccination, stating, “Do what I did last month, require your employees to get vaccinated or face strict requirements.” Meanwhile, the ubiquitous Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, “I respect people’s freedom, but when you’re talking about a public health crisis … the time has come, enough is enough. We’ve just got to get people vaccinated.”...

We’ve just got to get people vaccinated.. After the FDA fully approved the Pfizer COVID vaccine, Anthony Fauci immediately issued a decree via his permanent CNN propaganda platform that it is time for nationwide vaccine mandates. Fauci declared that “There was some poll that showed about 30% of people who are not anti-vax, they were just waiting to get what they felt was the real final stamp of approval, which we just got today with the Pfizer product.” He continued, “And those 30% are saying when that occurs, they will feel very, very comfortable about getting vaccinated. So right away,...

Australians fighting back against tyranny. https://twitter.com/ArtValley818_/status/1428955546862956547

Hello Covid, my old friend I can't believe you're back again...

Your News Media remains silent about Australia’s full tyranny because it’s coming to your country next https://freeworldnews.tv/watch?id=611d389c8473755afd28c53a

COVID-19 restrictions, changing curricula, and declining academic standards are some of the reasons many families have decided to start homeschooling.The last year and a half hasn’t been easy on American school children. Between COVID-19 restrictions and fierce battles over curriculum, schools have become embroiled in political conflict as the future of education has been thrust into uncertainty. It should come as no surprise that homeschooling has dramatically spiked since the onset of COVID-19 and the lockdowns that followed. Census data reveals that by the fall of the 2020-2021 school year, 11.1 percent of households with school-aged children reported homeschooling, double...

Editor's Note: This piece was authored by Justin Begley.With renewed mask mandates and guidelines in place, our policymakers are showing Americans their abandonment of reason. In fact, we are currently living in an age where reason is no longer a virtue, but a vice. In our culture of confusion, elected policymakers, influenced by unelected government bureaucrats, have abandoned their duty to institute policies that actually help Americans, choosing instead to make policy performatively — that is, to impress (or appease) a small minority. They make policy, not on the basis of reason and scientific evidence, but on the basis of...

New Zealand has announced a snap lockdown after a man tested positive for Covid, the first case in six months.The case was detected in Auckland, which will be in lockdown for a week, while the rest of the country will be in lockdown for three days. Authorities say they are working on the assumption that the new case was the Delta variant.Just around 20% of its population has been fully vaccinated.Coromandel, a coastal town where the infected person had visited, will be in lockdown for seven days too.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the toughest "level 4" rules were required -...

Sweden's Covid-19 strategy for schools is complex, but nonchalant attitudes and a lack of systematic protection for schoolchildren can only be described as irresponsible, argues Lisa Bjurwald in this opinion piece.In the US, liberal news media are reporting with horror that several Republican-led states will penalise schools that require masks. This despite the number of infected children soaring, not least in Republican states such as Florida and Texas, and despite leading public health experts including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommending universal indoor masking in schools this year. In Swedish schools, you’d...

For those in California, any guesses whether the state will shut down the restaurants again? How about "large" gatherings like weddings or church services? Any chance those will be restricted in size any time soon?

Only this time the inmates are Australians themselves. Australia is in a very dark place. The army has been drafted in to force people to stay in their homes, going door-to-door to check for compliance. Police helicopters circle overhead, threatening anyone in parks or public spaces with police action and fines; there is genuine fear over being caught outside without a permissible excuse. No one is allowed more than 5 kilometers from their home address, only one person per household may leave to purchase supplies once a day, and Sydney-siders are not permitted to speak to friends or stop to...

COVID-19 has been debilitatingly boring for newborns, disturbing new research has found. Scientists have discovered that the coronavirus pandemic significantly impacted the intelligence of children born during it: Living the entirety of their lives in lockdown has seriously stunted their cognitive development. Researchers analyzed the cognitive performances of 672 children born in Rhode Island, 188 of them born well into the pandemic (after July 2020), 308 born before it (prior to January 2019) and 176 of them born during its beginning stage (between January 2019 and March 2020). They found that children born during the pandemic have pronouncedly lower IQs...

Canberra ordered the entire Australian Capital Territory (ACT), home to over 431,000 people, into total lockdown Thursday for seven days to contain four new cases of the Chinese coronavirus, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported. “The ACT has been in lockdown since 5:00 pm on Thursday [August 12],” according to ABC. “It is the first time the ACT has entered a lockdown of this nature since the early days of the pandemic.” The ACT is a federal territory that contains Australia’s national capital, Canberra, and surrounding townships. It is located within the southeastern state of New South Wales. ACT Chief...

Jack Posobiec Flag of United States @JackPosobiec WATCH: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Alexander Vindman tell Americans: “Screw your freedoms” 1:07 255.4K views 7:01 PM · Aug 11, 2021

President Trump speaks out on the killing of Ashli Babbitt at the US Capitol on January 6th and Australia's capital city joins the increasing list of lockdown zones Down Under but first... A COVID outbreak at an immigration detention facility ib Tacoma Washington... Israel's coronavirus cabinet ramping up new restrictions... Fear of the "Delta Variant" causing some returning Australian Olympic team members to be subject to a 28-day quarantine... Tightened up restrictions in the French Caribbean island territory of Guadeloupe... The US government winning with the British High Court getting to make its appeal seeking Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's extradition...

Group warns in letter that lockdown laws violate fundamental rights.. Police in Switzerland have threatened to stop enforcing COVID-19 rules over fears that the measures are disproportionately undermining the fundamental rights of citizens. A group representing police officers in the Alpine country wrote a letter to the Swiss Federation of Police Officers (FSFP) warning of potential insubordination within the force over the enforcement of draconian laws. “If the measures were to conflict with the general opinion of the population, disproportionately limiting their fundamental rights, many police officers would no longer be willing to apply them,” the group wrote in the...

"Resist. They can’t arrest us all. They can’t keep all your kids home from school. They can’t keep every government building closed – although I’ve got a long list of ones they should.We don’t have to accept the mandates, lockdowns, and harmful policies of the petty tyrants and feckless bureaucrats. We can simply say no, not again. Speaker Nancy Pelosi — you will not arrest or stop me or anyone on my staff from doing our jobs. We have all either had COVID, had the vaccine, or been offered the vaccine. We will make our own health choices. We will...