Sydney joins Maskworld

[Bevo]

Yep, mandatory masks in Sydney from tonight, like many of you bastards already endure

It’s not elite-level police state yet like the US/UK, or like our southern neighbouring state Victoria had recently

Masks not required outdoors or in your car, at least
Just public transport, supermarkets, restaurants etc

And no city-wide lockdown and mass firings and businesses going under either
The covid cult here are really vocal atm for just that, ‘go hard go early’ etc

The northern end of the Northern Beaches is pseudo-locked down, where one of my best mates has been trapped since before Xmas
Unluckily he lives less than a km inside the zone

Our right wing state premier is trying to keep the response proportionate under huge pressure from the left wing media and social media
She seems very resistant to implementing a police state, so far
Hopefully our Public Health is as good as they say they are, and nail this outbreak without going much harder
I’d hate to see the freaks win here

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Victoria announced at 3:30pm on New Years Eve they were closing the border at midnight the next day,
which resulted in thousands of Victorians on summer holidays here making a mad rush for the border.

NSW is a big state so could be a 6-12 hour road trip for many, just to the border
They were told not to go through Sydney, so had to go the long route there
Thousands driving dangerously, speeding, passing, fatigued etc

And then cueing up at the border for hours while the police logged everyone.

And now thousands who didn’t make it on time are trapped here in limbo
Can’t even cross the border and go into quarantine, like they were told

That’s some empathic governing

'I wouldn't like to be there after 6': Clock ticks down to border closure

[Snookoda]

Got to keep the excuse for The Great Reset at the forefronts of people’s minds.

[brainio]

At least where I am in the U.S., it’s not really an enforced thing. Most stores and shops here don’t make customers wear masks. The rules for restaurants are really stupid. You have to wear a mask when entering and when at counters, but you take it off once you are seated. Of course, healthcare facilities require masks. Welcome to the pandemic.

[Bevo]

Large children’s hospital in London announces the quietest winter for years,
“very few children with covid-19” and
“quietest for any form of respiratory illness… levels currently lower than previous winters”,
contrary to some media and social media reports.

Evelina London

[Bevo]

Wear your mask, citizen.

[Bevo]

Earlier this week, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said he was “troubled” by the relatively low numbers of nursing home workers who have elected to take the vaccine, with DeWine stating that approximately 60% of nursing home staff declined the shot.

Dr. Joseph Varon, chief of critical care at Houston’s United Memorial Medical Center, told NPR in December more than half of the nurses in his unit informed him they would not get the vaccine.

Roughly 55 percent of surveyed New York Fire Department firefighters said they would not get the coronavirus vaccine, the Firefighters Association president said last month.

The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday that hospital and public officials in Riverside, Calif., have been forced to figure out how best to allocate unused doses after an estimated 50% of frontline workers in the county refused the vaccine.

Fewer than half of the hospital workers at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Tehama County, Calif., were willing to be vaccinated, and around 20% to 40% of L.A. County’s frontline workers have reportedly declined an opportunity to take the vaccine.

Dr. Nikhila Juvvadi, the chief clinical officer at Chicago’s Loretto Hospital, said that a survey was administered in December, and 40% of the hospital staff said they would not get vaccinated.

Large Numbers Of Health Care And Frontline Workers Are Refusing Covid-19 Vaccine

[Snookoda]

From that Forbes article, Fauci lying again:

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in a Friday interview that it’s “quite possible” the Covid-19 vaccine could be required for international travel and to attend school at some point in the future.

There’s no way Bezos and pals are getting their private jets and yachts turned away because passengers haven’t been vaccinated. Same with top flight private schools. Governments have flexed their muscles on behalf of their trillionaire controllers and shown airliners that they need to comply, but it’s a lie to say that international travel itself is the thing that could be affected. It’s only affordable international travel.

People need to resist this crap.

[drumphil]

@Snookoda

From that Forbes article, Fauci lying again:

What is Fauci’s lie?

I don’t care if you’re on the Titanic, or in Nazi Germany, or wherever, those with wealth and power are always at an advantage. That doesn’t change the situation, or what it is we need to do about it.

[Snookoda]

What do we need to do about it?

[drumphil]

That’s not an answer to the question I posed.

What is Fauci’s lie?

What is he being deliberately deceptive about?

You just quoted him, and said he was lying. Please explain.

[Snookoda]

He said these things as if it affects everybody, when it’s not schools and it’s not international travel in and of themselves. Deceptive, lying by omission, misdirection.

[drumphil]

@Snookoda

He said these things as if it affects everybody,

The whole situation does, regardless of the specific effects on certain individuals.

@Snookoda

when it’s not schools and it’s not international travel in and of themselves.

Like it matters if young people flying round the world don’t usually die, because then it couldn’t be a problem for the rest of us? Eh?

@Snookoda

Deceptive, lying by omission, misdirection.

Do you really think we can go back to business as usual without the measures that have kept Australia to 909 deaths without a vaccine, before we get one, without ending up in the mess that the USA now finds itself facing?

How many a day are dying now in the US? Must be fake news eh? Has to be, because otherwise what you’re saying sounds like a load of crap.

[Snookoda]

It’s pointless talking to you, it’s like you have your memory erased between every conversation we have.

[drumphil]

I can remember what you just said.

Fauci is a liar because he suggests that it might be necessary require a vaccination before international transit, which we know to be a lie, because young people don’t often die or transmit the disease, and it isn’t flying itself that causes a problem.

Which has a few gaping holes in it. How many breakouts do you think we’d have in Australia if we’d worked with that logic. We’ve had less than 1000 deaths, and now we have an option to let more people travel, without falling in a hole like the US.

We’ve only had a few breakouts, and they’re all traced to quarantining arrivals from overseas. We’re getting better at the quarantine bit, but could be much more open if we had a known list of people who were immunized.

[Bevo]

“People who breathe are just so selfish…”

[brainio]

Yea, welcome to mask world.

From Unherd

The Danish ‘randomised control trial’ study into the protective effects of facemasks caused the predictable furore when it was published this week. Comparing a sample of 3000 people who were wearing masks and 3000 people who were not, 42 of the mask-wearers became infected with Covid-19 and 53 of the non-mask-wearers: a small, non-statistically-significant difference.

The self-appointed Defenders of Science were quick to move into attack mode. Oxford’s Trish Greenhalgh said it was not necessarily “high quality science” and made some technical objections to the study; science-activists like Vincent Rajkumar, Editor-in-Chief of the Blood Cancer Journal, announced: “Ignore the Danish study. Masks work. Wear a mask… Speaking as someone who has led 10 RCTs and knows when to ignore one”; a former CDC director lambasted the study in the same journal that published it.

To make it worse, there were rumours that the study had been squashed or censored, rejected by medical journals on political grounds.

But in a sign of how rash this debate has become, none of the critics seems to have taken the time to talk to the study’s authors. We spoke to the lead investigator, Professor Henning Bundgaard of the University of Copenhagen, and found him to be the most inoffensive, on-message, pro-mask advocate you could find. It turns out that the scientist they were attacking was one of their own. His view, it turns out, is that:…

Controversial mask study Professor: masks are still worthwhile

[Bevo]

So most of our mask restrictions in NSW got lifted a little while back after our community transmission dropped to zero

Still in place for public transport, front-facing hospitality servers, some other close-contact situations like hairdressers etc

But crucially they never made masks mandatory outside, in your car, imposed massive fines for breaches
(it was only $200 here and the cops didn’t turn gestapo, they even handed out masks)
or made it an offence not to carry a mask on you 24/7

All of which happened in Victoria.
The other Labor-run states here like QLD and WA are equally keen to enact mandatory mask laws at a draconian level, and both just did recently following tiny outbreaks

But we got the same results with our much more reasonable mask laws
And very little pushback or resistance compared to them

Most people I know hated wearing them in the summer, but wore them to comply
And weren’t that fussed because they figured it was only temporary.
Which it was.

So maybe govts trying to get people to comply should adopt a more human approach like NSW,
instead of jumping straight into gestapo-mode.

Glad I chose Sydney when I moved over here, it’s still really normal in a bizarre world
Melbourne always had the better music scene but I didn’t want to live there
And now there’s no scene to speak of anyway

[drumphil]

Victoria didn’t require face masks in cars, with some exceptions:

Face masks - when to wear a face mask | Coronavirus Victoria

You must wear a face mask if you are a passenger or driver in a commercial vehicle such as a taxi or ride share vehicle, unless you have a lawful exemption.

If you are driving alone or only travelling with people from your household, you do not need to wear a face mask.

If you are driving with people for work or people you don’t live with then it is strongly recommended that you wear a face mask. You should also open the windows to improve ventilation.

[Snookoda]

@Bevo

… it was only temporary.

But they should know that they are clearly literal Hitlers literally going around literally exterminating literal people by not wearing masks to protect others from every other virus. Whether or not one virus is more deadly than another is surely some sick diversion since slaying 2 helpless old ladies rather than 3 or 4 isn’t being a non-murderer??

People are poisonous and murder isn’t cool, these people need to get with the program man.

[Bevo]

@drumphil

Victoria didn’t require face masks in cars

Well they had to wear them TO the car, and after LEAVING the car,

so the net effect was many people ended up driving with them on because of that, rather than handle them.

I guess not technically mandatory then, kinda like vaccinations aren’t mandatory, you just won’t be able to work or shop eventually…

…also all Brisbane drivers had to mask up a few weeks back , so no doubt other Labor states like VIC will follow their lead at some stage

Masks are required in cars regardless of whether a driver is carrying passengers or not – meaning those in Greater Brisbane had to mask up even while on the road solo.

https://www.caradvice.com.au/914481/do-you-need-to-wear-a-mask-in-the-car-queesland-victoria-nsw/