….and it would seem there’s no shortage of volunteers.
Yesterday, at our local park, a woman was furtively photographing primary school age kids enjoying themselves on the skate park, because, in her words, they were “doing the wrong thing”.
Quite what she has since done with the photos is anyone’s guess. If she hasn’t found a suitable “grass on a neighbour” police webpage to upload them to, she could always sell them to those Wokepac customers who can no longer buy images from the Philippines via the online banking systems.
Just one anecdote, you say. Sure, then we have Pirate Pete continuing his multi-decade long sulk with the rugby coach who was mean to him all those years ago, Alan Jones.
Jones has recently had his Sky News rants removed from YouTube because they break “community guidelines”. Everybody is happy about this because, well, it’s Alan Jones and everyone knows he’s a cynical troll spreading misinformation and hate.
First they came for the trolls…
Peter Fitzsimons’ incoherent column today shows us exactly who he is and, frankly, any “part-ay!” he’s attending is one to be avoided. As Konstantin Kisin recently expressed, “we are beginning to learn which side of the barbed wire we’d be on”.
Fitzsimons is cheering the prospect of a vaccine passport to restrict access to travel, sporting events, bars and restaurants to those who are “deniers”. An Ngram chart of his use of “denier” would be an interesting graphic to see; it seems to be wheeled out regularly to close down discussions in which he doesn’t wish to engage.
After a world tour of all the leaders with whom he agrees, as if that somehow constitutes a logical argument, he dismisses suggestions of “authoritarianism” because words that end in “ism” don’t mean anything.
Peter is happy to, as H. L. Mencken put it, preference security over liberty:
Here in Australia, focus on a vaccine passport has so far been mostly for plane travel, the Prime Minister announcing plans for a “digital vaccination authentication” before you’re allowed on board.
Great. That’s a start. But political dynamic that pushes for vaccine passports for planes, must soon apply to everything else, too. The NRL has already announced that from next year no fans will be able to attend its games unless they provide proof of vaccination.
No one is forcing the nutters to get vaccinated against their will. But they, equally, cannot bloody well force the rest of us to stay home in perpetual lockdown. You must stay home. Trade some conspiracy theories in the darkness of your basement to pass the time. The rest of us are going out to part-ay!
Bill’s Opinion
As Jordan Peterson points out, “everyone likes to think they’d be Schindler, the statistics overwhelmingly suggest they’d be the camp guard”.
Take the vaccine, Peter, or don’t take the vaccine, I don’t give a fuck, but keep the hell out of my life and get back in the guardhouse.
When you politely point out that “vaccinated” people both readily contract and transmit the virus you are shouted down as a heretic or some other such nonsense like “You should still have it you moron!” In spite of evidence to the contrary, apparently only the unvaccinated provide a suitable refuge for the virus.
From the available evidence, it appears to be, at best, a leaky vaccine and at it’s worst a placebo (or homoeopathy which is the same thing). It’s certainly clear which side of the barbed wire I’m going to be on, and it’s an unfamiliar prospect which I am dreading. My only hope at this stage is that fake credentials are readily available and affordable.
Has everyone forgotten everything they knew about vaccines two years ago? Vaccines don’t stop you catching a virus; they, hopefully, stop you getting ’ill’ from a virus.
I’m with our host- get it, or don’t get it – but stop pretending that they’re supposed to be some force-field that stops a virus getting to you.