Tales of the unvaccinated: senseless cruelty during the mild spread of Omicron
Australia interrogated, quarantined and is trying to deport the world's Number 1 tennis seed Novak Djokovic because he's had covid and needs no vaccine. This is what Australian coercion feels like
The world sees Australia with new eyes thanks to Number 1 tennis seed Novak Djokovic being interrogated, locked in quarantine and threatened with deportation for not having a covid vaccine.
Djokovic does not need a vaccine. He has already had covid and recovered. He has natural immunity - yet he was detained prompting a plea from his father.
This is what Australia’s social coercion feels like: unexpected fingers reaching into your life, unplugging you.
The suffering of unvaccinated people in Australia is ignored by an activist media that has branded “crazy anti-vaxxers” as a threat to public health.
Thousands of Australians have been thrown out of work for refusing the poorly-tested Pfizer injection or it’s alternatives. They are unable to find new jobs as corporations demand the jab.
On New Year’s Day a desperate Melbourne man set himself on fire in protest.
The suffering is personal. Here are some of the absurd, cruel stories from Australia’s crushing of the unvaxxed.
You can’t visit your aunt - while fully-vaccinated staff spread the Christmas covid
Sally, with a negative test, was banned from Christmas for being unvaccinated while fully-vaccinated staff spread covid through her aunt’s aged-care home.
Sally’s parents are dead but she has one treasured 89-year-old aunt to spend time with on Christmas Day.
Aunt Sophie has mild vascular dementia, which hasn’t yet obliterated her sharp intelligence. She took a turn after a second AstraZeneca shot in July, however, prompting admission to a posh inner-city aged-care home in Sydney’s east.
Sally used to visit every weekend. Now she was barred because the home banned unvaccinated people, even with a negative covid test.
She could stand outside once a week for 20 minutes, 2m from a sealed window where her aunt looked out as they spoke via a staff member’s mobile. There was no cover from the rain.
The months dragged on, until December 15, when the state of New South Wales lifted its covid restrictions allowing unvaccinated people to visit aged care facilities.
Sally hoped to visit with a fresh negative covid test confirmed with a rapid antigen test at the door.
After all, the possibility of transmitting covid is zero if you do not have the virus.
But no – “to keep the staff and residents safe”, the unvaccinated remained excluded.
That is because the NSW Government lied when it said the restrictions were lifted. They were not. As of April, 2022, months after it was known that the vaccines do not prevent transmission, the restrictions on unvaccinated people visiting aged care facilities were still in place.
The next day Sally went to Art Gallery NSW to buy her aunt the very finest origami pop-up Christmas card, to show she cared even though she couldn’t visit.
The NSW Government lifted restrictions on hospitality venues on December 15. But that made no difference - discrimination is outsourced.
“It’s our policy, no unvaccinated” said a softly spoken Japanese attendant stationed at the entrance, policing mobile phone vaccine certificates.
Empty handed, Sally went home.
On Christmas Day, she didn’t see her aunt. Distressed, they spoke on the phone.
The fully-vaccinated aged-care staff, however, were not having covid tests despite it long being known that vaccination does not stop or even significantly reduce transmission.
They started getting tested on December 24, two days after a negative Google review was posted.
Almost immediately, three covid-infected staff were identified. An outbreak was declared.
On Boxing Day, Aunt Sophie was confined to her room other than to walk up and down the corridor - the only activity allowed in lockdown.
She now eats alone in her room, day after day.
As of January 7, Aunt Sophie is still a prisoner on her floor growing despondent with no end in sight.
So many fully-vaccinated staff have been sent home with covid since the outbreak was detected that the facility is now struggling to operate.
Australia bet the house on blanket vaccination as the only covid solution.
Governments, media and business worked to demonise and segregate the unvaccinated to force them to comply.
Aged-care homes were encouraged to rely on vaccination not testing.
All of this, for nothing. This cruelty did not stop anyone catching Omicron.
The outsourced social coercion continues to maim people’s lives even though more than 91 per cent of all Australians over 16 have now been double-jabbed.
A large number of Australians - even highly educated professionals - still say they believe the vaccines reduce the spread of covid significantly enough to “protect others” as shown by the tweet above, by emergency physician and past vice-president of the Australian Medical Association, Stephen Parnis.
This is obviously impossible with Omicron cases surging despite overwhelming vaccination coverage. Australia’s Health Department reported 72,357 new cases in the 24 hours to January 7.
‘You can see your dying mother if you pay us $3000’
Majinda, 49, from Sydney, had lived in the USA for several years.
In mid-October, her mother had a stroke.
As Majinda scrambled to fly home, her mother was taken to St Vincent’s Hospital and put on life support.
As Majinda landed at Kingsford Smith Airport, her mother lay in a coma. She would linger for more than a full day and night, seemingly waiting for her daughter.
Covid patients were present in the hospital, which would shut down corridors for 20 minutes at a time as they were wheeled through.
Majinda was fully vaccinated and had tested negative for covid.
She asked NSW Health for permission to go to the hospital to farewell her dying mother.
“They said I could isolate at home or pay $3000 for hotel quarantine,” she said.
If she quarantined at home then she wouldn’t be allowed to visit her dying mother, she said.
“But if I pay $3000 for hotel quarantine then they’ll let me in.”
NSW Health was contacted but did not provide a response for this story.
The quarantine rules for vaccinated travellers were scheduled to be scrapped in two weeks, but the department was inflexible, she said.
As Majinda spent hour after hour on hold trying to sort out an exemption, her mother died.
The NSW Government loosened restrictions for vaccinated people the next day as it hit its 80 percent vaccination target.
Two weeks later, on November 1, it dropped quarantine requirements for vaccinated travellers altogether.
Majinda flew back to the US after the funeral. Her suffering was for nothing.
Funerals: a policy tool to turn family into vaccine police
Sondra, 23, was invited to farewell her aunt. She loved her family and wanted to go.
Conflicting NSW Government regulations said houses of worship could host anyone.
But funerals were limited to 10 people if an unvaccinated person turned up.
So which rule applied?
The funeral was held in a church whose priest said Sondra was welcome.
But the funeral director, fearing liability, said if Sondra came he would cancel the service and find another church.
The confusion pitted family against family.
“Please don’t cause trouble,” her uncle told her - as if her private choice not to have a medical treatment made her the problem.
Both Sondra’s mother and her aunt had been married in that same church by that same priest, so it meant a lot to the family to be there.
Sondra sat outside the church in a camp chair as her family filed past her aunt’s body in its sad white coffin inside. A kindly church assistant brought her some of the flower petals in an envelope.
An informer later told her uncle that Sondra had been seen upstairs inside the church, and she was questioned.
“No,” she insisted. “It was someone who looked like me. A woman in a black dress with a face mask at a funeral? It wasn’t me. Talk like that could get the church in a lot of trouble, so please don’t speak that way.”
Self-employed but still coerced by job loss through licensing
Ionnas, 40, lives in Queensland where he works as a chiropractor and is father to two young daughters.
He did not want the vaccine.
He reasoned that his risk of severe covid was statistically low given his younger age and weight. He did not like the shoddy Pfizer testing or apparent regulatory capture. He preferred natural immunity from fighting off the virus.
According to experts such as John Hopkins School of Medicine Professor Marty Makary, covid infection provokes a robust and durable response to the whole virus. By contrast, Australia’s vaccines which only code for the spike protein of the original Wuhan variant, last about six months.
With his own independent practice, Ionnas could not be coerced by the ‘no jab no job’ sackings implemented by the states and their corporate organs.
So the Queensland Government made vaccination a legal requirement for all workers in a healthcare setting.
A chiropractor must be registered to stay in business.
Ionnas did not want the shot - but he has a family to support.
The government would destroy his livelihood if he didn’t take it.
“I feel like I’ve been raped,” he said. “It’s against my will, I don’t want it and I don’t need it – but what can I do?
“I could sell my house and eat through my capital for a couple of years but what then - end up homeless with my family homeless?”
But the ordeal did not end there for Ionnas.
Australia’s health regulator the Therapeutic Goods Administration approved Pfizer shots on December 5 for children aged five to 11 - who never needed protection from covid thanks to their youth and health.
Researchers in England found the risk of unvaccinated children under 18 dying of covid was two in a million - the equivalent of people killed while bungee jumping.
Ionnas does not want his daughters getting an unnecessary medical treatment that carries the risk of rare but serious side effects and deprives them of a natural immune response.
He is now home-schooling his daughters.
The damage caused by government outsourcing of coercion has outlasted the vaccines
Omicron is rolling through the vaccinated and unvaccinated alike in Australia’s eastern state of New South Wales, where Health Minister Brad Hazzard said on Boxing Day that everyone in the country will catch it.
Covid vaccines have saved the lives of many vulnerable and elderly.
But not everyone is vulnerable and elderly. Unvaccinated covid risk is heavily stratified by age and obesity.
It should have been a personal medical decision, discussed with a doctor – especially as it was known a year ago that the shot would not stop the virus spreading by enough to end or even contain the pandemic. Omicron proves this.
Instead, Australia forced controversial covid vaccines on everyone regardless of circumstance - and then stomped on the faces of ordinary people who didn’t comply.
Australia’s federal government says they are not forcing vaccines. They’re just letting other people do that.
The claim is, it’s ‘not a mandate’ if you outsource legalised medical discrimination to employers, businesses and the states.
It’s not ‘forced’ – you just lose your job. Including thousands of healthcare staff.
It’s not ‘forced’ – you just can’t go to your mum’s funeral or your sister’s wedding without limiting the numbers to 10, ruining it for everyone.
It’s not ‘forced’ – you just can’t travel anywhere or eat at a restaurant. In the eastern state of Victoria you might not get a hair cut until 2023.
Many were shocked by Australia’s vaccine discrimination once it became clear it was not needed - but they shouldn’t have been.
Some people enjoy cruelty. What a psychological treat – dominating others while claiming it’s for their good.
Most look away, deliberately not noticing so they can get on with life.
This has achieved the government’s goal: blanket covid vaccination. More than 90 percent of Australia’s population over age 16 are double-jabbed.
But it’s all for nothing.
The damage to Australia has now outlasted the vaccines.
UPDATE: Text has been edited to reflect that the NSW Government did not remove restrictions preventing unvaccinated people visiting aged care facilities in December 2021 as advertised. They simply lied: the restrictions were still in place as of April 2022, permitting only two fully vaccinated visitors per day over age 12, or two unvaccinated under age 12 plus a fully vaccinated adult.
Thank you for that detailed on the ground report. The part about the woman being "seen" inside the church at the funeral by an informant sounds like something you'd see in a Halocaust movie. Chilling. I can't fathom a logical reason for anybody to care whether Novak is vaxxed recovered or whatever else: it has nothing to do with public health and everything to do with coercion and control. Would a rape victim forced into prostitution insist that others are raped and forced into prostitution to make them feel better? Perhaps some would