stickdog99 » 11 Jan 2022 09:22 wrote:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10387219/DAN-WOOTTON-Djokovic-whipping-boy-angry-Australians.html
The shameful and scandalous Novak Djokovic court case was, like so many other pandemic-era made-for-media events, pure Covid theatre.
While the Serb has now become an international symbol for fighting against coronavirus tyranny, the unsavoury saga shows just how far usually freedom-loving Australia has fallen down the rabbit hole of virus-inspired authoritarianism over the past two years.
The vicious attitude from local politicians and most Aussies shows the real dangers of a Zero Covid policy.
As I've been warning since 2020, it makes society nasty and inward looking – millions of paranoid residents now suspiciously regard international arrivals, even those with Australian passports – even sometimes their own relatives - as plague rats, determined to spread 'deadly' Covid Down Under.
Vaccination mandates have been accepted by most of the Australian media and politicians as an unquestionable necessity, with those who choose to remain unjabbed worthy of being alienated from society and individually shamed.
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The growing outrage from honest Aussies fighting for liberty and freedom has been largely censored by the mainstream media, with massive protests given short shrift and anyone who dares lift their head above the parapet dismissed as an irresponsible anti-vaxxer.
So Djokovic most likely had no idea he was entering a tinderbox of confected outrage ready to explode as he flew into Australia after announcing on Instagram just six days ago, 'I'm heading Down Under with an exemption permission.’
With Prime Minister Scott Morrison facing what's expected to be a close election within months and the media quick to express outrage at the so-called double standards, within 24 hours Djokovic had become the most hated man in Australia.
Two years of such draconian policies has made Aussies angry.
Locking Djokovic up in a refugee quarantine hotel and doing whatever necessary to make it look like he was being handed tough treatment became a political necessity for Morrison.
But the entire farce shames the PM, opposition politicians and the Aussie authorities who blindly went along with it all.
As the incredulous judge Anthony Kelly in today's show trial pointed out, the government acted 'unreasonably' when it reversed Djokovic's visa and tried to deport him for violating Covid vaccine rules.
Djokovic HAD followed all the rules, closely negotiating with tennis authorities in a bid to prove his natural Covid infection within the past six months meant it would still be possible to enter unvaccinated.
But that was never going to be good enough for a country which has seen its moral compass turned upside down thanks to a hysterical and over the top response to a virus.
The treatment of Djokovic was about local politics, not public health or the safety of Australians.
In reality, the most devastating thing for public health in Australia has been two years of some of the most draconian and ultimately failed lockdowns in the world, including the near total closure of the international borders, illegally banning citizens trapped overseas for much of that time.
Such a policy meant, until the inevitable Omicron outbreak, there was virtually no natural immunity, so Covid is now predictably ripping through society, as it was always going to.
