It isn’t easy to keep up with events in Australia as the country goes off the rails into abject Covid tyranny, but since the rest of the West is following close behind, we have to try our best.

It is now forbidden in Victoria to remove your mask to take a sip of your drink outdoors. Premier Daniel Andrews of the Labor Party cracks down hard:

Presumably Australians are expected to waterboard themselves by pouring the drink through the mask. Never mind that there is a negligible risk of spreading Covid outdoors.

More Aussie Covid tyranny, presented by New South Wales Police Minister David Elliott:

Elliott’s focus is on preventing protests against Covid tyranny, because such protests are “putting lives in danger.” He has no reservations about “going harder” if that’s what the bureaucrats above him think they can get away with. He encourages Australians to, as he puts it himself, “snitch on their neighbors” so that the police can crack down on people visiting each other. All too many are willing to rat others out, a human failing East Germany’s communist Stasi was famous for exploiting.

Elliott wants us to think of submitting to totalitarian restrictions as “guaranteeing freedom earlier than we expected.” If people do whatever the government tells them, no matter how outrageously repressive, they will get a pat on the head and be given their freedom back — later, when there are no crises real, imagined, or absurdly exaggerated.

For earlier examples of Covid tyranny Down Under, see the following stories:

• Australia Degenerates Into Biosecurity Police State

• Australian Covid Dissident Locked in Lunatic Asylum

• Australian Covid Police Apparently Induce Heart Attack

• Continuing Covid Tyranny Down Under

• COVID-19 Tyranny Tightens in Australia

• No Compassion From Australia’s Covid Cops

In the race to absolute tyranny, Australia may soon surpass even communist regimes such as Cuba, North Korea, and the source of the virus, China itself.

Australians are doing the world a service by demonstrating how outrageously intolerable the situation will become if authoritarians are allowed to exploit Covid hysteria to their heart’s content. Don’t let their sacrifice be wasted.

On tips from ABC of the ANC and seaoh.

To most of us, the Covid tyranny that has been on display in Australia is a stark warning as to how egregiously Big Government will exploit a crisis. But to zillionaire moonbat social engineer Bill Gates, it is an exemplar to be copied when the next pandemic is created.

Squeaks Gates:

“If every country does what Australia did, then you wouldn’t be calling [the next outbreak] a pandemic.”

Draconian Covid restrictions, imposed out of power lust at incalculable cost to the economy, to liberty, to mental well-being, and to public health, were not sufficiently tyrannical to suit the 90-pound plutocrat who favors mauve sweaters.

Gates cited Australia’s Covid response as the gold standard to follow. The country reopened its international borders this week for the first time since March 2020. Over the course of the pandemic, returning citizens and approved international travelers have been required to quarantine in hotels guarded by police and military members. Australia’s states even periodically locked down their respective borders.

Gates is pleased that Australia “executed quarantine policies” — i.e., locked citizens in Covid concentration camps. The heavy hand of the authorities allegedly helped contain Covid up until Omicron overran everything. Gates says every country has the capability to follow the Australian blueprint.

He forgets that Australia is an island nation that started out as a prison colony, with a small, disarmed population largely softened by moonbattery.

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If you listen to politicians long enough, eventually you will hear them say something sincere. Australia is infamous for taking Covid tyranny to extremes. Prime Minister Scott Morrison compares imposing these repressive policies to herding sheep:

One difference between people and sheep is that some of us know when we are on the way to the slaughterhouse.

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

Having been down this road in Russia under Lenin and then Germany under Hitler, we already knew what would come next in Australia: concentration camps:

The first glimpse of what the 1,000-bed quarantine facility at Wellcamp Airport outside Toowoomba will look like has been revealed.

The facility is expected to take 500 inmates by the end of the year and the full 1,000 by the end of March.

Another 1,000-bed quarantine facility is being built in Queensland by the Commonwealth government on a 30-hectare Army barracks site in the industrial area of Pinkenba, near Brisbane Airport.

They might construct a whole gulag archipelago. Why not? Taxpayers have plenty of money.

At this stage, the [Toowoomba camp] will be used by domestic travellers returning from COVID hotspots.

Why anyone who had left Australia would come back again is unclear. It is possibly the most repressive country in the world regarding Covid tyranny.

On a tip from Brian Brandt.

In a modern police state like Australia, you don’t have to actually commit thoughtcrime to earn an intimidating visit from police. Authorities have a handle on precrime. No doubt computer algorithms process online activity to determine precriminals who need a scare thrown into them before they do something terrible like attend a rally against Covid tyranny:

Australia’s heritage as a prison colony has been fully restored with the help of Covid hysteria. Big Tech has been helping out too.

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

It is getting harder to tell the soft tyrannies from the hard ones. They used to lock up dissidents in lunatic asylums in the Soviet Union. Now, they do it in the biosecurity police state Australia.

As behind the Iron Curtain, informers rat out thought criminals. In one guy’s case, it was his wife, who doesn’t approve of his opinion regarding Covid hysteria:

Russians had the excuse that totalitarianism was imposed on them by the Bolshevik minority at gunpoint after a bloody civil war. Australians have their heritage as a former prison colony.

When they gave up their guns, they made something like this inevitable. Let’s not make the same mistake. Nothing has been inflicted on Australia that Democrats would not love to impose on the USA.

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

Once the Covid Police have achieved total dominance, as in Australia, expect no mercy:

Katarina Anderson, 62, applied for a compassionate exemption to travel to Melbourne more than three weeks ago.

Her daughter Georgie, 33, has been diagnosed with an advanced form of breast cancer. She began chemotherapy on July 29.

Ms Anderson is fully vaccinated with AstraZeneca and willing to pay for her own two week hotel quarantine.

She has tested negative for Covid four times. But Covid control is not about Covid; it is about control. Her plea for mercy was denied, so she will be unable to offer emotional support to her daughter.

On tips from Bluto and Dragon’s Lair.

Why do Biden’s handlers continue to amp up the Covid tyranny even after mortality has flattened? Because they have not yet reached the objective. To get an idea of what that objective is, look to Australia, which has come closer to achieving it.

The video below reflects the degree of tyranny Australian authorities have been able to extract from Covid hysteria. An elderly man was attempting to get some exercise in Brisbane’s City Botanic Gardens yesterday morning. Four police officers descended upon him for not wearing a Covid obedience mask. He has a medical exemption due to a heart condition. They dragged him off in handcuffs anyway, apparently causing him to suffer a seizure.

Rebel News reports:

Police allegedly joked when he had a seizure that they did not believe he had heart problems that warranted the mask exemption. The man’s heart medication was revealed to be in a plastic bag in his backpack.

As we have seen with sadistic mask mandates for children, Covid tyranny entails casting health concerns aside.

If he had died, he might have been the George Floyd of Covid resistance — except that George Floyd was a career criminal who was resisting legitimate arrest when he died almost certainly primarily due to a fentanyl overdose. The guy in Brisbane peacefully complied with police commands, and his arrest was anything but legitimate. Also, George Floyd’s death caused thousands of his fellow lowlifes to riot, with the enthusiastic approval of the liberal establishment. If the poor guy in Brisbane had died, it is unclear how many would make an issue of it. The mainstream media would spike the story.

Not long ago, the Anglosphere was willing to risk nuclear war rather than submit to living like this.

On a tip from Dragon’s Lair. Hat tips: Summit News, Vlad Tepes.

Remember pregnant Australian mom Zoe Buhler, who was arrested for urging people on Facebook to come to a Freedom Day protest? Looks like she will have plenty of company in custody, now that Australia is following the lead of the dystopian science fiction movie Minority Report by punishing COVID-19 precrime.

The Age reports:

The COVID-19 Omnibus (Emergency Measures) and Other Acts Amendment Bill 2020 was announced on Minister for Health Jenny Mikakos’ website and is now before Parliament. …

The explanatory memorandum to the bill provides for an authorised officer, who reasonably believes that a high risk person (someone either diagnosed with COVID-19 or a close contact) who is required to comply with a self-isolation direction and is likely to refuse or fail to comply with the direction, to detain that person. So the first concern is the speculative or predictive nature of the assessment that the authorised officer is to make before depriving a person of their liberty.

If the Precogs prophesize that someone might not self-quarantine to the fullest extent demanded, out come the handcuffs.

As noted at Summit News, Australia is becoming a COVID-19 police state:

Numerous people have been violently arrested for not wearing a face mask on the street, while journalists have also been arrested merely for covering anti-lockdown protests. Street markets have also been raided and shut down by riot police.

Even Black Lives Matter protests are somewhat frowned upon by authorities, in stark contrast to the USA, where liberal pols go out of their way to encourage them. They must not have gotten the word Down Under that left-wing mobs don’t spread the virus.

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Even the pear-shaped prince of the globalist plutocracy now admits that Covid was hyped out of proportion. Bill Gates says that back in the early days of the virus,

“We didn’t understand that it’s a fairly low fatality rate, and that it’s a disease mainly of the elderly, kind of like the flu…”

Furthermore,

“Once Omicron comes along, the vaccine is not reducing transmission, hardly at all, particularly about three or four months after you take the vaccine,” he said.

His comments came after top officials at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said much the same thing, that COVID-19 is now akin to the flu.

Gates only recently named Australia as a role model for handling Covid. Australia degenerated into a biosecurity police state, complete with concentration camps. He must have shifted his interest to the next pandemic, which he says will require health equity to prevent.

Speaking of communism, a more appropriate role model for moonbats like Gates would be China, which has implemented most of the Big Government agenda, minus Cultural Marxism and global warming malarkey. Maybe Gates can get word to the ChiComs that the virus they created does not warrant a hysterical response.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Kari Lake was a fixture on the nightly news in Phoenix for as long as I can remember before she got fed up with the liberal BS they expected her to read off the teleprompter. Now she is running for governor.

If attitude is the main qualification, she deserves to win in a landslide. Kari Lake is a true countermoonbat and no shrinking violet. Watch in admiration as she explains the difference between the USA and Australia, which has succumbed to authoritarianism in the name of Covid hysteria. It boils down to a number and a letter: 2A.

Technically, the Second Amendment applies even in degenerate parts of the USA that are not noticeably freer than Australia, like California and New York. This is a reminder that the Constitution itself is not enough. The spirit that produced and upholds the Constitution is the key factor. What use will a piece of paper be if Democrats are allowed to pack the Supreme Court?

On a tip from seaoh.

They have them in Australia and Canada. Why shouldn’t we have them in the USA? Authoritarians are planning concentration camps for those they want held in isolation in the name of Covid.

From the moonbat-ruled state of Washington comes a bill called WAC 246-100-040. It starts out like this:

At his or her sole discretion, a local health officer may issue an emergency detention order causing a person or group of persons to be immediately detained for purposes of isolation or quarantine in accordance with subsection (3) of this section, or may petition the superior court ex parte for an order to take the person or group of persons into involuntary detention for purposes of isolation or quarantine …

Now that any extreme of tyranny can be justified to the media’s satisfaction in the name of public health, health officers are the new Gestapo:

A local health officer may invoke the powers of police officers, sheriffs, constables, and all other officers and employees of any political subdivisions within the jurisdiction of the health department to enforce immediately orders given to effectuate the purposes of this section …

Reportedly, internment camps have already been constructed in the Evergreen State. Video apparently of a Covid quarantine site under construction in Washington was posted here previously. The administration of leftist Governor Jay Inslee — who ran for president on a platform consisting almost entirely of global warming hysteria — has been recruiting what it has called “strike teams” to run the camps.

Maybe Democrats won’t need global warming after all. Even as it peters out into the mild Omicron variant, Covid may serve as pretext enough to impose Total Government.

As noted earlier, the People’s Republic of New York has already produced legislation allowing for the internment of undesirables in the name of public health. Naziesque Assembly Bill A416 has passed the Assembly and the Senate and only needs the signature of Governor Kathy Hochul to become law. Hochul is a tyrant who has squeezed every drop of power she can get out of Covid (see here, here, here, and here). She can be expected to sign the alarming bill.

The CDC has already taken steps to impose Covid quarantine camps at the federal level.

It becomes increasingly obvious that the exploitation of Covid by authoritarians is more dangerous than Covid itself. With Democrats controlling nearly every lever of power, there is no guarantee that even the most fundamental liberties will survive.

On tips from Chris Neilson and 100Bravo.

Australia is not the only place with Covid concentration camps:

It’s still a soft tyranny for the moment. By the time this is done, no one will be complaining about ugly sandwiches. Once we have surrendered our most fundamental liberties so as to be “safe” from Covid, our treatment at the hands of our masters will deteriorate quickly. What’s to stop it?

The legal framework has already been constructed to impose Covid concentration camps in the People’s Republic of New York.

On a tip from Dragon’s Lair. Hat tip: Vlad Tepes.

Australia is a wonderful place to visit even under the current biosecurity police state, as this ad for Covid concentration camps confirms:

Just don’t try stepping off your balcony — or else.

On a tip from seaoh.