Anonymous ID: b063ac Dec. 31, 2021, 1:52 p.m. No.15286470   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>6485 >>6777 >>6826 >>6879 >>6933 >>6959 >>6995

Police officers forced out of Queensland cafe during COVID-19 checks

 

Video footage has captured the moment a crowd harassed Queensland Police officers and forced them to leave a cafe during COVID-19 checks.

Three police officers attended the Vintage Apron at Capalaba when they were confronted by the crowd.

 

The officers had been called to the premises over reports of multiple COVID-19 health direction violations.

 

Video shared with 9News shows people chanting "leave the shop". The officers appear to be mobbed.

 

Despite the confrontation, the officers remained calm.

 

"The question I want to ask you, we're gonna have to put in a report why people aren't wearing masks here," one police officer can be heard saying.

 

Bystanders are heard replying "don't answer it".

"Hopefully everyone keeping a cool head, no one getting angry or worked up," a police officer said.

 

They continued to receive backlash from people within the cafe before they leave.

 

https://www.9news.com.au/national/police-abused-forced-out-of-queensland-business/f693762d-ac6b-424c-9c4b-ed753351c59b

Anonymous ID: b063ac Dec. 31, 2021, 1:54 p.m. No.15286484   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>6777 >>6879 >>6933 >>6959 >>6995

Joe Hildebrand: National cabinet lies are coming home to roost with Omicron

 

Australia is finally doing what we should have done 18 months ago – but thanks to lies from our politicians, the public is panicking, writes Joe Hildebrand.

 

Australia is trapped in a paralysis of cognitive dissonance. If our country was a person it would be borderline schizophrenic.

 

The symptoms were clear at the highest levels of government from the earliest days of the Covid-19 outbreak. National cabinet would meet, the Prime Minister and all the premiers would declare a common position of what they were doing and then the states would all go off and do something completely different.

 

National cabinet’s official position was that Australia would adopt a suppression strategy and then the states simply ignored it and pursued an elimination strategy.

 

National cabinet’s official advice was that schools were not a high-risk environment for Covid-19 but NSW, Victoria and Queensland simply closed them anyway.

 

National cabinet’s official plan was that Australia would reopen at 70 and 80 per cent vaccination rates but Western Australia simply decided to stay shut.

 

And all of this was justified with torturous weasel words that attempted to gaslight the public into believing that they were doing the opposite of what they were actually doing.

 

After the very first national cabinet meeting on March 15, 2020, Prime Minister Scott Morrison was unequivocal that the nation was pursuing suppression, not elimination:

 

“We know that the virus cannot be absolutely stopped. Of course not. No one can do that.”

 

But when it was clear the states were in fact going to attempt to do that the Prime Minister issued a statement a month later on April 16 that tried to pretend this had been the plan all along:

 

“National cabinet agreed that Australia will continue to progress a successful suppression/elimination strategy for the virus.”

 

And when this piece of Orwellian doublespeak was deemed plainly ridiculous the PM and premiers lit upon a more Yes Minister-esque solution in July. They simply changed the name of the elimination strategy and called it a “suppression strategy with the goal of no community transition”.

 

And in order to save face the PM once more pretended this was a reaffirmation of the strategy all along rather than concede that the premiers had abandoned the national plan:

 

“National cabinet recommitted to the suppression strategy for Covid-19, with the goal of no community transmission…”

 

Of course this is all pretty bog-standard political obfuscation so why does it matter now?

 

Well the problem with lies is that they always catch up with you and the problem with this one is that Australia — or at least the more sensible parts of it — is now finally actually doing what we were supposed to be doing more than a year-and-a-half ago.

 

The goal is now to simply to keep Covid numbers to a level that doesn’t overwhelm our hospital system, just as the original goal had been before it was hijacked by the states on the advice of more nervous epidemiologists.

 

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/joe-hildebrand-national-cabinet-lies-are-coming-home-to-roost-with-omicron/news-story/6e37caf4cfc5ae218082f69f3ddc3c32

Anonymous ID: b063ac Dec. 31, 2021, 1:56 p.m. No.15286501   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>6511 >>6777 >>6879 >>6933 >>6959 >>6995

NRL legend 'Frank The Tank' on life support following complications from COVID

 

Former Bulldogs, Panthers and Kiwi Test star Frank Pritchard is in hospital on New Year's Eve fighting for his life.

 

One of the game's most damaging ball runners in the 2000s, the man known as "Frank The Tank", is on life support as a result of complications from COVID-19.

 

It is believed he has a collapsed lung and other major health issues as a result of the virus.

 

The 38-year-old Pritchard was born in Sydney to Samoan and Kiwi parents.

 

He played more than 100 games for both the Panthers and Bulldogs as well as stints with Hull FC in England and Parramatta.

 

He played 27 Tests for New Zealand and eight for Samoa before retiring at the end of 2017.

 

https://wwos.nine.com.au/nrl/nrl-the-mole-nrl-legend-frank-the-tank-fighting-for-life-following-complications-from-covid-bulldogs-panthers-kiwi-test-frank-pritchard/131d2076-0a82-47d5-953a-ce52c9218f1a