Victoria Playgrounds Were Closed to Stop Parents Meeting, Not to Stop Covid Spreading Among Children
Much has been written on the damage of playground closures on young children during lockdowns. To add insult to injury, a Victoria health official has admitted that playgrounds in the state weren’t closed because children were spreading Covid – for which there was (and still is) no evidence – but to stop parents from being able to meet. The Mail Australia has the story.
Victorian children who have spent months living in fear of becoming infected at their local playground have finally been told there was no real evidence they were going to catch Covid playing on the swings.
In a stunning admission sure to enrage Melbourne families, Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton admitted on Wednesday the parks were banned for the last month to get at parents.
It is not the first time Professor Sutton has taped-up Victorian playgrounds because of their supposed threat to children.
Last year he closed them for months during Victoria’s second deadly wave, which killed more than 800 after leaking out of his own bungled hotel quarantine scheme.
On Wednesday, the Professor told long suffering Melbourne parents the actual reason he closed playgrounds in the first place was because of them.
“My advice on playgrounds originally was because we saw that people were using it as a loophole to have de facto meetings across households, neighbourhoods, families,” he said.
“In allowing playgrounds to open again, absolutely with the wellbeing and considerations of kids in mind, but we’re going to have QR codes as a mandated requirement.”
Melbourne parents had pleaded with Premier Daniel Andrews to introduce such a scheme back on August 16th, when he announced for the second time the only avenue of enjoyment many kids had would be banned.
Their calls had fallen on deaf ears at the time as Professor Sutton claimed he was acting on evidence that playgrounds were a serious transmission risk to children who played at them.
“We are investigating a potential transmission in a playground,” he claimed.
“It is not definitive and maybe we will not be able to make it definitive but it looks like there has been transmission in a playground.”
He backed-up the cruel plan with news the Delta variant of Covid had been spread between children walking home from school.
The next day, playgrounds across Melbourne were taped off under threat of serious fines if children attempted to use them. …
On Wednesday, Professor Sutton said he would allow just one parent or guardian to attend playgrounds with their kids.
He warned those parents not to even contemplate removing their masks while there.
“You will not be removing your mask to eat or drink because that’s when transmission occurs, It’s been said across Australia this virus moves with people. If we don’t have those human interactions, we can’t infect others'”
When pressed again for any scrap of evidence to support transmission of the virus at playgrounds, Professor Sutton could provide none.
“We have suspicions about transmission maybe occuring at playgrounds, but you don’t have to jump to specific instances to know how transmissions have occured [sic] indoors and outdoors between adults, between kids round the world,” he said.
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Lockdowns and restrictions are just the modern day equivalent of enclosure. Fuelled by the same intentions they have the same consequences!
he’s a phucking psychopath.
When are you Aussie’s gonna get out and rise up? There are more of us than them.
They need AK47’s. If a bunch of dark ages hippy look alikes can take over Afghanistan using little else then it should be easy to remove the Australian Covid Tyrants.
They’ve got boomerangs, those things are lethal…..
They don’t need guns, they don’t need boomerangs, they need to say NO.
These people are insane.
Attacking their mental health only lets them off the hook.
Don’t remove your mask because that’s when transmission will occur is a statement worthy of any kind of painted shaman … actually, no, they’d never have believed something that primitive and that obviously wrong.
“It’s been said across Australia this virus moves with people. If we don’t have those human interactions, we can’t infect others'”
someone needs to shoot this cockroach
We aren’t humans, we are pests and they are rentokil.
Exactly.
Statement needs reversing.
Just get rid of the people then. Isn’t that what the vaccines are for?
This guy is a lunatic running out of crazy ideas how to control something which keeps evading him. I wonder if the imbeciles-voted-into-offices dazzled by his expertise will finally reign him in when he really suggests the only remaining option is culling people.
Oh if only there we’re no people the world would be so much better for these elites!!! Other people just mess up their earth!
Oh if only there we’re no people the world would be so much better for these elites!!!
Indeed they are well on with the plan. Now roll up your sleeve, it’s booster time.
Better still, make an example of him and his ilk and put them on trail for crimes against humanity. Then we could see how long they’d last in your average prison. A quick death by shooting is too good for them.
Well, he’s now feeling emboldened to say the quiet parts out loud. No more “human interactions”, and no timescale on that, no longer even a token “it’s just until…”.
The only part that he isn’t saying is “Ever”, but it’s implied.
No need for evidence, not even for the utterly bizarre claim that a loosely draped bit of cloth can make the slightest difference to an aerosolised virus, outdoors. Just pure diktats, a raw display of power.
The terrifying thing is that basic economics and psychology would imply that it’s forever even if that ISN’T the intention.
A combination of increased efficiency for bureaucrats and increased profit coming from ‘streamlined’ human interactions (managing human interactions is costly, more so if they are complex) dictate in themselves that it will be FOREVER unless people themselves collectively walk the other way.
Doing something for Bureaucratic convenience is inevitably a terrible idea.
The world is about to become as uniform as the veg isle in Tescos.
The dangerous thing is that such a system has no diversity and no inbuilt redundancy. Find its flaw and the whole thing collapses, nothing is left, nothing lives.
If anything can bring about ecological worldwide extinction it’s this ^^. All the eggs in one basket! Yet they call it sustainable!
sustainable yet it requires massive taxpayer subsidy and thus mass coercion…
Not sustainable at all.
“Professor Sutton said he would allow just one parent or guardian to attend playgrounds with their kids.
He warned those parents not to even contemplate removing their masks while there.
“You will not be removing your mask to eat or drink “
What you get for giving authoritarian obsessives like these people power over your lives.
“In allowing playgrounds to open again, absolutely with the wellbeing and considerations of kids in mind, but we’re going to have QR codes as a mandated requirement.”
Is this some Aussie equivalent to our Track & Trace farce? (A candidate for the most expensive farce in history).
Australia has gone bonkers!!!
Sad, but true. Along with NZ, the maddest, in a mad world.
As someone once said, “the problem with Australia isn’t that a lot of it’s people are descended from convicts, it’s that some of it’s people are descended from prison guards”.
Brilliant 🤣
Yep, our QR Code sign-in (for shops, public transport, playgrounds, etc) is the same as your Track-and-Trace. An app on our ‘Smart’phone (not mine, I add, I manually sign-in, when unavoidable, as Ned Kelly) alerts the contact tracers via the QR Code that you have been in a particular venue or location (even outdoors’ ones like playgrounds, where transmission is as rare as hen’s dentures) and you will be hounded into self-isolation (police-enforced if necessary) for a fortnight should any virus transmission (aka dodgy PCR test) be deemed to have occurred there. Contact-tracers and testers are the front-line foot-soldiers of Australia’s doomed war on Covid – medals will be struck for them, I assume.
‘Professor’ Sutton, indeed. What a (credentialled) numbskull, like all the rest of our unelected and frankly weird Chief Health/Medical Officers.
Phil, South Australia
Thanks, Phil.
“I manually sign-in, when unavoidable, as Ned Kelly“
The only acceptable response.
“C. Dundee, Esq.”
During the first lockdown in spring 2020 the kids playground in my park was closed off. Last winter the council tried that trick again, but the parents just ripped down the flimsy tape and got in. They kept trying to keep it cautioned off but people ignored it. It was packed with kids and adults in the end. Even the cafe reopened (with covid fanaticism ONLY if you wanted it!) It’s all been fully open since.
It made my blood boil reading that article. Who the hell does that man think he is? Stopping parents and children having a bit of normal healthy fun, for goodness sake. What right does he think he has to stop something so benign? Beyond belief!
It is good to hear that the same couldn’t be implemented in your area. Quietly gnoring these affronts to our natural rights is a wonderful way to say, We don’t accept this.
Same here and it was me tearing it down. They can fuck right off.
An essential video to watch posted yesterday by ComeTheRevolution, shows Yuri Bezmenov warning of, what was then, an impending communist destruction of western society. The interview was filmed back in 1984 (ironically) and his warnings fit the timeline of what we’re now experiencing.
https://youtu.be/TEefbbApuaE (13mins long)
The 4 stages of Ideological Subversion Yuri highlights are:
I would say the UK is currently somewhere in the later stages of destabilisation. The story above shows Australia are moving into the Crisis stage, where Big Brother will not allow human interaction between the proles. Perhaps Sweden and others who were/are much lighter-touch authoritarians were not quite ripe for the destabilisation stage and covid is being used to complete the demoralisation stage?
Further reading on this here:
http://www.preparingyou.com/wiki/Ideological_subversion
A fucking QR code for a park!?
Anyone going along with that doesn’t deserve freedom. The lies are so obvious I can’t believe they can say them out loud. Transmission, outside. In a park.
Inhumane freaks.
I don’t have a smartphone. But not to worry, I’ll promise to scan the QR code with my eyes.
https://hackntrace.xyz/ Does oz have an equivalent?
The psychopaths pertaining to be our governments really are the evil ones. They KNOW what is happening and are enabling the truly sick psychos at the top, the ones that should be in a “secure” unit “for their own safety”, but who currently are running free-range, and stamping on humanity. But they are exposed now. Everything is being exposed to us. And WE now get to choose which way we go…!
I don’t know why DS articles continue to express apparent surprise that measures taken make no sense from a public health point of view.
It’s all political theatre. Of course they want to stop adults from meeting. Stopping normal human interaction is fundamental to being able to control people.
I met with a lot of people in a pub Friday, save for 1 small plastic screen covering 5% of the bar space it was exactly like old times in this place!
One thing that stood out was how many people knew this was all BS and wanted to share their opinions with likeminded folk. Another was how some were so weary of the fight and just wanted it to end.
People ARE waking up! Did more campaigning and “Rebels at Roundabouts” work yesterday. The response was overwhelmingly positive!
What’s Rebels at Roundabouts ?
A small but growing and seemingly quite effective grass roots resistance movement:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/kjd9RGl5HLll/
Thanks for the info.
Groups of people getting together locally, standing at roundabouts, bridges, junctions holding up big placards with direct messaging to get out what the MSM Is holding back. The messages can run one big long message along a number of placards or it can be individual messges. We also give out leafleta and talk to people. The response has been brilliant. If course we’ve had negative responses, mainly from people who are only able to hurl abuse or swear at us, none of them have anything to actually say.
Thanks for the info.
I believe so too. Even the waitrose warriors are starting to walk in without masks.
I don’t think DS editors are expressing surprise. They are just trying to let some of us know what’s really happening in our world.
This is how it goes – two years NHS boss Simon Stevens was worried about parents talking about vaccines in school playgrounds and almost no one paid any attention to how sinister this was.
LOL! So these people actually think they can legally impose a barrier to our breathing and prevent us from eating and drinking?
Watch them.
Legally, they probably can. Morally? Not in my world.
This crisis has been a reminder that within our society there are many more little Hitlers than we would have liked to admit. People who derive intense satisfaction from giving orders to people and feeling they have arbitrary power over others.
This crisis has provided perfect conditions for these little monsters to thrive.
As we all learned with the original Hitler, indulging that behaviour just leads to more of the same.
What these little tyrants need is very forceful pushback, in whatever form. Only by being publicly being beaten down will they stop and others like them discouraged.
That makes me think of how Trudeau was heckled recently, being called a monster, amongst other things. These puppet governmental leaders might be wary of displeasing their elitist masters but they also need to be wary of the governed who they have so thorougly abused. You only need a grief stricken father who has lost a child due to the vaccine to consider exacting revenge. People are getting very very angry.
we’re going to have QR codes as a mandated requirement. he would allow warned those parents not to even contemplate removing their masks You will not If anyone doubted the many warnings about the dangers of allowing “experts” to exercise power for the supposed “greater good”, these words, and the sheer arrogance of these kinds of petty tyrants that infest our government and its advisory” classes, are enough to prove them correct. The grave warnings of so many stand justified and now irrefutable, including CS Lewis: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” And Paul Johnson: “One of the principle lessons of our tragic century, which has seen so many millions of innocent lives sacrificed in schemes to improve the lot of humanity, is — beware intellectuals. Not merely should they be kept well away… Read more »
The attitude of these people makes my blood boil. Who the hell do they think they are?
What this arse is mandating is sheer bollocks. BUT, he could have used different language in making his stipulation. Using language like ‘don’t even contemplate’, and ‘You will not’, I mean, what an utter shit of a person! Aaaannd, being warned not to even contemplate something – WTF? Not being allowed to merely contemplate something now?!?!
These people are drunk with power.
He can fuck right off.
Trouble is, they are backed up by ‘law enforcement officers’ also drunk on power, and happy to dish out eye-watering penalties.
What a sad, sad state of affairs.
Not a shock that nasty authoritarian types love to issue orders in peremptory tones.
The really sad thing is that Australians seem mostly submissive and accepting of it. What a humiliating descent for that once (reputably) ruggedly independent nation!
According to the (online) DM’s nasty, gloating front page link today, the last hope for recovery of Aussie respectability has failed as well (though the DM’s headline writers and editors have been pretty shamelessly panic-propagandist).
But most Aussies seem to be all for it. They think people over here are dying like flies, whereas in Oz they are being kept saaaafe.Living death is what they want, living death is what they are getting.
At the risk of boring even myself again, Australia got the Covids during our spring/summer of 2019 (before it had the name Covid or was even noticed as doing anything unusual mortality-wise) which suppressed the mortality stats thanks to UV rays and people spending less time indoors to inhale virus-laden aerosols yet our bovine politicians took credit for the low Covid stats because of their lockdowns (we must have found the magic key to how to do lockdowns right compared to the rest of the world) and closed borders (we, and New Zealand, are island nations) thus wedding them to Zero Covid through more of the same. So Australians were told they had been blessed with remarkably wise, tough but caring, health tsars and politicians who ‘kept us safe’ while the rest of the world offered up only horror stories of viral Armageddon. Aussies in their droves fell for it …. and continue to prostrate themselves at the stinky feet of our health overlords claiming to smell only roses. Phil, South Australia (Annie, if our paths ever do cross, I’d love to shout you a beer! They say you should never meet your heroes but I’m willing to grant you an… Read more »
I think you may have missed something from C. S. Lewis’ comment. He also remarked that the robber baron may repent.
Tbh I just copied and pasted it from the first online source I found, I didn’t check the details were all correct. But it looks right to me.
Thoroughly recommend “Wake up Britain” by P.Johnson – a great deal of it will resonate very loudly atm, if I remember correctly.
PLAYGROUNDS CLOSED BECAUSE THEY WERE OPEN!
Authorities have no idea what they wanted to accomplish in this way.
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And – fer crissake – please stop lifting the deadly second wave from the Wikipedia article on the Spanish flu.
A daughter of a very good friend of mine was actually arrested in a U.S. state for taking her small child to play at a playground. She was a captain in the U.S. Army and resigned in part because of the controversy her actions caused
True, she was making a political statement. There was actually yellow police tape on the playground equipment and she removed it so her child could slide down the slide. She also made a videotape of herself doing this.
So, I guess, technically, she violated the law and deserves her midsdemeanor, lawyer fees, fines, etc.
But it was an unconstitutional law and she was NOT putting herself, her child or anyone else at risk by trying to play at a public playground. She was actually getting sunshine (vitamin D) and some exercise for herself and her child.
The people who need to be arrested are the people who passed laws stating that no one could play on a playground. Instead, these people are celebrated for “protecting” the people.
“The problem with Australians is not that so many of them are descended from convicts, but that so many of them are descended from prison officers.” Clive James.
Discuss.
Most seem to be descended from crawling worms, and pretty directly at that.
One of the U.S. “Bill of Rights” is the freedom for citizens to “assemble.”
Of course, that Constitutionally-guaranteed right was blown up on day one of these lockdowns when citizens were told they couldn’t go to church, kids couldn’t go to school, many businesses couldn’t open, only 10 people could go to a funeral, etc. Certainly, Moms assembling and chit-chatting at a park would be a great threat to order and safety.
And the sheeple in the “land of the free” and the “home of the brave” said, “Thank you for protecting us! Please keep protecting us!”
The right is tempered to some degree in a state of emergency. Recent statements by the US Supreme Court question whether that SOE still exists.
Incredible that there are still people who genuinely believe that it ever existed, over a jumped up flu….
But as has often been noted, if governments are allowed to take powers when there is an “emergency”, then sure enough, emergencies there will be.
“we gotta protect our phoney baloney jobs!”
The emergency powers laws are obviously written with a short-term hurricane/earthquake etc in mind. Apparently, no-one ever considered the possibility that authorities would not limit themselves to that and had no effective control over how long they could extend it.
Pretty likely they assumed that, given the other checks and balances (free speech, right to bear arms etc), the American people would never be so enfeebled and infantile as to allow them to do so…
Just who do these self-annointed, self-appointed rulers of the universe think they are? Why are people putting up with this insane nonsense? Honestly, if admissions like this do not wake people up, nothing will.
Death to the Australian Covid Tyrants.
Tragic little big men, pathetic doesn’t do them justice
No people, no taxes, no country, just zero covid.
Something tells me these decision makers will have to invest heavily in bodyguards pretty soon. Maybe even lock themselves down indefinitely for safety.
Ah I see, and there was even this “study” linked yesterday which claimed that maybe the virus overtakes the brain and makes people want to interact more and even feel fewer symptoms in order to spread the evil virus. Of course, the longing for social interactions has nothing to do with banning playgrounds etc., it’s just the virus talking. The burned witches were not hurting after all, it was just the devil screaming through their lungs.
This reminds me of the episode of Breaking Bad when they were chasing the fly.
They’ve truly lost their minds at this point and I wonder how long before this powder keg erupts over there
They closed our playgrounds too, in the first bollox. And padlocked them.
Same Fascist piggery, same lie.
Stories like this makes me glad that I tore such notices down. I tore them down (in daylight) at a local children’s play area and the next day I was delighted to see some children having fun.
The notices were never replaced.
I am sure that I am not alone in removing such repellent and disgusting signs.
I liberated a car park. Still get a warm glow when I remember. There were three cars in it within ten minutes.
And as for covvie notices… a walking holocaust, that’s me.
The Supreme Court are going to have so much fun having him in front of them as he tries to justify the use of PCR testing to warrant lockdowns.
I hope the lawyers show the public exactly what sort of a “man” he is.
How about this for an explanation for the Aussie shitwank kerfuffle. It’s been apparent for several years now that Israel is a dead duck in a pond of hostility, to put it mildly. Surrounded by enemies, the Israelis have realised that their 100 year old project is kaput. It’s only a matter of time and demographics before the invaders are forced out or destroyed. This moment is hastening ever sooner with the defeats in Syria & Afghanistan and the emboldening of our Muslim brethren. Cue Plan B. As with the Balfour Declaration, the small hats have decided to make the world an offer it can’t refuse, to wit – find us a new homeland or we’ll turn the Middle East incandescent with our 250 not so secret nuclear bombs. With the stakes so high they won’t be fobbed off with the likes of Madagascar or Uganda. Oh no, they want something reasonably modern with a similar climate and a lot more real estate. And that place is the Great Down Under. All of it. But they don’t want the Aussies or the chance of an Aussie Intifada so they need disposing of, pronto. Enter stage left a fake pandemic and… Read more »
“*Expecting draconian moderation from Toby. Quaking in my boots.”
Watching with interest. It’s certainly based firmly in one of the hot button topic areas that usually attracts prompt and decisive censorship action in the modern US sphere.
On the substance, I have to say I’m not convinced…
What a despicable, ignorant man Sutton is (I won’t use professor as he doesn’t deserve its connotations). Unfortunately we have similar ignorant little gods in the UK.
Well more fool the people for tolerating this and allowing it to get this far without a total revolt.
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