Australian Politician Smears Those Opposed to Vaccine Mandates as “Anti-vaxxers”
In a recent press conference, Michael Gunner (pictured), the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory in Australia has said that those who oppose mandatory vaccination mandates are “anti-vaxxers”. According to Gunner, “your personal vaccination status is utterly irrelevant”, meaning that even those who are fully vaccinated but disagree with the policy politically deserving of the label, with the Minister also proclaiming that “enforcement, rather than encouragement” should be the main method deployed to drive up vaccination rates. RT has the story.
People who oppose Covid vaccine mandates are “anti-vaxxers,” pure and simple, Northern Territory Chief Minister Michael Gunner said during a heated press conference, noting more positive cases in his state were “expected”.
Gunner made it more than clear during a press conference in which he was asked if his hardline stance on vaccine mandates might have turned some away from getting the jab that anyone who wasn’t 100% for the state’s increasingly draconian vaccination mandates was a true “anti-vaxxer“. Even if they themselves had been vaccinated, he argued, Australians were either with the virus or with the mandates.
“If you give a green light, give comfort to, support anybody who argues against the vaccine, you are an anti-vaxxer. Your personal vaccination status is utterly irrelevant,” Gunner declared.
The term ‘anti-vaxxer’, previously used to denote a parent who opposed vaccination for their children, has seen its meaning expanded during the Covid pandemic to include anyone who opposes vaccination for themselves, and now, in the eyes of ardent vaccine supporters, anyone who opposes a mandate, whether or not they themselves have taken the shot.
“If you’re out there in any way, shape or form campaigning against the mandate, then you are absolutely anti-vax,” he continued, insisting the state’s vaccination mandate was “absolutely critical” to saving lives. “I will never back away from supporting vaccines, and anyone out there who comes for the mandate, you are anti-vax,” Gunner snarled.
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Lots of old photographs where his eyes don’t bulge. He’s terrified of something and it isn’t Covid.
Nuremburg 2?
Like this one..
Is that Igor or Eegor?
Of course. All the leaders down under are ina state of fear.
They have sold an ‘isolation until there is a vaccine’ strategy. They have to complete the job. Except they know the vaccines don’t really work, so they are getting their scapegoat ready.
Same elsewhere, but the extent to which they have bet on the vaccine in Aus and NZ is higher.
In the end, the virus will circulate, about 0.2% of those who catch it will die. Once it’s been around it will be around causing a bit of trouble but not much.
The governments know this. Scientists know it. Everyone knows really. The officials just need to make sure they don’t get the blame for the failure. And the pharmas will of course milk it for everything that its worth.
It’s the way he jabs his fingers, spitting and snarling ‘anti-vaxxer’ at a perfectly calm and collected interviewer; he was looking for a fight, perhaps subconsciously.
It’s reminiscent of a bar brawler who huffs and puffs himself up rolling his shoulders to intimidate someone he wants to bully.
Who is a politician to define words? I’ve got nothing against the sensible use of the tetanus vaccine, so how can I be an “anti-vaxxer”? The same goes for Andrew Wakefield. Guys like Gunner are loving this so much, now that he’s had a taste of signing papers to have people sent to camps in army trucks. (No exaggeration in the Northern Territories.)
People in the past thought war would be “over by Christmas”. It looks as though the coming war may start before Christmas.
Once upon a time, people held parties where they burnt their draft cards in the street. That’s what we need to do with vaccination orders, or with copies of whatever statute provides that the unvaxed must submit to house arrest.
“I will not hesitate to protect people, especially Aboriginal people . . .”
It is Aboriginal people that are being detained, so that is what he means by ‘protection’?
Have they asked to be protected or is it a racket?
I’ve only seen one video with an Aboriginal lady discussing it, she was not happy.
They had to kill the village to protect the village!
There was a scene of people ceremonially burning green cards or associate documents at the demonstration in Rome – people who had been vaccinated and did not want to know.
I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down.
Grrr.
It’s more like the organisation of the German railway system in 1914. Once the order to mobilise for attack was given, retreat and normalisation were logistically impossible.
A follower of the A.J.P. Taylor school.
There is a splendid 10 minute YouTube of him explaining that, straight to camera, of course, no notes or autoque.
I could listen to him all day, fascinating.
Not a lot of him about on YouTube unfortunately, I’ll take a look at what Amazon has to offer.
Most of his material was probably before they routinely recorded such things.
Apparently, he could turn up for a broadcast and talk evenly and collectedly to the exact time allocated.
I turned up on spec at a university lecture hall in London late 1970s just to see him ‘live’ after watching his half hour monologues to camera on ITV.
The first paragraph of Taylor’s English History 1914-1945 describes a lost world: “Until August 1914 a sensible, law-abiding Englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the state, beyond the post office and the policeman. He could live where he liked,and as he liked. he had no official number or identity card. He could travel abroad or leave his country forever without a passport or any sort of official permission. He could exchange his money for any other currency without restriction or limit. … broadly speaking, the state acted only to help those who could not help themselves. It left adult citizens alone.”
How different the “progressive” 21st century!
Before 1914, all continental European great powers had organized their armies like the reformed Prussian one created after the military desaster of 1806 (which was in turn inspired by the military organization of revolutional France): Every male citizen was required to serve in the military for a fairly short time (3 – 5 years) and would then remain part of the army reserve until a certain age. The standing army was thus basically just a training force. In war time, the army would be mobilized, that is, the members of the army reserve would be called back to their respective regiments in order to bring them up to war strength and make them ready for operational use.
Mobilization was a time-consuming procedure and obviously, a power which mobilized completely in advance of an opponent would find itself at a great advantage. To avoid this, everybody had to mobilize as soon as anybody started. Because of this, a domino of mobilizations happened in 1914: First Austria, then Russia, then Germany and France. At this point, the military technocrats took over and started to execute their pre-prepared war plans.
It’s not even 0.2 percent of those who catch the virus who will die. Among those under the age of 40 (the median age), it’s probably 0.0001 percent.
Even then they would have to “catch” it. Only about 4% of the population will do so.
Truth be told, probably 70 percent of the world has caught this virus by now. Those infection fatality rates have a denominator (cases) that should be a LOT larger. The numerator (deaths) should be about 50 percent smaller, if not more.
Currently just under 0.1% IFR
Flu is 0.1%
Actually, it currently looks slightly under 0.1%
Slightly less lethal than annual flu.
He does not blink once during the entire 1.5 minute interview so he’s either got control issues or he’s one of David Ikes lizard people.
The more I see of people like this, the more I am kind of buying into the lizard people theory……
Chris Witty. . .
someone’s got some dirt on him?
if they can bribe/coerce some little shit-hole like NT to do it then it allows others to point and say ‘it was acceptable there, whats the fuss?’
Whoever is orchestrating this whole shit show has worked out the achilles of every one of the promenanti, whether it’s bribery, blackmail or threats.
Oh yes, exactly so. Lamp posts are the only solution.
Only if you let them no ones being threatened with death are they
That we don’t know. They behave as if they were under a threat.
He looks like he’s reading that from an autocue or screen…and acting his little socks off, the tyrant, thought-police puppet.
What a burger! At this point, you have to wonder if he’s trying to incite violence. Perhaps his govt. targeting of Aboriginal folk will be the ultimate test of the woke.
All the most pro-vax mandating states seem to have detested minorities that the majority would happily marginalise
That’s a bit scary
Not a vaccine.
They’re anti covid injection.
It’s not so unknown as it was last year. We now know they don’t work and are dangerous. They’re bad for everyone that takes one, and many have died in this pointless experiment. Politicians look frightened all over the world, and well they might.
Indeed, hence their now sheer desperation to remove the control group that proves they never worked.
But if they do that, they remove their scapegoat. They lose either way.
They obviously aren’t thinking remotely rationally or they wouldn’t have got themselves into this stinking mess.
They won’t need any scapegoats if they succeed in turning us all into robotised zombies ☹️.
The fact that so many vaxxed have contracted and died – of or with – covid, is proof beyond reasonable doubt.
…that doesn’t work.
I just watched him on YouTube. The impression I got was of a man seriously unhinged and potentially dangerous. Road rage is so last year with this man – vax rage, that’s his thing.
If you dub Hitler’s Nuremberg Rally rant over him, it syncs up nicely.
Its uncanny …
Exactly what you look for in a leader. A man of nuance and intellect who can make critical distinctions and is able to judge evidence with measure and reason.
Oh wait.
Looked like a menacing psychopath to me. I don’t think we’d get on.
I’m an anti-vaxxer and proud then if it means opposing mandatory vaccines
I’m quite sure 90% of the world is anti-vaxxer by his definition
I’m a proper anti-vaxxer, and proud to be so. Have been so for 35+ years, having carried out a very great deal of in-depth, scholarly research into the things termed ‘vaccines’.
The actual facts support the stance of us anti-vaxxers.
(And just in case you’re wondering, my research was done using those things called books…)
Sounds like his paymasters are turning up the heat. Maybe his pay-off depends on the proportion of vaccinated he can guarantee!
They have threatened to send his beagle puppy to Anthony Fauci.
What this situation has shown is the desperately low calibre of nearly all politicians around the world! Granted, they are generally not regarded as a trustworthy bunch but I think many of us have nevertheless been surprised at just how bad the situation is – we knew it was bad, but not as bad as we now know it to be.
That’s why the few who have done the right thing and made a stand – De Santis and a few others – stand out so much.
Agree wholeheartedly and would extend it to cover many academics and medical professionals who don’t like having their “wisdom” challenged.
Toby Young should create an accessible file of these performances, starting with bozo fluffing his lines before rambling on about Pepa Pig yesterday.
What is it with The Conservatives and pigs? Apart from their snouts in the trough?
And trotters!
We are living in a time in which restraint has been abandoned. It has become acceptable for politicians to attack and vilify a proportion of the population without any sense of measure or proportion.
I’m not sure exactly when it started getting out of hand. The moment that Hillary Clinton called all Trump supporters deplorable stands out. And for the next four years it became acceptable for public figures and the media to insult people simply for supporting Trump or his policies.
In Europe, supporters of so called right wing parties that simply didn’t want things to continue in the same way have been for some time now routinely called far right extremists and radicals.
It now seems perfectly ok for politicians and officials to take a sizeable proportion of society, misrepresent their views and stir up the rest of the population against them.
Doesn’t bode well for the future.
Just shows there is now no vestige of humanity, rationality or objectivity in the political response to the virus. Fear and vindictiveness is the name of the game
Proudly “anti-vax” then mate
Me too, I’m also anti-fuckwit so I won’t be listening to a word this loon or any of his like-minded cronies come out with.
Compulsory hanging for health fascists will promptly halt the spread of medical tyranny.
As mentioned the other day placing ner-do-wells in the stocks is still a sentencing option in this country, seems they never got around to repealing the laws relating to them.
Near to the centre of my small city is a pleasant open area called Stocks Square which is where they were and where they could return.
Further out is a junction of two very old main roads still known as The Gallows for the same reason.
They do make a compelling case for the revitalisation of the British Ropes Industry and the reintroduction of capital punishment. Or a bit of corporal, if we could be sure they wouldn’t enjoy it.
Looks very unhinged. Clearly something else going on here.
He may be Vegan.
Or Martian?
He’s certainly not a Vulcan, a species famous for their calmness and command of logic.
We could do with a few of them right now.
Make no mistake the term “anti-vaxxer” was alway a smear with a twisted political purpose
https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3099/rr-5
BTW on Prof Healy’s blog today about the AZ vaccine
https://davidhealy.org/new-england-journal-of-misinformation/
Standard leftie it seems, don’t agree with burning, looting and murdering? ‘you ain’t black’. Erm I look black, ‘nope, not black’. Ok nutter.
The face of evil and insanity in just one look.
Late one pleasant Sumday morning sat in a relatively well appointed taxi office by a mainline train station a British Transport Police Officer came in to complain about their drivers illegally picking up and dropping off fares on double yellow lines. Technically he was right but it was nothing to make a biggie out of.
The taxi office staff responded perfectly politely, apologised and said they would pass it onto the drivers (although that was his job not theirs, the drivers are independent contractors, not employees).
Then the Officer started going on about something completely different working himself into a right tizz until he began going on about the consequences of assaulting Police Officers. Everyone was avoiding each others eyes for fear of laughing.
I couldn’t tell if he was mental or perhaps his Missus hadn’t given him any last might but I was quite pleased when my taxi pulled up outside, Illegally but the cop didn’t notice.
The guy in that interview brought that memory straight back
You’re either with us or against us. Simple ideas for simple minds.
Bring it on. Happy that the enemy show themselves in their true colours.
At least the German Nazis had the decency to wear a uniform, even the civilians, and some of them were decent people but misled; Just like today really except for the uniform.
I’ve never been disconcerted by Europeans in uniforms even when wearing guns.
What I always found realy creepy was, after disembarking from the ferry at Dover, presenting myself to a plainclothes British official (immigration, customs?) with a corduroy tie and schoolteacher jacket but no ID badge, not knowing who he was or what powers he might hold over me.
The man is clearly insane – joining the ranks of most other ‘leaders’.
He will be burbling on about Peppa Pig shortly…
I’m sure there’s a “pure and simple” word to describe people with power who impose authoritarian measures…
Saw this yesterday, and I’m still laughing at him. Don’t think that’s the reaction he was after. What a plank.
How can the England cricket team possibly play cricket in a fascist country, like Australia?
Unvaxxed lives matter.
His political career should be in ashes.
He deserves a punch in the googlies, right arm, round the wicket.
That he’s Not Out of office queer’s Australia’s pitch. He needs to up sack his spin-merchant and go somewhere cold to practise his sledging. I’m stumped that he thought saying that would help his cause.
Now then, you are saying he “thought”.
reason? – money and no moral compass
This guy is in full Stone Age brain mode, where the threat of his reputational death feels to him like the threat of actual death. Hence the bulging eyes and jabby, aggressive finger.
Publish his home address so that his local supporters can go round to, erm, ‘congratulate’ him.
Totalitarian bag of shite then.
Based purely on his incoherent pronouncement, he belongs on a psych ward – and not as the resident shrink.
Gunner is a suitable name for this cretin – he’d just love to gun down ‘anti-vaxxers’. If he’s so keen on these new ‘vaccines’ he can have mine too.
Here’s his e-mail, feel free to write:
chief.minister@nt.gov.au
And here’s a form: https://chiefminister.nt.gov.au/contact
Absolutely unhinged.
Such behaviour, and the ramping up of restrictions in Europe and elsewhere, is surely a sign of weakness and not strength. Whatever is going on behind the scenes, they are panicking.
He’s lost his reason. I’m assuming of course that he was in possession of it in the first place.
Anti vaxxer = pro choice, pro freedom and pro individual responsibility.
Gunner is a fascist pig who believes in none of those things.
Better ‘anti-vaxxer’ than ‘pro-Fascist’, if you’re stupid enough to make the categorization.