Covid inquiry results today.

[mellie]

The magistrate didn't allow a jury to make a decision. WTF?


Charges dropped against cop who body slammed victim at Flinders Street.

Victim?

It's what happens when peope resist arrest.

[mellie]

" A magistrate dismissed the charges against Acting Sergeant Beau Barratt over the 2021 arrest at Melbourne Magistrate's Court today, finding the man arrested had been taunting police continuously.

Footage taken on a phone captured Acting Sergeant Barratt tackling Daniel Peterson-English to the ground in the middle of Flinders Street Station in Melbourne CBD during anti-lockdown protests in September 2021."

Bobby, we were in the midst of a national health crisis, a pandemic, and these goons were making life harder for everyone spreading covid and encouraging Australians to disobey law enforcement agencies and pandemic protocols.

What if Covid had been a viral form of Ebola?

These idiots would have still been protesting because they have no idea and this is the only way to manage idiots like this. With force.

Sorry, but I am going to have to side with the cops on this one Bobby, these protesters were disrespectful towards
those placing their own lives at risk during a pandemic, front line workers, so as far as I'm concerned they deserved being slammed up against a wall.

Police need to command more respect, this is part of the reason youth are out of control here to begin with.
No fear, no consequences, no respect!
Cops need to get back to being law enFORCEment officers, not school playground staff.
Using offensive language in public in the company of police should be an offence and warrant being locked in the cells overnight. And a decent fine!



Kids are laughing at them.

[mellie]

Our cops are trying to maintain order with their bWOKEn hands tied behind their backs.
Body cams have discouraged police from using the same degree of force required to maintain order out of fear the left will jump up and down and they'll lose their jobs.

Now looky what's happening, the woke are now complaining about their streets and neighbourhoods no longer being safe.

Hilarious!

Public health is a mess, public education is a shambles and we have exhausted contemptuous frontline workers leaving their jobs in droves, without sickleave due to constant covid reinfection. They can't even find GPs to treat them in a timely fashion.

We need a change of government now.

I think Albo wants to be tossed. He is happy to get his gold pension for doing piss all, and he will retire comfortably well away from urbane riff-raff at Cococabana beach as there's no public transport there, and he's not too close to a major city.

It's his little hide- away. .... receding shore or hairlines don't appear to bother him much.

Come on Albo, just.....

Or is Billy Short on brains waiting for his Kirrabilly moment, whereby you allow him to knife you in the back, so he can take the leadership?

Labor are good for delivering Australians unelected leaders they didn't vote for.
Seems to be a Democrat trend too.

We don't want Bill Shorten and we don't want ALP.

[Jasin]

For me, those people who defied the Laws and Police during the Pandemic crises, were motivated by some kind of American rights (freedom, etc) thing. Seemed that such rights allows them to be non compliant.

I think it was a Mayor or State leader of Florida who couldn't believe how compliant Australians (90%) were and thought it was wrong and oppression.

In my view, during that time. I couldn't believe how Politicians, regardless of party, Left or Right wing, etc. Thought that they knew best more than the Medical establishments of the world and it was as if they took priority to be in front of the cameras more than Doctors and Professors.
This is why I could also understand why no-one trusted what was going on.
How could people believe anything about the Pandemic, when it was being controlled by Politics more than Medicine and the Health industry?

[mellie]

I've been vaccinated, and everyone I know (appart from my ex-husband who's always been afraid of injections) has also been vaccinated. During covid, I was an essential worker and had to be, but even if it wasn't mandated, I would have regardless.

I think many people who are sceptical about covid vaccine's were sceptical about covid full stop. They refuse to get their heads around the fact that polio was once novel also.

Vaccine's saved lives, and the vast majority of those who deceased during covid were very elderly and immunocompromised or were either not vaccinated or under- vaccinated.
Regardless of whether this virus was leaked from a lab in China or came from Mars, the virus was novel and it's DNA rapidly changing- Vaccine's were and still are the best chance we have of protecting ourselves. It will eventually become combined with regular flu shots, will become a quad-vax.

I've had Covid 3 times, first two times were more or less a bad headcold, however the 3rd time I wasn't so lucky. My vaccine was due, and I had vowed to get it after returning from holidays with family to Philip Island. I assumed I'd be ok because I'd had covid within 12 months.
I'll never be late getting it again- Was absolutely brutal, came very close to calling myself an ambulance at 3am in the morning, and might have, only the cabin we were staying in had forgotten to place a cabin number on our accommodation.
I was quite febrile, and remember thinking how would they find me. All I knew is that we were in a blue cabin at Park Lane holiday Park Philip Island and the staff had left 5pm that afternoon.
We ended up being locked-down in our accommodation for 7 days, before I felt capable of driving us both home, totally wrecked our Easter holiday.

Staff placed number on our cabin the very next morning and were fantastic, even brought me antivirals, food, etc as we were both locked down and were both positive.

Daughter’s was mild thankfully, and because she was also vaccinated.

People don't seem to understand that the vaccine doesn't stop you getting it, it just stops you from dying with it.

The concern always was our ICU departments being overwhelmed, and had it not been for vaccine's, they most certainly would have been and so many more would have died

[mellie]

I do believe people have a right to choice however.
This said, I'm opposed to people working in health being anti-vax and setting a poor example, placing others, especially the immunocompromised, or those genuinely too unwell to be vaccinated at risk.

I am not an ALP fan, however I do believe Dan Andrews did the best he could do to keep Victorians safe.

Remember, this virus was brand new, and it was bombarding our health care system to the point whereby people were at risk of not having access to a ventilator should they require one.

Epidemiologists made the call, Dan took their sound advice. Victorians were more at risk due to our unique circumstances, cooler climate, density, and ICU ventilator shortages .

Let's imagine that you required an ICU bed during the pandemic, for a completely different reason ie, heart failure from valve disease. It wasn't only patients with Covid who were at risk and suffered during the spikes , people who had other life-threatening diseases and who needed ventilators and surgery suffered too.
And sadly more so due to misinformation and conspiracy theorists and disappointingly, some of it came from those who we expected better from.

Hospitals and patients are still working to get through the surgical backlogs created by the pandemic and it's likely to take years before we get back to our pre-covid state.

I won't however berate individuals for their choice not to get vaccinated.
This said, I've been abused by anti-vaxxers online for stating my reasons for why I believe vaccines were necessary during this pandemic.

Interestingly, they were offended by my exercising my right to choice- Vaccinating my child and myself.
One individual accused me of parental negligence ....likening my decision to have my asthmatic child vaccinated as a form of abuse.

Just shows who the real loons are eh!