It has come to this…

On Sunday morning, Melbourne’s AM talk-radio station, 3AW, took a call from a listener going by name of Ralphie, a chap deeply troubled by the thought the ‘COVID passports’ many other callers and the show’s hosts endorse could be easily forged. His solution was simple: after rolling up sleeves for the inoculation, they should be remain up while a tattooist inscribes a small ‘V’ for vaccinated on the patient’s arm. A better place would be the neck at collar height, Ralphie said, so the mark would be more easily bared to employers, authorities, travel agents and anyone else invested by the State with the authority to police the social credit scores of others.

Even the hosts thought that notion went a bit too far, enjoying a jolly chuckle after cutting off poor, anxious Ralphie, which is the way things work at 3AW these days. A caller mentioning, say, ivermectin as a promising early treatment won’t get out another word before being cut off. This allows the hosts to conduct a winning argument with a dead phone line and, inevitably, to regurgitate the Therapeutic Goods Administration’s opposition to anything but the authorised narrative ...vaccine … vaccine … vaccine.

That there is madness afoot in the land must be obvious by now to all who don’t endorse it, the symptoms of its virulence manifesting themselves in ways that should appall all who hold free speech as important, especially at this moment when official responses to a medical crisis are busy laying the groundwork for the far more dangerous economic crisis that must inevitably follow. Take the underlined passage in the latest public statement from the Australian doctors of the COVID Medical Network:

… Due to the fear of reprisals, CMN has decided to omit the names and signatures of over 100 doctors who have committed to support this letter. These doctors would normally have no issues with undertaking such as task under normal democratic circumstances. The right to freedom of speech and political communication is a cornerstone of CMN messaging for educational purposes has been stifled by oppressive regulatory measures not seen since Eastern block rule …

‘Due to fear of reprisals’! For saying what exactly? Just this:

CMN emphasizes the need for doctors to unite and do everything they can to help patients, especially with early-stage treatment. Never in the history of virus outbreaks have doctors’ hands been tied to prevent them from working with the community directly and combat disease. In contrast, during the HIV pandemic of the 1980s, doctors were able to treat patients without government interference. Never in the history of health emergencies has only one approach, to the exclusion of all others, been so heavily promoted, leaving Australians to suffer in fear and die in isolation or in hospital. The group reminds all doctors of their ethical obligations and the oath they swore: ‘primum non nocere’ or ‘first do no harm’.

“We are experiencing never-ending lockdowns, excessive restrictions, mask mandates, the coercion and close-to-mandating of novel and unproven vaccine technology, including experimenting on children. In addition, businesses are being destroyed, there are invasions to privacy in the form of QR check-in codes, threats to every Australian’s right to free movement through passports, increases in youth and adult suicides, and severe economic stress”, CMN noted.

The reckless pursuit of a Covid-Zero state is economically unsustainable and medically irresponsible. 400 Australians die every day from all causes and these Australians are dying within a grossly disrupted health care system, while their loved ones are inhumanely denied the opportunity to properly mourn them. During 2021, Australia has 22 registered deaths attributed to Covid 19. None of these people received early treatments which have been shown to reduce hospitalization and deaths by 84.5%. Many other safe early treatment multi-drug and nutraceuticals combinations are available, also showing similar outcomes.

For expressing these sentiments the penalty is reprisals, the enmity of the world’s Ralphlies and the sudden disconnecting ‘click’ of their favourite radio hosts.

We are in an awful lot trouble, and a  nasty Chinese virus is the least of it.

— roger franklin