What Have We Learned After Lockdown Month 4

Now we are into month four of the lockdowns we are seeing an amazing and outrageous shift in how we as societies view health care. Somehow the World Health Organisation and its insane policies have managed to completely invert how we view health care with potentially apocalyptic outcomes for our society as a whole.

They have managed to take the fundamental principles of health care being one of duty to care for the sick, attempt to find treatments and responsibility to nurture and heal the sick, into a dystopian nightmare of bullying, blaming, shaming and terrorising the public in an attempt to prevent illness from ever occurring in the first place. A stunning and dramatic inversion of everything we have known to this point.

We have even seen the outrage of some Doctors publicly opining that maybe people who have been out protesting for their rights should not be offered health care if they should become sick with Covid 19. This is an egregious breach of the Hippocratic Oath. There is a reason battlefield Doctors are not allowed to carry firearms on them and shoot enemy combatants in the head. Even the ENEMY troops they have a duty to treat. The fact we have reached such astronomical partisan heights that a trained Doctor would even put such an idea on paper is drastically dangerous and raises questions whether the physician class is tumbling into a similar spiral of fascism that it did in 1930's Germany with all its attendant horrors.

As part of the program we have seen Governments around the world shift their health care responses into ones of hard law enforcement. Since when has health care ever been an issue of law enforcement? Well we can point to only one obvious case in recent history, that of the equally misguided “War on Drugs”. This policy has proven to be such a catastrophic failure it’s amazing they would now be rolling this same model out onto the rest of the health care system.

They will, and ARE, finding that using such a model to deal with an outbreak of respiratory disease is having an equally catastrophic failure rate. Especially in the more open societies whose entire raison de'tre is to NOT be like the more closed societies of Asia, where many of these policies were first experimented with during previous respiratory outbreaks.

The failure of the academic class to see that their policies are radically failing, and choosing instead to double down on the failed policies rather than work on alternatives, is also a text book example of Einstein’s famous edict “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”.  I have no doubt that given the hard jack boot approach, recently launched in Victoria, we are going to see a massive wave of the virus unchecked through the state now, as a result.

The shifting of health care into a bullying and shaming operation has deeply destructive consequences going forward for our community. They are destroying trust and faith in the Doctors and Nurses, who are supposed to be there to help people, with these acts. What began as a general piling on of the current accepted ‘other group we are allowed to hate’, namely those ‘dodgy right wing white people’, who were asking for the very clear right to continue on with their daily lives once steps had been put in place to deal with the outbreak, rapidly and inevitably shifted to the total terrorisation of the most marginal in our society, the refugees and ethnic minorities in our public housing system.

It is an inevitable road that one takes if one allows to start removing rights and attacking one segment of society that it rapidly piles up into a general social collapse, with the most vulnerable being the worst victims in the end. I am already aware of refugees who are exhibiting symptoms who refuse to get tested, as they are so terrified of what the outcomes will be since the operations at the Commission Flats were launched. And I will not pick on them for having this mistrust, as it was the people whose responsibility it is to maintain trust who squandered it. It is not the fault of already traumatised people that they have now had their faith in the health care system damaged.

It is unbelievable that we have let this institution unleash such damaging policies on our society without questioning them or holding any inquiry. One cannot just worship at the altar that ‘the experts must know what they are doing’ when one can see the failures of policy in front of ones own eyes.

The fact that we shifted the concept of disease control into one of blaming people for it is also so dangerous and just as ridiculous a stance to have in general. Disease comes into our society. It always has and it always will. It is actually no ones fault. It is not even Daniel Andrews fault. Daniel Andrews is at fault for being a racist, fascist nazocommie, for his destructive and ill thought through lockdown policies, but he is NOT at fault for there being a disease in our community.

Just as it is not your neighbour’s fault if your Grandparents happen to die from this disease. It is not the Muslim’s fault for having a cultural need to hold gatherings at a certain time. It is not the Africans fault, it is not the Jews fault. It is a DISEASE. It is not the Governments job to stop us from getting sick. It IS the Governments job to ensure we have a robust, well funded and well equipped health care system to look after us if and when we DO get sick.

It is not Trumps fault people are sick in the US, its not Boris’s fault people are sick in Britain, its not Bolsanaro’s fault in Brazil. Diseases happen we are not Gods. In fact the only way we could apportion any blame on any of this to a human agent is if you believe that it was released from a laboratory. But then that is the culpability of the people in that lab and not the various Governments around the world.

We have never treated the arrival of a new disease in our midst with such damaging reactions. Imagine where our society would be today if, when HIV first arrived on our shores, we decided to round up all the gay community and shove them in internment camps in order to try and stop the spread of the disease. I don’t remember the scenes of cops kicking in the doors of bath houses at that time either and demanding that they be shut down in order to prevent ‘unclean’ cultural practices that were accelerating the death toll in that particular pandemic.

We didn’t blame gay men en mass when they got sick with HIV either. Well one portion of society did and we would classify them as right wing extremist neo Nazis. Somehow the WHO has mainstreamed that approach to disease this time around. The Muslim community is now feeling extremely vulnerable, in countries where it was already suffering historic levels of pressure since 911, as a result of this Operation Shame that is coming along with the WHO’s response to Covid 19. 

We didn’t even really blame the Government that much at the time. Ironically the only people who really took a hit on criticism about handling of the AIDS pandemic were the SAME public health officials, such as Fauci, now in control of the Covid operation. That is a pause for thought. Yes I realise HIV is a harder disease to spread but that is the reality we have to face. Some of us are going to get sick. Freedom isn’t Free as they say.

The WHO must immediately begin a process of dialing back its destructive and punitive policies and seek an alternative route to deal with this current pandemic. Yes people are going to die. That is an unfortunate fact of life. But we cannot destroy our very society in an attempt to save some lives, lest any of the Covid survivors will have nothing left to live for anyway.