Coronavirus has 'not killed a single Australian this year - not through community transmission - but it has sure killed perspective,' according to Sky News host Andrew Bolt.
Coronavirus has "not killed a single Australian this year - not through community transmission - but it has sure killed perspective," according to Sky News host Andrew Bolt. “Two examples of our new health fascism,” he said. “Example one is from Queensland, a couple flew in fully vaccinated from the Middle East, repeatedly testing negative in quarantine, had their baby son born prematurely last week while they were still in quarantine.
“The sheer hypocrisy, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk could yesterday tweet that she just got the Pfizer vaccine so she could travel to Tokyo for the Olympics, but two parents who got the vaccine can’t even visit their own baby in a hospital in Brisbane,” he said. “We saw the same abrogation of responsibility in Victoria.” The Victorian government recently rejected a request for an exemption on numbers for the funeral of an 8-year-old boy who drowned at a school camp.
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