Crocodille Dundee left the building long ago
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I’m out of here, Mate
Australia sends in the Army to enforce COVID lockdown.
I’ve been following the flu panic in the land down under for some time now, and have probably had a half-dozen posts drafted on the situation, but then I just sigh, and figure we have our own problems.
Still, there are some alarming stories, if only because they could be harbingers of what we can expect as our overlords and their scribes build up the panic. In Melbourne last week, population 2.9 million, the premier extended a complete lockdown after 9 people tested positive for the flu, and vowed to keep the entire state closed until the infection rate is zero — in other words, forever.
Today’s story of the Army being called out is just the latest in a series of outrages the once-proud Aussies have meekly suffered. But how’s about this one, also from last week?
If armed troops aren’t sufficient, if locking the population inside their homes for over a year still leaves the flock with a tiny streak of rebelliousness, the good shepherd can step it up one notch further:
