Australia has become 1984 on Steroids
As if their over-the-board restrictions weren’t enough, you really want to hear this.
Australia has gone in a full-blown totalitarian state under the reasons of health and safety. Australians have no privacy anymore. Their voices are silenced if they speak out against the government and the police are constantly surveilling them to ensure that they are not breaching any covid health orders. They are doing this to bring down the cases through tough lockdowns and restrictions.
Are Australia’s severe restrictions working though? The original purpose of lockdowns was to flatten the curve and to not overwhelm the hospitals. However, that’s been proven in the past that lockdowns do not work and they cause more harm than good. Despite the restrictions and the vaccination rates, covid cases in Australia are through the roof. But I thought if people were to get vaccinated against covid-19, not only the pandemic would end, but the cases would be reduced to a minimum? When will these government officials learn that lockdowns do not work?
Last week, Australia passed a law where Australians will have to download an app that uses facial recognition and geolocation. They will receive a text from the police, at a random time, where they have 15 minutes to take a selfie of themselves and if they don’t, they will receive a knock on the door from the police. A lot of issues rise from that alone. This is a direct violation of privacy because the police are in intruding an individual’s private affairs. Aussies feel like they are not only surveilled by the police outside of their homes, but also through their phones. This also raises another concern. What if someone doesn’t have a phone? How would that work out for the police if they are on the watch for an aussie that may breach health orders? Speaking of privacy violation, last week, the Australia parliament rushed through a surveillance bill where it gives police the power to manipulate a private citizen’s phone data where they can take over your device, collect or delete data, and also take over social media accounts as well. See this is where dissident voices are silenced. If any aussie wants to form an anti-lockdown protest against the government’s restrictions, and they spread that message through social media, the police would wipe out that post/message under the name of health and safety.
The reason why I believe that Australia has become 1984 on steroids is because of the police state and the over-excessive surveillance state that’s been put in place such as New South Wales (NSW), Victoria, Sydney, and other major cities and suburbs. It has reached to the point where aussies are no longer able to go anywhere outside of their home without being monitored by the police. If they so much as speak out against the government, the police will target them and deem them as a health threat. Remember in the book, 1984, “Big Brother” does not tolerate dissent, even in the mind. Well, it seems that the Australian government is using the book 1984, as a how-to guide, to have control over everyone’s everyday lives.