Bio-Secessionism: The Breakup of Australia into Distinct Covid States! By James Reed
For some time, I have been supporting the idea that most countries should break up into smaller more manageable states. There are secession movements across the world. However, Covid lockdowns are giving us our first real taste of the breakup. I contend that in some respects it is not so bad! Remember, small is beautiful! So, shut the borders, but let the people be free.
“Queensland has joined Western Australia in threatening to renege on the national plan to live with coronavirus once 80 per cent of the population is vaccinated.
Deputy Premier Steven Miles on Sunday said Queensland may keep its border closed to NSW if the southern state has high case numbers, regardless of vaccination rates.
The move contradicts the re-opening plan, agreed by all premiers at National Cabinet last month, which says Australia will relax restrictions once 70 per cent are vaccinated and stop minimising cases once 80 per cent are jabbed.
He falsely suggested the national plan was no longer valid because NSW was recording such high case numbers, with 830 on Sunday.
'We're signed up and committed to the plan that national cabinet endorsed but that was a plan that was endorsed before the New South Wales outbreak.'
The Prime Minster has been at pains to point out that the plan is not predicated on case numbers and can go ahead regardless of infection rates. The very point of the plan is to live alongside the virus, he says.
With Victoria and NSW in lockdown due to rising case numbers, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk tweeted that her state had zero new infections.
Some Twitter users interpreted this as a subtle boast but others noted she has been reporting daily cases on her Twitter feed for several months.
Victoria recorded 71 new cases on Monday, its highest total in the most recent outbreak.
Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has even vowed to turn off financial support for any state that goes rogue and keeps trying to eliminate Covid even after 80 per cent are jabbed.”
States might then consider the ultimate state’s right, secession from the Commonwealth, establishing their own taxation, or better still, moving to social credit, ideally.
“A fired-up Scott Morrison has slammed rogue states who are threatening to keep Covid-19 restrictions even after high vaccination rates are achieved as he declared 'this Groundhog Day has to end'.
Queensland has joined Western Australia in threatening to maintain restrictions such as border closures even after 80 per cent of the population is vaccinated.
The move contradicts the re-opening plan, agreed by all premiers at National Cabinet, which says Australia will relax restrictions once 70 per cent are vaccinated and stop minimising cases once 80 per cent are jabbed.
The Prime Minister defended his plan - which is based on scientific modelling - in a press conference on Monday morning and said Australia must learn to live with Covid-19.
'It does puzzle me - it puzzles me - why anyone would want to go against a plan that has been so carefully prepared,' he said.
Referring to lockdowns in Melbourne and Sydney, he said: 'This is not a sustainable way to live in this country, without those freedoms that we all cherish.'
And in a warning to overly cautious states, he said there is no alternative to opening up once vaccination rates are high.
'Because if not at 70 per cent and 80 per cent, then when? Then when?
'We have to deal with it. Otherwise we stay in the cave forever. That's not a sustainable solution,' he said.
'I understand people will be concerned that cases may rise... the task is not to delay, the task is not to fear, the task is to embrace, prepare, plan, ensure that we are in a position to [open up].'
The Prime Minister said that once 70 per cent of Australians are vaccinated then lockdowns will do more harm than good.
'There will be risk attached to [opening up], but there is also risk being stuck where we are. This Groundhog Day has to end,' he said in reference to the 1993 film where the lead character gets stuck in a repeating 24-hour cycle.”
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