Regarding the building of Covid concentration camps, as the alternative media overseas are calling them, my punch line for this article was going to be, well it won’t be long before all of Australia returns to its convict roots and becomes one vast penal colony. But, silly me, it has already happened. How easy was that?
Here is a hypothetical. Just suppose that all those scientists documented at Natural News.com, and Dr Mercola’s site, who believe that the Covid vaccines will generate a vaccine apocalypse, are right. I don’t think so, but suppose. Now for our thought experiment, suppose it was openly admitted that this was so. Then, finally the government said, well, so what, you still need a vaccine passport to play the games of capitalism. You will die in a few years, but don’t worry, there will be migrants to replace you! My black pill guess is that even then, there will be mass conformity, and dying early will be cool. Social media will help out here, no doubt. Or, I could be wrong about my low view of human nature. Or, God might decide to pull the curtain on the whole pathetic drama of the human race, which would be grand. While many Christians have become this-worldly hedonists, the Bible does talk about the end of days. It will come to pass, maybe sooner than most think.
“The Queensland government is pushing ahead with its own regional dedicated COVID-19 quarantine facility.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced on Thursday that Cabinet has approved the project on vacant land owned by Wagner Corporation, just outside Toowoomba, west of Brisbane.
The announcement came as the state recorded two new cases of COVID-19, both in hotel quarantine.
Construction started at the site near Wellcamp Airport on Thursday, with 500 beds to be available by the end of the year and a total capacity of 1,000 by March next year.
Construction firm Wagners first submitted the plan to use its Wellcamp Airport as the landing point for some of the Australians stranded overseas in January.
The financial arrangement between the state government and the Wagner family will be commercial-in-confidence, but the state government has signed a one-year lease, with the option of extending to two or three years.
"Our hotels were not built for the Delta strain of this virus," Ms Palaszczuk said.
"This is going to be a great boost for our defence against the Delta virus in this country, and in fact I believe we need regional facilities, right across the country.
"I have been advocating for this for a long, long time. It is a no-brainer."
Deputy Premier Steven Miles said he hoped the facility would prevent future lockdowns sparked by the virus leaking out of hotel quarantine.
"When you consider that the last lockdown alone cost more than a billion dollars in economic impact, and compensation, you can see just what fantastic value it will be," he said.
'Much safer than non-purpose-built hotel quarantine'
The federal government has made it clear that it would not pay for a quarantine facility at Wellcamp.
In June, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the site did not meet the criteria for a Commonwealth-funded quarantine compound because it was not within easy access of a passenger airport terminal or tertiary hospital.
He knocked back the plan and instead proposed a facility at the Damascus Barracks, about 5 minutes' drive from Brisbane Airport.
A feasibility study by consultancy group AECOM found the Pinkenba facility could be up and running for the first 500 travellers by March 31, although some challenges posed a "significant risk" to this timeframe – including modifying accommodation to mitigate aircraft noise.
On Thursday, Mr Morrison said despite the Wellcamp facility not meeting national guidelines, Ms Palaszczuk has "been at liberty" to build the site "for months".
"We've made it very clear that that facility did not seek to meet the national guidelines and that's why we're going together, forward together, at Pinkenba," he said.
"They've made that decision and they could have done that months ago if that's what they wish to do, but it's good for them and I wish them every success."
Ms Palaszczuk has previously said the federal government-funded Damascus facility as well as one at Wellcamp could eliminate the need for quarantine hotels.
Health Minister Yvette D'Ath said had the Wellcamp facility been built earlier, the Queensland government may not have had to pause arrivals from interstate hotspots for the next fortnight.
"If this had been built months ago when we first asked the Commonwealth to partner with us and the Wagners, we potentially may not have had to make the very difficult decision that we made [on Wednesday]," Ms D'Ath said.
Travellers could arrive for quarantine by bus.
Mr Miles said once the Wellcamp facility was operational, travellers would be taken by bus to the site from Brisbane Airport, if the Commonwealth government decided not to allow flights to land at Wellcamp Airport.
"We currently bus arriving travellers from Brisbane to hotel quarantine accommodation on the Gold and Sunshine Coast, and so that would remain an option to get people here safely," he said.”