The plight of us “peasants” in Australia is being noticed internationally, with Fox News host Tucker Carlson condemning the present lack of freedoms in Covid fortress Australia. That is fair, but as reported at this blog, which covers the European and American scenes through our correspondents Richard Miller, Chris Knight and Charles Taylor, the US and Europe have their own anarcho-tyranny. It really is a present disease of the West, more serious than Covid, which is but a symbol of the problem.
“American Fox News host Tucker Carlson has slammed Australian politicians for treating the nation like 'peasants' after Daniel Andrews banned citizens from removing their face mask to drink alcohol outdoors.
The right-wing firebrand said many of Australia's hardline measures to curb the spread of Covid are not based on science, as he slammed the Victorian Premier for his latest round of draconian restrictions.
His tirade comes just days after fellow Fox News presenter Laura Ingraham ridiculed Sydney for its ongoing Covid lockdown which is now in its eighth week.
'In case it's not crystal clear by this point over a year and a half in, we have left the realm of science and we are just making things up to hurt people who may disagree with us,' Carlson said of lockdown policies on Tuesday.
'The powerful are doing whatever they feel like in the name of science and public health because they can and because nobody is stopping them.
'In Australia where there are no restraints at all it appears, the country has declared a state of martial law and now the "peasants" of Australia have to find a way to drink alcohol through their face masks.
'It's funny because if you are going along with that, the joke's on you.'
The cutting remarks come just 48 hours after the Victorian Premier imposed the drinking restrictions in response to a group of brazen revellers who flouted Melbourne's lockdown to attend a street-party pub crawl.
There is little to no evidence of widespread Covid transmission outdoors, with outdoor exercise and a takeaway beverage heralded by many as a good way to keep morale high in lockdown.”