2020: The Year We Let Ourselves Be Infantilised And Dehumanised

Authored by Rob Slane via TheBlogMire.com,

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I recently wrote a satirical speech by our Prime Minister, in which I imagined him coming up with all sorts of absurd rules for the Christmas season. It was really hard. Not because I was unable to come up with hundreds of such rules, were I minded to do so, but because the whole point of satire is to raise the absurdities up a step or two, in order to highlight the ridiculousness of what is happening. But how do you do this when the real-life absurdities have already been turned up to 11 on the amplifier? I kid you not when I tell you that my original list included a rule against playing certain board games over Christmas — which I rejected — only to see a few days later SAGE coming out and advising against the playing of board games.

We have now had nearly nine months of being treated like utter imbeciles. A once great country with a once free people has been reduced to the level of being governed by pathetic, childish slogans. And for some reason we have allowed ourselves to be infantilised.

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Politicians Ban Human Contact

Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer

Via 9News

Coronavirus: No handshakes and hugs for forseeable future, top nurse says

Handshakes and hugging are simply off the cards for Australians for the foreseeable future, the nation’s top nurse has said.

“We have reached a point at the moment where a handshake is no longer something we should be doing socially,” Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer Alison McMillan said today.

“It has very much become part of our culture over a very long time, handshakes are something we should avoid at this point in time — we all know that.

Australia’s Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer Alison McMillan provides the national update on the COVID-19 pandemic for Sunday August 23, 2020. (9News)

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