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Vax Regime Refugees & Mullumbimby Madness

It’s hard to comprehend some of the scenes that occurred in Melbourne with the recent protests and an awful lot of people seem oblivious to it, or don’t care, or support it by their silence, and all the brutality, heavy-handedness, beating and shooting paid off though, and the protest movement, the one that started at the CFMEU office late September died a quick death, lasting only three days and had maybe 10,000 people on its biggest day, from a city of 5 million.

These protests are all organised and promoted on Telegram and the main groups devolved into arguing about religion and jews and whatever, or talk of renting charter flights to get out of the country, while a lot of discussion – since these are Victorians – turned to which part of Australia was best to take refuge in, considering that in Victoria if you are not vaccinated you are – indefinitely, so they say – not allowed to work outside the home (in some types of self employment you could probably get away with it though), nor go into many public buildings and amenities.

The consensus seems to be the contiguous coastal area stretching from the Gold Coast in southern Queensland, to the Northern Rivers of NSW at the southern end, or basically Gold Coast down to Coffs Harbour, with Byron Bay in the middle. The border between Qld and NSW is porous and you can just walk across it in plenty of towny places, in a vehicle it may be different.

Byron Shire is probably the ‘anti-vax’ capital of the country (60% first dosed, which is as low as it gets in NSW), and Russell Crowe lives there, and Russell’s alright, and it encompasses places like Mullumbimby:

You are going to have to put up with a lot of hippy dippy types, and there’ll be a whole swathe of topics to avoid bringing up with these people, chief of them ‘Adani’, which is how everyone refers to the nascent Carmichael coal mine in Qld, they are just obsessed about Adani.

More Mullumbimby Madness:

The other three states are hermit kingdoms still and you won’t get in there even if fully vaksined.

As far as remaining in Victoria, Melbourne is largely lost unless you already have some sort of network of people, or are of an ethnic persuasion which is resisting the vax program and have that community to rely on. There are Christian sort of prayer or support groups for non-vaxed which exist. If you must stay in Melbourne, the inner city areas are the most vax resistant and fairly chilled when there aren’t police everywhere, and some of the heavily multicultural areas, and, surprisingly, the local council area of Stonnington, which is upper middle class, but they’ll be worn down.

It’d be interesting to know where this union lady is right now:

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Outside of Melbourne you’d probably want to be in a place with lots of locals like these:

It’s nice the cafe has an Assange poster, most Australians don’t give a rat’s arse about him. This is some country town, not sure where but a semi-educated guess for a certain reason is Daylesford but it’s a little hard to believe that there are that many working class men in Daylesford, it’s a little like an inland version of Byron Bay just with fewer millionaires and Matt Damon doesn’t have a house there. [edit – actually it’s probably Woodend]

Generally for Victoria though the border towns are probably the best bet, and if you just had a sudden burning desire to play the pokies you can just cross the border into NSW, and theoretically, from December 1, just walk into the club as NSW intends to drop the vax passport system and, well, they show no sign of reneging on that (yet).

A lot of what is happening in Victoria seems reactive to the early opening up north of the Murray, the Victorian government doesn’t seem to want to be left behind, and there is a possibility that things won’t end up terribly bad in Victoria in the long run, again, predicated on NSW staying with and furthering its (now) more liberal approach to the madness. Andrews has said “no more lockdowns (citywide)” and it’s going to be cocktail hour for the olds very soon as they’re already rolling out the BOOST JUICE program, and allowing internationals to come without quarantine, and it’s just hard to see them rolling all this back, but we’ll see next winter.

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  1. I keep an eye on The Age comments. The chattering class are still full of vitriol for the unvaxxed – murderously so – but about half are not so keen on booster mandates or fresh lockdowns.
    When the vaccines wear off and Dan starts pushing for moar, some will fall in line and some will join the dissidents. Not sure about the numbers on each side, though.
    This process may continue for several years.

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  2. Being an unfortunate resident of Melbourne, there was some easy protest decisions to make based on two broad options. First option being, protesting on the street with the associated likely beating, gassing, rubber bulleting, large fine and potential for employment ostracism if you are in any sort of large/public organisation. The second option being simply and quietly introducing your own flexibility into the rules, exploiting a few loopholes (limited, but there), seeing some friends/families in their own homes/back sheds etc.

    I know which way makes sense for most people, who were thoroughly tired of it all.

    For a month or two in lockdown six, I recall it was like it wasn’t really on at all. Except for the eery feeling you get driving through the city during the day/evening, before you remember why everything is closed.

    And the police were clearly tired of it all. When the sun first came out, the local park was full of people, within full sight of the police station within 150 metres, masks off, many drinks, playing football etc.

    Vaccines are different, but the pass is easy to ‘procure’, Based on one weekend of going out, we were asked at perhaps 50% of the venues, but there is no way we needed a genuine one. So I expect surveillance to ramp up, and some other technology solution to be found.

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