Inside an Australian COVID Internment Camp, a Dystopian Hell Await

By Bonchie | Sep 06, 2021

COVID has revealed a lot over the last year and a half, but no country has been exposed more for its underlying culture of tyranny than Australia. Formerly a beacon of freedom, community, and beautiful landscapes, the land down under has morphed into a dystopian hellscape where the government blesses its residents with an hour of free time a day. The former prison colony has reverted to its roots.

Nowhere is that more apparent than in the COVID internment camps now operating in Australia. Travelers, both foreign and domestic are forced into one of the various metal buildings to serve out their 14-day sentence. There, they remain "quarantined", only to be delivered food by faceless operatives in full protective gear.

This per The New York Times.

HOWARD SPRINGS, Australia - On Day 8 of my two-week stay at Australia'

s only remote, dedicated facility for Covid quarantine, I called my 11-year-old daughter at home in Sydney to ask how her day at school had gone. All I heard was a long pause.

"Dad", she said. "It''s Saturday."

I looked out the window as if my confusion could be cleared by the brown all around me,  the single-story metal lodging, the pathways, the bags of food that had just been dropped off by workers in face shields. It was not yet 5 p.m. and they were delivering dinner?

Such is life in a former mining camp near the northern tip of the country, in a place called Howard Springs, a temporary home for hundreds of domestic and international travelers being forced to wait around long enough to prove they're Covid-free.

Australia has given these camps the Orwellian name of  "centers for national resilience," a turn of phrase that would be more at home in North Korea or China. And more are being built to pursue the goal of so-called "COVID zero," though, the government has recently begun to admit that may not be possible.

The supposed collective good is the excuse used to justify such drastic violations of individual rights. Yet, the lack of science behind the idea is palpable. Given the efficacy of current tests and the known incubation period of the virus, what is the basis for needing to keep someone locked away by force for 14 straight days? The Australian government, and perhaps many of the people who live there, take a "better safe than sorry" approach, though.

The question is how long do they expect to keep this up? The internment camp strategy appears to be long-term, but are they just postponing the inevitable? It's also worth noting that the strategy doesn't appear to be working..............To Read More....