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 I always find it sad when politics is involved with our health.

These days of the Coronavirus is a troubling time indeed for everyone but why in so called conservative circles does it often have to be different from the medical opinion of the day. We all remember what then President Trump called it in the early days...A Democrat Hoax! And I have referred to that before...

 

In the U.S. at the moment we have some of the right wing politicians saying strange things...one in particular stating vaccinations are “a political tool used to control”...and “You can’t force people to be a part of the human experiment!”. Really....when it’s something for your own good. And also...“They don’t need medical brown shirts calling at their door ordering vaccinations”.

 

Now we all know, or should know, that “brown shirts” also known as storm troopers played a part in the rise of Hitler that led to the death of millions of people world wide including over six million Jews during the World War 2.

 

It just seems so unnecessary to even say that...let alone think it. There was also a reference to “needle Nazis” referring again to nurses I guess giving vaccinations. This just all feeds into the conspiracy theories, and there are many and varied,  that we really don’t need in these times of uncertainty among many to become vaccinated.

 

We, in Australia, have a similar thought by many of the right wing media. Maybe not as forthright as in the U.S but some are pretty close to a similar way of thinking. And it’s interesting today here that on twitter some of the right wing extremists, that were so against Premier Dan Andrews of Victoria, a labour premier,  when he locked down the state...and supported The NSW Premier because she wouldn’t, have suddenly been deleting their original tweets against the lockdown in Victoria. Strange isn’t it! Mmmm 😑😏

 

Now In Sydney NSW they have had an outbreak of the dreaded Coronovirus, a conservative state, they didn’t order a complete lockdown as did Victoria and now they are paying for it and it is spreading. They were always held up to be the "Gold Standard" in treatment of the virus and doing the right thing by not closing down now the media, even the right wing media, is targeting them for not closing down early enough. Some even say no one should close anything down and let the virus just run it's course!

Heaven forbid with so many variants in play as well...

 

Have they not seen what is happening to our neighbour just to the north Indonesia? As the worlds most populous nation Indonesia recorded a record high of 27,913 new cases in one day, That’s one day! Oxygen supplies needed for treatment of severely ill people is almost exhausted...doctors are exhausted...hospitals are over run completely. The same in many countries around the world.

 

It’s just a shame we can’t put politics aside at least for once!