Not only that, but it seems to me that the wingnut Christofascim of Australia has a distinctly Catholic colour to it - unlike America where it's primarily Southern evangelical. I mean, last week it was a statue of Mary being paraded in front of the "hang Dan Andrews" rallies; on the weekend it was a long time nutter and Australia's own wannabe Michael Flynn starting his speech before the "Freedom rally" with the Lord's Prayer. (He is Catholic, and amusingly, I've noticed many people at dover beach's Cathollaxy think he's gone too nuts and Qanon-like.) Here's the video, if you can stomach it:
He called for a general strike until the country bends to his views - I am curious how many absentees there were today as a result of this call. I doubt it's many.
How much should we worry about the nutty Freedom rallies? They are scary in the way they illustrate the power of the internet to co-ordinate protest, internationally; but at the same time, the vaccination rate here (Australia) would indicate that their numbers over the entire population are not as large as they might think. I know - there would have been some vaccinated people in the crowd who were protesting for the rights of the un-vaccinated - but I suspect they would be in the small minority. So vaccination rates in the big states would tend to indicate the number of people whipping themselves into an anti-vaccination frenzy is probably under 10%, perhaps less than 5%? Yet the internet gives cranks the impression that their numbers are larger than they really are.
It must be driving many of them nuts that Dan Andrews is still polling strongly in Victoria.
I don't think it's necessarily about mandatory vaccination in Victoria at all.
ReplyDeleteThere's a lot of gathered frustration in Victoria from the past two years - dissatisfaction with the lockdowns, a fallout from the internal CFMEU battles that happened some weeks ago, and anger at the non-consultative and undemocratic way the Andrews Government is trying to force the new pandemic bill through parliament.
I hope Andrews doesn't win another term. He doesn't deserve to. I don't know what's going on with the polling, it may be misleading - but if Andrews is 'popular' perhaps that is because the opposition hasn't made itself credible enough to present a decent alternative.
Incidentally, I got propaganda from this Bosi character in the mail a few weeks ago. He does seem like a right nutter.
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ReplyDeleteI understand that there are definitely going to be people who are happily vaxed who are still unhappy with the Andrews government approach to COVID - but I kind of suspect that to get involved in a street march about the issue, you are much more likely to be actually against getting vaccinated.
ReplyDeleteI would like to see good quality "exit polling" so to speak of how many in these protests are vaccinated.
all thes people never seem to read the bible they supposedly uphold.
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