Category: lockdown

Call for Sydneysiders to Be Truthful With Contact Tracers Amid 50 New Cases

New South Wales (NSW) Chief Health Officer Dr. Kerry Chant has made an impassioned plea for people to be truthful with contact tracers after the premier said the “vast majority” of Sydney’s 50 new CCP virus cases were being obstructive. “We know that everyone is human and makes poor decisions at certain times, but please don’t…


Lockdown Impact on Card Spending Muted in NSW Compared to Victoria

The recent lockdown restrictions in New South Wales (NSW) have had a lower impact on spending activity in the state compared to the recent Victorian hard lockdowns. Both Commonwealth Bank and Westpac Bank data revealed that overall household card activity had not made any significant drops in NSW after the first week of restrictions. Commonwealth…


Where’s the Justice in Repeated Lockdowns?

Commentary In Charles Dickens’ novel, Oliver Twist, we find the oft-quoted phrase: the law is an ass. In his view, the law no longer served the purpose of promoting justice and fairness but became corrupted by arbitrariness so that it served the interests of the few and not the many. In other words, what is…


Brisbane Lockdown Extended 24 Hours, Restrictions Remain for 11 Areas

CCP virus restrictions will remain in place for two weeks in parts of Queensland’s southeast and north, although the lockdowns will end for certain local government areas from Friday night. This comes as three new locally acquired cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, were reported on Friday morning….


Brits Ramped Up Savings in 2021 Lockdown, Data Show

Brits squirrelled away their wages, profits, and pandemic handouts during this year’s spring lockdown, taking household savings to near-record levels, according to official figures. The data from the Office for National Statistics also show that GDP contracted during that first quarter of the year by more than expected, dropping by 1.6 percent compared with the previous…


NSW Records 30 New Local COVID-19 Cases

The most populous Australian state of NSW has recorded 30 new locally acquired cases of coronavirus as the Greater Sydney area and surrounding areas enter the first day of a 14-day lockdown. Premier Gladys Berejiklian has confirmed new local cases were recorded between 8 p.m. Friday and 8 p.m. Saturday, taking the total number in…


Sydney Lockdown Expands to Entire City, Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Wollongong

All of Greater Sydney, Blue Mountains, Central Coast, and Wollongong will go into lockdown from 6 p.m. Saturday until July 9 amid an evolving CCP virus outbreak in the Australian state. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian called a second press conference on Saturday afternoon, just two hours after she had already fronted the media about the growing…


Charlie Kirk: Tyrants Want to Overturn Our Constitutional Rights but People Hold Political Power

The constitutional rights of Americans are under assault from politically biased tyrants who want to use their power to restrict freedom of speech, according to Charlie Kirk, founder and president of conservative student group Turning Point USA, Whether it’s from Big Tech and big government working together on censorship, lockdowns restricting church services, or a slew of…


Special Live Q&A: Fear In China’s Leadership As Xi Demands Loyalty; Audit Update with Roman Balmakov

Chinese leader Xi Jinping recently required top members of the Chinese Communist Party to state loyalty oaths, and he is claiming there have been traitors within the ranks of the regime. And in other news, a new study from the University of Southern California and the RAND Corporation found that lockdown policies not only didn’t…


COVID-19 Shelter-In-Place Policies Failed to Save Lives: Study

A new study that examined “excess death” data to gauge the impact of shelter-in-place policies on mortality concluded that lockdowns or stay-at-home policies failed to save lives. Economists from the University of Southern California and the RAND Corporation sought to evaluate the net impact of shelter-in-place (SIP) mandates by examining excess death data from 43…