It is officially the silly season during which people tend to wear funny red and green hats and have way too many office parties, but perhaps the silliest of seasonal excess comes to us courtesy of the government-owned, taxpayer-funded, ‘progressive’-run ABC which still advertises itself as Australia’s leading media organisation delivering the ‘most trusted’ and ‘reliable’ news which has been rigorously ‘fact-checked’ and informed by ‘in-depth expert analysis’.
The ABC excels at self-promotion, but Australia’s state media all-you-can-eat-buffet approach to Covid of pseudoscience, panic, and obedience to authority has left people wondering…
Even now, with the Reign of Covid Policy Terror in the rear-view mirror, we are still seeing attempts to resuscitate ‘The Science’ for the festive season. Their latest offering is an article, How to stay Covid-safe this festive season, from the latest vaccine advice to tips for shopping and socialising.
‘Covid doesn’t take a break over the festive season,’ we are reminded, and there’s ‘no harm in packing a mask’. Not to mention, ‘If you are gathering, you can open windows, have fans on, and ideally even air purifies if the situation is appropriate.’ But mostly the article is a whinge about declining rates of vaccination.
Fortunately, the policy wizards who gave us the Magic Mask of Salvation and the Glorious Vaccine are on hand to keep dispensing more pandemic ‘wisdom’ in case everyone gets too complacent.
Top of the list of things you can do to defend against Covid over Christmas, according to the ABC, including indulging in an ‘updated vaccine rolling out in December’ with the regulator approving new versions.
This latest must-have pandemic accessory for the Christmas Covid hysteric targets the Omicron sub-variant JN.1. Well, that’s good to know, otherwise we would be left defenceless without being able to identify the latest virus villain and its miracle antidote. (Is anyone, apart from the ‘experts’, the ABC, and Big Pharma, keeping track of all the ‘sub-variants’?)
The latest-model vaccine, ‘…will be available for anyone over six months of age from December 9.’ We can all breathe a sigh of relief – until the next variant pops up.
But let’s not leave the Marvellous Mask out of the festive picture. We should ‘consider masking up in busy shopping centres’ over the holiday period or, at least, avoiding peak times because ‘masks are still something we should be very much comfortable using, particularly for high-risk people because they do help to a degree’ we are told, despite evidence from other experts to the contrary. It is the belief of many that masks don’t, and never have, and never will, work against airborne viruses.
‘And if you are sick, the expert advice is to stay home,’ says the ABC, stating the obvious. Although this depends on whether it is a minor snivel or the ‘The Great Cough Catastrophe’. Some wondrous family get-together it would be this Christmas if we were to follow the ABC’s stale advice – is the ABC related to Ebenezer Scrooge by any chance?
But, what the heck, a bit of mask paranoia and jab-frenzy will be good for old times’ sake.
After five years of ‘silly’ during the ‘pandemic’, the ABC is still at it this silly season. Is it any wonder that trust in the ABC is swirling down the Covid-induced plughole of irrelevance? It’s just lucky for them that they can count on all those taxpayer dollars to keep them afloat.
