While the city had planned to exit a prior lockdown by the end of the week, officials instead extended the restrictions into late August on Tuesday, with New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian lamenting the decision while claiming it is necessary. “I am as upset and frustrated as all of …
Read More »Anti-lockdown Tennessee pastor tells mask-wearers they are not welcome: ‘I’m not playing these Democrat games’
Addressing his congregation on Sunday, the controversial pastor said he was against counties reimposing mask mandates to curb a rise in coronavirus cases. If Mount Juliet, Tennessee, where the Global Vision Bible Church is located, goes through the same regression in policy, pastor Greg Locke claimed he would not be …
Read More »‘Filthy, disgusting & selfish’: Australian leaders blast anti-lockdown protesters, unleash ‘strike force’ to track them down
In just 24 hours after Saturday’s mass protest, police in Australia’s New South Wales issued some 510 penalty infringement notices, Deputy Commissioner Gary Worboys said, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. He vowed that authorities will continue to investigate those acts of “violent, filthy, risky” behavior NSW Police Minister David …
Read More »No fans, no fair play, no atmosphere… the Planet Lockdown Olympics will be a gold medal flop
In what appears to be a last-ditch attempt at damage control, Thomas Bach, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) president, has called Tokyo the “best ever prepared” city to host the Olympics with just hours to go before the official lighting of the flame. Unfortunately, few people will be able to …
Read More »‘Unity Is Freedom’: Anti-lockdown protesters rally in London as Covid-19 restrictions lifted in England (VIDEOS)
Thousands gathered outside the Palace of Westminster, the seat of the country’s parliament, carrying signs reading “Unity Is Freedom” and “It’s Not a Pandemic, It’s an IQ Test.” Protesters chanted, “Shame on Police” and demanded that Prime Minister Boris Johnson be arrested. READ MORE: Revellers line up at London clubs to …
Read More »Australia’s state of Victoria to indefinitely extend its 5th lockdown despite drop in Covid-19 cases
The lockdown, the fifth imposed in the state over the course of the pandemic, will not be lifted as scheduled, Victoria state Premier Daniel Andrews said on Monday. “It would be perhaps a few days of sunshine and then there is a very high chance that we’d be back in …
Read More »The left used to love liberal Sweden: Now for pro-mask, pro-lockdown UK progressives, it doesn’t exist
With the same depressing predictability of England being defeated in a major football tournament via a late-night penalty-shoot-out, the UK government’s announcement that mandatory masks and Covid restrictions would end on July 19 has been met with outright hostility from many on what one could call the ‘progressive’ side of …
Read More »Sydney’s lockdown extended for another two weeks as restrictions fail to bring down Covid infections
Speaking on Wednesday, New South Wales State Premier Gladys Berejiklian said it would be necessary to extend restrictions in Sydney until at least July 30, and the lockdown would not be removed until the number of new cases was close to zero. The country’s most populous city has been under …
Read More »Sydney faces further lockdown extension as Australia reports 77 new cases in NSW & first Covid-19 death this year
“Tragically, we’ve seen one older person die and I want to extend my deepest condolences to their families and loved ones,” NSW State Premier Gladys Berejiklian told a daily press conference on Sunday. The victim was a woman in her 90s who apparently contracted the disease in her household and …
Read More »Sydney extends Covid lockdown for another week after New South Wales detects 27 new cases of ‘game changer’ Delta variant
New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian declared a week-long extension to Sydney’s stay-at-home order early on Wednesday, prolonging restrictions that were originally revived late last month. The new lockdown is now slated to expire no earlier than Friday, July 16. “The reason for this is as we’ve been saying, this …
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