It's a true honour to bring you Dr Dennis Jensen, or as we warmly refer to him, and have for 11 years as DJ. He's a brilliant scientific mind, has worked for the CSIRO, and an ex-member of Federal Parliament who served the Lower house for 11 years as a brilliant politician, and he is also the man who just so happens to be Anna's old boss in that Parliament.
In all of this legislative chaos that we have seen unfold in Victoria, the question that has rung out over & over again is 'but what's the alternative to the Lockdown?' to which Dennis says is no lockdown. He is a man with some backing to make such bold claims though, with a Bachelor of Applied Science, Masters of Science (Physics) and a PhD in Materials Science.
In this episode, we cover a lot, but specifically why, by his own Scientific mind that continuously pours over all the data & literature at hand, he believes the Lockdown should end & what the Government should have always done is protect our society's most vulnerable & let business & society get back to functioning.
He would still be IN Politics if not for inner-party corruption of branch stacking, so we dive into that right at the end (if you want to stick around).
Show Notes:
04:30 Growing up in South Africa
06:30 Living through apartheid
08:50 Are policy makers experts?
10:40 Lack of scrutiny around lockdowns effectiveness
12:31 The problem with computer modeling
16:31 DJ’s position on lockdowns
19:15 Associated health impacts of lockdowns
22:00 Inflection points and flattening the curve
24:30 Natural immunity and T cells
29:30 Dan Andrews obsession with lockdowns
34:10 Cutting policy makers pay during the lockdown
34:20 Nazi Germany didn’t start with death camps
36:20 Section 92 of the Australian Constitution
37:30 Victorian - the police State
39:10 Weakness’s within the Australian Constitutionn
45:45 What can people do to oppose bad policy
47:35 No plan and no measure for success
49:25 Powers of the federal government in regards to state law.
51:20 Totalitarian behavior
55:30 unherd.com
57:30 But you are not a medical doctor?
01:02:30 Branch stacking
01:04:15 LNP branch structure borderline illegal
01:06:30 Anyone should be able to vote in preselection
01:09:20 DJ’s Defamation case and subsequent win
01:12:20 The problem with major political parties
01:13:30 Lack of diversity in Australian politics
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Morgan: @morgangrichards
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