Image Axel speaking from under a tree with people walking in fornt.
Song - View from a wooden chair by Jumping Fences
Announcer: Hello, this is Ian from 4 PR - voice of the people and we're presenting a speech given by a registered nurse over the weekend during the anti-vaccination demonstrations in Australia. It is interesting to listen to this speech, whilst it makes a number of very good points about the importance of a community response to the pandemic. At the same time on a political level, there are issues that should be raised.
Firstly, the anti-vaxxers that demonstrated over the weekend in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane; you will never hear them acknowledge that the reason why they were able to demonstrate, particularly in Brisbane, in the first place was because a generation ago thousands of people put their bodies on the line and challenge the right wing government with its laws restricting the rights of assembly and of marching.
Thousands of people were arrested (over 3000), and during that time, a number of people were thrown in jail and a number of people also lost their jobs because of the interference of Special Branch. You won't hear the right wingers who are crying out for freedom from vaccination and lockdowns, you won't hear them talking about the reasons why they were permitted to march over the weekend.
Anyway, the other points that should be made.
Australia has achieved a high level of vaccination by people over 16 - children haven't been vaccinated yet - when they talk about 90% of people received their first jab. That's only 90% of the adult population; the entire population is really not much above 50 or 60%. The other thing is that there's a general ignorance about how the human body responds to a disease like COVID-19 - basically the immune system of the body. People are playing upon those that ignorance in order to achieve political objectives.
So we should be wary of the opportunism that is inherent in a number of the speeches that are being made. However, we'd like to present the speech from the two groups that organize the small rally over the weekend. In King George Square. They were the Socialist Alternative and the Anarchist Communists Meanjin. And here is what one of the speakers, Axel (a nurse), had to say.
Ian Curr
4PR – voice of the people
