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The events of the past 18 months give rise to many questions. It's about time we got some straight answers.
If you are anything like me, you’ve probably got a few questions about what the world has been going through for the past 18 months.
A virus, which we were told came out of some bat soup, has infected the world and killed millions.
Entire nations have ground to a halt as unprecedented actions were taken by governments.
Lockdowns, curfews, representative democracy abandoned, business closures, governments binging on trillions in debt, universal welfare payments, property rights demolished, incarceration without charge or means of appeal….and that’s just the start.
This virus has destroyed common sense and civil liberties. It has smashed any centre right political standards as governments all over the world look more and more like each other.
Maybe that’s the point. If they all look the same then maybe we only need one government…to rule over the world.
There are plenty who like that idea. It was once just the kooky concept of people like former greens party leader Bob Brown
It’s still a kooky idea but one that is now being peddled by the globalist elites under the mask of the Great Reset.
They also have their own three word slogan….build back better…
It’s amazing how quickly these ideas came about in the midst of a pandemic.
It’s as if they were just sitting in a cupboard waiting for a suitable emergency to arise so they could be used. And when that opportunity presents itself, make sure you don’t let it go to waste.
If that were my plan, I’d probably do something like this.
Cook up a virus in a lab and let it infect a bunch of people who then fly to the four corners of the world.
Whenever flu like symptoms appeared you’d blame it on the virus. Whenever people got really sick or died, even if it was from falling off a ladder or a motorcycle accident you’d blame it on the virus.
Then you’d roll out a testing regime, let's call it PCR (for polymerase chain reaction) that is prone to both false positives and false negatives.
You’d also run the cycles well above the ‘reliable’ limit of 25. In fact you might even run as many as 40 cycles, where, in words attributed to Dr Anthony Fauci “the test is just finding destroyed nucleotides, not virus capable of replicating”
And unlike the flu, which in 2019 killed 82 people in South Australia – including a 15 year old) prompting the Chief Health Officer Nicola Spurrier to say “It’s very unfortunate to see this number of people that have died,” and advised everyone to "cough into your elbow" to prevent more deaths; you’d have to be far more demonstrative.
So unlike the flu response, when a handful of people have the virus you declare an emergency and shut down an entire state.
But sustaining widespread fear is a precarious challenge and one has to be able to adapt.
You need to promise a solution. Not quite a cure but something to convince the punters it will all be ok in the long run. So you could fast track a vaccine, give the big pharma companies tens of billions to roll it out and total immunity if something goes wrong.
But fear and panic is good for the business of world domination so just when everyone is zigging, you need to zag.
That’s where you dust off your ancient Greek to label new variations on your viral theme.
Let’s look on the bright side, there are only 24 letters in the Greek alphabet so only 20 more variations to go. Imagine if our devilish plotters decided to use the Khmer alphabet and all of their 74 letters. We’d never be out of trouble.
Anyway, back to the fantastic storyline of my plan for world domination.
You’d have to enlist the help of the media and big tech tyrants to suppress any information inconsistent with the talking points.
Those promulgating this ‘misinformation’ should be denounced as conspiracy theorists and cancelled.
In the unlikely event that people discovered these ‘theories’ might be actually true, you’d go back to the tech guys and get them to hide the evidence in the search algorithm.
And most importantly. If any of your official mouthpieces are caught out not telling the truth or manipulating data or say lying to congress …you back them in 100 percent and pretend it never happened.
Now I know no-one could believe in such a fanciful plot and it could never happen.
Never, ever, ever, happen.
But if it did, it would probably give rise to a few serious questions.
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