Thursday, December 9, 2021

Inside one of Australia's covid internment camps

What do they do with homeless people? Shoot 'em?
Hayley Hodgson, 26, moved to Darwin from Melbourne to escape the never-ending lockdowns — only to find herself locked up in a covid concentration camp without ever having contracted the disease.

Hodgson says that, soon after arrival at the covid concentration camp, she tested negative for covid. She asked when she could leave. "Fourteen days," snapped the matron. In other words, a negative test did not mean she could go home. Once there, quarantine was mandatory. Hodgson, who was charged with no crime, was also told that if she complained too vigorously, she would be locked up again and held for longer.

She was disciplined and threatened with a $5,000 fine for failing to wear a mask outside her small quarters at the concentration camp, even though she is medically exempt from wearing a mask.

Concentration camp guards offered Hodgson valium in order to relieve her claustrophobia in her tiny space. Concentration camp authorities had made no provision for outdoor exercise for the citizens, who were treated very much like prisoners.

The controls are very strict and their is obviously obnoxious police surveillance of inmates.

She had never had covid, and tested negative three times at the camp. She was arrested and considered a covid suspect because she had been in contact with someone who had had covid. Upon leaving the camp, Hodgson found that she no longer had a job, as she had been working daily on a casual basis.

All this is rather puzzling, as she had just been released from another stay in a covid prison. It's as if authorities had their eyes on her as a troublemaker and were determined to use the state of emergency to infringe on her freedom of speech.

She admitted to having lied to police about having been tested for covid, explaining that when they confronted her she was petrified. Later, in the concentration camp, she was explicitly told by health officials that they strongly suspected she had been locked up -- no trial, no charge -- for lying. She wasn't there for covid at all.

She reports that she was granted no access to a lawyer, informed about her rights or given any due process of law at all.

"You're in a box. Your mind's going a million miles an hour," she said in explaining why prisoners try to escape. "It's just horrible what they're putting people through."

Citing Hodgson's right to privacy, Australian authorities slammed the lid on her case, refusing to discuss whether it was considered a medical case or an emergency powers behavior case.

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