individual,

Had you lived in the US you might then better
understand the context of the word "woke," and
how and why it is being used.

rache asserts: "It's interesting to consider the main problem with COVID in Melbourne came from super-spreader events"

Well of course, there's no evidence for that. But it is interesting that the authorities can still rely on a loyal cohort of 'thinkers' who will fall for whatever bullsh!t they deliver up. One of the subjects explored in the doco was the Anzac Day shut-down where the actual commemoration was curtailed because of the virus (according to the authorities) while 80000 were allowed to pack the MCG for a footy game. I suspect the governments flying-moneys will find that reasonable.

I find it endlessly fascinating that people like rache will reject, or not even consider, data on the basis that they don't like the messenger. Its the path to ignorance, but then again some don't need a path having already arrived at the destination.

rache writes " you can easily and freely vote them out at the next election".

Well for those who can't be bothered to watch or scan the doco that was the point. It was a summary of why those concerned for the survival of democracy in places like Dan-istan need to vote them out.
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Diver Dan demonstrates that he (?) prefers to assume rather than find by asserting the doco is really an anti-vaccination treatise.

It's not. It is anti-mandate and an explanation of how the government sought to 'other' those who opposed its directives. The authorities sought to equate those opposed to authoritarianism with those opposed to the vaccination. But it was never true. I'm fully vaccinated but opposed to coercion. Still the authorities will be thrilled that there are plenty of dills who fell for its propaganda.

DD seeks to cloak his ignorance in an obscure Latin phrase which apparently provides a veneer of scholarship. Well try this ....Timendi causa est nescire.(Cicero)

Democracy only survives when the 'demos' actively want it to survive. In those places where democracy fell other than by external conquest, it wasn't because a section of society overthrew it, but because the people ceased to defend it. It wasn't killed, it was allowed to perish.

When people are fed a constant stream of fear and are convinced that only the elite can save them from whatever terrifies them, they become open to giving up their liberties. What happened in Victoria (but to a lesser extent in the rest of the country) was to show just how little the majority were concerned for their liberties, let alone fighting for those liberties. They were surrendered willingly, even anxiously.

Its not just happening here. The US is currently is the midst of a battle to forever make elections effectively irrelevant as the elite seek to make rules that legalise electoral cheating. Again democracy is on the brink in the place which is ultimately the only guarantor of democracy world-wide.

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The documentary spends some time looking at a pregnant mother in her pyjamas, hand-cuffed and arrested because she merely advocated for a protest against the mandates and lockdowns. I wonder how anyone thinks that's acceptable.

It also provides coverage of an elderly women thrown to the ground by police and peppered sprayed whilst prone. She had approached the police for help after the protest she attended became unruly. I wonder how anyone thinks that's acceptable.

Foxy,

Language changes over time. Gay used to mean happy.

Today "woke" means being hyper-aware of the latest fad and being abusive of and excluding everyone that doesn't agree with you.

or "Woke" adj informal

A state of awareness only achieved by those dumb enough to find injustice in everything other than their own behaviour.

Ignorance is the cause of fear.

So spoke Lucius Annaeus Seneca.

We are scared of what we don't know. When we are only
given a few pieces of information we ten to fill in the
rest of the details by ourselves. The way to deal with
fear is to face it. Garner as much information as you
can, listen in this case to medical experts and
take preventive measures which help.

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Yuyutsu,

Here's more on the meaning of the word "woke."

http://inews.co.uk/news/uk/woke-what-mean-meaning-origins-term-definition-culture-387962

'Woke' is a derisive term referring to those who have fully fallen for current left-wing policies, without really understanding the policy. They are people who accept without demur things like the whole 'trans' mania, who think that 'women' can have penises, that 'men' can give birth, that there are 40 or so genders.

They are people who fell for the a-historic Critical Race Theory. They are people who fell for and utterly believed the Russiagate hoax. They are people who buy the whole pronoun insanity.

In the end, they are people who accept with much thought and certainly no question, anything that the left leadership feds them. They are people who think they are smarter and more learned than the 'unwoke' while the opposite is usually true.

They are the type of people who, for example, are utterly opposed to a republic with an elected president but, once their gurus change direction, are utterly in favour of an elected president.

The woke are also highly self-righteous. They are the people who thought that marriage was something between a man and women when their gurus told them so, and self-righteously wanted to protect the 'rights' of the homosexual community when their gurus changed their mind.

The 'woke' are both funny and dangerous.