Nothing gets Covid realists crankier than the non-recognition of Covid crimes committed by governments.

We crave Covid accountability more than just about anything else while the Covid alt-media unashamedly yearns for a Nuremberg 2.0 and jail time for the culprits. To be fair, the potential crimes are significant. Describing them as industrial manslaughter is far too kind.

Think of the vaccine deaths and injuries. The cancer patients that were not treated. The youth suicides and the mental health crisis. The Covid patients stopped by Australian health authorities from prescribing effective Covid treatments.

Real people really died on the watch of our panicked politicians and their culpable advisers. One lot told half-truths, lies, and made guesses while the other lot idiotically believed them and then re-told them to gullible, hoodwinked voters.

The science and the politicians have finally caught up with Covid reality. The evidence of (for example) vaccine harms and inefficacy has become overwhelming, even if it is largely hidden from the public by corporate media connivance and Big Tech censorship.

Recently, there has emerged a class of sorry folks who have suddenly realised they were wrong on Covid. How should Covid realists react? Cheer them or castigate them?

Dan Tehan, a senior minister in the Morrison government (and a former local member of mine) has suddenly discovered his conscience.

Coalition MP Dan Tehan has questioned his own government’s pandemic response when passing controversial laws.

Former trade minister Dan Tehan said the Biosecurity Act – which allowed the government to force people into quarantine, wear masks, and be vaccinated against their will – should be reviewed by a joint standing committee of both Houses of Parliament.

He told Joe Hildebrand the law has no checks and balances in place, giving the Health Minister sole discretion.

‘We need to make sure that this bill is completely re-examined.’

(Lockdown Sceptics – Stay Sceptical. Control the Hysteria. Save Lives.)

The Australian newspaper reported on Tehan’s conversion:

‘A former Liberal cabinet minister has questioned his own government’s pandemic legislation, saying Parliament was “asleep at the wheel’’ when it passed controversial laws allowing the government to force people into quarantine, wear masks, and even be vaccinated against their will.’

Good Lord! Who’da thunk that this deeply sinister bill introduced by the Abbott government in 2015 (and supported across the political divide) could have led to the greatest disaster in the history of Australian politics? Is this cringe-worthy or praiseworthy?

Dan opines:

‘We need to have a thorough investigation as to whether the powers that are bestowed on the health minister, and the health minister alone, are warranted, whether there should be more checks and balances put in place, and whether there should be a role for the broader cabinet or some parliamentary oversight.’

Some Parliamentary oversight!

Tehan could have resigned from the Morrison Cabinet while our country was being razed to the ground. He didn’t. It is a bit late now, Dan.

He is a member of the Mea Culpa Class. These are the people who caused the greatest and costliest attack on our freedom and rights in our history and are now thinking, ‘Oops! We screwed up. We shouldn’t have done that!’

Matt Canavan joined in on Sky News Australia:

‘It was a bit of a shock to many of us that there didn’t need to be any Parliamentary debate to impose such massive restrictions and removal of rights on Australians.

‘I welcome the fact that Dan Tehan is self-reflecting here, we all should. I admit that in 2020 when I supported lockdowns I think some of those lockdowns were too severe. I think, in reflection, we could have done things differently. That’s right and proper that we do that.

‘It would be great if more politicians had the confidence to say “hey I’m not perfect I sometimes get it wrong”.’

Perhaps they are scared that victims of the Covid State might sue them? It should be remembered that Canavan criticised his then colleague George Christensen, a true Covid hero, for his outspoken stances. Notably, he did not defend Christensen when the latter was, appallingly, condemned by the Parliament for speaking utter sense on Covid, lockdowns, and vaccine mandates.

No one in Morrison’s failed government defended Christensen:

‘The government supported the motion, saying it does not support misinformation in “any way, shape or form”.’

Misinformation? Now that the Covid policy failure chickens have all come home to roost, one peer-reviewed paper at a time, those who remained silent should be roundly and very, very loudly condemned, from here to their graves. Including the sheepish, faux-brave Dan Tehan.

Here is a 2GB interview with Canavan after George joined One Nation:

‘Rogue former Coalition MP George Christensen has prompted one of the early surprises of the 2022 election campaign today by announcing he will run for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party.

‘The Former MP will run as a Senate candidate in the May 21 election after previously stating he would retire from politics.

‘Mr Christenen was notorious for being a heavy critic of Covid restrictions and vaccinations and said he was approached by Pauline Hanson after quitting the Liberal National Party.

‘Former colleague Matt Canavan told Luke Grant that the decision is just “politics”.

“You have to wonder what is the reason.”’

No, there isn’t much to figure out about Christensen’s decision Matt. He acted upon his beliefs about Covid. You didn’t.

Industry groups are joining the fray, including the ubiquitous Innes Willox:

‘One of the key questions for the inevitable Royal Commission or inquiry into our national Covid response was the impact and use of the Biosecurity Act.’

‘Inevitable royal commission’. These are three words that are music to the ears of Covid dissidents everywhere. I wonder if Premiers Gladys, Andrews, Annastacia, McGowan, and the former bloke with the wild eyes from the Northern Territory will advocate for a Royal Commission. I am guessing that Morrison won’t.

Another member of the Mea Culpa Class is Dr Aseem Malhotra, a British cardiologist and a former Covid vaccine champion who has had a whoops moment.

He invited his Twitter followers thus:

‘The most important announcement of my life and career so far. Please watch, listen and share with family and friends. I reached these sobering conclusions reluctantly.

‘I think the evidence is very, very strong to call for a complete suspension of this vaccine, pending an inquiry so that we can have a more honest discussion about who potentially benefits, who’s going to get more harm than good, if at all.’

There is a YouTube video (surprisingly still there, but give them time) and even a peer reviewed paper. (Yes, there is, indeed, a journal called the Journal of Insulin Resistance.)

Safe and effective? A second opinion… is the appropriately titled video released on September 28.

Here is what the publisher Hachette Australia says about Malhotra:

‘Dr Aseem Malhotra FRCP is an NHS-trained consultant cardiologist and visiting Professor of Evidence Based Medicine, Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health, Salvador, Brazil. He is a founding member of Action on Sugar. In 2015 he became the youngest member to be appointed to the board of trustees of UK health charity The King’s Fund.

‘He is a frequent expert commentator in print and broadcast media in the UK and internationally, having written for a wide range of publications such as the BMJ, British Journal of Sports Medicine, and European Scientist, and has had feature articles written about him in papers such as The New York Times, the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph.

‘He is a pioneer of the lifestyle medicine movement in the UK and in 2018 was ranked by software company Onalytica as the number 1 doctor in the world influencing obesity thinking.’

Quite a star, then.

Across the Atlantic, even the appalling American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been getting in on the mea culpa act, even though in a piddling way in view of the crimes they perpetrated.

These people, the Covid Mea Culpa Class, are tip-toeing back to reality and hoping that no one will notice their own complicity. People far more famous and qualified than Malhotra have been smeared and pilloried by the likes of Dan Tehan and his confreres for saying exactly the same things Malhotra (and Tehan) are now saying. Only they were saying it when governments across the globe were committing crimes against their people.

Let’s leave the last word to Barnaby Joyce:

Barnaby Joyce rejected the suggestion from Mr Tehan that the details of the [Biosecurity] bill were not clear. ‘I knew exactly what the bill was about. Perhaps others were asleep at the wheel,’ he said.

I knew exactly what the bill was about. Quite the admission.

All this happened in a week when National Cabinet decided, at the urging of the NSW Premier, to do away with mandated isolation if you have symptoms of Covid. The Premier, despite his many political problems, has proven to be quite the freedom fighter on the Covid front. Not blameless, by all means – just look at the ongoing vaccine mandates – but as Australian politicians have gone, an undoubted voice of reason. Of course, it as the same week that the NSW Liberal leader seemed to have a hand in Queensland reneging on its vile and idiotic land tax proposal.

Perrottet scored some accolades, too, as Sky News Australia reported:

David Littleproud says Premier Dominic Perrottet ‘saved the nation’ with push to scrap Covid isolation requirements.

Even Albo got in on the act, stating that governments had to get out of people’s health decision-making:

‘We are changing position based upon changing advice and changing circumstances and that has to occur, there’s not a role for government in running every bit of peoples’ lives forever.’

Unbelievable. This is National Cabinet’s collective mea culpa. No apologies of course. No recognition that all the stupid rules were never, ever needed. Again, do we say, ‘well done, at last’ or seek the extradition of every last member of the Covid class to a very remote and lonely island, to reflect on the behaviour?

I, for one, am yet to find myself in a forgiving mood. In saying this, I agree with another of Covid’s heroes, Alex Berenson:

‘Too many of us on Team Reality have forgotten those frightening months – and I don’t think I am exaggerating when I write that for those of who chose to remain unvaccinated the prospect of government coercion was frightening indeed. Too many of us have forgotten the prospect of being excluded from public life, from education or work or grocery shopping or even airplane travel. Too many of us have forgotten that our civil liberties came under real attack for the first time in generations.’

Lest we forget.

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