“…I am now directing medical officers of health that all cases, confirmed cases [of COVID-19], are to be managed in a quarantine facility,” declared New Zealand’s Director-General of Health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield, in a press conference. “This will apply to any cases and close family members who might be at risk, as appropriate.”

How many sedatives, anti-depressants and tranquillizers must this man take in order to sleep at night? He’s basically saying that if the government claims one of its citizens is infected with SARS-COV-2 then he or she will be kidnapped and held captive by the military. It doesn’t matter that the testing methods are unreliable. It doesn’t matter that coronavirus — a close cousin of the common cold — is no more dangerous than the flu.

“An additional 500 defence force personnel will be deployed to patrol New Zealand’s quarantine hotels…” says The Guardian.

And they already had 700 in place.

Those 1,200 soldiers aren’t there to fire shots at the virus.

Three high court judges even told Radio New Zealand that such acts are “not prescribed by law and was therefore contrary to Section 5 of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act.”

But, apparently, the government said they could do it anyway since COVID-19 was such a crisis. After all, look at the shocking number of people who died of COVID-19 in New Zealand: 22.

Yes, that’s all (according WorldMeter). Most of whom died back in April. How could 22 deaths warrant imprisoning 40,000 innocent people?

But it’s not just happening Down Under. The Canadian government has wasted $37 million forcibly quarantining Canadians who haven’t even tested positive, according to CBC News.

Am I exaggerating? Remember that it was only in 1970 that the Canadian government finally stopped abducting aboriginal children from their homes. According to Thomas King’s The Inconvenient Indian, 150,000 innocent children were forced into residential schools.

On an aboriginal note, The Guardian also reported that nearly 90% of those currently locked up by the New Zealand military are Māori or Pasifika people. The same aboriginals who lost their land and over 60,000 of their people to the European conquistadores now herding them into quarantine facilities. I’ll talk more about this in tomorrow’s post.

And on Thursday, I’ll share five things you and your loved ones can do to avoid being dragged off to one of these facilities – even if New Zealand’s Director-General assures us (reading from his script) that such prisons “have excellent processes and resources in place…”

Netflix? Room service? Tasers? Yeah nah, mate.