(IL) – Australians are being taken from their homes by police, locked up in covid quarantine camps, threatened with giant fines if they step too far outside their cells and offered Valium to get them to quietly submit.
From Unherd:
Hayley Hodgson, 26, moved to Darwin from Melbourne to escape the never-ending lockdowns â only to find herself locked up in a Covid Internment Camp without even having the virus.
Sheâs just returned from a 14-day detention at Howard Springs, the 2000-capacity Covid camp outside Darwin to which regional Covid cases are transported by the authorities. In an exclusive interview with Freddie Sayers, she recounted her experiences.
It all began when a friend of hers tested positive. She recounts how investigators came to her home shortly afterwards, having run the numberplate of her scooter to identify her as a âclose contactâ. They asked if she had done a Covid test, and in the moment she lied and said she had, when she in fact had not yet. This set in train an extraordinary series of events.
âSo then the police officers blocked my driveway,â she says. âI walked out and I said, âwhatâs going on, are you guys testing me for COVID? Whatâs happening?â They said, âno, youâre getting taken away. And you have no choice. Youâre going to Howard Springs. You either come with us now, and weâll put you in the back of the divvy van. Or you can have a choice to get a âCOVID cabâ⌠I just said, âI donât consent to this. I donât understand why I canât just self-isolate at home, like a lot of other people are doing.â And they just said, âweâve just been told from higher up where to take you. And thatâs all that there is.â
She was ordered to pack a bag and was told that she could be released once she tested negative. Collected in the back of a rented van, she was then transported to Howard Springs. On arrival, she was told that she would have to stay there for the full 14 days:
You literally get put on the back of a golf buggy with your bags. And these people are in hazmat suits and everything. They donât want to come near you because they think youâre infectious. And they literally drop you to your room. And they leave you. They donât come and say anything, they donât check up, they donât do anything. You get delivered your meals once a day. And you are just left.
– HAYLEY HODGSON, UNHERDTV
She was tested three times during the 14 days, and on each occasion tested negative.
At one stage she was disciplined for leaving the confines of her cabin without a mask and was threatened with a $5000 AUD fine. On another occasion, she told how she was offered Valium to calm her down.
You feel like youâre in prison. You feel like youâve done something wrong, itâs inhumane what theyâre doing. You are so small, they just overpower you. And youâre literally nothing. Itâs like âyou do what we say, or youâre in trouble, weâll lock you up for longerâ. Yeah, they were even threatening me that if I was to do this again, âwe will extend your time in here.
– HAYLEY HODGSON, UNHERDTV
What Hayley is still not certain about is whether her sentence at Howard Springs was punitive and related to her original mistake about the test â that is the impression she got from one call with the Australian Centre for Disease Control.
She has since lost her job at a store, which was on a casual basis. At no stage was she reminded of her rights or put in contact with a lawyer.
This has all taken place in a state that has recorded a total of 290 cases and no deaths.
They’re also detaining children. Three youths aged 15, 16 and 17 were recently hunted down and arrested for fleeing the camp (they all tested negative for covid but came in contact with someone who tested positive).
No need to worry though, according to free-thinking Quillette founder Claire Lehmann, an “Intellectual Dark Web” deradicalizer who tries to appeal to conservatives, the covid camp is actually a paradise “full of hot babes”:
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