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ExcessDeathsAU's avatar

Thank you Ursula.

I was just having a conversation with someone recently about these 'government people.' After having read many, many of their emails to each other that were released by FOI (which I published) I received quite an insight into their characters.

To answer your question, no. None of them stopped to think about what they were doing. They were task-orientated, but when they did display emotion, were positively giddy with the excitement of it all - being at the 'cutting edge' of a 'great event.' For many of them, for the first time in their lives, they were important. However, mainly they were highly robotic as they performed their tasks.

While the information would have been heavily curated and redacted, the overwhelming impression I got was that they were hugely self-centred, egotistical, and entirely focussed on completing the task at hand to please their superiors which they, in turn, believed would directly benefit their careers.

I did not publish everything I have, but if people are interested in reading the emails, some of them are here: https://vicparkpetition.substack.com/p/2020-2022-australias-covid-response

They worship themselves and their careers and only see the public as numbers on balance sheets.

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Stewart's avatar

Thanks for this piece Ursula, much appreciated.

The unredacted Robert Koch Institute documents are very interesting too.

'Who specifically gave you your orders?' is going to be a handy question to ask.

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