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Tweedledum encourages non infected to board last plane outta Yuendumu

Once again, our scribe from the not too near, but then again, reasonably distant north sends us an update on the unfolding crisis amongst the indiginies on our doorstop.  As the health dominoes fall and the measures taken collapse under the unyielding weight of the Covid Catastrophe. Nurses fall like flies, and Doctors unable to stem the onslaught, must walk away and accept that what is written in the sands is most probably illegible. A catastrophe of untold proportions simply through the fact that nobody will be left to tell the tale.

The airstrip at Yuendumu

Editors note: We at pcbycp are indebted to the editors of Sky News who’ve gladly lent their assistance on an effort to increase our flagging readership. Both Sky and the editors of pcbycp would like to express our deep regret that we were unable to graft a fragment of Australia’s stunning victory over a third world country in the Ashes, but nonetheless express the delight in the recent announcement by the Victorian Government that this state will be hosting the 2026 Commonwealth games. This event to be held in conjunction with the Asia Pacific Police games will be the first to  include, synchronised tasering, active jay walking arrests, domestic dispute intervention , and public order response activity as new events. We look forward to Victoria’s finest competing against the stellar greats Russia, China, and the Minnesota Police Department. And not to be forgotten our expected thrashing of Lesotho, Tanganyika, and Botswana, in the limited overs cricket completion. Advance Australia!

 

As a postscript to these wondrous forthcoming, “Nation Building events’ we return to our regular correspondent Frank, from up north. He writes;

Freunden,

I know I know, Yuendumu’s pandemic woes pale into insignificance when compared to other places, even within Australia. The third world is once again being abandoned to its own devices and having to rely on its own (plundered) resources.

Nonetheless in Yuendumu, cases of the virus now total 66 (9 more yesterday) and I’ve heard the Flying Doctor plane take off at least twice today.

Body-bag being airlifted out of Yuendumu under cover of whiteness

What is bothering me is that true to form, the politicians and health officials keep referring to Yuendumu’s low vaccination rate and sheeting the blame for the outbreak to that recalcitrant Warlpiri mob. Not the first time I’ve witnessed “blame the victim” in Yuendumu.
No mention of Yuendumu residents being turned back, and having to come back again and again for vaccinations and tests being delayed because of inadequate stocks and low staff levels.
And don’t get me wrong, the few health staff who are run off their feet, are not to blame either.
Bless “aunty” (The ABC- Australian Broadcasting Corporation) ‘stigmatisation’ doesn’t appear in their handbook,
Cheers,

Frank

Frank and inspector Clewlis of Yuendemu police watch last plane outta Yoonda before lockdown.