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Vic Health denies vaccinated woman's request to visit daughter in cancer ward (skynews.com.au)
11 points by AndrewBissell on Aug 8, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments


The only thing I know about Skynews Australia is that they were recently blocked from YouTube for spreading made up nonsense about Covid and vacation.

I take they write and say with extreme caution.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/aug/06/sky-n...


Ok...but is it correct or incorrect? Maybe you could address that point instead of the ad hominem?

Here's a similar story from 9news that describes a similar situation

https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-nsw-gladys-ber...


> Maybe you could address that point instead of the ad hominem?

Ad hominem is attacking a person's character.

Who's character to do you think I've attacked? Sky News is not a person.

Also I haven't dismissed them as a news source because of some random reason like I don't like their logo or the theme music they use.

I'm just sceptical of them because they've very, very recently been found to be spreading untruths related to this very issue.


> found to be spreading untruths

So we'll just ignore the substance of this story because yt's algorithm labelled them for something else they spoke. That is very ... unwise, to put it politely.


From your link:

> About 12 Sky News videos questioning the effectiveness of masks and lockdowns or promoting the use of hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin as treatments for Covid have been removed from YouTube.

These are all perfectly reasonable propositions with a great deal of evidence in their favor. You (and the Guardian) have simply defined as "misinformation" anything which contradicts your Covid dogma: "Masks work, there's no treatment, the only thing to do is lockdown until some unspecified number of people get the vaccine, at which point the virus (and restrictions) will magically disappear."


This really brings home how different the western democracies are in terms of their attitudes to personal freedom - I can't even imagine a system where an american would have to apply to a government bureaucrat for permission to travel to support a sick relative and their family.

I initially thought the denial was based on the risk to the immunosuppressed daughter, but the article says the patient was vaccinated and willing to undergo a 14 day quarantine (plus covid test I assume?), so the risk to the patient seems negligible. And, you know, maybe the adult daughter and her mom could decide for themselves?




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