"I've been an emergency nurse and I've been working for 33 years...now my hospital is telling me that I need to be vaccinated to be able to work...but to coerce people into having the vaccination that is wrong."
A nurse speaks out on Friday 10/22/2021 first day that police refrained from breaking up public protests in Melbourne, Australia.
The State of Victoria and Melbourne moving into a new phase with a lockdown modified to a "lockout of the unvaccinated" as stated by Premier Daniel Andrews.
Protesters were able on Friday to make themselves visible without police interference. The lockdown was justification for a ban on any public protest till then.
Teachers and healthcare workers were on the State Parliament steps and at nearby park in opposition to coerced vaccination.
Today's protest in the form of picnics in St. Kilda in southeastern Melbourne outside eateries that are now segregated facilities excluding the unvaccinated and operating under capacity limits.
Under current COVID rules 15 people can gather in a group for a picnic so the plan is to have groups of 15 or less in this area.
Police have arrived in St. Kilda and how they react to the protest activity remains to be seen.
The protest set for Noon.
(845 PM EASTERN US TIME FRIDAY 1145 AM SATURDAY EASTERN AUSTRALIA TIME)
Police in the area and they are speaking to people on the street with no word of arrests as of now...
Video sent from the area (Acland St.) of people sitting down as police are off to the side...
(915 PM EASTERN US TIME FRIDAY, 1215 PM EASTERN AUSTRALIA TIME SATURDAY)
"The Real Rukshan" is Live on Facebook....
REAL RUKSHAN LIVE VIDEO
The picnic protest underway along the string of eateries on Acland Street.
Police walking around keeping the way open for trams.
Some cops seen making a video in the live stream.
Protest signs are also being made by some people on the spot.
Joel Gilmour is also live with a video stream....
JOEL GILMOUR FACEBOOK LIVE VIDEO
The police are in the area on Acland St. and nearby around the St. Kilda Beach with some horse mounted cops visible.
(1015 PM EASTERN US TIME FRIDAY, 115 PM SATURDAY EASTERN AUSTRALIA TIME)
JOEL GILMOUR CONTINUING TO LIVE STREAM WHILE THE REAL RUKSHAN HAS SHUT DOWN FOR NOW...
Meanwhile in Perth out in Western Australia where Premier Mark McGowan has imposed a massive order for over one million workers to get vaccinated a crowd of more than one thousand gathered Thursday night to hear speakers with the crowd far exceeding the capacity of the building.
It was a rally in opposition to the coerced vaccination policy of the state...PERTH PEOPLE RALLY AGAINST THE MCGOWAN GOVERNMENT'S VACCINE MANDATE-VIDEO
Back in Melbourne the:
"Aussie, Aussie, Ooi Ooi"
chant in the crowd.
Police asking the groups of people to separate into the legal number of 15 under the present COVID restrictions.
NEW ZEALAND-COVID POSITIVE TESTS UP ALONG WITH VACCINATION RATES
No protest video from New Zealand at this point a country where COVID numbers have been trending upwards into three-digits which are the highest number of daily positive tests yet.
The Saturday number is 104.
THE STATS FOR VAXXING RIGHT NOW IN NEW ZEALAND 69.7 PERCENT FULLY VACCINATED AND ANOTHER 16.4 PERCENT PARTIALLY VACCINATED, 13.9 PERCENT UNVACCINATED....VAXX STATS NEW ZEALAND HOME PAGE NEW ZEALAND HERALD
Italy tonight (Friday) the scene of numerous protests in various cities including this one in Bolzano. Italy is where the "Green Pass" vaccine passport is required for all workers government and non-government...
(1115 PM EASTERN US TIME FRIDAY, 215 PM SATURDAY EASTERN AUSTRALIA TIME)
A look at the scene earlier on Acland St. in St.Kilda Melbourne the picnic protesters on their blankets outside the various eateries....
And more from Western Australia where this protest occurred outside the Parliament House in Perth...VIDEO LINK
And that's all for now any updates later on in tomorrow's post "Unplugged"..The "Yellow Vests" post also coming up tomorrow as well. Good Night.
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