Josh Szeps on the Myth of Australia's COVID 'Concentration Camps'

Quillette Podcast

Quillette

Politics, Science, Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.4 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Jonathan Kay interviews TV host and podcaster Josh Szeps about Australia's unique experience in managing the COVID pandemic—and the urban legends the country's quarantine system has spawned among right-wing pundits on the other side of the world Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to the Colette Podcast. My name is Claire Lehman and I am editor and chief of Colette.
0:08.0	Colette is where free thought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary.
0:14.8	Our podcast is a team effort and is jointly hosted by myself, associate editor Toby Young and
0:20.6	Canadian editor Jonathan Kay.
0:22.8	You can support our podcast by visiting Patreon.com
0:25.8	forward slash Quilett and becoming a monthly patron.
0:29.1	By becoming a monthly patron,
0:30.4	you'll also receive our weekly newsletter.
0:33.0	On an Australian government website, they have announced their plans to construct what they
0:38.1	refer to as an alternative quarantine hub with relocatable cabins for those who must be removed from civil
0:46.3	society due to the risk of COVID. Relocatable cabins sounds an awful lot like a
0:51.4	fancy word for camp.
0:53.0	That's apparently what they're building and I've already seen the apologizing happening
0:56.2	on Twitter.
0:57.2	These people are Nazis, make no mistake, when they're like, oh, calm down, they're building
1:00.7	an internment facility.
1:02.2	It's no big deal. just get on the train and
1:04.4	head out to the camp.
1:08.4	Welcome to the Quillette Podcast. I'm Jonathan Kay. What you just heard was a snippet from popular podcaster and
1:15.3	youtuber Tim Poole denouncing Australia's aggressive system of containing the
1:20.1	spread of COVID-19 and Poole is not alone over the summer of COVID-19. And Poole is not alone. Over the summer a variety of right-wing
1:25.9	outlets seized on scary-looking photos of Australian quarantine facilities to denounce
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Quillette, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Quillette and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.