Joe Rogan explains why he will never move to Australia

US podcaster Joe Rogan has told his large audience that he would not move to Australia because the country locked people up in ‘concentration camps’ during Covid lockdowns for ‘colds’.

He also said that this kind of repression was only possible because Australia prevented its people from having guns.

The comments came during Rogan’s conversation with retired Mixed Martial Arts fighter Royce Gracie as they discussed a perceived situation. reduction in personal freedom in the US during an upward trend crime.

“I keep telling people that if America falls, I think the whole world will fall, and the rest of the world will fall,” Gracie said.

“Yes, maybe that’s the plan,” replied Rogan, who has more than 14.5 million followers for his podcasts on Spotify.

“There’s no place where this kind of freedom exists,” he added as Royce continued to ask “where would you go?”

Ultimately, Rogan said he once considered Australia a viable alternative to the US, but had since changed his mind.

US podcaster Joe Rogan has told his huge audience he wouldn’t move to Australia after seeing what happened during the Covid pandemic

Joe Rogan is pictured with Donald Trump

“I used to think about Australia, but when I saw how they handled the pandemic I was like ‘oh f**, that’s what happens when no one has guns,’” ​​he said.

“Yeah, the army just comes in and tells you what to do and puts you in concentration camps because you have a cold, like it’s crazy.”

During the Covid pandemic, Australia has quarantined people arriving in the country for weeks before allowing them to enter the community.

Most were housed in hotels, but some were also housed in temporary isolation camps.

Australia’s specialist national quarantine facility, Howard Springs on the outskirts of Darwin, housed around 64,000 people for a mandatory two-week isolation period.

The Howard Springs quarantine center on the outskirts of Darwin housed around 64,000 people during the Covid period

Opponents of the quarantine arrangement called the Howard Springs center a “concentration camp.”

Those quarantined in Howard Springs had to pay for the costs of housing, food, medical support, police and security.

They had to pay $2,500 per person for the fortnight, or $5,000 for a family of two or more.

Even members of the Australian Olympic team returning from the Tokyo Olympics spent 14 days at the facility.

Australia made headlines worldwide during the pandemic period for deporting Serbian tennis superstar Novak Djokovic for not taking the Covid vaccines.

Djokovic was forced to leave Australia just days before he was due to take the court as defending Australian Open champion in January 2022 because he entered the country unvaccinated during pandemic border restrictions.

In an interview with US TV network CBS in December, Djokovic revealed that the experience still scars him.

“I was basically declared a villain of the world,” he said.

Djokovic admitted that while he was often not a crowd favorite, what happened to him in Australia was another level of antagonism.

“I had that kind of experience on the tennis court, with crowds of people that might not be cheering me on, but I’ve never had this particular experience before in my life,” he said.

Djokovic was asked by interviewer Jon Wertheim if he had “misinterpreted” the mood of the Australian public, who had “very strong opinions about vaccination” and did not like the “exceptionalism” of the perceived Serbian star.

“It wasn’t up to me to read anyone,” Djokovic said.

“I was cleared to enter the country and so of course it escalated to the highest of the highest levels worldwide.”

Melbourne, home to the Australian Open, went into lockdown for a record 262 non-consecutive days during the pandemic.

The measures at the time included a curfew and orders for residents not to exceed a 5 km radius from their place of residence.

Australians lost many of their rights to own high-caliber weapons after a 1996 shooting left 35 dead in the tourist destination of Port Arthur in Tasmania.

It was the largest mass shooting in the world at the time and legislation was passed to remove semi-automatic weapons and crack down on gun ownership in general.

Laws have been tightened in the years since and in NSW, Australia’s most populous state, those who want to own a gun must ‘give genuine reasons for owning a firearm’.

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