Australia and New Zealand go into COVID lockdown and reinstate restrictions

ghsn wrote:

Armstronglivs wrote:

You can read a title but that is the extent of your contribution. The rest is empty flatulence.

I can also guarantee you that I am not your sweetheart. That fate is reserved for some other unfortunate individual.

Now, now... There's no shame in admitting you have got an episode of flatulence.

Now please stay on topic.

Thank you, sweetheart.

The gas is all yours. I'm not surprised you didn't get it. Thick as a plank.

Life is so bad in NZ. But not looking so good elsewhere.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/28/new-zealand-rated-best-place-to-survive-global-societal-collapse

chop suey wrote:

Waitasec wrote:

You'll probably find they can handle it for a long time as the ones for it are generally retired people scared of their own shadows, white collar and other people who can work from home on full pay and those who have doomscrolled their way into being petrified of covid and believe vaccination provides full protection from catching and transmitting the coof (despite the continually mounting evidence to the contrary, this is an alarmingly high number).

As for those who are unable to work, have kids doing home based learning and mounting bills, as the old saying goes, sucks to be you.

...There was also a very political component of it (and there still is) where liberals want to pile on restrictions indefinitely and conservatives wanted next to no Covid restrictions.

It is funny how political Liberals of all people want to pile on restrictions. I guess they could try to put forward an argument under some form of Rawlsian logic but he advocated for government intervention if the lowest in society benefited the most which is exactly the opposite of what's happening.

What’s interesting to me is that this whole COVID situation really highlights the fact there are some very real differences in cultures and peoples. Australia, NZ and the USA pre-Covid on the surface didn’t seem too different from one another. However, their reactions to various levels of COVID differences are so hugely different.

Americans chafed almost immediately under the slightest of restrictions and seemingly went out of their was to flout them. And half the the political establishment was vehemently anti- restriction- which seems rare compared to most of the world.

Australians are finally coming to the end of their rope on the restriction side of things but it took about a year and they seem to be behaving now.

Kiwis seem ok to go along with about any restrictions for as long as COVID exists and won’t really complain about said restrictions.

I’m not saying one is better than another but it is interesting

Australia going to bring in the military to “enforce lockdown orders”.

Are we still pretending Australia is a free country? The country is practically under martial law and will stay that way indefinitely, or at least until COVID just disappears.

Bring in the boots wrote:

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australia-pm-says-vaccinations-alone-will-not-end-sydneys-covid-19-lockdown-2021-07-28/

Australia going to bring in the military to “enforce lockdown orders”.

Are we still pretending Australia is a free country? The country is practically under martial law and will stay that way indefinitely, or at least until COVID just disappears.

Drivel. Australia is a democratic nation responding to a life-threatening public health crisis. Those refusing to abide by the restrictions are endangering others as well as themselves and are flouting the law. I hear no amount of whining on this site about "rioting" BLM protestors in the US (and yet very little about an insurrection against the Capitol) but no one thereby argues the US is subject to "martial law" (even though there have been lockdowns in some states).

If you were "historically inclined" you wouldn't make such stupid analogies. N Korea is a cult-led totalitarian state, as China is also becoming under Premier Xi and the USSR was still a one party state in the 1980's. Australia is fighting a crisis - because it no doubt wishes to avoid the failures of so many other countries who think you can "live" with the virus.

Armstronglivs wrote:

ghsn wrote:

Now, now... There's no shame in admitting you have got an episode of flatulence.

Now please stay on topic.

Thank you, sweetheart.

The gas is all yours. I'm not surprised you didn't get it. Thick as a plank.

Whatever you say, sweetheart. No one will disagree with you. No point arguing with a narcissist.

Enjoy the Olympics, sweetie.

Armstronglivs wrote:

Bring in the boots wrote:

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australia-pm-says-vaccinations-alone-will-not-end-sydneys-covid-19-lockdown-2021-07-28/

Australia going to bring in the military to “enforce lockdown orders”.

Are we still pretending Australia is a free country? The country is practically under martial law and will stay that way indefinitely, or at least until COVID just disappears.

Drivel. Australia is a democratic nation responding to a life-threatening public health crisis. Those refusing to abide by the restrictions are endangering others as well as themselves and are flouting the law. I hear no amount of whining on this site about "rioting" BLM protestors in the US (and yet very little about an insurrection against the Capitol) but no one thereby argues the US is subject to "martial law" (even though there have been lockdowns in some states).

You are terrified of dying, aren't you?

It's OK, sweetheart.

I’m willing to bet that the USSR (especially post Stalin) and China, even during the oppressive cultural revolution or Great Leap Forward, the citizens exercised similar or greater freedoms to those of present day Australia.

Even In Mao’s China or Khrushchev’s USSR citizens didn’t have as strict of a curfew, could gather in greater numbers, could leave their homes more freely and could travel further from their homes than in modern day Australia.

Yes but the USSR at that time also didn't have the coof killing ones of eldery people a day in nursing homes, which naturally creates a state of fear among the rest of society.

Makes you wonder just how unhealthy most people are in Australia to be this petrified of it. Oh...

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/fewer-australians-aware-being-overweight-puts-them-at-risk-of-heart-attack-or-stroke/news-story/a5eea6e0bbfdb9c5bf85838fcea6cbc1

ghsn wrote:

Armstronglivs wrote:

Drivel. Australia is a democratic nation responding to a life-threatening public health crisis. Those refusing to abide by the restrictions are endangering others as well as themselves and are flouting the law. I hear no amount of whining on this site about "rioting" BLM protestors in the US (and yet very little about an insurrection against the Capitol) but no one thereby argues the US is subject to "martial law" (even though there have been lockdowns in some states).

You are terrified of dying, aren't you?

It's OK, sweetheart.

I am opposed to death.

comedyrel!ef wrote:

ghsn wrote:

You are terrified of dying, aren't you?

It's OK, sweetheart.

I am opposed to death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrFU5wyd_C0

I'm not going to put myself through a seven minute Norm McDonald comedy stand up but being simply " being opposed to death" and making that your main, or even a main component of your life, sounds absolutely terrible. If you really take the "opposed to death" logic to the extreme you would never leave your house as that would increase said chances of death.

Looks like martial law is about to be declared in Sydney.

Whatever you say, sweetheart. No one will disagree with you. No point arguing with a narcissist.

Enjoy the Olympics, sweetie.[/quote]

Your posts tell me everything about the level your mind works. Unfortunately, it isn't what you would wish anyone to know.

You are really determined to set world records for ignorance. If it was an Olympic event it would be your specialty.

"We may have saved lives in Australia so far – deaths from Covid stand at 938 – but livelihoods are hanging in the balance. One in five hospitality, arts and recreation employees in New South Wales were stood down in the first half of July.

My income has dropped by 45 per cent and I've had to tighten my belt, but an accountant friend told me half her small business clients are going under because of lockdown – although some have not yet realised it."

I know it's the Daily Mail but the stories are real.

"It was the overwhelming space and freedom that convinced us to move to Australia all those years ago. And when our first daughter was born in a blue-skied, happy-go-lucky country in the first year of this new millennium, we felt she'd won life's lottery.

Today it doesn't feel that way. It seems the nation we chose for her is not a gift, but a prison."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9872753/We-felt-wed-won-lifes-lottery-moved-Australia-today-like-prison.html

Disgusting.

The silence from the lockdown defenders is deafening.