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Post by Riddick » 08-21-2021 02:41 PM

CURSE THOSE REBELS & THEIR SUNSETS!
Australia is now in the phase of dystopian tyranny where politicians yell at citizens for watching the sunset. LINK

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Post by Riddick » 08-26-2021 11:58 PM

So wonderful, such freedom! Vaccinated residents of the glorious COVID republic of New South Wales will soon be permitted an extra hour of outdoor recreation time. LINK
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Post by Riddick » 09-01-2021 01:22 PM

Riot police firing rubber bullets into lockdown protesters. Rescue dogs being shot to prevent volunteers travelling to collect them. Nighttime curfews and one hour of exercise per day. Five-kilometer travel limits. Soldiers patrolling suburbs to enforce lockdowns. What the hell is happening Down Under?

Has Covid-19 really turned one of the world’s oldest democracies into a dystopian health dictatorship? Australians shrug at their government’s draconian pandemic response. Success in keeping the infection numbers and deaths down has bred complacency

A powerful coalition of those with the most to lose and those who have not lost anything is driving the official “zero Covid” fantasy. The media has piled on, helping the government to terrify the population. This leaves a minority of Australians driven to despair by isolation, lockdowns, travel restrictions, and the disappearance of their livelihoods.

The single-minded obsession that no one get sick and die from Covid is being paid for by a slowly unfolding mental-health crisis. Social isolation and dislocation are taking their toll in terms of rising suicide, depression, substance abuse, and domestic violence. Physical health suffers, too, as treatable conditions don’t get treated in the health system that now seems to have only one goal.

How long can this last? If it was up to the drunk-on-power politicians and bureaucrats who have found a winning electoral formula, health experts who have found relevance, and the deathly scared who have found a sense of safety (and, for some at least, the frisson of being a part of something big and important), the answer is “forever.”

The truth is strong majorities support the harsh measures. Australia simply does not (and never did) possess as strong a libertarian streak as America. For all the jokes about theirs being a “nation of convicts,” Australians have always been far more statist and beholden to authority than Americans.

Will people finally start getting restless as the rest of the developed world slowly returns to normal? For now, Australia remains a salutary lesson—an example of what can happen when an easily isolated population is subjected to a relentless scare campaign that plays to existing prejudices and exploits popular innumeracy and lack of critical thinking.

The land Down Under is now a Galapagos archipelago of fear, on its own evolutionary path to a utopia where no one ever dies (but terms and conditions apply). Like the Galapagos tortoise, too, the solution is to withdraw inside its shell—but let’s hope it’s not for 150 years.

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