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But common people get treated like prisoners
https://www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-news-from-LSE/2021/f-June-21/Large-in…
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/sep/06/lost-generat…
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2-stroke and reducing poverty.
We are not about "The thin blue line" blindly, we are about the rule of law and citizens having rights.
We got most of our over 60*s vaxed and age workers vaxxed before we open up.
Natural our cases will rise once we open, but at least when we open
up ,our starting point will be better then other countries who choose to open up to early..imo
Also who are you gonna be fighting?
Americas finest that's been in another country defending your freedoms? They just gonna say ok boss and oppress yours? The world will never stand by and watch the United States devolve in that way..
What are you watching? Cops aren't beating the hell out of citizens not wearing masks! They were involved in a protest that turned violent about the lockdown laws that was seemingly taken over by anti vax covid denying nutters (not saying all anti vax covid deniers are nutters but these ones were) that were probably not wearing masks, yes..
Yeah not blindly, I guess just depends on who's on the other end of the beating..
Outside of Melbourne, most Australians had very little time in lockdown last year and up until about June this year. Delta has f**ked us a bit, since and we don't have vaccination rates up to an acceptable rate yet.
We have a geographical advantage, and that combined with shutting borders, and localized lockdowns kept our deaths to around 1000 last year (so there have been some significant upsides to our strategy). whilst almost all citizens had very few restrictions. infact i was going to football games with 80k fans when most of the worlds sports were being played without fans.
Unfortunately we are now where a lot of you guys were 12 months ago. unfortunately some of the strategies we used last year, are not as effective against delta.
We will be fine, and the protests have actually been quite small. most people here support some level of lockdown until we get the vaccinations to an acceptable level. I am currently under a lockdown, it sucks and i am over it. But I personally don't think we should "let it rip" until we have vaccinations up to the 70-80% mark
There have been plenty of protests all around the world, and i don't see a correlation with gun laws.
I saw plenty of much larger protests with confrontation between police (and military) and protesters in the US last year. Were you calling it "tyranny" then? or is it only tyranny when you agree with the protesters?
Here is a newsflash, Covid has caused problems in every corner of the world. It is hard to make everyone happy, rich and safe. Australia is no different, we have done some things great through the pandemic, and some things poorly.
As far as our economy, we are one of just a few developed countries with positive growth from before the pandemic.
So some sectors (tourism etc) are f**ked. most are fine
Our economy is larger now than 2019....so its not all doom and gloom
Its still a pretty f**king great place to live (and that's not to say plenty of other places in the world are not also great)
Not everything is as dramatic as it seems when you look at a 10 second news clip
Now specifically about the statement of "In Australia you don't understand the purpose of the 2nd Amendment"
That may or may not be true. But in Australia we do not want an equivalent, the vast majority of citizens support our gun laws. we are free to make the laws that we want for our country. just as you are for yours
But lets not get bogged down in a covid debate.
None of the 3 mentioned above's decision has anything to do with Australia's response to covid.
Sounds like the lawrences are not going because of a Honda decision.
The US is also not sending a team. simple fact is that international travel is difficult at this stage. that applies to everyone sadly
Pit Row
Honda may have kyboshed the Lawrences and MA may have had other Australia based riders, of which there are a few, in mind but where overtaken by covid circumstances.
I'd say this year the juice isn't worth the squeeze.. Sucks though
I missed Manjimup 30 years ago and hope it is held in Australia again, soon.
I was all booked to go to Ernee, France for last years event.
I went to Manjimup.. I was 13 and it ruled!
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