Australia suffers its deadliest day of pandemic

Police and the military are guarding state borders and visiting homes to enforce quarantine orders.

It’s fascinating and scary how fast and unjustified so called democracies have come to use China-style, dictatorship inspired measures against their populations. Something to prevail in future historical books for sure.

Andrews is a fool

In 2018 around 23,000 Australians died of coronary heart disease.

155 corona deaths simply does not warrant these lockdowns which negatively affect millions of Australians.

Just waiting for the name change....Austrania has been submitted.

When you have an economy that for 30 years has not experienced any significant downturn, something just ain't right in a normal economy.

House prices have increased by 1000% or more and the primary reason is having a single buyer of your resources with what would appear to be unlimited capital on your doorstep.

Are there any other economies with a similar profile? The only other candidate that I can think of is China itself!

Who would have thought that? It must be a 100 year economy.

It’s........scary how fast and unjustified so called democracies have come to use China-style, dictatorship inspired measures against their populations. 

Not really, when you think about it. They’re finally waking up to what some of us have been saying all along. To compete with countries that laugh in our faces when we politely suggest that they adhere to a level playing field, who game the system with their organized along military lines regimented workforce that confers enormous cost advantages over places that can’t get away with that and who’ve engineered it so that exports are prioritised over imports (while exploiting to the max everywhere else’s openness), and who unashamedly employ ethnic preference and deny non members virtually any political representation; the wonder is it took this long before the penny dropped and the others finally woke up.

Australians, just say thanks to China....

On one hand you may well be right, but on the other....

Well, it’s just to soon to say really.

Sending thoughts and prayers to all those affected.

Its really sad that government measures to stop the spread of coronavirus are interpreted as authoritarian and thus people resist mask wearing because they don't want to be a "sheep". You see it mostly on the internet, non-experts attacking Bill Gates or Fauci, accusing them of being involved in some kind of vaccination conspiracy. These people rarely offer up an alternative solution and thus just make it more difficult to stop the spread.

Well said, Kumagaijin. Spot on.

C'mon Australia, It's time to accept the truth. The virus will not be eliminated. The sooner this is accepted the better.

C'mon Australia, It's time to accept the truth. The virus will not be eliminated.

Whom has claimed it will be?

@Serrano:

In 2018 around 23,000 Australians died of coronary heart disease.

CHD is NOT transmissible, it is death by chosen lifestyle. SARS-CoV-2 IS highly transmissible and is death by deliberate neglect of others with no choice to the victim whatsoever. And when the 'others' have a choice (mask, et alia), it is manslaughter by propaganda inspired neglect promulgated by our conscienceless parasitic psychopaths in the heads of our many less than stellar Human intellects...

“Its really sad that government measures to stop the spread of coronavirus are interpreted as authoritarian and thus people resist mask wearing because they don't want to be a "sheep"

The jury is still out on masks, and those who can put two and two together, have concluded the u-turn on them in March is a little too convenient

Baaaaa

“These people rarely offer up an alternative solution and thus just make it more difficult to stop the spread.”

Try Sweden

The jury is still out on masks

Only in America.

How are their Covid numbers doing?

“How are their Covid numbers doing?”

What makes you think that masks are turning the tide?

“Whom has claimed it will be?”

Australia has gone the eradication route. Their economic recovery depends on COVID-19 being dealt with. If it isn’t they’re screwed

What makes you think that masks are turning the tide?

Science and the data that the conclusions are made from.

And if you want to get anecdotal, I suspect it’s one of the main reasons Japan has fared well in this pandemic.

And if you want to get anecdotal, I suspect it’s one of the main reasons Japan has fared well in this pandemic.

I think it is one of the reasons. There many others. I think once the dust settles, the main factor will be the general health of the population, especially the elderly population, including the rate of obesity and vitamin D deficiency.