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© Thomson Reuters 2020.Police increase patrols in Australia's COVID-19 hotspot after hundreds breach restrictions
By Lidia Kelly MELBOURNE©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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carpslidy
What a loathsome individual
oldman_13
Well it certainly appears it's not only the Japanese that, according to some, are "clueless" or willfully ignorant of social distancing and other covid-19 precautionary measures.
starpunk
Sad to say with summer approaching Down Under it looks like there's alot of people there just as stupid as some Americans are. The Big Question for them is 'Is their PM going to lie and stir up unrest like Disgraceful Don has?
kyronstavic
BigYenToday 08:35 pm JST
And yet the majority of the people who have to, you know, actually live with this situation support him...
And yet the majority of the people who have to, you know, actually live with this situation support him...
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Statewide Stockholm syndrome.
But his approval rating is finally on the decline as people start getting sick of the draconian restrictions.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8790211/Majority-Victorians-want-coronavirus-restrictions-ditched-days-poll-SUPPORTED-it.html
spinningplates
I'll bite.
Australia has and is largely enjoying life close to what we all called 'normal' ( with the caveat of mask wearing and social restrictions) BECAUSE of severe and strict lockdowns and quarantine. This, an Island nation which has closed it's states off from others, and via a public that has taken steps to wear masks in a culture where that is an alien concept has seen considerable, and significant success in controlling the virus.
The selfish actions of groups of uneducated people are demonstrably prolonging the epidemic and thus Government intervention in everyday life, and denying the good efforts the majority.
Countries that ignore the success of Australia and New Zealand will struggle on in a zombie like state of non regulated restriction and growing economic pain until a vaccine is developed and released.
Wolfpack
Plenty of “educated” people get covid and spread it to others. It is wrong to proclaim people as uneducated when the virus is not the only important thing to people’s lives and well being.
kurisupisu
It’s a police state!
Strewth!
Desert Tortoise
In other words your own selfish narrow wants override the good of your nation and the people in the community you share.
Desert Tortoise
It is less a matter of formal education as it is about willful and deliberate ignorance combined with overwhelming selfishness and no notions of obligations to anything beyond one's immediate personal wants.
Desert Tortoise
And yet the majority of the people who have to, you know, actually live with this situation support him...
Luckily it seems a majority have some notions that they have obligations to something larger and more important than themselves, you know, like the communities they live in and their nation as a whole. Some things are larger than you.
carpslidy
@bigyen
People don't dispute lockdowns reduce the spread,
The argument is
Was it worth the financial and social damage?
Is it nothing more than a temporary solution, which means you have to either live with corona or lockdown again?