Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Now New South Wales (Sydney) is totally open because it has reached an 80% vaccination rate. No masks, no social distancing. Seven-day average of five deaths per day for a population of 8.2 million. Seven-day average in Texas: 197 per day for a population of 29 million. NSW has about 30% of the population of Texas, but only 2.5% of the deaths.

Total Covid deaths in Australia (population 26 million): 1,543. Total Covid deaths in Texas (pop. 29 million): 69,673. Yeah, Texas is doing it right.

 

And that woman gave one hell of a speech in Parliament. (And then they tossed her out for a man, though 'leadership spills' happen a lot for everyone)

 

Alma said: ↑
Twitter specializes in amplifying bad faith arguments on both sides, but especially the left's side.

Hard to figure that's the deal when the right literally gets people killed with its Twitter-amplified arguments. Tens of thousands. At least. Now compare that body count to Antifa or whatever Twitter-amplified Leftist rhetoric is out there.

 

We need to quit acting like there is always one "right" approach to everything.

Americans (and Australians and New Zealanders and . . .) could probably extend their lives X amount of years if they did everything "right." Whether it's the food we eat, or the exercise we do (or avoid) or the stress we put up with (job, family, etc). But almost no one wants to make the compromises necessary to do all those "right" things. The food tastes too good. The high-stress job happens to pay a lot. We drive too fast (and do so distracted or drunk). Whatever. So almost all of us wind up giving up a few years. And sometimes those choices hurt others, too.

We all decide to what degree we want to "live (enjoy life) " --- however we define that --- vs. "stay alive longer."

The people of Texas and Australia have made their choice. Each are (I assume) happy with their choice and wouldn't change things.

 

"They shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the ownership of the libs."

 

Those Texans who are still alive are presumably happy to claim ownership of the libruhls. Wonder how many of them will wonder if they've made good life choices when they get infected.

 

Some will. Just as smokers die of lung cancer every day, too. I guess they have regrets, too. That's why we're 46th in the world in life expectancy, worse than French Guiana, Qatar, Slovenia and Cuba, among others.

 

Australia has made choices that Texas did not - choices that save lives but have consequences in other ways (not as bad as deaths!) - and it has 26 million people spread over an area of land 10 times the size of Texas. It is an island connected to no other nation.

Australia enjoys considerable advantages as it relates to reducing the COVID death rate. That doesn’t mean anything more than what I wrote.

Nevertheless the Northern Territory comparison is close to meaningless.

 

Malware. Bad microchips.

 

It was more than that. IMO.

At any rate, the board always leans left politically, but there’s a difference between liberal and progressive. The former is permissive/reasonable on social issues and “let’s not worship at the altar of hedge funds” on economics. Progressive is theatrical and highly prescriptive with an increasing “Choo choo motherfucker” vibe to it.

 

Lung cancer isn't a communicable disease.
How many of the refuseniks will have any traces of guilt if, in addition to sabotaging their own health to own the evil libruhls, they infect others?

 

The folks who have been touting intermictin (sp), Clorox and Lysol are going to let that fact get in the way this time? They're shipwreck survivors, hanging onto anything they can that supports their position.