Kikapu wrote:Paphitis wrote:If these trends do not stop, I will be migrating from Australia. Hopefully go and work in America as I have a seniority employment number there now.
I will NEVER come back to Australia other than to visit family.
I’m so sorry, but Australia is so shit right now.
It’s one thing getting great COVID numbers, but at the expense of freedom, humanity and compassion, then it’s definitely not on.
My wife has an uncle with Lung Cancer and about to die. The grand children are not allowed to see him.
Pregnant mums in labour are not allowed to go to the nearest hospital a few kms past a State Border. A miscarriage was the result.
It’s literally out of hand.
One advice I give you all, DO NOT look at Australia for your modelling. Our COVID results are done with a dictator’s iron fist, I have no doubt that this in itself has resulted in the loss of many lives, plus our freedoms and our democracy.
We have totalitarianism in 3 States.
These are actions under your premier Morrison. What is he doing about the plight of the Aussies? Where are the Federal laws which are meant to be superior to state laws to protect the people? Australia’s Covid numbers are a joke in comparison to similar populated countries, so where is the rational. I don’t know why you do not see it being the problem with Morrison’s government and not only the states? If people really want to take action without going out to the streets to demonstrate in the fear of being beaten and arrested, is to have notional “sick in” that no one goes to work and that they stays at home as long as it takes. Let’s see what these criminal politicians and the cunt cops will do about that? At this point fuck the countries economy and concentrate on the people getting their rights back. The rest of the world is not acting like the Aussie when it comes to Covid, which makes me think there’s more going on there than meets the eye.
No it’s not Morrison doing it. Morrison is our Prime Minister.
All he is doing is restricting international travel to certain countries temporarily. He isn’t restricting anything else and has been vocal about lifting all restrictions on business, employment, domestic flights, on health care, medications (HCF) and has called on all Premiers (Victoria, WA and Queensland) to lift state border restrictions.
In addition, he wants to lift restrictions on demonstrations and public gatherings to allow people to demonstrate. He is also against the closure of places of worship. Incidentally, right behind Morrison desk is an Orthodox Icon of the Panagia and baby Christ. It was given to him by the Orthodox Archbishop. Morrison is an extremely religious man.
Similar to the US, he is being accused of interfering with the States. Premiers are equal to State Governors in the US. Morrison is our PM of the entire country.
State laws are not meant to over ride the Constitution. There are 2 things here. In order to protect our rights, we can go to the Federal Courts. Very risky especially when you are taking on a State Government which can bankrupt you by bogging you in a lengthy and expensive legal procedure worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The Federal Government can interfere but refuses to do so for the sake of the Commonwealth and maintaining some common sense. He has however threatened Victoria with wearing the cost of the lockdown through Federal Government GST grants to the States.
The other States like New South Wakes, South Australia, Tasmania, Australian Capital Territory seem to be on the same page as Morrison. Again, these are Conservative or Republican run States. Very low level restrictions in these States, similar to Sweden and Europe.
Western Australia has gone semi bonkers. Residents are not even allowed to return home. There are workers there who haven’t seen their families for 6 months now. Queensland had gone even more stupid, and Victoria is doing the full Belarus.
Australia’s COVID numbers are no joke either. We literally have the lowest COVID numbers in the world with under 50 new cases per day now after 8 million tests. We have tested a third of our population and our new cases are declining every day. So there is no doubt whatever we are doing is working but there are a few things to appreciate. South Australia, NT, ACT and Tasmania have zero cases even with the European/Swedish model. New South Wales has single digit detections each day with the European/Swedish model. Victoria at one point had 700 new cases per day and has gone full on dictator mode.
By all means, control the disease but not at the cost of our freedoms. And have a plan that is realistic and a way to move forward with COVID with a bit of common sense such as hygiene, social distancing and even masks if necessary but don’t lock people in their homes for months and restrict families from re-uniting or earning a living.
There is no doubt house arrest prevents the disease from spreading but it’s unrealistic. Especially for a disease with a mortality rate of 0.37%.
