Australia lockdown overload!

Well that was sort of racist

 

I have no idea why you would see it that way. Travel is an entirely optional activity. In 99.9% of cases it's voluntary.

 

Well if it's mandatory

 

They would have to decide whether mom/dad was worth the quarantine. I have a friend who thought it was worth it, and she toughed out the quarantine on that basis. She did it for her dying mom.

 

That’s not voluntary. That’s mandatory. Not to mention completely evil and immoral.

 

TRAVEL is voluntary!

If you don't like the MANDATORY costs of travelling, you won't do it. It's very very simple. All things have a cost. In a pandemic, the cost of travel is quarantine. Take it or leave it .. no one is forced to travel.

 

Uh huh, we travel here, can't say I have had to subject to a government mandated lockdown Sounds KGB'ish to me

 

Of course they are lol people are forced to travel for work literally every day.

Your argument is ludicrous.

 

Damn, you certainly have shown a light on this that's for sure.. Are you the norm in Australia?

 

Apparently the Australians are reverting back to their roots and making everyone criminals.

(To those who don’t know Australia’s history, it was a penal colony)

 

Can you imagine the truckers

 

Certainly sounds comfortable with this that's for sure

 

It's hardly optional if you have to submit to a lockdown Well unless you have been conditioned to except isolation in a "No air, no leaving the room for 338 hours,"

 

It's not voluntary if you cannot leave. It's just an illusion of freedom. If others are worried about him getting them sick, those scaredy cat losers can get vaccinated.

 

It's not voluntary if you cannot leave. It's just an illusion of freedom. If others are worried about him getting them sick, those scaredy cat losers can get vaccinated and or wear an N95 mask.

 

I'm with crank on this. They knew in advance of travelling that quarantine was compulsory upon entry. Not our fault that some peeps lack the emotional intelligence to cope with the known consequences of their actions. At least now these individuals are aware of their emotional inadequacies and hopefully seek therapy so they may learn resilience!

 

Melbourne was never a penal colony...
The US was also a penal colony run by the UK... if you know your history that is...

 

Agreed. And "conservatives" in Europe aren't like conservatives here, either. And probably different than the Aussie version as well.

As an example, UK "conservatives" grew out of the desire to conserve the monarchy. Well, our "conservatives" here grew out of the desire to get rid of the monarchy, and that has profound implications on the rest of the philosophy.

 

Kind of like the US.

 

If nothing else the Aussies have "NEWSPEAK" down pat....

 

I think most of us have thought of Australians as being pretty well balanced people. Yet, this is the conduct of people with no balance at all, and most disturbing because they have lost all perspective in regards to the value of life and the balance in the fabric of their society. The are losing it; caught up in an addiction.

I'm often reminded of the old phrase "The proverbial saying 'power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely".
This has proven consistently true in history. As a person or government's power increases- their moral senses diminish.

This is a thing that feeds on itself; the more power is acquired, the more it is desired and found necessary by the people holding it.
Very dangerous, and the sooner that power is taken back the better for the people affected.

 

Yes, pretty much.

 

You'll find that most Australians approve of this.

And fear not, we are actually flexible. In the face of the inability to get Delta under control we've gone from an elimination strategy to a suppression strategy while vaccinating as quickly as we can. This strategy is not too dissimilar from the UK, except more disciplined.

 

Unfortunately, the publicity coming out says a lot of it is draconian. When you resort to abusing people who don't obey what should be just preventive steps, you have left the world of discipline and freedom. Now I'm certainly not up on what all may be going on there, but what's making the news is ugly. Nothing personal., a lot of what's going on here is ugly too- and no matter where it is, ugly is still ugly.

 

This statement confirms the widespread failure of labels in describing any person or group.