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Something really bizarre and unsettling is happening in Australia. Despite a small number of covid deaths, they have by far the most totalitarian lockdowns and

Something really bizarre and unsettling is happening in Australia. Despite a small number of covid deaths, they have by far the most totalitarian lockdowns and are pursuing some of the most extreme social control measures of any country on earth. They are building quarantine imprisonment camps, doing national manhunts for people who aren't quarantining, arresting people for anti-government speech, using the military to limit movement. You are not even allowed to leave the country anymore! Things really happened so fast and with so little debate that it rivals the speed and severity of loss of rights that occurs in a communist revolution. What the heck is even going on there?

cookie_monsta 5y ago
Hyperbole, mostly Versions of all of those things exist, but not in the way you describe them.
- narrator 5y ago
  I have been reading message boards where Aussies are saying they are no longer allowed to leave the country for any reason. Isn't that like the old Soviet Union and North Korea?
  - cookie_monsta 5y ago
    There are exemptions to the travel restrictions[1] So "not allowed to leave for any reason" is hyperbole. It has a grain of truth but like the other things on your list is a gross exaggeration. It's almost as if you shouldn't take everything you read online at face value [1] https://covid19.homeaffairs.gov.au/leaving-australia https://covid19.homeaffairs.gov.au/leaving-australia
    - narrator 5y ago
      You could get an exit visa from the Soviet Union under certain circumstances too. Just cause there's an exemption doesn't mean it's all ok.
      - cookie_monsta 5y ago
        The discussion isn't about if it's good policy (although low case numbers and low death rate are fairly compelling arguments). What's being called into question is the exaggerated nature of your claims. We can leave for business, compassionate grounds, medical reasons etc etc. The line that we cannot "for any reason" is being pushed by people with an agenda and a particular interest in politicising a public health crisis just like all the other exaggerations you have parroted here. I'm sorry you refuse to see that and in fact choose to participate. I'm not saying this is you, but the hilarious thing about the "free thinkers" on the pandemic is that they refuse to even entertain the possibility that they might be being used as pawns to peddle misinformation while accusing the rest of the world of being just that.

cookie_monsta 5y ago

Hyperbole, mostly Versions of all of those things exist, but not in the way you describe them.

narrator 5y ago
I have been reading message boards where Aussies are saying they are no longer allowed to leave the country for any reason. Isn't that like the old Soviet Union and North Korea?
- cookie_monsta 5y ago
  There are exemptions to the travel restrictions[1] So "not allowed to leave for any reason" is hyperbole. It has a grain of truth but like the other things on your list is a gross exaggeration. It's almost as if you shouldn't take everything you read online at face value [1] https://covid19.homeaffairs.gov.au/leaving-australia https://covid19.homeaffairs.gov.au/leaving-australia
  - narrator 5y ago
    You could get an exit visa from the Soviet Union under certain circumstances too. Just cause there's an exemption doesn't mean it's all ok.
    - cookie_monsta 5y ago
      The discussion isn't about if it's good policy (although low case numbers and low death rate are fairly compelling arguments). What's being called into question is the exaggerated nature of your claims. We can leave for business, compassionate grounds, medical reasons etc etc. The line that we cannot "for any reason" is being pushed by people with an agenda and a particular interest in politicising a public health crisis just like all the other exaggerations you have parroted here. I'm sorry you refuse to see that and in fact choose to participate. I'm not saying this is you, but the hilarious thing about the "free thinkers" on the pandemic is that they refuse to even entertain the possibility that they might be being used as pawns to peddle misinformation while accusing the rest of the world of being just that.