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Just two quick thoughts. First, the 60-70% went out the window with Delta. Second, Australia has a well-documented history of being an unusually heavy-handed de

Just two quick thoughts. First, the 60-70% went out the window with Delta. Second, Australia has a well-documented history of being an unusually heavy-handed democracy. If you don't take the most repressive Western regime as your starting point, you may find a much more measured variation of responses, and most of those measures have now been abandoned. The last I checked, proponents of authoritarianism don't usually just drop their repressive policies, yet that is the crystal clear pattern we observe throughout the developed world.

throwawayfear 5y ago
You just proved I'm right. In your other comment, you said "is 6 more months fine?" And I said that they'll always find reasons to extend their magical new powers. And yet here we are, someone doing that for them by buying into the strain fear-mongering DESPITE the fact that the antibodies from past covid or from vaccination are effective against Delta. Source again: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-27/previous-covid-prevents-delta-infection-better-than-pfizer-shot https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-27/previous-... And with both populations having antibodies (from any source) in large excess of Fauci's 60-70 percent estimate, pegged as of May 2021 at over 80% of the population...it's time to end the mandates. Source again: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article253987048.html https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article25398704... I'm not going to mince words over which Western European country may be more polite than Australia as if that detracts from my arguments about what's happening. Australia is turning into a dictatorship at this rate. That is not hyperbole. Look at the links I shared more closely. This is in a western democracy, and we have no shortage of "useful fools" who will gladly parrot the same rhetoric in America or Canada or Europe if they can.

throwawayfear 5y ago

You just proved I'm right. In your other comment, you said "is 6 more months fine?" And I said that they'll always find reasons to extend their magical new powers. And yet here we are, someone doing that for them by buying into the strain fear-mongering DESPITE the fact that the antibodies from past covid or from vaccination are effective against Delta. Source again: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-27/previous-covid-prevents-delta-infection-better-than-pfizer-shot https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-27/previous-... And with both populations having antibodies (from any source) in large excess of Fauci's 60-70 percent estimate, pegged as of May 2021 at over 80% of the population...it's time to end the mandates. Source again: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article253987048.html https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article25398704... I'm not going to mince words over which Western European country may be more polite than Australia as if that detracts from my arguments about what's happening. Australia is turning into a dictatorship at this rate. That is not hyperbole. Look at the links I shared more closely. This is in a western democracy, and we have no shortage of "useful fools" who will gladly parrot the same rhetoric in America or Canada or Europe if they can.