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Sensible Stephen

Don’t talk about Sweden unless you’ve read more than the headlines. They took an evidence-based approach considering the trade-offs to total shutdown. They made mistakes but it wasn’t political or cynical - it was the scientists calling the shots. For countries that aren’t isolated islands, there i...

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I am with Farva, TT is the way to go. I don't mind going back down to 4 AU teams if we have to.

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I don’t know why people wonder about something that is so obviously self-evident. Politicians will always focus resources on where they get the most political return. In Australia, the minerals are owned by the states - these minerals are mostly found in states with low populations. Guess where the...

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471 new cases today anticipated, so that is somewhat promising. We wont have seen the effects of the stage 4 yet so hopefully in a week or two that will really drop. The Australian claiming they have seen data and modelling that suggests it will get to 1200 cases a day and not drop until the end of...

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Clogs wrote:Adelaide. Fvcked.

By. Melbourne. 50 points.

You cnuts have actually given us two clusters.

8 active cases now. 0 new ones yesterday so fingers crossed its under-control and contained.

Mass panic the last two days as a result. 10,000 people got tested in 2 days.

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NZ has bounced back well. However, it went in to a very deep hole for a period there. That has an effect and some businesses went down due to it. Qld, SA, WA, Tas, NT didnt go as deep, and so had less failures, for the same outcome. They have also all bounced back. The simple fact is Sydney and Mel...

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It's curious how Australians have retreated to statism, each commenter 'othering' the neighbours in an effort to claim their version of Australia is doing well. Countrymen should stick together for the common cause instead of creating regional imbalances through which Covid-19 is at its most danger...

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As much as they are utter plums who should be punished, this front page is out of order: https://i.prcdn.co/img?regionKey=PnrvMMvay76MWzyo3z97dA%3D%3D Yeah, thats just down right dangerous. Wouldn't take much for some idiot to try and punish them batman style. They should never have been named. But...

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Two new cases in Queensland. The first since May which aren't from people testing positive in quarantine. Both are women who travelled from Melbourne via Sydney and lied on their border forms. One of them works at a school and both attended a large church on the weekend...instead of being in quaran...

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Two new cases in Queensland. The first since May which aren't from people testing positive in quarantine. Both are women who travelled from Melbourne via Sydney and lied on their border forms. One of them works at a school and both attended a large church on the weekend...instead of being in quaran...

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Scary. Yes, at least it's 'steady' and not increasing exponentially. But God the numbers need to start falling soon. A 6 week lockdown looks like it could be much longer.

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Australia has now registered 50+ deaths since they supposedly beat Coronavirus. This represents a 50% increase in deaths since they supposedly beat Coronavirus. I feel for all those kids who once again are locked out of school and are not allowed on the sports fields. Why did the Scomo led Australi...

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459. This thing has now well and truly taken hold. It will spread to the rest of Australia... Reckon we a month or so off it hitting up here in Qld!! FFS Yep. I think, unless Anna closes the border, we are rooted. Yeah, just close it now. I'm glad SA has kept our border closed. Now SA residents stu...

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We have been told 4 days minimum in the office, 5 preferred.

Its a bit of a joke, the desks are 1.5m apart, deep cleaning every night etc... but a cold virus has ripped through the office, half the office has it now.

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Whoosh you chuffing simpleton Keep on swinging, trash. Fortunately I get plenty of practise on the swinging with my enormous club/baton that I regularly wave around some poor innocent freedom fighter whose human rights I have severely restricted (aka stamped upon). You will remain clueless Just say...

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Hong Kong wrote:Whoosh you chuffing simpleton

Keep on swinging, trash.

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20 people have died in Australia as a result of softening their Covid-19 policy. Australia had won but then threw it away because of some bizarre idea that the economy is more important than health. I fully believe deaths in NZ would be in the hundreds and climbing right now if we followed what Aus...

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HK is just following orders. I for one am absolutely shocked that a 30 year veteran of the HK police force is following Beijing orders. Shocked I tell you. Can tell you now though that if my old age pension relied on me cheering on Mario Itoje I would bring myself that Low so I do understand I agre...

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The Battle of Castillon was a battle fought on 17 July 1453 in Gascony near the town of Castillon-sur-Dordogne (later Castillon-la-Bataille).A decisive French victory, it is considered to mark the end of the Hundred Years' War.As a result of the battle, the English lost all landholdings in France, ...

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I have heard a rumour stage 4 is imminent... Who from? Andrew Bolt? Peta Credlin? Alan Jones? Miranda Devine? All your opinions, talking points and links come from them so I assume they also spoon feed you all your rumours? Andrews said in the press conference that if things don't start to level ou...

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I have heard a rumour stage 4 is imminent... Shirley they'd need to give it another week. We've only had 8 days of stage 3 lockdown so far. Yeah, I thought you'd wait the typical 2 weeks. Would expect numbers to peak next week before starting to fall. If they keep going up after 2+ weeks of lockdow...

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There will be some high profile cases, the occasional howl of protest at some purported breech of human rights and then, HK will settle down to doing what it does best, making money The risk is that there will be an outflow of Western businesses, together with an exodus of young, well-educated, lib...

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I don't mind a bit of bias, but he descends into petulance when his teams are losing. Even worse is his lack of accuracy around the laws of the game. He whinges about what are ultimately correct ref calls and confuses viewers unfamiliar with the laws and interpretations. I like him. Yes what you sa...

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Mate I've already gone out of my way several times to say I wouldn't have made that joke. And making that joke is about 20 times more benign than screaming, "you black c-nt" at someone, which I also obviously would not do. I've tried to explain multiple times that the point of my anecdote is not th...

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Mog seems to have adopted the if I'm not offended by something then no one's allowed to be, and something something Sam Harris something something Joe Rogan . Corrected. Mog is a strange one. Goes in balls deep at the drop of a hat and then has to retract once he has a "fuller" understanding. Mr Bu...

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Geezus christ. Do you know what you should seriously be asking yourself right now. It's this: why am I making shit up in order to justify my insult-ridden outrage? Think about it. Because if you have to imagine up things in your own head to maintain the rage, maybe the rage isn't actually all that ...

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They’re called Redskins . Whether you agree or not at that being offensive, that’s what the main focus is. The Indian imagery obviously goes hand in hand, but there’s more focus on the Washington Redskins than Cleveland Indians. ... and so what? Okay, I can see that might be a bit on the nose in th...

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You see, this is why it’s a WOFT dealing with peeps who have no idea what is actually happening in HK. Do I and millions of others still have access to Facebook? Why blow me surprised! Yes we do. Try again, you foolish children. And as for the orange shitgibbon trying to undermine the peg? Shows ho...

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Many these days seem to believe that being easily offended is some kind of virtue. In fact, in my opinion, the exact polar opposite is true. Your capacity to not be offended is a virtue. Worst of all is pretending offence. I love this and it goes for both sides of the political fence who are in my ...

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Muttonbirds wrote:
CrazyIslander wrote:I dont know how NSW is doing better than Victoria. Sydneysiders flouted the rules more thsn Melbournenians.
I reckon Peter Vlandys is running the NSW Covid testing program.
It's colder in Melbourne?

Pete Evans, is that you?

A super spreader idiot did most of the damage.

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The rumoured numbers for the last 24 hours are not good... I know that the government have begun working on stage 4 contingencies, but hopefully we won't need to go down that path. Your right, 288 new cases in the last 24 hours Probably only going to get worse. I mean theres probably a 2 week lag b...

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I agree with the Kiwis in that 5 teams is too many, the NZ teams are too strong. You'd either have a couple of strong teams and then 2 easy beats. 4 teams is better, but I can see the argument for 3 (but not 2!). Merge ACT and Melbourne. 5 + 3 = 8. Split games between ACT and Melbourne or would it ...

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I agree with the Kiwis in that 5 teams is too many, the NZ teams are too strong. You'd either have a couple of strong teams and then 2 easy beats. 4 teams is better, but I can see the argument for 3 (but not 2!). Merge ACT and Melbourne. 5 + 3 = 8.

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If you've not done so, read Sarah Kendizor's ' Hiding In Plain Sight '. I've a wall in my apartment devoted to non-fiction, am politically well versed Does your apartment smell of rich mahogany? :lol: I know what you're wondering, and the answer is yes... I do have a nickname for my penis. It's cal...

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China's Great Firewall also appears to cover Hong Kong now. Glorious! For the Motherland! We are all one family now! F u ck the cockroaches! Hong Kong must be absolutely tugging himself inside out right now. Yep. As long as the "orange shitgibbon" doesn't go and ruin this new storm trooper paradise...

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I truly hope none of the dumb fxcks on this thread will ever have to face the undignified situation of being a refugee. Based on the crap some of you have uttered in this thread you don’t deserve to enjoy the privileges you’re born with. Over and out. while I understand the plight of the Honk Kong ...

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So it begins. Australia's extradition agreement with Hong Kong about to be suspended. Australians told not to travel to Hong Kong for risk of imprisonment.

China's Great Firewall also appears to cover Hong Kong now.

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Wow what arrogance from NZRU thinking Oz rugby can run in two pro teams only I haven't read this anywhere else, but I am assuming Georgina Robinson is a trustworthy journalist? If so, it's not even the entire NZR board, just some idiotic members. The same members who selected Ian Foster to coach th...

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Nolanator wrote:The absolute state of these people. Whole thread is awful, but the one linked is particularly nauseating.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1280 ... 23648?s=19

Pence is such a weasel.

Sexually repressed too.

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