A Trump flag flying over a house in Frederick County, Virginia, October 2019. (Andriy Blokhin/Shutterstock)
Posted on 09/26/2021 5:01:56 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Who else could keep us from turning into Australia?
Last summer, when all this Covid stuff really kicked off, I got a call from a friend in rural Virginia. He told me a bunch of rednecks were going to grocery stores and gas stations, tearing down signs asking patrons to wear facemasks.
My friend was annoyed, and so was I. Hey, it’s private property! If Sal only wants to sell pizza to folks dressed like Little Bo Peep, and you don’t want to dress up as Little Bo Peep, go to a different pizzeria. Better yet, cook for yourself. It’s not that hard.
Now, I thank God every day for those rednecks.
A few weeks ago, a friend in Australia called and told me about the country’s new Covid app. Residents of South Australia are required to prove they’re in quarantine by using face recognition and geolocation on this app. If they fail to check in, the app will notify a bureaucrat with the state’s Health Department. That bureaucrat will then call the police. The police, in turn, will go to the citizen’s home and make sure he’s not taking an unauthorized walk so his dog can take a clandestine whizz.
“We don’t tell them how often or when, on a random basis they have to reply within 15 minutes,” said premier Steven Marshall. Fair warning, I guess.
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As to the Aussie covid check-in app, I have never seen any mention of what happened if someone didn’t own a smartphone, and only had a landline.
No smartphone, no app, no check-in.
Amen!
Most of the Trump signs from the 2020 election are still up in my area. More than a dozen Trump flags flying as well. We rural folks know the truth.
Half the Trump signs in my area have been replaced by “F%#& Biden” flags. LOL.
Australia: perfect example of what happens when you give up your guns.
Bingo.
If everyone refused to check in for three days this crap would end. There aren’t enough police to go to everyone’s door daily. The cops would end it. It just shows what sheep everyone has become.
“Half the Trump signs in my area have been replaced by “F%#& Biden” flags. LOL.”
BASH!
(Big Ass Smile Here!)
Most of the folks here are a bit too genteel for that.
Don’t worry though, the gentility is only a thin, and thinning, veneer. The raging redneck hasn’t been tamed.
Some day that dog is going to turn vicious and tear some one a new one.
Zambia?
Really?
“If everyone refused to check in for three days this crap would end. There aren’t enough police to go to everyone’s door daily. The cops would end it. It just shows what sheep everyone has become.”
I’m not disputing what you said, but one thing I’ve noticed in a lot of the videos where the Aussie police are arresting people is the number of police that show up. I am not a “defund the police” person, but there is such a thing as being over-policed, and that may be the case in Australia.
House arrest...
You are correct that the Australjan app cr@p would maybe last three days in populated cities if many refused.
But it would not last that long in rural America. The average 911 response time in my Southern county is about an hour. The county is all woods and narrow roads. Many houses in my neighborhood are set back in private woods and not even visible from the road.
If just ten people in our county forgot to have their phone with them while out doing chores, it would take more than ten hours to check them out, if the sheriff would do it, and if they responded to no 911 calls in between.
And that doesn’t even count the fairly large number of homes with no cell reception. And it doesn’t account for belligerent rednecks who refuse to respond because they want a confrontation with the responder.
Oh, and deer season in those woods starts next week and runs to late January. As one of my distant cousins might say, “Ain’t nobody coming to check on me.”
I, of course, would instantly and cheerfully respond. If I get better cell reception.
bump
Wonder if the Aussie PM has started to refer to his citizenry as a basket of deplorables.
It brought Brezhnev to a standstill, right? We KNOW it works...
I’m not sure they have actual citizens in Australia anymore. But I’m sure the ruling elite thinks their subjects are deplorable.
‘Solidarity’
^ This
That’s plainly a show of force. They wouldn’t look so forceful spread out over 250,000 homes.
Yup, same here, only our response time is about 30 mins.
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