[Gay State Conservative]

OK,briefly:(football's on TV now)

Yes,in the grand scheme of things this matter is very unimportant indeed.But IMO...and in the opinion of at least some others...it could have been,and should have been,handled differently,just as many Australians insist that Singapore refrain from executing an Aussie caught with a kilo of heroin at the airport.An extreme example for sure...but I think you'll get the point.

Yes,the United States is in big,*big* trouble today.Big enough to make me glad that I'm much closer to the grave than to the cradle.

And yes,there are many Americans who have a shockingly limited understanding of the world.I,OTOH,have done a fair amount of traveling in my younger days and have always been interested in world events.

More later perhaps...back to football.

[Aussiebabe]

One thing we agree on is that Australia should have handled this better. As I said I was against these lockdowns and restrictions for Covid in the first place. If the vaccines work (and I don't think they do) then why not have unvaccinated people be allowed to enter. But this whole Covid mess had been mismanaged worldwide both my the governments and medical community mainly because they love having all the power and people, whether they are Americans or Aussies, have been completely spoiled and scared of risk, and have become sheep. And to top it off, we have media both in the USA and Australia that is 90% far left that support far left governments.