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Sydney lockdown extended, masks required outside
NY Post ^ | 08/20/2021 | AP

Posted on 08/20/2021 9:12:16 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

SYDNEY — A lockdown in Australia’s largest city was extended through September and tougher measures to curb the coronavirus’s delta variant were imposed Friday, including a curfew and a mask mandate outdoors.

New South Wales state, which includes Sydney, reported 642 locally acquired infections in the latest 24-hour period, the fourth consecutive day of tallies exceeding 600.

Sydney has been locked down since late June after the more contagious delta variant was detected in a limousine driver who became infected while transporting a US cargo aircrew from Sydney Airport.

Since then, 65 people have died from COVID-19 in New South Wales, included four overnight.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: extended; lockdown; masks; sydney
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I watched the Soviet Union when I was young and when it went away in 1991 I thought it was gone forever. I was so wrong.
1 posted on 08/20/2021 9:12:16 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Now the Aussies really know the reason why they were disarmed.


2 posted on 08/20/2021 9:13:11 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I find What a going on in Australia ironic given how that country was founded.


3 posted on 08/20/2021 9:17:32 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: ChicagoConservative27
In fact on April 27, 2021 the CDC admits having “no studies showing masks effective in stoping Covid"!

https://twitter.com/tlowdon/status/1387049350111449097

If you can’t provide technical specifications for the required masks, there is simply no scientific basis for pretending the ability to predict the effectiveness of “masks”.

If that’s not sufficient please check these reference: 31 Studies and Articles Undercutting Utility of Masks for Stopping Covid

(see https://lists.grabien.com/list-studies-and-other-data-undercutting-utility-masks-stopping-c).

4 posted on 08/20/2021 9:17:51 AM PDT by G Larry (Those destroying the Constitution must demonize those who would defend it.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

5 posted on 08/20/2021 9:19:34 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: V_TWIN

And, when this doesn’t stop the 2 or 3 extra CONvid-one9 cases popping up, then what? Probably those dang olympians coming back from the games that brought it. Or not. Face it mates, this bug is never going away despite what they claim. Add it to the list of colds, flus and pneumonias. Treat as needed.


6 posted on 08/20/2021 9:20:23 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Travis McGee

That’s nuts.


7 posted on 08/20/2021 9:21:36 AM PDT by mykroar (God speed, President Trump)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
New South Wales state, which includes Sydney, reported 642 locally acquired infections in the latest 24-hour period, the fourth consecutive day of tallies exceeding 600.

I’m betting a majority of the “infections” are asymptomatic.

8 posted on 08/20/2021 9:22:45 AM PDT by Allegra
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To: Travis McGee

This is what freedom looks like...

In Orwell’s 1984.

It was not supposed to be a training manual.


9 posted on 08/20/2021 9:23:50 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: G Larry

This “Delta” variant scam is simply pure evil genius. Give them credit for ways to keep this going forever. Even a segment of Freepers have been drinking the Koolaid. A good portion of society is as subdued and defeated as the poor souls in Afghanistan.


10 posted on 08/20/2021 9:39:11 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Allegra

But if you’re asymptomatic, why get a test?


11 posted on 08/20/2021 9:39:27 AM PDT by sanjuanbob (Do NOT buy Chinese ProductsI)
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To: shanover
The PCR test can't differentiate virus variants.

Only Genomic Sequencing can do that, and it simply is too expensive and not widely available for them to make the claims they are making about "the spread of the Delta variant."

12 posted on 08/20/2021 9:44:50 AM PDT by G Larry (Those destroying the Constitution must demonize those who would defend it.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Coming to a place near YOU!

REFUSE TO BE A MASKHOLE!

I WILL NOT BE A MASKHOLE!

Repeat after me, I WILL NOT BE A MASKHOLE!

If YOU “choose” to be one, NOT just to COMPLY, but because you feel protected (you’re NOT, by the way... to protect others, you WON’T, by the way) y’all go on ahead.


13 posted on 08/20/2021 10:13:00 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Putin agrees with you...


14 posted on 08/20/2021 11:06:26 AM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It won’t end until everyone resists fully, so it will never end because the sheep and wimps will forever comply.


15 posted on 08/20/2021 11:27:58 AM PDT by King_Corey (Buy SILVER and GOLD to hedge against the coming market destruction of FIAT currency)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Face if folks, Australia can no longer count itself as being among the nations of the free world. It has devolved into an authoritarian bureaucracy.


16 posted on 08/20/2021 11:30:50 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: zeugma

Yes even my insane Canada is not in this sort of lockdown and we have had 30 times the deaths of Australia. My province is ready for full unrestricted opening in September. No social distancing. No mask mandates.


17 posted on 08/20/2021 12:00:00 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: sanjuanbob

Because the government requires them to for a variety of made-up reasons so that they can inflate “infection” numbers. Duh.


18 posted on 08/20/2021 12:23:28 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: G Larry

The PCR is a lousy diagnostic test, especially if run at higher cycle thresholds.


19 posted on 08/20/2021 12:27:25 PM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: faucetman
REFUSE TO BE A MASKHOLE!

I’m happy to say that masks are few and far between where I live. For a week or two after the media started screeching the delta variant fear porn, the number of muzzled people at stores and restaurants increased, but they have dropped back down to almost nobody.

20 posted on 08/20/2021 12:28:28 PM PDT by Allegra
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