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Australia's COVID overreaction could come to US
The Hill ^ | 09/13/2021 | KRISTIN TATE

Posted on 09/13/2021 1:41:27 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Resistance to COVID-19 countermeasures has reached a fever pitch. Tractor-trailer drivers on strike. Large-scale protests in the street. Civil disobedience on a massive scale. The government’s reaction is one of Orwellian overreach and efficiency. This is the current situation in Australia — but soon could be happening in the United States.

Australia’s isolation as an island and its strict border controls meant that the nation of 25 million has suffered only 1,036 coronavirus deaths and 60,000 cases of the virus. Closer to home, New York State, with 20 million people, suffered 54,069 deaths and 2.3 million cases. But no matter how relatively slight the cases in Australia have been — even less threatening with a large-scale vaccination campaign that has partially or fully inoculated nearly two-thirds of its over-16 population — the reaction by the nation’s federal and state governments has been draconian.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: australia; australias; covid; overreaction; us
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Only blue states would enjoy this.
1 posted on 09/13/2021 1:41:27 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Isn't the Prime Minister of Australia, Scott Morrison, supposed to be a "conservative" and an "Evangelical Christian?"

I miss Tony Abbott.

2 posted on 09/13/2021 1:46:53 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Impeach Biden? Yes We Can!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Go to our phones now and call the offices of your elected and tell them in no way would you or any of your countrymen go along with such a bogus, unscientific and unconstitutional scam.


3 posted on 09/13/2021 1:50:25 PM PDT by yoe (Follow the money on Covid or for Covid...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

4 posted on 09/13/2021 1:51:59 PM PDT by JPG (Think carefully because you can't unjab the jab.)
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To: JPG

We’re armed ... they’re not.


5 posted on 09/13/2021 1:57:30 PM PDT by knarf
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Closer to home, New York State, with 20 million people, suffered 54,069 deaths

How many of these were from the order by Cuomo to put COVID patients into the nursing homes?

6 posted on 09/13/2021 1:58:09 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: knarf

Many politicians could meet a sticky end if they go this route...


7 posted on 09/13/2021 1:59:59 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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I don’t think so.


8 posted on 09/13/2021 2:00:34 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Republican Wildcat
How many of these were from the order by Cuomo to put COVID patients into the nursing homes?

Ask all the looney libs who had bromances and covidgasms over the great white groping ape. But we must remember before judging too harshly, he couldn't help it, as he said, " I'm Italian"

9 posted on 09/13/2021 2:06:02 PM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I have a problem with the phrase “civil disobedience”. A free people is under no obligation to “obey” a government resists restricting their rights and imposing tyranny.

It’s the government that is misbehaving


10 posted on 09/13/2021 2:12:02 PM PDT by wny ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Government tyranny usually does not come as one fell swoop. There likely never would be a coup d’etat or military junta in America. Instead, the willing acceptance of ceding individual freedoms eventually threatens all of them. To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, the people of Australia are learning that sacrificing their liberty for temporary safety is a way to guarantee receiving neither.


11 posted on 09/13/2021 2:12:08 PM PDT by Petrosius
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If you ever wondered why obama was hording millions of rounds of ammo in various government agencies this might be why.


12 posted on 09/13/2021 2:12:28 PM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: ChicagoConservative27

California couple dies of covid, leaving five kids behind. Their newborn is three weeks old.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-couple-dies-covid-leaving-105447801.html


13 posted on 09/13/2021 2:16:50 PM PDT by entropy12 (President Trump was the best president in my life time of 81 years and counting..)
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To: knarf

Armed against B-52’s, stealth bombers, guided Tomahawk missiles, remote controlled drones, and nukes? If yes, you are indeed well armed.


14 posted on 09/13/2021 2:19:25 PM PDT by entropy12 (President Trump was the best president in my life time of 81 years and counting..)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They disarmed the Aussies before the government became dictatorial. Joe realizes that and that is why he is pushing for gun control. (I meant Joe’s handlers).


15 posted on 09/13/2021 2:25:43 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
In the 1700s it was taxation without representation. Today its vaccination without representation.
16 posted on 09/13/2021 2:35:42 PM PDT by CVS-20
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To: entropy12

Yes, because those are effective tools to use on belligerents disbursed among your own population.

If only we had those kings of weapons available to us to use against the more primitive armed resistance in Afghanistan.

We would have won for sure!


17 posted on 09/13/2021 2:37:32 PM PDT by Jotmo (Whoever said, "The pen is mightier than the sword." has clearly never been stabbed to death.)
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To: entropy12

you mean traitor joe’s taliban ?


18 posted on 09/13/2021 2:47:00 PM PDT by knarf
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I doubt very seriously we will see this in the US. For starters we have a constitution that prevents most of what they are doing and it DOES still have weight.

Secondly, our citizens are better armed and more in touch with our heritage - fighting tyranny at risk of life and limb.


19 posted on 09/13/2021 2:52:43 PM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: entropy12

That’s a weird story ... red flags up


20 posted on 09/13/2021 3:07:25 PM PDT by knarf
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