Posted on 10/22/2021 7:09:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Residents of Melbourne, Australia just gained a little bit of freedom back after enduring the longest Covid lockdown of any city in the world: 262 days, edging out London and Buenos Aires for the dubious title. According to Anthony Piovesan and Matt Young of the Murdoch empire’s news.com.au:
Melbourne has erupted with cheers as the world’s longest lockdown was officially lifted overnight.
Victoria’s sixth coronavirus lockdown was finally lifted at 11.59pm on Thursday after 262 days of harsh Covid-19 measures since the pandemic hit.
The CBD erupted and cheers and applause could be heard echoing through the city as the clock struck midnight, with residents clapping from balconies and shouting “freedom”.
“They can hear yelling from surrounding balconies like it was New Years,” ABC reporter Amy Gray noted.
I swear this feeling is unreal 😭😭😭❤️ #melbourne #melbournelockdown pic.twitter.com/2ajo3nKpeD — uday. (@Control_Udayy) October 21, 2021
« Anti-gun actor Alec Baldwin shot a woman to death | An execrable 'correction' from the Associated Press » American Thinker on MeWe| Print| Email October 22, 2021 World’s longest Covid lockdown loosens as tyrannical politician is shamed by rival By Thomas Lifson Residents of Melbourne, Australia just gained a little bit of freedom back after enduring the longest Covid lockdown of any city in the world: 262 days, edging out London and Buenos Aires for the dubious title. According to Anthony Piovesan and Matt Young of the Murdoch empire’s news.com.au:
Melbourne has erupted with cheers as the world’s longest lockdown was officially lifted overnight.
Victoria’s sixth coronavirus lockdown was finally lifted at 11.59pm on Thursday after 262 days of harsh Covid-19 measures.
The CBD erupted and cheers and applause could be heard echoing through the city as the clock struck midnight, with residents clapping from balconies and shouting “freedom”.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Andrews saw the neighboring rival state of New South Wales and its capital city Sydney celebrate “freedom day” October 10th, when a new premier took office there. (Former premier Gladys Berejiklian resigned after it became known that she was under investigation for corruption, and was replaced by Dominic Perrottet, both of them of the Liberal Party, which is the largest conservative party in Australia.)
You get what you vote for, fools.
Before we ridicule Australia as a whole, we have to remember that ONLY in the states of Victoria and New South Wales did we have these onerous lockdowns.
It is important to note that not all of Australia’s states have gone to extremes in responding to Covid, as many American commentators have assumed. The states of Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and Queensland do not have this lockdown policy.
Australia’s version of federalism is in some ways more robust than America’s.
Whoop-de-do! Still crazy…and I don’t see why the Aussies put up with the earlier regime at all. But they’re a very obedient people, and actually a lot of those “rules” were enforced by the neighborhood snitches.
Right. And I was commenting on the voters in Melbourne and Victoria.
They’re still a long way from being free of their tyrannical rulers. Nothing to cheer about yet.
Are Lockdowns and mandated vaccinations the greatest peacetime policy failures in world wide history??
Cui bono?
The Premier of Victoria, Andrews saw the political writing on the Wall so to speak. That’s why he sort of “ended” the lockdown a week earlier than planned.
I think he saw the neighboring rival state of New South Wales and its capital city Sydney celebrate “freedom day” October 10th, when a new premier took office there. (Former premier Gladys Berejiklian ( Ms. Lockdown herself) resigned after it became known that she was under investigation for corruption, and was replaced by Dominic Perrottet, both of them of the Liberal Party, which ( despite its name, is the largest conservative party in Australia.).
Thanks God Australia still has a federalist and democratic system.
I can’t even imagine what Australia would be like under a Chinese style government.
I find this tyranny especially ironic considering how that country was founded.
RE: They’re still a long way from being free of their tyrannical rulers. Nothing to cheer about yet.
Yep, you’re right.
Commentator Bill Muhlenberg observed in his column:
https://billmuehlenberg.com/2021/10/22/melbourne-lockdown-horror-no-freedom-here/
[EXCERPT]
Melbourne, relaxed a few restrictions – somewhat. It would be ludicrous to compare this with what happened in NSW a few weeks ago. There they really could celebrate ‘Freedom Day’ under the very strong leadership of Dominic Perrottet. But no such luck here. (snip)
The truth is, Victorians are STILL in their sixth lockdown! Yes, we they had a minor reprieve, but madness still prevails. They still have these ludicrous restrictions: a 25km travel limit; retail is still closed; schools are still mostly closed; and so on. Um, that is NOT freedom by any stretch of the imagination.
The very fact that Chairman Andrews has made any moves away from lockdown lunacy here is really due to Perrottet: he has shamed Andrews into action. Sydney and NSW are leading the nation in how to proceed, leaving states like Victoria in the dust. So Andrews has been forced to act – at least a little bit – in order not to look like the buffoon that he has been.
Sadly a lot of Victorians would vote for him again. Melbourne is a very woke city. The comparison of Victoria with California seems quite apt. Andrews and Newsome would compare fairly evenly. Victorians are buying up properties in other states at record levels. I sold my house in South Australia this week and got more than $150k more than I woild have got last year the rish to buy outside of Victoria has been so great.
>> did we have
You’re an Aussie?
RE: You’re an Aussie?
Accidental slip of the keyboard.
But I’ve lived and worked in the country for 5 years on IT projects — in Melbourne and Adelaide.
It is ( or was ) a great country to live and work.
Gotcha. Cool that you had a chance to live/work there for bit.
He’s busily driving out the people who wouldn’t want to vote for him.
It’s called “The Curley Effect”
https://www.nber.org/papers/w8942
James Michael Curley, a four-time mayor of Boston, used wasteful redistribution to his poor Irish constituents and incendiary rhetoric to encourage richer citizens to emigrate from Boston, thereby shaping the electorate in his favor. Boston as a consequence stagnated, but Curley kept winning elections. We present a model of the Curley effect, in which inefficient redistributive policies are sought not by interest groups protecting their rents, but by incumbent politicians trying to shape the electorate through emigration of their opponents or reinforcement of class identities. The model sheds light on ethnic politics in the United States and abroad, as well as on class politics in many countries including Britain.
Then why did I suffer through eight years of Obama?
“and was replaced by Dominic Perrottet, both of them of the Liberal Party, which is the largest conservative party in Australia.”
Say what?
Classical liberalism is a good thing. What we call liberal is commie which works for ants and bees but in humans results in feudal fascism. The founders were classical liberal. Liberal as in for liberty. Words change meaning over time. ANTI-FA are 100% fascist. “Liberals” are 100% feudal fascist. Conservatives are 100% classical liberal. They steal the words and twist their meaning. Liberal means for liberty, or did in the past. Today it means brown shirt fascist.
“You get what you vote for ....
Then why did I suffer through eight years of Obama?”
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Touche! Good come back...
Sort of like when doofuses say “you get what you pay for”. My response, “Then why did the shine rub off the Rolex I just paid some guy $10,000 for? I thought you get what you pay for, and I paid a lot of money for a Rolex, but it ended up being a fake.”
Truthfully, “You pay for what you get”, not “You get what you pay for”. Sometimes you really do not get what you “thought” you paid for.”
That snake oil salesperson(gender inclusive) will tell you that if you pay a big price you gonna get good stuff. Yeah right.
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