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Paying for an epidemic of stupidity
The Weekend Australian ^ | 16 August 2020 | STEVE WATERSON

Posted on 08/16/2020 3:58:19 AM PDT by lowbuck

"Here’s where our politicians find themselves, unable to admit their response to the virus — the ultimate blunt instrument of lockdown, brutally enforced — hasn’t worked, and will never work.

They can’t do so because it would mean all they have done up to this point has been in vain. How could anyone who had wreaked damage on this cataclysmic scale ever admit to themselves, let alone to the nation, that it was all for nothing? Instead, like the pokie addict, they have doubled down to unleash a runaway epidemic of stupidity. They’ve destroyed our economy and put thousands out of work; they’ve refashioned many of our famously easygoing population into masked informers; and we’ve handed control of our lives to a clown car packed with idiots."

(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.com.au ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crazy19
Worth the read!! This echos what I have said for many months. . . "the experts and politicians will never admit they got it wrong".

Rather I am hopeful that on November 4th if President Trump is reelected he will end this madness with leadership. Until the election if over he is boxed in by enemies who would use this action against him.

I look forward to watching "liberal tears of sadness" the night of the election. Nothing like election porn to make me smile.

1 posted on 08/16/2020 3:58:19 AM PDT by lowbuck
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To: lowbuck

Bump!


2 posted on 08/16/2020 4:01:45 AM PDT by SunTzuWu
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To: lowbuck

“Worth the read!”

How? It’s 100% paywalled ...


3 posted on 08/16/2020 4:07:39 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: catnipman

Well, the blurb is certainly spot on...


4 posted on 08/16/2020 4:11:08 AM PDT by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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To: lowbuck

By the way, “pokies” are slot machines, and they can be found in all the pubs in Australia and New Zealand, and have a bad reputation for poor people blowing their welfare checks on them. I once won AUS $5,000 on them about 20 years ago during a business trip, and the pub had to clean out all the tills in the bar and then write me a check for the remainder. That was pretty neat.


5 posted on 08/16/2020 4:13:41 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

15 Aug: MetroWest Daily News: Fall River, Taunton risk assessments changed after false positives
by Michael P. Norton
BOSTON — The Baker administration this week rolled out a color-coded system to gauge the risk of COVID-19 in each city and town and quickly tied those assessments to recommendations on whether schools should open with in-person learning, remote learning or a hybrid model.
But problems are surfacing.

Late Friday afternoon, the Department of Public Health disclosed that a commercial lab, which state officials did not identify, is under investigation and has voluntarily suspended all testing after state officials detected 130 false positives test results were reported.

The errors mean Fall River is being re-categorized from the red to yellow, moderate-risk category and Taunton is shifting from yellow to green.
DPH officials say the reporting issue occurred from July 30 to Aug. 1 and “resulted in a disproportionate number of false positive results being reported from that lab during that time.”
“The lab ceased testing when the issue was identified and is under investigation,” DPH spokeswoman Katheleen Conti said in a statement...

The number of positive COVID-19 test results affixed to other communities may also be updated, officials said. Any updates will be included in town-by-town data in next Wednesday’s DPH report...
The news of false positive test reports came on the same day that school districts were required to file final plans for the approaching school year...

The adjustments for Fall River shifted the city from 8.3 cases per 100,000 to 7.4 per 100,000. Taunton went from 6.5 cases per 100,000 to 3.2 per 100,000.
https://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/20200815/fall-river-taunton-risk-assessments-changed-after-false-positives


6 posted on 08/16/2020 4:21:45 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: MAGAthon

Massive fraud and unreliable data is what drives people’s doubts.

How can the biggest story of 2020 come with unreliable data that nobody can trust?

I watched those on FR in the first 2 months try to see patterns in the data....they could not because the data was worthless.

First, in the early stages of such a thing, data is shifting rapidly.

Secondly, with bad reporting of the data and falsified data, no truth could be found.

Remember, 2 weeks to flattent the curve is now over 5 months of changing restrictions, political decisions and unscientific mandates.


7 posted on 08/16/2020 4:30:10 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party is communism)
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To: lowbuck

New Zealand is even worse. The woman prime minister shut down the entire country in which 22 people have died out of a population of 5 million.

The discovery this past week of four new cases triggered another lockdown of the entire country which is estimated to be costing $440 million per week in economic losses.

Nobody can go to New Zealand.

Lockdowns do not work. When the current one is lifted, the virus will return and the country will be locked down again by a woman prime minister acting like the obsessed mother of toddler children.

The lockdown roller coaster will never end in New Zealand as long as lunatics are in charge.

The leaders doing this have been heralded throughout the world for their “success” but they have destroyed the economy of their country and will NEVER succeed in their quest to eradicate every last case.

Like Captain Ahab relentlessly pursuing the white whale, Moby Dick, the prime minister of New Zealand is insane.


8 posted on 08/16/2020 4:32:07 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: lowbuck

“...the experts and politicians will never admit they got it wrong”.

Progressives, leftists, blacks, Millennials and women will never admit they got something wrong.


9 posted on 08/16/2020 4:59:54 AM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: lowbuck
"we’ve handed control of our lives to a clown car packed with idiots."

Wow, does that ever bear repeating..

10 posted on 08/16/2020 5:18:47 AM PDT by unread (A REPUBLIC..! if you can keep it....)
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To: catnipman

Try this, worked for me

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/coronavirus-were-paying-for-an-epidemic-of-stupidity/news-story/b403b6fa3b30879654a80d8e5c7aa6f0


11 posted on 08/16/2020 5:26:59 AM PDT by avenir
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To: avenir

Sorry...one more try

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwix46G935_rAhUo1VkKHbU7BZQQxfQBMAJ6BAgHEAM&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theaustralian.com.au%2Finquirer%2Fcoronavirus-were-paying-for-an-epidemic-of-stupidity%2Fnews-story%2Fb403b6fa3b30879654a80d8e5c7aa6f0&usg=AOvVaw0GSUIOxcne_JfqyE6k-acf


12 posted on 08/16/2020 5:41:15 AM PDT by avenir
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To: lowbuck
Our grandchildren will pay a heavy price for the stupidity of the present generations.

Whether or not the covid strategy has worked will be revealed on November 3, 2020.

This is what it's all about: a reset of everything, lead by a powerful cabal.

The United States of America is in the way of this Great Reset. So they are destabilising the entire country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb9jRqgDOJ8&feature=youtu.be

The 2021 Davos Summit is coming up right after Christmas, and for the Great Reset they need a President Joe Biden to hand the United States over to the cabal. This is why they are trying so hard to defeat Trump.

Obama was a figurehead for the cabal. Biden is also a figurehead for them. Trump refuses to be a figurehead; this is why they must stop him.

"Shortly after the speech at the UN that Donald Trump delivered, what do you think happened? The coronavirus was unleashed on the world, and Trump's booming US economy went on life-support. You think that was an accident?"

The strategy now is to bring the United States economy to its knees, so that everyone will want the Great Reset, i.e. make the 'new normal' so intolerable that everyone will beg for the safety offered by the cabal.

They made a mistake: they tried to get Trump on their side. They invited him to Davos. But when Donald Trump really saw what they had in mind for America, he said this to them:

'We're committed to conserving the majesty of God's creation and the natural beauty of our world, but to embrace the possibilities of tomorrow we must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse. These alarmists always demand the same thing: absolute power to dominate, transform, and control every aspect of our lives. We will never let radical socials destroy our economy, wreck our country.'

"Two days after Donald Trump gave that speech...George Soros made an emergency intervention, at Davos, once again, warning that 'the 2020 US Election will determine the 'fate of the whole world.''"

He was right about that!

This is why there is so much hate for Trump: He never will be one of them."

That's what the Great Reset is about. That's what the "Russia Hoax" was all about. That's what the "Impeachment Hoax" was about.

For four years they've been trying to stop Donald Trump because if he succeeds, if he strengthens America, if he makes America great again, if he brings the economy back--again, the Great Reset won't happen. They might never have another opportunity like this Covid Opportunity again.

Remember this?

‘"I have a lot of enemies. This may be the last time you see me for a while. I have a lot of very rich enemies. They're not happy with what I'm doing. But I figure we have one chance to do it. No other president is gonna do what I do."’
Donald Trump
Cleveland, Ohio
August 6, 2020
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/08/a_solution_for_this_weeks

13 posted on 08/16/2020 5:54:33 AM PDT by Savage Beast (President Trump, loving God, America, and the American People, is on the Side of GOD and the Angels!)
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To: avenir

didn’t work for me ...


14 posted on 08/16/2020 10:10:18 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: catnipman

Try the link in post 12.


15 posted on 08/16/2020 11:00:05 AM PDT by avenir
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To: avenir

yeah, that one worked!


16 posted on 08/16/2020 4:28:58 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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