@ItsLilTiff@Saintleyy@ElyKreimendahl Qld, where they are building the quarantine facilities you spoke of and where covid numbers have doubled daily since NSW switched to a "personal responsibility" model and removed almost all obligations for citizens. I don't think you know enough about Aus to get into the weeds.
@ItsLilTiff@Saintleyy@ElyKreimendahl Incorrect. The relative severity of Omicron and the decreasing death rate of all variants worldwide is attributed directly to vaccines. The vaccine minimises the viral load, increasing your ability to fight it. Get vaccinated.
@ItsLilTiff@Saintleyy@ElyKreimendahl Vaccinations are vaccinations and do not have political interests. They fight viruses so people can stay safer. You can talk about freedoms all you like, but you're really just being difficult and compromising others' lives.
@archphoenix@mlyksg@katierose I tried to call in sick in the middle of the bird flu outbreak because I couldn't breathe properly and wanted to go to hospital. They threatened my job, i worked for 6 hours, then I promptly passed out on the street outside. No points for guessing which deadly animal flu I had.
@Meishiyu@kjhawk67@CognitiveCaveat@mmpadellan I genuinely wasn't expecting an answer with any kind of historical gravitas. I really expected it to be an insane dollar-store thing that got out of hand during a recession.
@scorpionsjin@areejkhan30@ycs06@_T0mD @SashaFoxley @ZedandBreakfast@crackconnoisser You're always going to run into trouble calling weed "addictive" because in a very technical sense it is not. But the habit-forming nature of it is addictive in a practical sense, so it's totally fair to call it that. I'm just curious where the line for treatment/dependence is.
@DrewInSeAsia @Dizziesaxchick @bev_horsley @OccupyMyGov@AusElectoralCom I made a semantic slip, so thanks for the clarification on *calling* an election, but the gist is that he can't postpone an election under nebulous emergency powers, correct? It falls out of his hands at that point; is that a good way to look at it?
@NoteswithaPen @crankymole @iamemilymayo The first school in Brisbane to have a police liaison permanently stationed on-site because of the overwhelming poverty and crime in the area was also one of the highest performing schools in the state at the time. Higher ave. OPs than Churchie or Grammar. All poor as shit.