BBJoey posted:

i am calling a leadership spill

Eediot Jedi posted:

Pfft it's the lockdown they had to have. Short circuit breaker lockdowns don't work against the highly infectious strains.

Amoeba102 posted:

It's sarcasm that doesn't work.

ungulateman posted:

i'm an essential worker but my shifts all got quietly removed for this past week, and i've received no communication at all, so i have no loving idea what's going on any more. i hope i still have a job?

bowmore posted:

If only the federal government did loving anything, like quarantine centres or actually order enough vaccines and get people vaccinated in that window we had instead of sitting with their thumbs up their asses

Solemn Sloth posted:

I feel like there are a ton of people more worthy to dunk on than an infectious diseases professor at UNSW who appears to have made a good faith argument on a different public health approach but that’s just me

bowmore posted:

ALP tragics sure are obsessed with scumos appearance

Solemn Sloth posted:

77 today and “I will be shocked if it’s not 100+ tomorrow”


Lots of commentary on the cost of lockdown, not much commentary on the enormous economic benefits if we just let the entire population of NSW die. Would put serious upward pressure on wage growth, downward pressure on house prices, and many estates would have no surviving benefactors so would be a real boon for the balance sheets of QLD, SA, VIC and ACT after figuring out partition of territories.

freebooter posted:

I knew I should've moved back to Perth last year

Amoeba102 posted:

'24 Kevin.

Laserface posted:

id argue Climate Change proved that first.

realbez posted:

Gladys you don’t have to post here nobody reads this forum

teacup posted:

How many indoor public places are you going to this midnight you dumb oval office

teacup posted:

I mean him, specifically. Read my post properly before you reply next time.

teacup posted:

Seriously how do you cunts live, just looking for a problem to cry about. They announced it due to a quick growing crisis. They weren’t going to be throwing anyone against the wall 2 hours later. The law before midnight last night states everyone needs a mask on them anyway so this just changed to “and wear it in a loving office after midnight”. Many of the people working at midnight likely were already wearing it.

Shut the gently caress up and get off my dick

hambeet posted:

nah. apparently the teacher who lives in geelong, got it from their friend in the maribyrnong apartments and spread it to the school in bacchus marsh (where they work).

this teacher it the same person who went to the game at the mcg and spread it to two others.

one of those is a friend who lives in barwon heads.

so it's not just one person on a road trip but actually two people in the geelong region, but traced back ultimately to the NSW removalists who were at those maribyrnong apartments.

but that first teacher, has potentially spread it to a school of 2500 students and 2000 contacts at the mcg in the space of two days.

The Peccadillo posted:

I was trying to look up what other kinds of wacky characters are on this Big Brother cast and found

BrigadierSensible posted:

My question would be: Why was she on it in the first place?

I mean Caitlyn Jenner I can understand. She is actually famous in non right-wing media commentary circles and you can shock the pearl clutchers by having a *gasp* trans woman on TV.

But unless they were getting Katie Hopkins on to deliberately do a racism and thus stir up controversy(tm), what is the point of getting a posh, middle aged Englishwoman who nobody normal has heard of on to Big Brother?

Sierra Madre posted:

There's a possibility that Labor gently caress up between now and the federal election - that's still a year away, they've got time - but I think there's a few state elections that are guaranteed victories. I think the only way they lose Victoria is if we find out that Daniel Andrews really did break his back trying to sacrifice a baby at an adrenachrome party.

Enough resentment at NSW's Liberal state government for loving up the initial response to this newest outbreak and the federal government for loving up the vaccine rollout (not just quantity issues, but all the uncertainty over who should get what) isn't going away, especially if this pattern of rolling lockdowns continues into next year. I don't know what the reaction is like in other parts of the country but I've definitely heard people talk about this outbreak and lockdown like Berejiklian personally flew over here to cough all over our economy. I don't see how that doesn't impact how people will view the Coalition as we get closer to the election, barring some kind of Liberal miracle.

Eediot Jedi posted:

Scott this is not what Dan meant when he said treat covid like a fire that's not out.

Megillah Gorilla posted:

But only for single mothers.

1000 Sweaty Rikers posted:

he is the most useless dickhead in Australia

wtf does he even do lol?

alf_pogs posted:

i'm quietly confident they'll find something else to gently caress up in the ten minutes before the election

Eediot Jedi posted:

lol a 12 hour hunger strike

Ethics_Gradient posted:

Ian Stewart Mellowship refused bail after allegedly threatening to harm Treasurer Josh Frydenberg

Honorary Queenslander.

Solemn Sloth posted:

If by haunt you mean people will dunk on him with it on Twitter to no actual effect then yes

Centusin posted:

It’s very dumb that we have a delta outbreak, a mountain of AZ nobody wants but apparently we can’t use that and instead need to talk about redirecting Pfizer. Based on the current numbers if you vaccinated all of SW and W sydney like 3 people might get blood clots? Just start a campaign encouraging everyone in the area to get an AZ shot, and Pfizer can remain the preferred option for young people in other states.

Animal Friend posted:

Wizard Master posted:

So footage has emerged of the man who is now infamous for "punching" a police horse in yesterday's Sydney protest (See the bottom of this page)
https://www.pedestrian.tv/news/syd-lockdown-protestor-horse-punch/

Except if you watch the footage it's clear that he didn't punch the horse at all - he merely nudged its head with minimal force to get it out if his personal space. The notorious photo just managed to capture the exact moment his fist was contacting the police horse's head. I'd encourage the posters who were baying for his blood this time yesterday and bemoaning how easily influenced people can be by selective/biased media to do a bit of self-reflection.

The Peccadillo posted:

Haha, holy poo poo

Laserface posted:

the first time I have seen labor in the news in maybe months and its to remind us that they are still spineless sacks of poo poo that can get in the bin and get hosed

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/labor-dumps-negative-gearing-backs-tax-cuts-20210726-p58cxs.html

Animal Friend posted:

Career minded politicians who don't want actual responsibility

Anidav posted:

According to Jordies this is all part of Labor's master plan to show the population how bad untethered LNP governments are by voting through their stinkers.

Eediot Jedi posted:

Turns out adhd + centrelink = bad. There's a list of four options when you go to claim. The first is lockdown + living in a covid hotspot. When I went through that and selected my area, instead of doing something helpful like saying "oh poo poo you're in the wrong place go here" it just said fuckoff.

kirbysuperstar posted: