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byadfraggs ( 4718383 ) writes:
This government is about as nailed-on conservative as you would have gotten in Australia, elected with a clear mandate, lower taxes, no clear "green" agenda, a record of hard border controls, tight fiscal policy etc etc. I'm not a nailed on "lefty" but I didn't vote for these guys and didn't want them running the country. But Scomo has stepped up and dammit they've done a good bloody job with COVID 19. I don't hate his squirmy smiling face anymore. I see him on the telly every now and then and think to myse
bysyousef ( 465911 ) writes:
Yeah great job. Great job letting cruise ships almost fuck us. Great job spreading rumours about medical staff having illegal dinner parties. Great job sacrificing teachers and students by declaring social distancing isn't required in schools (which personally I think may likely lead to our downfall here). You're just wrong. They got lucky and brought in the lockdown at the right time. We have a more geographically distributed population than almost any country, and we're coming out of summer not winter. WE GOT LUCKY. But our luck won't last.
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byadfraggs ( 4718383 ) writes:
"almost" ... "rumours" ... "may likely"
You're pretty good at speculating about lots of things that didn't actually turn out to matter. I mean get all worked about it if that's what you like, but you can't argue with the numbers. Of all the countries that are getting smashed, we're just "lucky"? Get a grip. Whatever the reasons, we did a good job. That's all that matters.
byBandraginus ( 901166 ) writes:
I regularly rag on our right-wing government, but I don't think this was down to luck. Our pollies listened to medical advice, and constructed policy around that. *Exactly* how those governing us should be expected to perform.
I've thought about the notion that geography is what saved us, but our population centres (Sydney, Melbourne, Brissie) are as dense as other countries. The fact that there's a huge desert to the west of us doesn't have much baring).
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