Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "Anti-lockdown protests turn violent in Australia | DW News" video.

  1. It's because the Delta variant is so infectious, China having same problems too and Vietnam already lost control. Sydney in reality has probably lost control and will be lockdown till new year when vaccination rates are high enough.
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  2.  @WTlufd  You seem to have misunderstood my comment. Most us don't like it is not like those protestors. The protestors are a small minority. Of course nobody likes lockdowns etc. but vast majority are happy with our governments except maybe the New South Wales government because they slower to act and let things get out of control.
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  3. In a month you might look like Sydney, do you really want that?
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  4. It's a small minority but that small minority can do a lot of damage, especially in Sydney because the virus widespread there already so likely had infected protestors spreading it to each other who will on average disregard other restrictions much more than others.
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  5. This is Delta variant and yes even Perth at risk because it spreads so much faster. Vietnam I am sure at least as compliant as WA people but look at them now and China also.
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  6. It's a minority, the rest of us don't like it.
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  7. If BLM burning city blocks, an insurection and open borders are your thing, I guess that's some sort of freedom.
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  8.  @theshadyspot9932  The original commenter must be Victorian because the case numbers and population fit that. The responses in Australia are fully controlled by our state and territory governments except for vaccines and external border controls.
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  9. Not biased but the analysis is a bit messed up.
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  10. Look outside your state and country, SA is in a pretty good spot, I am in QLD we pretty good too but slightly higher risk. So just wear the mask when you told to, the alternative is much worse.
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  11.  @cloudpoint0  Masks alone will not completely stop any spread we know that, the point is it's one measure, actually seatbelts alone save very few lives, the airbags, crumple zones , padded vehicle interiors and road rules such as drink driving and stop signs in particular save lives , enforcement is an extremely important tool that's required along with the rules. There would be no way to prove seatbelts are effective either if you studied them in a jurisdiction without all the other things I mentioned, those community mask studies would mostly be in such settings with open borders and voluntary quarantine, so it means they are useless right?
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  12.  @cloudpoint0  We don't seem to intrinsically disagree but you are coming from a very different viewpoint. You are coming from a point of view of failure, I am coming from a point of view of success. Would you make the call in South Australia that masks don't need to be worn knowing that you don't know if cases are out there and we will assume that masks are only 1% effective? Your gamble is a little inconvenience for the population noting everything is open versus if you are unlucky a $1 billion week long lockdown that could last week's costing many more billions and you might be voted out next election due to your failure. Yes open border no quarantine jurisdictions masks make almost no difference, Australia doesn't fit into that category, most states everything open with no cases and people are happy about that. But the 2 most populous states making up over half the population are having problems. Consider the vaccination rates are less than Mississippi at the moment and look at them. I expect we will end up with high vaccination rates but the paradox of success is vaccination rollouts are harder, nothing like the smell of death is as good a convincer of urgency. In relation to your mask comments regarding places that have failed and the misleading information of masks will stop the spread , well failures tend to stack up like you said and the easy political fix is pretend something. This isn't the case in Australia or as you mentioned China, masks are only one small tool when required, noting we have had mask mandates much less often than the open border countries anyway.
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  13. There are generous schemes in Australia for those in lockdown, many of those protestors would be receiving that unless they are unemployed.
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  14. Sweden and New South Wales have a similar population, New South Wales has less than 100 deaths, what's Sweden's number?
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  15.  @rehehehehehehehehehe  It's interesting because QLD policy is very similar to WA but we seem to have more protests. It might be partly a factor of population size and maybe remoteness.
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