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The good, the bad and Sydney’s COVID outbreak

As Sydney is moving through a nerve-racking stretch of COVID transmission, I am torn in my reactions.

 

Good Jon says: “I sincerely hope no one gets sick, and no one dies – what a pity they couldn’t avoid a major lockdown. I hope that their contact-tracing system is up to the challenges posed by the hyper-infectious Delta strain. May NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and her highly credentialed team live up to their reputation of standard-setting. What is good for Sydney in fighting this cluster is good for all of us. Go Team Sydney.”

 

Bad Jon says: “I sincerely hope no one gets sick and no one dies, but gee their two-week lockdown, as opposed to the stay-at-home rules, will prick their self-righteous balloon and put an end to the partisan, condescending and patronising nonsense that has been raining down on Victorians for months. It proves for once and for all that the virus doesn’t care which political party is in power and rams home that COVID transmission is as much about luck as it is about any other single factor. It will do Sydney some good to be knocked off their high perch.”

 

Then I find myself thinking: “NSW Health has been showing the nation how to avoid jumping fast into lockdowns and although this will test their systems and protocols, let us all cross our fingers that their processes and personnel are as capable as claimed.”

 

Or, as evil thoughts creep into my mind: “NSW Health have been making brave and exaggerated claims that have been undoubtedly putting their own people and the rest of us at risk. Then they made the absurd and irresponsible decision to defer a full lockdown to justify their thinly disguised political posturing. As things go wrong, it is on their heads and they will regret not going into lockdown when they found significant transmission.”

 

I watched a press conference with Premier Gladys. I ponder: “I am so impressed with the decorum with which the Sydney media pack conduct their press conferences with their Premier. They show respect, listen carefully, interrupt rarely if at all and we are all the wiser for it. And doesn’t the Premier show grace under pressure?”

 

But then, I stop in my tracks. “What an unbelievable double standard. The reptiles in Melbourne, weaponised by the Murdoch tabloids and Sky News, ripped into Dan Andrews and Brett Sutton every bloody day for weeks on end, repeated the same questions a gazillion times hoping to trip them up, shouted at them, harangued and argued, stopped asking legitimate questions and instead made unfounded assertions and then demanded that mere rumours be proven untrue. How dare they?”

 

The generous me realises: “Sydney is such an important centre for commerce and tourism. It is in the national interest to throw everything at this cluster and get it under control no matter what it takes. As Sydney shuts down, even for a short while, the national dynamic changes.”

 

But less generously, I think: “Sydney is so smug and self-important. The federal government is so Sydney-centric and so partisan in its unquestioning support for Gladys. Too many people regarded COVID as a Melbourne thing; now they have to accept it is more than that. At least as they now have a decent cluster in Sydney, Scott Morrison will finally be forced to fast-track mass vaccination with the urgency it requires and stop dawdling on getting the nation inoculated.”

 

I weigh up the economic impact, and think to myself: “The federal government has been bipartisan and generous in their support for business and the inspired commitment to JobKeeper was vital in keeping the national economy from collapse. Although some isolated examples of rorting have been detected, it has served its purpose well and been money well spent.”

 

On the other hand: “The federal government has been taking sides and undermining the Victorian health response purely because the Andrews government is from the other side of the party divide. They have tried to give their mates in the state opposition some leverage but it has all amounted to nought. JobKeeper has been massively rorted and now we learn that Wesley College siphoned off $5 million to their scholarship fund instead of giving it back to the Tax Office – that almost makes Harvey Norman look ethical.”

 

Optimistically, it occurs to me that: “Maybe this is the catalyst the federal government needed to prioritise a clever and witty creative ad campaign to inspire confidence in and improve take-up of the vaccine rollout. Countless examples have circulated online, and they can start with the NZ adverts as inspiration.”

 

More grimly, I wonder: “The Health Department must have been vaccinated against creativity. It is absurd to believe that an ad featuring a finger-wagging doctor in a white coat telling us what to do, will get anyone across the line. If people are anxious, harbouring vaccine hesitancy and therefore wavering, the carrot will work where the stick fails. That is obvious to anyone who has ever tried to sell anything to anyone. What is wrong with these bureaucrats?”

 

Good Jon says: “I’m so sick of COVID but we just have to stick together, follow the advice and get through somehow.”

 

Bad Jon says: “I’m so sick of COVID but we just have to stick together, follow the advice and get through somehow.”

 

Jon Faine is a regular columnist.

 

SaE

[magi]

Antivakseri na sedativima...

How National Cabinet wants to ditch lockdowns and open borders as COVID vaccination rates rise
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-02/covid-lockdown-vaccination-phases-national-cabinet/100262808

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Kolko kosta vakcina u Australiji?

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Besplatna

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[iDemo]

Besplatna al' kolega morao #onomad da ceka 3-4 sata u redu. Navalio narod, ne pita sta koshta... 

[noskich]

 

[magi]

Besplatna al' kolega morao #onomad da ceka 3-4 sata u redu. Navalio narod, ne pita sta koshta... 

Ja čekao 1h iako sam zakazao uredno.

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[noskich]

Za sve vas koji verujete da na zapadu postoji "vladavina prava" ili "pravna drzava" procitajte ovaj tekst do kraja:

 

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jul/03/they-said-i-dont-exist-but-i-am-here-one-womans-battle-to-prove-she-isnt-dead

‘They said I don’t exist. But I am here’ – one woman’s battle to prove she isn’t dead
Five years ago, Jeanne Pouchain was declared dead by a French court. It was news to her – and just the beginning of a Kafkaesque nightmare

 

Birokratska pravila koja se mogu zloupotrebiti vrlo lako kada se plati dobar advokat.

 

Na svojoj sam kozi iskusio nesto slicno. Stranka koja te tuzi ode u sud i kaze da bukvalno nema leba da jede i da rociste mora da se zakaze urgentno. Sud to uradi i zakaze rociste sutradan, a pozivnicu na rociste posalje meni postom. Vratim se sa posla i vidim pismo u sanducicu. Posto se nisam pojavio na rocistu automatski je presudjeno u korist druge stranke. Australija, 21 vek.

 

Pa posle se ti zali, placaj advokate i zbog neke gluposti zavrsi sa troskom od 100,000 eura kao ova gospodja u clanku.

[dragance]

Pa kad ne placas racune.

[peralozac]

Kako renovirati kuću dan pre aukcije...

 

 

Evo i staaarog dobrog teksta za one što iz gavrila ne klikću videje

 

Spoiler

A pair of bitter brothers who filmed themselves on an excavator destroying their late mother’s house amid a feud with their sister, have each been fined $10,000.

 

Malcolm and Garry Taylor were so aggrieved that their sister, Kerrie, planned to sell their mother’s house in Murtoa, in western Victoria, that they drove from Queensland, hired an excavator and ruined the house the day before the planned auction.

 

The brothers’ actions on March 28, 2019 – which included filming themselves laughing as they wrecked some of the outside walls, the verandah, front fence, spraying graffiti inside and removing a water tank and stove – rendered the house unsellable and meant they and Kerrie were denied equal shares of an expected sale of about $70,000.

 

In the minutes after damaging the house, the brothers told police about the family dispute and how they wanted to “make sure the renovations were right before tomorrow”, the County Court heard on Friday.

 

Then Malcolm sent a text message of a photograph of the damage to Kerrie with the message: “Renovations have begun.”

 

That night the men watched an AFL game at the MCG and Garry posted a photograph of the pair on Facebook with the words: “A few beers at the footy after a hard day’s renovating.”

 

They stayed at a Tullamarine hotel that night and planned to fly back to Queensland but the next morning were arrested and spent several days in police cells before they were bailed.

 

Their feud with their sister dated back to the time after their mother, Lois, died in 2013, as the brothers opposed Kerrie’s position as the executor of their mother’s estate, judge Michael Cahill said.

 

The brothers contested their sister’s position in court after their mother’s death and claimed Kerrie hadn’t administered funds from the estate to the brothers’ children. By 2015 the parties had agreed to co-operate, the court heard, but by late 2018 Malcolm told a real estate agent he would not allow his sister to profit from selling the house.

 

Garry, 59, and Malcolm, 57, pleaded guilty to theft and criminal damage and the court heard their case had attracted attention from media from across the world.

 

“Your senseless rampage has drawn national and international press coverage,” Judge Cahill told them on Friday.

 

“You were laughing while you destroyed yours and your sister’s inheritance.

 

“Now the world is laughing at you for your stupidity.”

 

Judge Cahill said the pair’s offending was planned and calculated and while serious, there was only a modest financial loss involved. The brothers had agreed to compensate their sister for her financial loss.

 

The judge accepted fines with convictions were suitable penalties as both men had health problems that were at risk of worsening if they were jailed, that they had raised families and run businesses and were of good prior character, except only for minor offending more than 20 years ago.

 

The brothers were raised in Murtoa but now live in Queensland and watched Friday’s hearing on a video link from a court in Hervey Bay.

Judge Cahill said he would have jailed the men had they fought the charges and been found guilty at trial.

 

[Rowanoke]

On 6.7.2021. at 17:32, noskich said:

Stranka koja te tuzi ode u sud i kaze da bukvalno nema leba da jede i da rociste mora da se zakaze urgentno. Sud to uradi i zakaze rociste sutradan, a pozivnicu na rociste posalje meni postom. Vratim se sa posla i vidim pismo u sanducicu.

Jbt, ovo je super.

 

Koji je sistem u Australiji pravosudni? Americko Britanski ili Evropsko Kontinentalni? 

[papapavle]

On 6.7.2021. at 3:32, noskich said:

Sud to uradi i zakaze rociste sutradan, a pozivnicu na rociste posalje meni postom. Vratim se sa posla i vidim pismo u sanducicu.

Ne verujem u ovo ič, u kojoj to državi dtžavna pošta isporučuje od danas u toku dana za sutra, pa još zagarantovano u prepodnevnim časovima, da bi i teorijski mogao da stigneš na sud? Jesu li ti možda slali nekakvim Fedeksom overnight? Mislim, kad je meni ovako glupav scenario, valjda bi i sudu bio, računam da tu sede neke mudre glave.

[iDemo]

19 hours ago, Rowanoke said:

Americko Britanski

Americko Britanski

[Rowanoke]

4 minutes ago, iDemo said:

Americko Britanski

Imate porotu i ono kako se zove Grand Jury?

[iDemo]

1 minute ago, Rowanoke said:

Imate porotu

Jury duty, a za GJ - iskreno - ne znam tacno al' verovatno ima nesto sto na to lici ako vec nije obicna porota. 

Mene su za 25 godina zvali 2-3 puta al' sam jednom bio zadnji u redu - bili su zadovoljni sastavom porote - da su hteli jos jednog da zamene - stigli bi do mene. Drugi put sam se 'izvukao' pola na posao a pola na 'krupna zena, sitna deca a deda u pemziji'...