Carlton Supporters Club

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This sort of attitude is on full display in the US with attempts to undermine the voting process, the rise of "sovereign rights", and the undermining of constitutional rights such as the right to abortion. An interesting article about Christian Dominionists paints a troubling picture of an anti-democratic strain of thought that has been influential in the rightwing in the US: How extremist Christian theology is driving the right-wing assault on democracy, Salon. And there are echoes of that thinking apparent over here too.
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This has been building for a long time. The Christian Right in the US are very powerful and very wealthy. They have established their owns schools, universities, politicians, wealthy donors, media outlets etc. We should be very afraid. They mean business, and they're not the types that can reason all that well.

Authoritarians don't need to reason. Might is right, and when you have God on your side you're as mighty as they come.

Yet nobody criticising those governments seems to notice the very low vaccination rates in those regions, or associate it as a cause to retain restrictions until vaccination rates climb!

One thing that I keep coming back to, is how is it, that we get so impacted here in victoria, and yet somehow the rest of Aus is insulated from this?  They all had the chance for it to flare up, and yet it didnt.  even NSW, I am hearing and seeing their testing numbers, and I have stated this before, that we are not testing people in the right spots well enough, or often enough. 

As it happens, we are in victoria, the harshest hit. What does all that mean? Not much really.

Some of it is down to circumstances, for example there is a global trend that further you are away from the equator the outcome will be different. Other differences are important too, like the timing of the outbreaks versus the seasons.

Also no doubt there are some political issues, like the difference in Federal support, or the willingness of the state to accept military interventions and co-ordination.

There are many such local effects, and this is where the generalisations do not apply, but even so local critics cannot escape the global averages.

There are plenty of reasons for it, some geographical, some political, some social....but in the end, it still doesn't mean much.

The Singaporean government has said unvaccinated people "disproportionately contribute" to the strain on the country's healthcare resources.

A lot of older folk dont have a clue about technology and rely on their children or others to help them out

I think we just have to be a little careful with some of the generalisations.
I'd hazard a guess that the majority of LNP voting/Right wing leaning/Christian folk in NSW have been double jabbed.

And that's just going to get worse.  They just didn't grow up with PCs and Microsoft never bothered with a stripped down release that catered just for their needs.