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He seems to have violated a quarantine order at a time when Covid was under control.

There are no countries in the world, including "bastions of freedom" that allow infectious public health risks to willfully violate quarantine,

BTW: one side-effect of the quarantine travel restrictions was that people overseas saw Australia as being in some sort of draconian lockdown, when, in fact, life was almost totally normal for most of the pandemic because of travel restrictions and qurantine (outside of Melbourne and parts of Sydney in 2021). And many Australians (especially those without overseas ties) assumed that life was "normal" for the rest of the world, when there was, in fact suffering and death, in addition to restrictions.

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Yes, the man appeared to have violated the law. I guess my criticism that the Australian government is overly restrictive and the public are hysterical moral busybodies has been rendered void because there was a law in place that he violated.

My friend was unable to go and see her dying mother in France because the Federal government wouldn't allow her to leave the country. Her request to leave was initially rejected and took so long that her mother was dead by the time she was given permission. Now I heard many people have similar experiences because of the inability to find flights. I didn't realise the government forbidding you to leave was a completely normal experience worldwide.

If she had travelled and gotten covid while travelling she could've easily passed it on to vulnerable people she'd bumped into and caused the untimely deaths of other peoples' loved ones.

We ALL had to make sacrifices during the pandemic.

No. We did not.

Hindsight shows we were wrong and distracted on the wrong thing. Society doesn't care about flu this year, and it's hitting just as hard as covid was. Yet, all I see is messaging on Covid still.

I don’t know if you justifying the event with “well, he had Covid!” Is really defense you might’ve thought it was.

Considering that life was normal for most of the country, the virus was contained until vaccines arrived, and the economy was booming, someone violating quarantine was a big deal.

I’m sorry, my satire detector was broken. Recalibrated it with and the economy was booming.

They surely meant the booming of rubber bullets and riot shields. Victoria boomed like never before.

IT salaries have gone through the roof, the economy grew by 3.9% over 2021-22. This is an objectively true statement.

3.9 is less than half in inflation here. Is it not for you?

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