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Does indeed work like magic... I have an electronics enclosure that's been stuck to my front gate, outside, for at least 6 months without fail.

a) force companies to service a minimum liveable wage and maybe pay some higher prices (or see a corporate profit margin decrease) b) pay more taxes to cover the long term social cost of a citizenry who can't afford food/healthcare/education/etc

I use it for a motorcycle jacket.

Also Joe Rogan: “(I) threw the kitchen sink at it, all kinds of meds, (including) monoclonal antibodies, ivermectin, Z-Pak, prednisone — everything. I also got an NAD drip and a vitamin drip, and I did that three days in a row. Here we are on Wednesday, and I feel great.”

I'm an Australian who's actually been through the Howard Springs quarantine facility, with my family, as a requirement to travelling interstate there.

First of all, the people who are there knew before travelling that this was part of the deal for keeping covid out of the NT.

Secondly, the Aboriginal communities in that area are considered some of the most vulnerable based on existing health standards and below-par vaccination rates.

Thirdly, the facilities really aren't that bad with decent wifi, private modern facilities and even a 50m swimming pool.

Lastly, as a broad rationale for Australia's strict approach to all of this:

US covid deaths per million: 2,365.98

AU covid deaths per million: 79.28

Why? My theory is that data mining and software is identifying and targeting seams of ideology that are most readily influenced, so in effect campaigning efforts are efficiently widening the divide between parties. Social media just happens to be the choice source of this data, as well as the medium to influence.

With the benefit of hindsight, my viewpoint is that the optimal response was early and aggressive suppression, followed by swift mass vaccinations, followed by an acceptance that the virus will be endemic and a subsequent 'opening up'. Australia failed on the vaccination rollout front, US failed on early suppression, etc.

If you're relatively young and healthy, it's easy to frame this pandemic as "no big deal", but many of us also believe that there's a fundamental element to civil society that requires compassion for the vulnerable.

Fundamentally it comes down to how much value you assign to a human life, other then your own.

It's been incredibly difficult on a personal level being locked down for so long, particularly with young children in tow, but without doubt the containment measures have saved many thousands of lives. Our main failure has been in obtaining sufficient vaccine supplies, early enough, and therefore dragging all of this out far longer then necessary.

Fact remains: both sides are willing to kill children in order to advance their cause.

http://www.bu.edu/articles/2019/learn-from-nazi-medical-rese...