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  1. Corona

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    2 hours ago, auslander said:

    The main thing that continues to annoy me about the covid saga is that no-one will ever be held to account in government or media for the utter beat up and overeach at the start. Secondly, the hypocrisy and stupidity of the lockdown decisions that were made early, and now compare the utter disregard of covid. From closing down entire States due to a handful of positive cases to now having thousands of cases a day and no longer even reporting on it. Yet the public are like "it's all fine" when asked about the "health expert" ruled years when countless lives and businesses were ruined by unnecessary draconian laws.

    you can refer to the post above as well. 

  2. Corona

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    15 hours ago, Geoff said:

    My unvaccinated brother had two uncomfortable days, my unvaccinated son one and my daughter zero. Most people I've heard about, personally, unvaccinated or vaccinated, seem to have the two bad days and that's about it. 

    from Omicrom yes.

    Which is now basically just flu.

    Thankfully for you Australia was protected from the more deadly variants before there were any vaccines. It never properly hit your shores until vaccines had been developed and the strains had waned to nothing.

    This is the point you continually miss.

    Had you been in the UK which was an absolute disaster with 1000s dying a day and 1000s of people of all ages on ventilators in hospital your overarching view of this virus might be different.

    (100% agree that kids under 15 were never really badly affected and should never have been vaccinated)

  4. Corona

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    4 hours ago, Geoff said:

    I don't think they're stupid. I have a lot more respect for them than I do for myself, having taken something I completely disagree with.

    I love this. Of all the things you've ever said, this could be my favourite. So you think people who don't get vaccinated are scared of covid? That's how you see the world? Not one part of me has been concerned about having covid from day one, and I'd bet my hairpiece that every single unvaccinated person (bar those who wanted it and couldn't take it due to a medical condition) has absolutely no fear whatsoever of catching what is now a common cold... that every single person they know has already had themselves. You're magnificent.  

    I'd be wearing your face mask and gloves around your new employee, and make sure, for the love of christ, that you're up to date with your boosters! 

    Come to think of it, do you think people don't get vaccinated because they're too scared to leave their house and venture into the world with all that covid in it? That must be it, right, my man?

    Australia has a lot of good things going for it, but in this Corona thread, I can say that every single decision related to covid has been and continues to be a completely unreasonable over-reaction. 

    In a statement as broad as that, I am sure vaccinations probably do lessen the impact of covid. Doesn't change the fact that the overwhelming majority of people would still be just fine without it. 

    lol, keep those news bulletins running. Covid kills all. Over 99% of people, isn't it?

    People have disagreed with me for decades on this very forum and the word sheep has never been uttered. When it comes to covid I have been surprised, I fully admit it, to encounter the opinions I've seen on this forum. And yes, I admit that I do not have any respect for an opinion that has been copied and pasted from the 6pm news when you can tell an individual has never even given an alternate opinion a consideration. In terms of covid, I do have an honest opinion that very few people have thought for themselves during this period. 

    Sooking seems no past-time for you. I am sure your tears type your messages for you, hands free. Leave Britney alone. 

    I'm putting Australia down unfairly? So you think mandatory masks and vaccines in 2023 and decreased wages for the unvaccinated is fair? Not to mention the literally hundreds of things we've all discussed over countless pages in this thread? Sorry, my mistake. All fair, all justified.  

    Yes, you seem very content to accept and move along. No problems, we'll just do it all again in a few years when the next pandemic comes along. 

    Sadly, I think, as per the replies here, 100% of people would disagree with you that there would not be lockdowns again. Lockdowns were not economically advantageous to us, but no one gives a shit about that. The pandemic was extremely beneficial to the already wealthy, and that's all that really matters, isn't it? 

    And then you have idiot countries like Australia that have a majority population that would lockdown for monkeypox tomorrow if someone called for it. People were mad for them here and I have absolutely zero doubt that we'd go right back into lockdown the moment it was advised. I'm not sure if you're aware of Australia's debt situation, but google it and keep that in mind when you consider how we as a country have acted over the last three years. 

    EDIT - credit where it's due, though. I do think there are more intelligent countries in the world and lockdowns would not be worldwide. Places such as Sweden, Denmark, Finland and some other countries that seem to have acknowledged the bigger picture. 

    sweden, Finland & Denmark have lower populations than London.

    If those countries were faced with 2000 deaths a day and no vaccine they would 💯 lockdown.

    Covid is now just a normal flu strain and not in any way overly harmful (even though I've got long covid which is f annoying) so no country should have any restrictions anymore.

    It pales against the original strains. 

    However, if there was a new virus with no vaccine again and deaths starting stacking up, of course countries would lock down.

     

     

  5. Corona

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    2 minutes ago, Dead Planet said:

    You could be right but the world runs on money and the negative economical impacts of the lockdowns were serious and I suspect they will not want to do it again....money is more important than life these days....

    not when they are faced with 2000 deaths a day like in the UK. 

    Lockdown would be imposed 💯

  6. Corona

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    I have to agree - I am 100% sure that the UK government feel that the initial lockdown not only helped in curbing the spread of the virus but also saved 1000s of lives - especially amongst the old and vulnerable sections of our population.

    If there was another deadly outbreak of a virus for which there was no vaccine then I would bet absolutely that they would lockdown again without any hesitancy. 

  8. Your Favourite Year

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    10 hours ago, Thomas/Coastline said:

    1982 is great but 1983 is a jizzingly good classic AOR year. Arc Angel, Charlie, I-Ten, Preview, Survivor etc.

    79-83 are all great years with many classic albums but it's the sheer volume of great releases in 1989 and prob 1990 too which make them special. 

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  12. Chez Kane - Powerzone

    in AOR and Hard Rock

    Posted · Edited by Glen

    16 hours ago, auslander said:

    If she was a fat, black woman celebrating her looks everyone would be cheering her on, but cause she isn't all the haters are out in force as the moral police telling her to cover herself and be more modest. Such hypocrisy.

    nope I pretty much think a lot of fans would be shaking their heads too. at the end of the day I guess it's just how it done - Dua Lipa pretty much aces every video she does, looks sexy as fuck and everyone loves it. I'm afraid Chezs vid just falls in the slightly tacky territory with stills of her arse with demin disappearing to infinity - its like Femme Fatale all over again. Like I said I couldn't give 2 shits - happy to ogle it once but I have no desire to return to it - surely that's the point of a video to watch it over and over again and I think this video will not attract repeat views from a lot of her fans IMHO 

  13. Chez Kane - Powerzone

    in AOR and Hard Rock

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    17 hours ago, Captain Howdy said:

    Nobody NEEDS to do anything in videos. She WANTS to, and who are we to judge ... thats the point.

    anyone can judge whatever they want. That's life and that's a fan's right. As I said I don't care what she does and am perfectly happy to stare at her arse but it will put a lot of fans off as it was pretty cringe and tacky in the 80s and is even more so now. 

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