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  • Check out the whole story … the family is delusional with their victim complex

    https://www.smh.com.au/national/an-environmental-worker-was-shot-dead-so-why-do-locals-say-the-murderer-was-the-real-victim-20210503-p57odp.html

    Glenn Turner was a hero, following the law and trying to prevent illegal clearing of untouched native Koala habitat. With endangered and rare vegetation .

    “You’re not here to do a job,” the man spits. “You’re here to ruin us, to take us to court. It’s not enough that we’ve been in court. You don’t leave us alone.” He jerks the gun forward. Strange feels the implacable eye of it. “All you want to do is just ruin, ruin the Turnbulls.”

    The Turnbulls were rich as fuck. There was never any need for them to clear that land.

    Altogether, in a modest ad giving few details, the Turnbulls listed nearly 6000 hectares of their land. Aerial satellite photos show the two contentious properties cleared, except a dribble of vegetation around the water gullies, to the margin. Ian Turnbull’s son Roger and his wife Annette sold two of their own properties, Royden and Wallam, in late 2019. Combined, the sales to an American teachers’ pension fund subsidiary made the couple more than $28 million, at $7500 a hectare.







  • The worlds not perfect. Be nice if it was.

    Should there have been a co ordinated government response world wide and then on going vaccination roll out world wide? Yep, agree with you.

    New Zealand did a great job in managing it.

    Australia did OK as well despite a few fumbles.

    Mainly because both have 1st world medical systems and also are isolated from other countries by sea and big distances between populations centres so could implement effective lock downs and mask mandates where needed.

    WA and Tasmania effectively led normal lives throughout the epidemic with the borders shut with only short lockdowns. Interstate commerce and travel were hit hard obviously.

    Both countries are now fully opened up with no restrictions because there are effective vaccines and anti viral treatments.

    My main point was that the anti maskers were irrelevant to the outcome except were they exposed other people to the virus needlessly.




  • Covid is and was a serious public health issue.

    Initially there was no treatment.

    Millions did die unnecessarily because the only effective health response at the time was masking up, public hygiene and isolation.

    The only effective available initial response was badly managed and actively impeded by anti mask politicians and deluded members of the general public

    Small pox is much deadlier and also has the added benefit of being disfiguring if you happen to survive it. It was also easier to vaccinate against that the highly mutable Covid 19 virus

    Was there profiteering? Yes unfortunately but there was also very rapid development of vaccines and treatments that allow the disease to become a manageable issue.


  • It means there are treatments available now that were not there and widely available previously.

    Hospital systems are not being overwhelmed with patients now.

    This cat is out of the bag and is now going to remain endemic in the world population forever there is no reasonable means of eradicating a disease that is now treatable in severe cases and preventable / reduced reaction to in the majority of the population with the current variant vaccines.

    The opportunity to remove the virus from circulating was squandered and is only viable in the initial outbreak once it is worldwide and seasonal like the flu it is very hard if not impossible to remove completely.

    Masks and isolation worked to reduce the impact and deathtoll when there was no treatment and no vaccine.

    They will be needed again if and when a new virus pops up just like the Spanish flu did in 1919.






  • Minarble@aussie.zone
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    11 months ago

    Thank you for gracing us with your presence..

    Maybe the true Oscar is the joy you bring and the friendships you make along the way.

    Edit:

    Have you ever been so happy to see an international internet superstar that you reply to your own post instead of replying to the international internet superstar?