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My wife and I have just several months traveling in the state north of ours enjoying total freedom to go wherever we desired.
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I think this Florida fellow citing Australia as a country similar to China in lacking freedoms is quite bemusing. citizen and a proud descendant of Sons and Daughters soldiers. Yes, we can vote them out but it won’t change anything and will be too late by then. State borders are all closed, children unable to attend school, Numbers severely restricted to attend funerals and weddings and mental illness off the charts, yet we’re told that all these measures are taken on the advice of so-called health experts but nobody gets to see that advice. I have to go to American sites for this information. The brutal heavy handedness by law enforcement is not reported by mainstream media here. Worse still, our ‘conservative’ Prime Minister is going along with it claiming he’s saved 30,000 lives! The politicians have been encouraging Australians to report on their fellow citizens – this is totalitarianism. You need to be living it to understand how draconian and anti-democratic the measures are which have been mandated for every Australian State run by premiers from both sides of politics. And the dumb thing is, our fed gov at the moment (the “Liberals”) is the conservative party who you’d hope would steer away from this sort of crap… De Santis is right and Australia is in a lot of trouble.Īs an Australian I agree with De Santis and support comments made by SaviourSelf. If I weren’t already vaccinated, I would have refused on principle. The city of Melbourne officially holds the title of the most locked down city on the planet… I work for a state health dept which just got mandated vaccination orders where lack of compliance = very short path to getting fired (and getting fired from the gov in Oz is typically hard work…). Which is why our governments (state and fed) have pushed farther than some totalitarian countries in the ridiculous endeavour of zero covid. We’re a country of jailers and convicts, some trying to rule, most just trying to live and happy to ignore politics as much as possible. Australia has always had a strong authoritarian streak in government, and an apathetic streak in the voting public. “I think what we have insisted on is we’re not just going to subcontract out people’s freedom and livelihoods to some health bureaucrat like Fauci, who quite frankly doesn’t care about your jobs, doesn’t care about your business, and has no regard for how his policies affect people’s everyday lives,” DeSantis said.Īs an Australian, I agree with De Santis. The initial “15 Days to Slow the Spread” from March 2020 has turned into waiting for vaccination rates to reach a high bar.
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Anthony Fauci has been a frequent target of DeSantis’ criticism. His critiques of President Joe Biden have helped him emerge as a front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination should he choose to run. The fact that that’s even a question tells you something has gone dramatically off the rails with some of this stuff.”ĭeSantis has garnered national attention throughout the pandemic for opposing pandemic-fighting policies that could impact personal freedoms, from lockdowns to mask and vaccine mandates. Is Australia freer than communist China right now? I don’t know. “In fact, I wonder why we would still have the same diplomatic relations when they’re doing that. It’s not a free country at all,” DeSantis said. Speaking at the International Boatbuilders Exhibition in Tampa on Tuesday, DeSantis lamented the strict pandemic approach from one of the United States’ closest allies.