COVID19 Factors We Should Consider/Current Events

[wal]

You do understand the difference between states and federal flags surely?

Why is Texas called the Lone Star state?

I'm from Western Australia. I'd be quite happy seceding from the rest of this pitiful place. We were the last to sign up and shut our border asap during the big C (not that I agree with anything that happened then).

Look Martin I have been to some awful places and seen some very poor people just scratching a living without the luxuries that you enjoy. Australia has a very poor Federal and State governments at the moment granted, but there are thousands busting the fronts doors down to get into Australia because they live in shit holes, so don't moan to me about Australia being a "pitiful place". You go to the Sudan, Iran, Bangladesh, China, North Korea then come back and whine about Australia.

I'm Western Australian first and foremost

Then stay there, BTW why don't you go to Geraldton?

I guess Rip is ashamed of his country because he's currently still part of it even if he'd prefer Texas leave. It's no joking matter really.

You go to Texas and live in Houston and tell me then how great Texas is.

[Futurestrength]

Rip, whats up with Texas still being so anti weed? Saw today the lt governor making an effort to ban all thc products, just seems weird in this day and age, especially for a state that seems to pride itself on personal liberties and freedom

[golftdibrad]

From Tom Woods newsletter:

Then, too, Peter Hotez -- the guy who denounced RFK, Jr., but was of course much too sophisticated to lower himself to anything so course as a debate -- just said:

We have some big-picture stuff coming down the pike starting on January 21st. Mr. Bloomberg mentioned H5N1 that I'm really worried about. It's all over wild birds on the western part of the United States and going up in the north, it's getting into the poultry. We're seeing sporadic human cases -- no human-to-human transmission yet, but that could happen. It's in the cattle. It's in the milk.

And that's just the beginning. We have another major coronavirus likely brewing in Asia. We've had SARS in 2002, SARS 2, Covid-19 in 2019. And we know these viruses are jumping from bats to people thousands of times a year.

But there's still more. We know that we have a big problem with mosquito-transmitted viruses all along the Gulf Coast where I am here in Texas. We're expecting dengue and possibly Zika virus coming back, or...maybe even yellow fever.

And there's more. Then we have all this sharp rise in vaccine-preventable diseases going up because of, in part, the anti-vaccine activism that's so prominent right now. We have a fivefold rise in pertussis cases, whooping cough over the last year, 15 measles outbreaks. This year, we've got polio that's been in the wastewater in New York state.

All that's going to come crashing down on January 21st on the Trump administration.

They won't stop.

They are trying to do it again, right there out in the open.

Hopefully the new administration will kneecap this BS on Jan 21 and bring down some indictments. I'd love to see Fauchi and Hotez right at the top of the list.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Rip, whats up with Texas still being so anti weed? Saw today the lt governor making an effort to ban all thc products, just seems weird in this day and age, especially for a state that seems to pride itself on personal liberties and freedom

I don't know, but it's probably the money. Always is. There is no shortage of weed in Texas.

From Tom Woods newsletter:



They are trying to do it again, right there out in the open.

Hopefully the new administration will kneecap this BS on Jan 21 and bring down some indictments. I'd love to see Fauchi and Hotez right at the top of the list.

I wonder who pays Hotez?

[Martin Shenfield]

You've seen my shirt on the podcast.

I have. Do you think that you ever will though?

All this talk actually led me to find fascinating history of my state. We actually had a successful referendum to secede in 1933. Over 90% of the population voted and 2/3 majority to leave the federation. We were under the crown though so had to chat to the Brits who basically gave the choice to the rest of Australia who obviously chose to not let us go. They don't mention that in history class here.

Even today, we refuse to participate in daylight savings (a weird thing where people change their clocks so they can get up earlier and have more sunlight when they knock off work) so we end up even further behind the rest of the country time wise.

We do a crapload of mining and the other states get the majority of the money.

I don't think it will ever happen here though. We aren't built the same as you guys. The majority of us are happy with the status quo, most evident in our COVID vaccination rates.

[Subby]

Look Martin I have been to some awful places and seen some very poor people just scratching a living without the luxuries that you enjoy. Australia has a very poor Federal and State governments at the moment granted, but there are thousands busting the fronts doors down to get into Australia because they live in shit holes, so don't moan to me about Australia being a "pitiful place". You go to the Sudan, Iran, Bangladesh, China, North Korea then come back and whine about Australia.

And we're paying them to be here. Couldn't take my Toddler to the playground this morning because there's a couple of brand new houses on my street that have sudanese in them and they were fighting each other on the playground. How do they afford the houses? They came from a shit hole, now they're here. Now we have the shit hole. Now quote to me "LoVe ThY nEiGhBoUr"

[Jenni]

Look Martin I have been to some awful places and seen some very poor people just scratching a living without the luxuries that you enjoy. Australia has a very poor Federal and State governments at the moment granted, but there are thousands busting the fronts doors down to get into Australia because they live in shit holes, so don't moan to me about Australia being a "pitiful place". You go to the Sudan, Iran, Bangladesh, China, North Korea then come back and whine about Australia.

Wait, what? Those people got what they wanted. Iran had a modern leader. They hooped and hollered and revolted until they got what they have now-a repressive theocracy. The Chinese had "struggle sessions" where they violently recreated China to fit their demands. They live in shit holes because they want to. They're not beating down our doors for a better way of life, as their behavior has shown. We don't owe them consideration.

[IlPrincipeBrutto]

but there are thousands busting the fronts doors down to get into Australia because they live in shit holes, so don't moan to me about Australia being a "pitiful place". You go to the Sudan, Iran, Bangladesh, China, North Korea then come back and whine about Australia.

This seems such a poor line of reasoning. It's akin to say you can't complain if you eat crap food, or receive shit healthcare, because lots of people around the world starve, or don't have access to hospitals.
I can't see how accepting that your place (in this case, Australia) is becoming a shithole improves anyone's situation.

IPB

[wal]

This seems such a poor line of reasoning. It's akin to say you can't complain if you eat crap food, or receive shit healthcare, because lots of people around the world starve, or don't have access to hospitals.
I can't see how accepting that your place (in this case, Australia) is becoming a shithole improves anyone's situation.

IPB

I never said Australia is becoming "shit hole" what I said was that those that complain about Australia have not seen what real life is like in many of the countries that have those folk trying to get into Australia, Europe and the US. Western counties for all their faults are still viewed as a paradise from Asia the Middle East and Africa.

Wait, what? Those people got what they wanted. Iran had a modern leader. They hooped and hollered and revolted until they got what they have now-a repressive theocracy. The Chinese had "struggle sessions" where they violently recreated China to fit their demands. They live in shit holes because they want to. They're not beating down our doors for a better way of life, as their behavior has shown. We don't owe them consideration.

Well they must have changed their minds. Your President showed by breaking down the border control that all those who wanted to live in "shit holes" decided to come to the US instead. How many now two million plus and counting?

How do they afford the houses?

The government subsidizes the rent, I thought you would know that.

They came from a shit hole, now they're here. Now we have the shit hole.

Australia is not quite a shit hole yet, but you can move the WA if you want.

Now quote to me "LoVe ThY nEiGhBoUr"

OK. If that is what you want.

" Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no commandment greater than these."

[Jason Donaldson]

All this talk actually led me to find fascinating history of my state. We actually had a successful referendum to secede in 1933. Over 90% of the population voted and 2/3 majority to leave the federation. We were under the crown though so had to chat to the Brits who basically gave the choice to the rest of Australia who obviously chose to not let us go. They don't mention that in history class here.
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The majority of us are happy with the status quo, most evident in our COVID vaccination rates.

Not to mention the fact that your forebears overwhelmingly voted to secede from a union that responded with "Yeah, no", and they stayed. What was the point of the referendum in that case?