Banter Adelaide Board's Combined Politics/Covid discussion Banter Thread (WARNING NOT FOR THE FAINT-HEARTED)

[Mutineer]

Once it was "Reds"under the beds, now it's "Murdoch" under the beds....Murdoch's influence on anything is way way way overstated by the ALP/Greens and lefties on here.

The left want you to believe the average Australian is so easy influenced and basically lacking the intelligence to make up their own minds who to support at Federal and State elections.....just another example of the left thinking their superior to everyone that doesn't follow their misguided tenets.

 

[Cap]

Once it was "Reds"under the beds, now it's "Murdoch" under the beds....Murdoch's influence on anything is way way way overstated by the ALP/Greens and lefties on here.

The left want you to believe the average Australian is so easy influenced and basically lacking the intelligence to make up their own minds who to support at Federal and State elections.....just another example of the left thinking their superior to everyone that doesn't follow their misguided tenets.

So the media has no influence? Or a bit ?

I mean the ABC keeps getting investigated for bias, so I assume people thinks there is media influence of some degree?

Maybe Australians don't get their information from the media? FB perhaps ?

 

[Mutineer]

So the media has no influence? Or a bit ?

I mean the ABC keeps getting investigated for bias, so I assume people thinks there is media influence of some degree?

Maybe Australians don't get their information from the media? FB perhaps ?

Speaking personally very little IMO, but then again unlike most lefties I come across I don't think I'm superior or smarter than the average Australian when it comes to who they decide to vote for whether that be left, right or centre. I believe all Australians with few exceptions have the ability to decide who to vote for based on how Party policies will effect them.

 

[Cap]

Speaking personally very little IMO, but then again unlike most lefties I come across I don't think I'm superior or smarter than the average Australian when it comes to who they decide to vote for whether that be left, right or centre. I believe all Australians with few exceptions have the ability to decide who to vote for based on how Party policies will effect them.

I don't think it's a matter of intelligence.

It's more a matter of access to information, FB and YouTube make it worse

Watching only ABC is as bad as only Fox or Sky News.

 

[ADL9798]

If your goal is 100% elimination, then sure, that's her area. It's not a matter of trust, or cleverness. It's a matter of where the limits of power lie. And in this situation, the views of public health officers need to be balanced against other legitimate views and interests.

This is no worse than the modelling suggested when opening up borders. The health system has prepared wards in each LHN ready for covid cases.

It's not like some cases was unexpected...

Spurrier clarified today that following discussion with her AHPPC colleagues her concerns weren’t about current or future Delta variant cases in SA and capacity of our system to cope with this, it was about Omicron and the significant uncertainty around this new variant.

In particular, the plausible scenario where our vaccines may be significantly less effective against this variant (based on evidence of unusual mutations to the spike protein), and wanting to buy a few weeks for the international scientific community to find an answer to this critical question before allowing it to flood the community here in SA.

I think this is a reasonable position to take, and echoes advice being provided by public health advisory bodies around the world.

It then becomes a question of appetite for risk for the transition committee, their willingness to take responsibility if they opt for a higher risk strategy and get it wrong, and as you say arrowman - to balance this against other legitimate interests.

 

[Geoffa32]

Out at Dinner at a pub we eat at often.

Barely anyone here compared to a few weeks ago.


Asked one of the staff what has happened, and they think that since the exposure sites have started growing people have stopped going out. Last three nights (Thursday to Saturday)have been down.


Similar sentiment on FB. No fear of getting COVID, but worried about being at a site with a case and then having to quarantine.

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[pjcrows]

Out at Dinner at a pub we eat at often.

Barely anyone here compared to a few weeks ago.


Asked one of the staff what has happened, and they think that since the exposure sites have started growing people have stopped going out. Last three nights (Thursday to Saturday)have been down.


Similar sentiment on FB. No fear of getting COVID, but worried about being at a site with a case and then having to quarantine.

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Today I sat at at the local Cafe attached to a Coles, bakery, BWS and pharmacy, and people-watched in between the chat. I reckon only about 25% of people checked in with QR for these places. Like you said, the fear isn't really for COVID, it's the quarantine.

 

[Crow54]

Could the borders opening up backfire when it comes to the hospitality industry? Two of my friendship groups had our Christmas get togethers before the borders opened, another group won't be having one this year, another friend and I will leave it until next year before catching up, three more of my friends cancelled their birthday outing at a restaurant tonight, and are having a meal at home instead. We are all seniors though, not sure how young people feel about dining out at the moment.

 

[pjcrows]

Could the borders opening up backfire when it comes to the hospitality industry? Two of my friendship groups had our Christmas get togethers before the borders opened, another group won't be having one this year, another friend and I will leave it until next year before catching up, three more of my friends cancelled their birthday outing at a restaurant tonight, and are having a meal at home instead. We are all seniors though, not sure how young people feel about dining out at the moment.

December 10/11 and December 17/18 is this year's Christmas Party key dates for pubs, hotels, Convention Centre, casino etc. Workplaces and businesses flock to these usually, but many didn't last year. If hospitality loses another season of those it'll be brutal.

 

[Sanders]

They're finally not just blindly following health advice, it's a nice change

She’s a ******* paediatrician! I’m sure a very good one, but if a state can’t find someone properly qualified then should these decisions be devolved down to a state level?

 

[Sanders]

I carried a few kilos (probably an extra 15) but certainly not nearly as many as the current lazy, sack of sh*t of a PM does.

Yeh, why don’t tou come and join me in the high altitude room at Next Gen, do a class with the others and see who is fitter!

I’m 60 years old and in the fittest I’ve ever been.

You do realise we have Medicare (another ALP social initiative) and yes I have health insurance as well.

Hey but thanks for asking.

a lot of fancy word play there fatty

 

[Sanders]

You can have a go at me because I dealt with moron customers in banking and they were water of a ducks back, you and a few others on here are no different.

stop pretending you were in real banking. You wouldn’t know a credit default swap from a wife swap

 

[Punchy Bassett]

So now we’re not trusting the experts?

Crow till I die, I wish 1970crow was here for this

The only science followed today was political science.

 

[Punchy Bassett]

So the media has no influence? Or a bit ?

I mean the ABC keeps getting investigated for bias, so I assume people thinks there is media influence of some degree?

Maybe Australians don't get their information from the media? FB perhaps ?

The ABC is a taxpayer funded organisation, there shouldn't even be a whiff of bias from them

 

[Punchy Bassett]

JFC could you be any more out of touch? Read the ******* room.

Couldn’t give a fu**. Constant denigration of women is sick. Don’t stick up for him FFS.

So any comments on Lidia Thorpe's actions this week and Bandt's complete inaction about these actions? Or does that not count because the victim was a conservative politician?

 

[Sanders]

 

[Sanders]

 

[George Kramer]

Is this legit?

 

[Slippery Pete]

I have two questions for you all lovely people:

-Is George Kramer Elite Crow?
-Is 1970 permanently banned?

 

[Slippery Pete]

To 1970crow and Crow till I die

Apologies, whilst enjoying myself mocking Slippery Pete I have unfairly included yourselves in that mocking.

As you both know, always happy to wax lyrical on stuff we disagree on, but what I did was unnecessary as Slippery Pete can post enough hysterical conspiracy theories to keep us all entertained for months.

Hopefully you will continue to disagree with me in good faith into the future.

Regards
Cap

Nice back-pedal.

That really was poor form. But anyway, at least you know you were being a dick.

PS - stop ninja editing your posts hours after the fact

 

[Slippery Pete]

I still trust Spurrier.

I don’t. Regardless, you might not have been following the last thread.

Unlike some frauds on here, I (and one or two others, especially 1970crow) have been consistent all along.

All year some of these posters have argued this is about health and science, gotta believe in the CHO. All hail St Nicola.

But now, suddenly she’s wrong, and the state coordinator is right to overrule her!

The Nutty Professor is living outside of reality, but that’s nothing new. She has been for two years. There were plenty of common sense opportunities to overrule her that were not even controversial (ie mask wearing with no cases, drinking standing up, capacity limits etc). But no, this deluded obsessive woman has been permitted to hold the state of SA hostage for the best part of two ******* years.

It’s not on her, it’s on the idiots in charge.

All of a sudden the people who ignored all the red flags — and attacked those who pointed them out — are now suddenly seeing them, but instead of saying “you’re right, I should’ve seen this earlier” they’re pretending it’s now okay to ignore “the experts.”

As for St Nicola, consider that she wanted to shut off the state to the rest of the country yesterday.

You still trust that?

Wow.

 

[FR0GGY]

I have two questions for you all lovely people:

-Is George Kramer Elite Crow?
-Is 1970 permanently banned?

Yes x2
Apparently not, to no 2

 

[Slippery Pete]

Yes x2

Man what a bittersweet answer

 

[Geoffa32]

I don’t. Regardless, you might not have been following the last thread.

Unlike some frauds on here, I (and one or two others, especially 1970crow) have been consistent all along.

All year some of these posters have argued this is about health and science, gotta believe in the CHO. All hail St Nicola.

But now, suddenly she’s wrong, and the state coordinator is right to overrule her!

The Nutty Professor is living outside of reality, but that’s nothing new. She has been for two years. There were plenty of common sense opportunities to overrule her that were not even controversial (ie mask wearing with no cases, drinking standing up, capacity limits etc). But no, this deluded obsessive woman has been permitted to hold the state of SA hostage for the best part of two ******* years.

It’s not on her, it’s on the idiots in charge.

All of a sudden the people who ignored all the red flags — and attacked those who pointed them out — are now suddenly seeing them, but instead of saying “you’re right, I should’ve seen this earlier” they’re pretending it’s now okay to ignore “the experts.”

As for St Nicola, consider that she wanted to shut off the state to the rest of the country yesterday.

You still trust that?

Wow.

Spurrier is doing her job. Providing myopic medical based advice.


The issue has been our "leaders" blindly following this advice and acting on it.


Thankfully that is changing, in the lead up to the election.

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[fortunatecrow]

Mutineer, apparently we owe someone an apology...

The Age reports:

"Premier Daniel Andrews says his government made mistakes in its handling of COVID-19 but the overall state response and vaccine uptake was a “triumph” that should have prompted political opponents to say “well done”.