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    A bit of humour

    Lame two decades ago, lame now: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/revocation-of-independence/ And an insult to John Cleese.
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    Predictions of when international flights may resume/bans lifted

    Thank you for confirming that you are--unsurprisingly--unable to substantiate your claim to the effect that
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    Predictions of when international flights may resume/bans lifted

    For some reason RAM is privy to all sorts of information that can never be found in writing or accessed by anyone else. Like when it comes to the massive influx of foreign (worse still, non-Caucasian!) "close relatives".
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    State border closures illegal under the highest law in the country?

    When the PM says that she means she’d like those states to have zero cases. She hasn’t shown any sign of taking a more pragmatic approach.
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    Predictions of when international flights may resume/bans lifted

    Hands up everyone who wants MEL_Traveller to be the arbiter of mental health issues?
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    State border closures illegal under the highest law in the country?

    Maybe spend a little less time worrying about what others are allowed to do and a little more about what types of behavior it makes no sense whatsoever to prevent. Your “err on the side of safety” strategy does nothing of the sort. And what will it take to trigger it next time around? Some...
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    State border closures illegal under the highest law in the country?

    That argument is not sounding better even with extreme repetition.
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    Travel to 2020 Tokyo Olympics

    The JOC is now proceeding under the assumption that the Tokyo Olympics (if any) will be held without general spectators.
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    Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

    Don’t give up your day job, mate. Even down 99% you must have been better at it than this.
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    Dan Murphy's and Other Wine Deals

    The entitlement force is strong on this one.
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    All international travelers will be quarantined in hotels or designated facilities

    They should be used to being closely tagged anyway.
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    State border closures illegal under the highest law in the country?

    Which is of course true for every single place in the world at every level of granularity. And every disease.
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    Predictions of when international flights may resume/bans lifted

    So basically just a small-minded "If I don't agree with what they say then stuff 'em, because I know better and any positive for someone else is a negative for me". I think Pierre-Joseph Proudhon probably had something else in mind.
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    State border closures illegal under the highest law in the country?

    Those under the doona also tend to be on a relatively sound economic footing, and rely on the less fortunate to make their hibernation possible. It's quite understandable to want to free-ride on the nation's internationally enviable public health situation. But I'm sure that those under the...
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    Predictions of when international flights may resume/bans lifted

    You might find a more receptive audience if you skipped all the fuzzy handwaving and made your points more succinctly with clearly sourced hard data.
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    State border closures illegal under the highest law in the country?

    Some people don't think in such stark binary terms and want to protect their families from economic devastation. Others may realize that there is no viable non-vaccine exit plan in place. Still others may decry the lack of scientific justification for the current approach. And there are also...
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    State border closures illegal under the highest law in the country?

    When has lack of qualifications ever stopped you?
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    Predictions of when international flights may resume/bans lifted

    Apart from the complete lack of understanding of medical research, logistics, political maneuvering, airline economics, domestic coordination issues, international coordination issues, and other geopolitical realities, you could be right. Yeah, nah.
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