I am slightly leaning toward the belief that the story about the 11-year-old was a false flag meant to troll the media. It hits a suspicious number of talking points all in a row. But only slightly.
So in Squid Game, an imaginary hyperbolic dystopia where society’s rejects face the deliberate disintegration of their humanity, they’re allowed to play more childhood games than regular people in Australia in 2021...
allowed to play more childhood games than regular people in Australia in 2021...
I live in Canberra, Australia, and this is ridiculous.
between May 2020 and August 2021, we had zero COVID cases. None whatsoever! No masks, restrictions only on concerts and other potential superspreader events, etc. Childhood games were obviously permitted, along with nightclubs and restaurants and whatever else you want to do.
with more than 90% of people 12+ fully vaccinated, restrictions are almost gone again too
even under our tightest lockdown rules, you can go outside for exercise including meeting up with a few other people, and that was a short lived restriction.
there have absolutely been stupid local policies, and the federal government has continually stuffed up quarantine and vaccine supply in ways I wouldn’t have believed were possible. That said I think our policies (aside from vaccine supply!) have been consistently better than either the US or UK.
school kids have it a lot easier here than in the USA. Banning eating indoors, or permanent masks mandates, would get everyone involved fired.
And finally, there are a lot of cherry picked stories about Australia being printed elsewhere for local political point-scoring, for which representativeness or even accuracy appears to be entirely unnecessary. Somehow they never acknowledge the difference in death rate or economic damage either!
I’ve noticed that Australians always start their defense by talking about how low their case counts have been, as if that’s the only important metric in all of this. We’d optimize for different things, to say the least.
I think our policies (aside from vaccine supply!) have been consistently better than either the US or UK.
Well, that’s why you’re happy there and I’m happy here, I guess. Also, I think you “asided” the single most important policy out of them all.
Also, my comment was pretty clearly tongue in cheek. No, I don’t actually think the fictional contestants of Squid Game have a better life than you. You took it seriously and wrote a lot in response. You can draw your own conclusions from that.
I am slightly leaning toward the belief that the story about the 11-year-old was a false flag meant to troll the media. It hits a suspicious number of talking points all in a row. But only slightly.
So in Squid Game, an imaginary hyperbolic dystopia where society’s rejects face the deliberate disintegration of their humanity, they’re allowed to play more childhood games than regular people in Australia in 2021...
I live in Canberra, Australia, and this is ridiculous.
between May 2020 and August 2021, we had zero COVID cases. None whatsoever! No masks, restrictions only on concerts and other potential superspreader events, etc. Childhood games were obviously permitted, along with nightclubs and restaurants and whatever else you want to do.
with more than 90% of people 12+ fully vaccinated, restrictions are almost gone again too
even under our tightest lockdown rules, you can go outside for exercise including meeting up with a few other people, and that was a short lived restriction.
there have absolutely been stupid local policies, and the federal government has continually stuffed up quarantine and vaccine supply in ways I wouldn’t have believed were possible. That said I think our policies (aside from vaccine supply!) have been consistently better than either the US or UK.
school kids have it a lot easier here than in the USA. Banning eating indoors, or permanent masks mandates, would get everyone involved fired.
And finally, there are a lot of cherry picked stories about Australia being printed elsewhere for local political point-scoring, for which representativeness or even accuracy appears to be entirely unnecessary. Somehow they never acknowledge the difference in death rate or economic damage either!
I’ve noticed that Australians always start their defense by talking about how low their case counts have been, as if that’s the only important metric in all of this. We’d optimize for different things, to say the least.
Well, that’s why you’re happy there and I’m happy here, I guess. Also, I think you “asided” the single most important policy out of them all.
Also, my comment was pretty clearly tongue in cheek. No, I don’t actually think the fictional contestants of Squid Game have a better life than you. You took it seriously and wrote a lot in response. You can draw your own conclusions from that.