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8 Jul, 10 tweets, 6 min read
Welcome to Sydney lockdown day 14 ....

#COVID19nsw #Sydneylockdown
Sydney, generally, and the nation as a whole, would benefit a good deal from a media that did not catch pneumonia when it ventured west of Newtown .....
#COVID19nsw #Sydneylockdown

Shorter Media: "I cannot believe all these migrant families have functional relationships between parents & children & they look after each other...they do not abandon their parents & then go overseas, only to complain on social media about quarantine"
#COVID19nsw #Sydneylockdown
Sydney 1921: hopefully returned from WW1, avoiding death by Spanish Flu, avoiding Razor Gangs, people trading narcotics on the sly ....

Sydney 2021: locked down at home, avoiding death by Covid, group chats re sly Pfizer first jabs ....

#COVID19nsw #Sydneylockdown
Now to the Gladystan briefing ....
- 44 new cases
- 29 in the community - "really concerning us"

#COVID19nsw #Sydneylockdown
Yesterday, the (high percentages of migrant populations) in south-west Sydney was told to stay home & they were basically shamed in various language, as if they were to blame. What did you think would happen???
#COVID19nsw #Sydneylockdown

Imagine if - if - it was obvious in January that the Vaccine rollout was already going to 'spear in' & the Media & MPs had done its job & asked Prof Murphy etal about the Vaccine rollout for a country as big as Australia ....



#COVID19nsw #Sydneylockdown
In addition to Pfizer .... can someone ask General Frewen (who seems to have been lumped now with this duty) why the Moderna jab is not here given Moderna is used in every other first world country.

#COVID19nsw #Sydneylockdown
Sydney is a pretty resilient and ruthless place .... not long after the Dec 2014 Lindt Cafe siege - in which two people had been murdered by a terrorist in that Sydney cafe - the cafe itself was then up and running again with a full house.

#COVID19nsw #Sydneylockdown
On most Friday nights in Winter, soccer is played here in Cammeray and all ages have a chance to kick a ball around, even or esp if you have a dog in tow. Instead in #Sydneylockdown it is an eerie picture …. The field of dreams awaits the return of its players

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7 Jul
Welcome to Sydney lockdown day 13 .... Good morning to all on this sunny but cold, lockdown-ish, Sydney day. The Sydney CBD is dead - it may not be Melbourne dead, but, for Sydney, this is dead.

#COVID19nsw #Sydneylockdown
Sydney is full of people from somewhere else - media now pointing accusing fingers at ethnic communities for not being North Sydney, or young foreign people stranded here on visas, is one of many things to hate about this era.
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In the now existential battle between our lilywhite Covid paranoids (reflected in the media) vs Sydney's family-oriented, multi-generational ethnic communities (who the media attack), not hard to work out who to sympathise with.
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7 Jul
RIP Ben Shapiro account ….. killed in action when trying bravely to burn the villages of the poor in order to save them. Image
The US’ own “Conservative Inc” pundits - completely removed from reality and the disastrous consequences of their heroes idiocies - are the best argument for universal conscription for wars. Image
Ben Shapiro’s takes are of a borderline ‘student blogger’ quality but how any sensible adult could look at Bush43 as other than a catastrophically bad leader is bewildering.
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7 Jul
'It is coming home'
🦁🦁🦁⚽️
#ENGDEN
England had a lot of ball in good places in the last 30 minutes .... Really should have scored a goal. Well done to Denmark on such heroic defending. Now to extra time.
#ENGDEN
England again with all the ball .... Danes defending well (albeit with significant cheating as one expects)
#ENGDEN
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6 Jul
Amid all the fury unleashing online re St Josephs: the school does have Indigenous & rural students & if vaccinating the whole of Year 12 ("one in, all in") cured any vaccine hesitancy, then good. Any fury should be for NSW Health which "owns" Pfizer doses
smh.com.au/national/nsw/y…
Would have thought - esp given #NAIDOC2021 - that one of Australia's better known private schools. going, in the best Marist pastoral tradition, to NSW Health for Covid jabs to protect their Indigenous students & these students' communities, would be an example worth praising
Sadly, social media, esp Australian political twitter, is dominated by the loudest, most broken, voices, nursing grievances from, inter alia, high school & university, and unable to attribute good faith to any activity.
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5 Jul
Welcome to Sydney lockdown day 11 ....

Watching the very good @ljayes on Sky & seeing the GPs try & get in on new Pfizer jabs. If you can get a Flu jab at your a pharmacy, why not for Covid? Doctors run patients late & usually mean detours from work

#COVID19nsw #Sydneylockdown
Where was this sense of urgency in January? When Professor Murphy & the rest of the Canberra 'head shed' was assuring us that 'all was in hand' and the media were going along with it

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Like everyone in greater Sydney, waiting for the daily Gladystan Covid briefing and, more importantly, today's episode of the war metaphors of Brad "Chad" Hazzard .... yesterday was "The Hunger Games", today will be....?

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5 Jul
Generally not one to defend the Hanoverians but King George III dealt with the American rebellion as any comparable monarch would have, in fact, somewhat more gently. His Parliament had too many irresolute ponces, for example, his Prime Minister, Lord North, and Edmund Burke.
It was not just the French and then the Spanish aiding the American rebellion - even the Dutch tried to plunge the dirk into the British Lion....for their grave sins in aiding rebellion against the British Crown, Napoleon occupied and plundered these countries
The Habsburg Austrians never recognised the American rebellion, nor did the Russians (clearly both with a view to not giving support to bad ideas cf the French). Ironically the Russian Tsar, who admired President Lincoln, would be the Union's only real ally in the Civil War.
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