(01-12-2022, 01:51 AM)capcom link Wrote:This is my experience of living in Australia.

I am white and have white privilege to minority groups, true dark skinned people, the LBGTQI community and females (i am male).

I am not truly one of the club like some of the others.

I get it Thry, but that's a personal perception is it not, rather than a mainstream view?

(01-12-2022, 01:08 AM)madbluboy link Wrote:We have let it rip.

(01-12-2022, 12:55 AM)madbluboy link Wrote:3 positives at work have had a booster. The vaccine doesn't stop you getting it or spreading it.

(01-11-2022, 11:20 PM)Thryleon link Wrote:Kind of.

Some of it dates back to Orthodox Christianity, Geo Politics, and a break away from the Ottoman empire.  Some of it is steeped in Byzantine empire, and is similar to the Uno Fazza Uno Razza with the Italians.  It all dates back to Roman times, and is quite irrelevant these days, but in the last couple of hundred years, the break up of the ottoman empire has contributed to that affinity.  There is even talk of Greeks having taught the Cyrillic alphabet to the people from that region, and when you look at Cyrillic and Greek there is a sharing of script there that looks familiar in some places (possibly like the skandinavians.



This is my experience of living in Australia.

I am white and have white privilege to minority groups, true dark skinned people, the LBGTQI community and females (i am male).

I am not truly one of the club like some of the others. 

I have been told to f%ck off back to where I came from as recently as 2017, from someone who is "more australian" and am leaving a place where people who have names with 2 syllables in them continually end up in leadership roles, whilst any more, and you get tokenism at best, with respect to leadership roles.

Not all people are guilty of the same crimes, but yet, when the boos were going for Adam Goodes, they did all end up racists didnt they?

Just applying the same argument.  If the shoe fits, you can wear it or not.  Your choice, but I find it interesting to see that people don't like being lumped into one group like this, but are happy to do it to others. 

(01-12-2022, 06:18 AM)Baggers link Wrote:Hopefully, our less than intelligent authorities will realise that our health care system needs strong improvement. The smarter Party will realise this and make it an election pillar.

(01-12-2022, 06:23 AM)Baggers link Wrote:Vaccination does reduce transmissibility and most importantly, severity of symptoms.

(01-12-2022, 06:18 AM)Baggers link Wrote:MBB, old son. If only it were that simple. From one simple viewpoint... about 8% of Aussies aged over 12 are unvaccinated. These people are at increased risk of needing hospitalisation upon infection. Now if the hospitals continue to be inundated with Covid cases -- beyond their resources -- then other surgeries and medical needs are shunted down the queue, increasing the risk of serious illness, even death from other health care issues - including mental health. There are other factors as well.

Our healthcare system is deeply under resourced as it is, without Covid. Moderating the flow of Covid infected folks (especially unvaccinated) is the only humane solution available. As Wing Man MAV suggested, either/or / extreme thinking will create too many unnecessary problems.

Hopefully, our less than intelligent authorities will realise that our health care system needs strong improvement. The smarter Party will realise this and make it an election pillar.

(01-12-2022, 06:23 AM)Baggers date Wrote:Vaccination does reduce transmissibility and most importantly, severity of symptoms.