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Australia has deployed hundreds of soldiers to Sydney to help enforce a Covid lockdown.
A Delta outbreak which began in June has produced nearly 3,000 infections and led to nine deaths.
Australian Defence Force soldiers will undergo training on the weekend before beginning unarmed patrols on Monday.
But many have questioned whether the military intervention is necessary, calling it heavy-handed.
The lockdown - in place until at least 28 August - bars people from leaving their home except for essential exercise, shopping, caregiving and other reasons.
Despite five weeks of lockdown, infections in the nation's largest city continue to spread. Officials recorded 170 new cases on Friday.
Soldiers will join police in virus hotspots to ensure people are following the rules, which include a 10km (6.2 miles) travel limit.
State Police Minister David Elliott said it would help because a small minority of Sydneysiders thought "the rules didn't apply to them".
Information provided by health officials indicates the virus is mainly spreading through permitted movement.
The Australian Lawyers Alliance, a civil rights group, called the deployment a "concerning use" of the army in a liberal democracy.
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The outbreak has largely affected critical workers and large family groups in the city's poorer and ethnically diverse west and south-west suburbs. About two million people live there.
Critics say those areas have already faced "targeted" policing measures. They point out restrictions there are harsher than for the rest of Sydney.
"Our people are one of the poorest demographics, and as it is, they already feel picked on and marginalised," said Steve Christou, one local mayor.
"They can't afford to pay the mortgage, the rent, the food or work. Now to throw out the army to enforce lockdown on the streets is going to be a huge issue to these people," he told SBS.
Others have called for the government to increase its vaccine drive and support services for the affected communities.
Australia's rate of vaccination - 17% of the adult population - remains one of the lowest among OECD nations.
Originally Posted by BlackOp:
This is so ****ed...
“Why would you get the system going? Why would you have the thing up and running and then essentially pull down all of the architecture that you've built, the culture that you've changed, why would you change that four or five weeks later?”
If you make the judgement to not get vaccinated and you reckon you can wait out us or the publican, or whoever you want to think you are waiting out, you won't wait out the virus, because the virus will be here for a long time and your only protection against it is being vaccinated,” he said.
I mean why would they pull down all the "architecture" that they've built...would be a massive waste to just give people back their freedom. All that "culture change" for nothing...
When he speaks about the "system they got going"...what do you think he's referring to? The digital ID beast grid system...
Dude is a psychopath...a Black Occult agent.
You might save some lives if you hexxed him. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BlackOp:
Why should I care what you think...please explain? I honestly dont even know who you are...from a forum perspective.
I don't believe I asked you to care what I think. Whether you care or not doesn't crack my top 100 reasons for posting in general or even if it is in reply to something you said.
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Are you suggesting what is happening in Australia is fiction?
No, I'm suggesting you "tap into the protective occult" and hexx them so as to save everyone a bunch of trouble.
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Can you lay out, in detail, what you think a "hexx" is? I'd be very interested in hearing...
Originally Posted by BucEyedPea:
But you were the one advising he hex people.
So I'm "a warlock" for telling him to use his deep connection to the occult to hex people, as he suggested he could? That doesn't make any sense at all.
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You mock me, incorrectly, for being "a warlock" but Soren the Mystic is a perfectly good source for impartial "news".
Play with you? This isn't a ****ing game to me...I've already identified your intentions...it didn't really deserve further correspondence.
I'm waiting for you to to give me a well-researched, non cut-n-paste Wikipedia derivative explanation of what a Hexx is...you felt to compelled to trivialize it...certainly that opinion is based in real-world applied knowledge. Correct? [Reply]
Originally Posted by BlackOp:
Play with you? This isn't a ****ing game to me...I've already identified your intentions...it didn't really deserve further correspondence.
I'm waiting for you to to give me a well-researched, non cut-n-paste Wikipedia derivative explanation of what a Hexx is...you felt to compelled to trivialize it...certainly that opinion is based in real-world applied knowledge. Correct?
A "well-researched" explanation of what a Hexx is.
Shall I use MLA or APA? 10 pages, double spaces, 12pt font Arial ok for ya?
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You are the one with deep connections to the occult. I don't need to know what a Hexx is when you have made it clear that they can be used against those you perceive as enemies. [Reply]
