Harry

That sounds consistent with Melbourne's lockdown measures to mate. Liquorstires remained open for business whilst clothing was "click and collect" or online only. The weirdest thing we deemed essential and stayed open throughout was key-cutting. Which in Melbourne is generally a small business that sells keys, watch batteries and performs shoe repairs.

I'm gonna miss the Lincoln project when this is all said and done. Their trolling of the trump campaign has been some of the funniest bits of 2020 for me. Most recent being the Billboard they placed in times square hammering Kushner and Ivanka. Which brought legal action threats upon them from Trump's lawyer They then riffed on Twitter what they should respond back with (mostly hilarious) before today coming out with an awesome (and still funny) official response.

Swap it for a beer. That's how we roll.

There's two worlds. One where it makes him look good, and a second World where the story is reported but specific details are obscured and people only understand a buzzword which is marketed with negative connotations.... "but HUNTER BIDEN" is the new Benghazi, and new email server. This may drive up turn out in that second quarter.

They are mate. Rupert Murdoch is the team MVP and is starting by turning a proportionate group into conspiracy theory believers who'll ignore fact and reason, and vote against their own interests for long enough that the uber wealthy policy agenda can be implemented

Which candidate was the one whose son had a cocaine addiction?

Good ad for the closing stage of a campaign

What a shitty newspaper. The guy in the much larger federal electorate pulled a higher volume of votes than the guy in the much smaller state electorate.... I guess it's game on

If it weren't for the fact that nearly everything trump says is made up shite he'd be openly admitting to another crime here

I'm sure your lockdowns will have reduced the rate of growth from what it otherwise would have been. There's no question that they do that, and that all of the things many have been doing since February (like office workers working from home) have been slowing the natural rate of growth. But the bottom line as I see it is: 1. its still an upwards trend that grows more than linearly with any partial lockdown measures. Only full lockdown measures seem to really kill the curve and drive it actively downwards. 2. If Covid exists at all in a population it will always be rising in that kind of way. 3. There's a point at which contact tracing facilities are overloaded, (which for us was of the order of 50-100 cases a day), and they shift from being able to be across every contact for the entire incubation period through to just doing the best they can in the circumstances. 4. There's a point at which hospitals are overloaded, at which point your mortality will increase significantly with competition for ICU beds. Other than the above its really a question of how much death your society is willing to accept, and how much lockdown pain. And thats something which is not generally being debated in a helpful pragmatic way, but rather avoided or treated with absolutism, and everything being therefore more chaotic.

The FBI last week theatre a plot by right wing terrorists to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and claim self government. The terrorists were trump fans, and trump had previously tweeted "liberate Michigan" in response to governor Whitners Covid lockdowns (measures similar to most other developed economies). Trump recently chanted "lock her up" at his recent rally in neighbouring Wisconsin. His campaign Twitter account today posted the below, next level bullshit about her.

That was the absolute worst case scenario injury for us. The absolute worst thing you'd want to happen to the most irreplaceable player in the team. Fuck Jordan Pickford and his reckless tackles

Presumably the thinking is to arrest the rate of growth? When my state (5m) went into lockdown it was surprising how long it took for the cases to turn around. First stage of lockdowns early July was triggered when we got 100 cases per day. This was a partial lockdown excluding schools and shops. By the start of August we were at around 800 cases per day and still trending up so we went to a full lockdown and from there cases began to subside after about a week and we're now back to 1 case per day and beginning to reopen. We're trying to do what new Zealand and most of Australia has done and eradicate COVID so we can go back to a near normal though, which I don't would be an option for most of Europe.

Pretty similarly widespread testing. The US second wave was also much less deadly than the first wave which means the first wave was much bigger than any testing indicated, but there's a third wave coming, and I suspect the winter wave will be more of a problem.

Europe is starting to make the Covid situation in the USA look good by comparison. France at 32,000 cases a day lately now.

The problem with Turnbull was that he did not achieve the leadership on his terms. If he had fight a battle against the conservative wing and won then he'd have the mantle to implement his agenda, but instead he did a deal with them and got scuppered at every turn.

I cannot convey in words how pissed off I am at the liberal party and the Murdoch press for the extent to which they have polarised Victoria over the second lockdown. They have chosen to play politics in a way that actively undermined the public health response in Victoria. In my opinion Andrews (who I did not vote for) deserves the most credit overall for Australia's response to COVID. People forget but Scomo was demonstrating a UK like fear for the economy and an extreme reluctance to shut down at the start of COVID. He wanted to delay and hope things got better. Gladys and Dan led the way. Dan in particular put huge pressure on the PM to move fast and either endorse the big lockdown that Andrews was going to announce whether he liked it or not, or oppose it (and embrace the label of being Pro death).

Speaking of Rupert I do hope his NYPosts printing of the Guiliani manufactured evidence brings some heat his way. I would love to see his profitable American businesses get regulated or prosecuted to fuck due to overreach.

(just kidding. I voted for it the day it came out, and shared it twice on my Facebook feed). But I do think he missed a trick compared to how it could've gone if he'd cosponsored it with Turnbull or even any person affiliated with the liberal party to make it an issue that even liberal voters would need to consider.)

Fuck that. It's a grievance petition. A scorned man seeking revenge. If Kevin was less self centred he would have found a relevant moderate liberal party member to share the spotlight with and positioned it as a bipartisan thing... Not just "it's unfair to the left" but "liberals vote for this if you'd prefer Scomo to listen more to you than to Rupert". His own short sightedness has undermined his chances of success.

Hey Iowa, can you believe the stupid fake news media covered your huge floods instead of my nobel prize nomination? Isn't my life so unfair?

Weird shit