Not a conspiracy theory at all, in fact I think you summed it up very well.
Another factor I would add would be lockdowns. I loved them, quiet streets, quiet supermarkets, having an excuse to avoid too much socialising.
When things began to open up again, it was a nightmare for me and led to a bit of a breakdown. My gp who had kids with ASD suggested it may be the case for me too , which led to me doing a ton of research. Everything made sense all of sudden, all the things I struggled with in life at least had more of a framework.
So at the age 53 I found a whole new perspective on my life, and while not much would change externally, internally I am learning to be much less hard on myself for not fitting in in a lot of situations.
Then I moved to the country, by myself, and itâs great.
I guess the mental health thread would have been a better place for this, but Wimâs post hit the nail on the head and I just felt like expanding on it a bit, as the subject is still so poorly understood, despite awareness increasing lately (which is the whole point of all of this).
Oh my lord I would never assume to be speaking on behalf of anyone but myself, but if you related to it then thatâs great.
Iâm not going to pretend that lockdowns didnât change us. It changed all of us and some of us are still recovering.
sigh I hate the rewriting of recent history.
Goodes was Not booed out of the game. That had stopped in the last half of his last year.
Iâm not denying that the impact of the booing helped make his decision, butâŚdonât Farking lie. Tell the story right.
And the same goes for Covid.
We were all there.
And the suggestion that we were not monumentally farked if the vaccine didnât come when it did really grinds my gears.
Hospitals were over-flowing, we didnât have enough ICU beds, staff were tired and scared andâŚif it hit us when it hit the US, weâd have been seeing similar scenes here.
We were honestly that close.
We were that close to everything breaking, but the vaccine came and GODDAMN it â â â â â â me off when idiots donât recognise all of that.
When they were Farking there.
I donât think Australians even know what unschooling is.
Home schooling because of political beliefs has been a thing in the US for at least twenty years.
So, noâŚI donât think the same thing is happening here in that particular aspect.
The second winter of lockdowns felt entirely avoidable
We had stock of the AZ vaccine in hand, we just hadnât organized the rollouts.
We knew that it either wasnât as bad as we thought it could be or it was becoming less fatal as it mutated
It should have been: âwinter is coming, if youâre not vaccinated itâs on youâ combined with the infrastructure to support everyone who wanted the vax to get it
Home schooling was the norm for the children of farmers, farm workers, including in the Mallee and along the Murray distant from cities and larger towns. For the affluent , the option was boarding school.
Then there was the School of the Air.
There are some now who elect for home schooling for ideological reasons, others because their kids donât fit in, are bullied , slow learners etc. Here home schooling does come under the umbrella of the Education Department with supervision to check that the children are delivered a curriculum, including the basics of the three Rs at primary school.
Home schooling was considered preferable to the Special Schools or streaming within schools.
Now thereâs a backlash of the curriculum being too Woke, too DEI.
We made a lot of mistakes.
Dan and calendar boy made a huge one with his singular jump from Melbourne toâŚI dunnoâŚMildura or something.
Rural Victoria got screwed. No doubt. They went through more than they needed to.
But I would sincerely hope that they recognise that the unnecessary measures imposed were due to an abundance of caution regarding a novel virus, and didnât just leap to invented disease/NWO/Dan wants to be President.
Doesnât change the fact that Melbourne ICUâs didnât have enough beds. And if that sentence doesnât scare you, it should.
We were lucky.
With how long it took to get here.
We were unnecessarily unlucky with the Ruby Princess.
And we were lucky that the vaccine came when it did.
Because, without it, we were a month at most fromâŚoh, youâre dying? Good luck with that.
Maybe my timeline is messed up.
But I feel like weâd already seen mass graves in New York.
I donât know how many people on that cruise frigginâ died but I feel like 15% is a low estimate.
And we just saidâŚoh, yeah fineâŚoff you go, do whatever.
Talk to me about hotel breaches until youâre blue in the face. Nothing hurt us as much as that did.
It could haveâŚ
A lot of people died that shouldnât have.
Lutnick is sending a mixed message on bringing back manufacturing to the US.
On the one hand, he is saying that a College education is not needed for job creation in goods manufacture.
On the other hand, in response to claims that it will raise prices with higher labour costs, he is claiming that US technology superiority will deliver fully automated manufacture.
