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2020-09-11 Down Under

The Victorian government has effectively become an elected dictatorship.

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Posted by Woodrow 2020-09-11 00:34|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

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Police state or state of the police? One makes the other possible.

Posted by Woodrow 2020-09-11 07:35|| 2020-09-11 07:35|| Front Page Top

#2 The word originated as the title of a magistrate in the Roman Republic appointed by the Senate to rule the republic in times of emergency (see Roman dictator and justitium)

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-11 08:52|| 2020-09-11 08:52|| Front Page Top

#3 And if your modern incarnations of the ancient Roman dictators had worked 10% as hard to push vitamin D and HCQ as they did opposing the HCQ and pushing masks (of which there are no supporting studies of the type they demand for HCQ) this bug would be a non-factor by now.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-09-11 13:26|| 2020-09-11 13:26|| Front Page Top

#4 But Mandarins are gonna Mandarin.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-09-11 13:26|| 2020-09-11 13:26|| Front Page Top

#5 #3 If HCQ is so great, how do you explain Brazil?

Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2020-09-11 14:01|| 2020-09-11 14:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Brazil has no worries. They are going to employ the new Russian vaccine.

Posted by Clem 2020-09-11 14:33|| 2020-09-11 14:33|| Front Page Top

#7 I would guess they're not using it prophylactically enough. That study that came out of Brazil where they were waiting until late in the disease and then they'd give patients a fatal dose is bad enough.

They Chinese may be using their bureaucracy against them the same way they're using our bureaucracy against us because of Trump.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-09-11 15:00|| 2020-09-11 15:00|| Front Page Top

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