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It sucks that Australians have had the choice between a government imposing stay at home orders as long as 118 days and far-right nazis who oppose vaccines and masks too. Care to guess how fast fascists in power (these included) would exploit any pandemic to increase their power? Trump certainly started down that road before his business class masters put the brakes on him. One week he talked of quarantining all of NYC (setting off a migration of the rich to Florida) and of martial law, then that talked dropped off the radar.

I use KN-95 masks in all indoor environments save my own house or that of a date, and got both my original vaccine and booster within days of availability. I cannot however distinguish one kind of confinement from another-and had to flee MD at the end of March 2020 when the governor beat his chest on the news about sending people to jail for up to a year if they defied his stay at home order.

It is doubtful I would now be alive if I lived in Australia, as I could not have survived submission to that stay at home order, and the Outback is said to be much harder to survive in than any of the extreme rural areas of the US where I waited out the stay at home orders away from the general public. I would have tried to escape to the Outback, but this would have been a long shot. On the lockdown issue I have publicly compared Australia to North Korea due to the heavy police enforcement and hair-trigger imposition of them.