Jay Ross, from what I found out, these anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-lockdown protests must be by a few million minority at the most, we have 63% of the Australian population over 16 yo having already received their first vaccines, if we look at the Over 50 population, the vaccinations are over 81% for first doses.
We could ask though have these protests achieved anything to help solve the current Covid problems in Australia? The answer is No......
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If we have a look, protestors have been arrested for breaking laws and disrespecting the police, people cannot do either of those things. It's simple, obey the law, don't argue or disrespect the police, it's basic common sense, don't go looking for trouble by joining these protests.
Josho,
Just because 63% of the population have already been vaccinated, does not equate to the other 37% of the population being anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-lockdown etc. If you look at the number of members on this forum that are anti-authority, the percentage is actually quite small. Only a few are vehemently anti-everything and are protesting against everything under the sun.
My experience is that politicians when they receive just one letter of complaint about anything, make every effort to demonstrate that they are doing everything that they can to "fix" that problem and that they are afraid to speak the truth to that person that they should toughen up and suck it in and just get on with life as everybody have ""major problems" during their lifetime that they must deal with. People just like blaming everybody else or the authorities for the bad decisions that they regularly make.
In the Brisbane 1974 flood, the people did not wait on the "government" to tell them what to do as the flood waters rose around them, whereas, during the Brisbane flood of 2011, the people needed to be told what to do with respect to getting out of the flood's path. The people are now dependant on the government to get them out of the mess that they themselves created for themselves. Buying a house or building a house within a known flood plain, does not mean that they are not responsible for the resulting flooding of their house/property. They brought the house and took the risk that a flood would not occur while they owned the house.
The ambulance chasers, i.e. lawyers, who make money out of other peoples miseries, look for people to blames and sue, but the reality is that the people who have to pay for the compensation they they seek for their so called "clients" is actually everybody in the community, and their "client" that is driving these claims is actually themselves.
The situation that people are in presently, is not unique to this time period, but is a repeat of what has happened previously in the world. The problem is that our "best practices" in dealing with situations that present themselves periodically always fail, and that we all struggle for a time until we are able to come up with a working solution, which not everybody will like, that allows us to overcome the newly presented situation that is happening now.
It is very ease to oppose the solutions when they are not ours that are being implemented. It makes us sound more important than we really are.
Shalom
