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The freedom and ethics of protest in a time of pandemic : Comments

By Rob Cover, published 8/9/2020

Some of the anxiety driving recent protests in Melbourne and Ballarat relates to reasonable personal and community concerns about the impact of sustained lockdown on work, business and social life.

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What an ignorant pig the fat copper mentioned is.
Posted by ttbn, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 9:09:50 AM
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TTBN take that back about the fat copper! Commissioner Cornelius is an absolute hero! He was a solicitor in the fed police, I suppose TTBN will now refer to him as a fat ambulance chaser now? Then Vicpol put him in their ranks as an Assistant Commissioner focussing on ethics. He did such a good job they gave him a APM. Then he was in the team overseeing Nicola Gobbo the Barrister selling out her clients to the coppers, ethics, not so much. Now I suppose you are going to have a shot at him for answering "I cannot remember" fifty times at the Royal Commission? The man has too many things to remember obviously even with his fat head so.
I assume now TTBN is feeling suitably chastened and will stop references to Donut eaters, fat, Stupid, arrogant and such.
Anyway Blessed are the peacemakers, the good book says so.
Posted by JBowyer, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 10:04:39 AM
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I wonder what it has been costing for every dick-brain who asserts his inalienable right to be a complete idiot (including the BLM protesters) ? By putting everything back, say, another week ? A billion dollars ? Plus another thousand businesses gone to the wall ?

Real heroes.

And then there's the virtue-signalling by appointing an Aboriginal-run security company to oversee the quarantine hotels. What might that have cost ? Five billion dollars, eventually ? Ten ?

Perhaps morons like those can be barred from getting vaccinated when a vaccine is finally developed. Wait, they're probably the very morons who deny that there are such things as viruses, and that vaccination is a Bill-Gates plot to insert nanochips into our brains, for god knows why.

Idiocy springs eternal.

Joe
Posted by loudmouth2, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 10:49:16 AM
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One remembers a nurse on a London bridge going to the aid of a stab victim, who had been stabbed by an insane knife-wielding terrorist. And paying with her life!

Now the virus is that allegorical mindless terrorist and nobody with half a brain is going to march protesting the right to assemble while this mindless killer, [with 30 foot long arms,] is loose among us, harming and killing indiscriminately.

Even a mild case of covid-19 may require hospitalization and leave some permanent heart, kidney damage/a seriously shortened life, as a consequence.

If a knife wielding terrorist was on the loose looking for opportunities to mindlessly harm or kill?

How many nut jobs would be rattling their cages, protesting personal freedom? Claiming it's all a left-wing conspiracy, that Herr Andrews of the extreme right/Chairman Andrews of the extreme communist left, was just a power junkie getting his rocks off?

Thing is, we have a Saliva test that s 95% accurate and gives a result in seconds. And the Israeli's have it.

We could have it and deploy it around hotspots at border/bridge crossings in around a month or less with a phone call/international transfer!

One wonders why that already hasn't happened? Or that such testing could include sniffer dogs and testing for illicit drugs, simultaneously? [And perhaps, the reason why it isn't already deployed?]

Get and do the Israeli Saliva test! And all the borders and economy, could reopen to the max possible, in weeks!
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Tuesday, 8 September 2020 11:51:39 AM
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JBowyer likes fat, ignorant coppers.
Posted by ttbn, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 12:07:33 PM
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Don't talk to me about ethics commie.
Ethics means 'Everyone has a right to live how they choose so long as it doesn't harm others'

There were 1678 active cases in Victoria on 6th of June.
It was the first time since March 5 that there was not a daily increase in cases.

Clearly holding a public protest at that time, created a risk of harm to others.

I oppose all public protests at this time.
You're still free to assemble, communicate your beliefs and voice your frustrations ONLINE as you would any other time.

Your 'right' to protest should be limited when doing so results in an unreasonable risk of harm to others.

Your right to protest isn't necessarily infringed.
You are still free to voice your opinion and vent your frustrations.

Only the means with which you are permitted to protest has simply been limited; at this time.

You can go back to organising people to publicly smash stuff up and trying to hold the rest of us ransom to whatever current grievance you have, when it does not present a legitimate risk of death to others.
Posted by Armchair Critic, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 1:26:23 PM
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