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The dangerous use of the military : Comments

By David Leyonhjelm, published 25/9/2020

Ever since the Romans, standing armies have been viewed with deep suspicion. They are expensive to maintain, which often leads to onerous taxation, and they have an appalling record as instruments of oppression.

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Name just one shock jock who leans to the left!? Just one! Name just one of these folk who hasn't been complaining loudly and long, broken record style, about the loss of freedom, the shutting down of our borders/the economy!? Just one!

Those with a very severe case of Sergeant Schulz's syndrome may believe otherwise?

This virus kills folk, leaves others seriously sick, others with health that's compromised indefinitely/lifespans seriously shortened.

Can be spread by droplets from coughs and sneezes. A sneeze leaves the nostrils at around 104 MPH. Can travel thirty plus feet!

It can also be spread by aerosols from your breath! Areosols that that're rarely seen, save on a cold winter morning, when the steam from your breath,i.e., aerosol is visible to all and sundry/with the naked eye. Can be seen as a plume trail behind runners for ten plus feet.

Masks can restrict most of this. Those with the best nose and mouth seal, the best performing. They are the reusable respirators. Yes, they are expensive, 100 bucks or so, but I'll guarantee, still in use doing sterling service, when others have used 200 bucks worth of less effective disposables!

Survives on some surfaces for as many as seven days. You can be infectious up to three days before the onset of symptoms! Or never ever experience symptoms, i.e., Asymptomatic! As an Asymptomatic carrier, super spread this highly contagious virus, far and wide!

The good news is, After two weeks or therabouts, you are no longer contagious, the reason why lockdowns, quarantine in isolstion, work as well as they do, particularly as in Tiawian, supported by very broad scale testing/very efficient broad-scale contact tracing!

Places like the USA, Getting their opposite outcomes, via quite gross (flat earth) stupidity and redneck noncompliance! It needs warmblood hosts to survive beyond seven days! Humans, cats and bats.

Bats are nocturnal as are cats. The resaon why you'd want a dawn to dark curfew as much as possible. Your pets/feline friends, kept on the premises!
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Sunday, 27 September 2020 11:25:10 AM
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Hmmm, Mr Opinion who in his own opinion is the most educated person
in Australia has just shown us his ignorance.
Indeed the Romans had standing armies, the most famous one being on the Rhine.
At particular times there were armies on the Danube to keep the Huns at bay.

The soldier was recruited for five years and when demobbed he could be
given a grant of land in the Empire.
Posted by Bazz, Sunday, 27 September 2020 1:08:21 PM
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Name just one shock jock who leans to the left!?
Alan B,
The whole of the Left !
Posted by individual, Sunday, 27 September 2020 1:21:01 PM
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Someone further back on here suggested that the recent bill going
through the Victorian parliament will set a precedent for similar
legislation in relation to Global Warming.
So, if you drive your car more than say 10 km to work instead of
getting public transport you could be arrested and confined at work
or in barracks as it is thought that you might continue driving your
car more than the prescribed kms.

You think I am joking, well someone did suggest that !
They were a Melbourne councilor or similar politician.
There have been other suggestions on that line. Electricity usage could be one.
Posted by Bazz, Sunday, 27 September 2020 1:24:02 PM
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But Individual, there are no left leaning shock jocks,
those that would be all work for their ABC !
Posted by Bazz, Sunday, 27 September 2020 1:35:22 PM
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Bazz,

Being one of the most educated people in the country does not mean that I do not make mistakes or that I do not have total knowledge.

I thought the term standing army was a modern concept referring to the maintenance of an army irrespective of whether or not a country was at war.

By my reckoning the Roman legions were maintained because Rome was constantly at war, either putting down rebellions, annexing more territory, or defending the Republic and Empire.

So what's your background if you're so FN smart? Nothing worthwhile talking about I assume.
Posted by Mr Opinion, Sunday, 27 September 2020 2:19:24 PM
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