It is a dark, dark day for Australia and New Zealand

I have hardly been able to think about anything much else all day. This is a dark, dark day for Australia and New Zealand.

Fascism comes to 

Australia

https://www.rt.com/news/499668-australia-pregnant-woman-arrested-lockdown/?fbclid=IwAR1sGvEu4Mhy0EmdRAibkKuTzYFwec1FWb2W0cbVHxDH0879wqefP9sIiSs

 Consider this - 

About 10 years ago 100’s of thousands came out into the street in Cairo to topple Mubarak. They coordinated using social media.

Now, one mother in Victoria is arrested for allegedly using social media to organise a tiny protest and is arrested. 

See where we have come?

This has been getting a lot of international attention, EXCEPT IN THE NZ MEDIA

I can't find too much to disagree with in this assessment by Dave Hedges

Back home in New Zealand

Expect to wear masks until a Covid-19 vaccine is available, a top pandemic advisor to the Government has warned.

Mask use can slow and help stop an outbreak and will be a part of daily life until a vaccine is found, physics professor Shaun Hendy explains….

“We are in this for the long haul and masks are one of the tools in use until a vaccine is available,” he said.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/122646961/coronavirus-kiwis-will-be-wearing-masks-until-a-covid19-vaccine-is-found-experts-say?fbclid=IwAR1u0beB_CeNrR_ej5_iBnGUMCP72K-2reGwl6Dv1jDZ54zyy5Ln_LInq7A

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