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VK3DRB:

--- Quote from: james_s on July 17, 2020, 05:50:37 pm ---I think what it comes down to is there are just way too many people. I've watched the population in the area where I live explode throughout my lifetime and tens of thousands more people keep pouring in all the time, I don't even know where they're all coming from. There are far more people than there are nice locations where people want to live, as long as that's the case there will be housing shortages and people priced out of the market. We can't build our way out of this either, the more housing they build and the more affordable they make it, the more people flood in to fill it. It's like where they widen the roads over and over adding lanes and traffic never gets better.

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Agreed. It does not help when government is addicted to immigration, like a druggo is addicted to heroin. They are looking for their next hit, a flood of cashed up "refugees" from Hong Kong. This will unfortunately keep housing prices high which the politicians see as a bonus for them personally. Irrespective of this Hong Kong issue, a rich foreigner can purchase permanent residency here legally, but the poor have no such "entitlement". This is shameful policy in this so-called egalitarian country. Our politicians don't give a rats arse about housing affordability. As long as their own nests are feathered.

Nusa:

--- Quote from: nctnico on July 18, 2020, 11:21:12 pm ---Just no Chinese and American people.

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There is a loophole in that reality for those that hold the right passport, so you might run into a few.

For example, I know an American-born mother and daughter who have also have Italian citizenship by descent. As it happens, the daughter was planning to move and work in Italy pre-covid...and that's still happening next month. The American ban doesn't affect her at all.

And now that I stop to think, I believe I know a few dozen people living in the US that are also citizens of an EU country. In some cases, legal residents in the USA that don't have US citizenship at all.

nctnico:

--- Quote from: Nusa on July 18, 2020, 11:57:36 pm ---
--- Quote from: nctnico on July 18, 2020, 11:21:12 pm ---Just no Chinese and American people.

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There is a loophole in that reality for those that hold the right passport, so you might run into a few.

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Those are not tourists!  :palm:

james_s:

--- Quote from: Nusa on July 18, 2020, 11:28:44 pm ---Even if you know for sure that you had it, acting as if you are immune is a dangerous assumption in the case of CV19. That's not yet understood or proven. There are some data points that suggest that either any immunity can be short-lived or that a prior infection can reactivate.

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I'd still feel better knowing I'd already had it, that would suggest that it is not likely to be serious for me if it happens again. Of course nothing is guaranteed. Apparently the tests are not super accurate though, a false positive in the antibody test would be worse than not knowing.

VK3DRB:
The Victorian govt in Australia has just announced mask wearing in public is to be compulsory from midnight next Wednesday, else cop a $200 fine. That is great news. Strong authoritarian government is a good thing in the right context. At the other end of the scale we have the USA, which has weak and disunited government with many Americans refusing to wear a mask based upon selfishness and the fantasy of freedom.
 

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