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Op-ed (in tweet form): American snowflakes are losing it over #OpeningCeremony #Paris2024 Advice: lower firearm slaughter among #USA citizens, did you forget all the church/school massacres? Also, enshrine medicare for all in the constitution. Once done, you can whine about French artistic expression.

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July 20, 2020

Context: 7 letter word missing amidst mass panic!

Time to put things into context: something social/mainstream media fail at miserably, especially during a pandemic. The border between Australia's two most populous states (New South Wales/Victoria) has been shut, due to Victoria's spike in Covid-19 cases, to add injury insult, it has also been ostracised from South Australia and Tasmania. (In an American context: picture Massachusetts being told to take a hike by New Hampshire and Rhode Island).

The news is going complete bonkers, forgetting to state one very important fact: extremely low fatality rate. As of writing, Victoria (pop. 6.3 million) has recorded 38 deaths, whereas, a US state with a similar population, Maryland (6.04 million) has had 3,377 deaths. 

Oh, there's that little detail where folk in Maryland are free to travel to neighbouring states, maybe a high death rate means more freedom - the world is indeed losing the plot!

Proving that not all is doom and gloom, here are two clips as evidence of life going on...I'll be heading back to my hometown of Sydney, but for now, sit back and enjoy/fall asleep as I give you a mini tour of Big M.

No. 16 tram is operating during the "end of the world" (20/07/2020)

St Kilda detour: let's all breathe and relax (20/07/2020)
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