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0 pointsTooKool4This4y ago0 comments

> Australia, New Zealand, and Canada are quasi-police states [1] and will probably mandate vaccination+boosters soon.

Regardless of whatever metric you use to define “freedom” all of those countries rank higher than the US pre-Covid for “freedom”[1][2][3]. If your argument is that those countries are fundamentally “less-free” post-Covid due to public health measures, I don’t see the data to support that. To imply that all those countries will shift from the principles that drive them pre-Covid to a police-state post-Covid is very unlikely given the prior right?

As someone who’s lived in one of those countries and the US, I can say that the tendency of the US to argue over every small issue, even if it is overwhelmingly common sense and beneficial, takes away a lot of focus on the big issues that the country needs to solve.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

[2] https://rsf.org/en/ranking_table

[3] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/freedom-i...

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ctrlp4y ago

Those rankings are laughably out-of-date. People can't leave the house in Australia without a visit from the police. In any case, these NGO-compiled lists are suspect to begin with. So, you think federal Covid vaccine mandates are a small issue? What are the 'big issues' the country needs to solve, in your opinion?

disneygibson4y ago

Have you been following the events in Australia, at all?

Linking to pre-Covid sources is a bit like linking to a pre-Hiroshima encyclopedia entry about nuclear energy.

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