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18 hours ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

If they had a proper reserves comp it wouldn't be a problem

Whilst true in the sense that having a reserves comp where each team has a second team that plays your opposition before the main game would solve this issue it is very cost prohibitive and that is the reason we have affiliate teams and the VFL absorbed the VFA.

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What is Darling thinking?! ruining the last few years of his career over a simple vaccine

just staggering. Surely doctors and medical professionals have explained how safe they are?

I really don't get it

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9 hours ago, DubDee said:

What is Darling thinking?! ruining the last few years of his career over a simple vaccine

just staggering. Surely doctors and medical professionals have explained how safe they are?

I really don't get it

I heard that Jack Darling's mum in law is a high profile anti vax campaigner so he probably never stood a chance in regards to making a well considered and informed decision. 

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25 minutes ago, The heart beats true said:

I see today that WA is predicting half a million cases in the next few months, with its peak in late March. I’d suggest the Eagles and Dockers are in for a world of pain within the first 6 weeks of their season. 
 

What, where did you see that Thbt?

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10 hours ago, DubDee said:

What is Darling thinking?! ruining the last few years of his career over a simple vaccine

just staggering. Surely doctors and medical professionals have explained how safe they are?

I really don't get it

Not unlike Novak Djokovic who has effectively denied himself entry into the record books as the GOAT. 

I agree with you Dub (us Dubliners need to stick together ☘️ ), it beggars belief that someone is willing to surrender so much for so little. But you’ve gotta admire him for not compromising his principles. That’s rock-solid resolve right there, and you can’t put a price on that. 

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3 hours ago, The heart beats true said:

I see today that WA is predicting half a million cases in the next few months, with its peak in late March. I’d suggest the Eagles and Dockers are in for a world of pain within the first 6 weeks of their season. 
 

They have only themselves to blame and frankly I couldn’t feel less sorry for them. They’ve had more time and a bigger surplus that any other state in Australia to sort themselves out. It sounds like they’ve done SFA to bolster their healthcare system. 

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On 2/22/2022 at 9:21 AM, Diamond_Jim said:

Masks required in the indoor elements of stadiums approved for over 30k people.

The other news is that isolation for close contacts is being considered for general removal. Would help on the player availability issue.

I think it's the employees who work in those stadiums who are required to mask up, not the paying customers.

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6 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Not unlike Novak Djokovic who has effectively denied himself entry into the record books as the GOAT. 

I agree with you Dub (us Dubliners need to stick together ☘️ ), it beggars belief that someone is willing to surrender so much for so little. But you’ve gotta admire him for not compromising his principles. That’s rock-solid resolve right there, and you can’t put a price on that. 

agree with you, aside from the admiration.  I have zero admiration for him. he is putting himself and his family/friends and the community at risk

Up the Dubs!

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2 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

I think it's the employees who work in those stadiums who are required to mask up, not the paying customers.

just checked ... you are correct.

So if you work as a ticket collector at AAMI no mask but if you are selling pies must wear a mask.

Of course it makes sense

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1 hour ago, DubDee said:

 I have zero admiration for him. he is putting himself and his family/friends and the community at risk

You’re right. His resistance to vaccination is not admirable. What I should’ve said is his steadfast adherence to his convictions, to be unwavering and so firmly resolute is what I admire. If only he’d use it for good and not evil. 😁

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14 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

You’re right. His resistance to vaccination is not admirable. What I should’ve said is his steadfast adherence to his convictions, to be unwavering and so firmly resolute is what I admire. If only he’d use it for good and not evil. 😁

It's getting a bit philosophical, but steadfast adherence to convictions doesn't necessarily have to lead to admiration. To use possibly the worst case but perfect example, Adolf Hitler stuck to his convictions. So does Vladimir Putin. I don't find anything to admire in either of those examples.

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On 2/24/2022 at 9:01 AM, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

It's getting a bit philosophical, but steadfast adherence to convictions doesn't necessarily have to lead to admiration. To use possibly the worst case but perfect example, Adolf Hitler stuck to his convictions. So does Vladimir Putin. I don't find anything to admire in either of those examples.

These aren’t even examples, let alone perfect examples of a display of steadfast adherence to one’s principles. Rather, they’re a paragon of narcissistic, egotistical psychopaths who have the wherewithal to appear to be firmly resolute in their beliefs. Without the power and the $$$, given even slight duress, and they’d fold like an accordion. 

And since Jack Darling (as far as I know) doesn’t have anywhere near those means, his uncompromising resolve is to be admired despite the object of such being the refusal to be vaccinated. 

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10 hours ago, daisycutter said:

and what is the point of qr codes if no-one is doing the tracing?

Contact tracing is no longer a thing. The purpose of QR codes is to ensure that only double-vaxxed people are entering establishments the access to which requires double-vax. 
For example, unvaccinated people are allowed to enter supermarkets, therefore QR scanning is not compulsory. 

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On 2/23/2022 at 4:54 PM, DubDee said:

agree with you, aside from the admiration.  I have zero admiration for him. he is putting himself and his family/friends and the community at risk

Up the Dubs!


Here we are all forken triple vaccinated,  we can still get it, still pass it on .... But not as bad or so the spin doctors will have you believe.
The only people he is supposedly "putting at risk" are himself and others who have made the choice not to get vaccinated with god knows what they're injecting into us.
 

On 2/24/2022 at 9:01 AM, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

It's getting a bit philosophical, but steadfast adherence to convictions doesn't necessarily have to lead to admiration. To use possibly the worst case but perfect example, Adolf Hitler stuck to his convictions. So does Vladimir Putin. I don't find anything to admire in either of those examples.

A bloke refuses to get vaccinated and gets likened to Hitler and Putin.
You Karens can all spare me the hysterical BS.

 

 

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