It’s Day 117 of Stilgherrian’s coronavirus isolation. The borders with Victoria are now closed. Was opening up COVID-19 restrictions a mistake? There’s also an update on the mysterious R S Archer.
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As Victoria enters a second lockdown, Scott Morrison has offered an apolitical response to the Labor state.
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One of General Flynn’s soldiers is on his way to Flemington to disarm the police. (This is the original thread on Twitter.)
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One of General Flynn’s soldiers is on his way to Flemington to disarm the police. (This is a mirror of the thread at Threadreader.)
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One of General Flynn’s soldiers is on his way to Flemington to disarm the police. (This is an archive of the Threadreader page.)
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(10 July 2020) With 165 coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours and authorities warning a peak may be yet to come, all eyes have turned to Victoria.
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A Katoomba man in his 50s is self-isolating at home after testing positive for COVID-19. The man is one of two people who attended attended the Crossroads Hotel in Casula last Friday night July 3, to test positive for the virus. Authorities are investigating whether the pub was the source of the infection.
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A South-West Sydney pub is tonight a make-shift clinic with hundreds of anxious locals, lining up in their cars to be tested.
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Police issue 16 fines after large order in Dandenong KFC raises suspicion group may have been gathering in breach of Victoria’s lockdown rules
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This comment on @themercurycomau Facebook page has just won the internet today, following the news Tassie's borders will STAY SHUT.
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Honest question: Are there videos like this emerging at large scale from other countries in this pandemic?
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"I think I made a mistake. I thought this was a hoax, but it's not." Those were the final words of a 30-year-old patient who died at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio this week after attending a so-called "COVID party," according to the hospital.
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More than 3,000 Texans have died from the coronavirus and counties are preparing for even more deaths by expanding their capacities to store bodies
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Mr Trump wore a mask during a visit to a military hospital, marking his first outing with the type of facial covering recommended by health officials as a precaution against spreading or becoming infected by the novel coronavirus.
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As he left the White House, he told reporters: "When you're in a hospital, especially ... I think it's expected to wear a mask". "I think it's a great thing to wear a mask. I've never been against masks but I do believe they have a time and a place."
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Incredibly depressing and super important. [Responses to Trump wearing a mask.]
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TRUMP: “Like people don’t remember — nobody ever heard of it until I came along, nobody remembered it for a long time or they didn’t use it at least. I use it all the time: Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. You know you say that and people say, ‘I didn’t know that.’”
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YOU HAD ONE JOB TODAY. For God's sake, man.
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This is @RepGrothman *today* at the Wisconsin Republican convention (which was held in-person).
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The two senior commanders on a coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier did not "do enough, soon enough" to stem the outbreak, the US Navy's top officer has said, a stunning reversal that upheld the firing of the ship's captain who had pleaded for faster action to protect the crew.
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The USS Theodore Roosevelt returned home to San Diego on Thursday led by a new captain who came aboard after the previous commanding officer was fired over the handling of a massive COVID-19 outbreak on board. There were no emotional embraces on the Navy pier typical of such homecomings when sailors return after months at sea.
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“Martial law now!” demand Express and Mail readers so aroused at the idea of troops on the streets that their nipples could be used to cut glass.
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This TikTok add for the COVIDsafe app... sucks? I’m aware I’m not the target demo.
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This beggars belief. How did not one person involved in this campaign not think it should be pulled given what has happened in Melbourne this week? Completely tone deaf and lacking in any understanding of human psychology. And the Tik Tok reference is a whole other problem.
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Died doing what he loved.
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Author of the 'David Saunders' book series. Historian and Explorer. My wife and I are to be found either in the Dordogne or in our GXV Patagonia.
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How to cognitive.
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The TikTok star talks becoming the tonic the world needed after her parodies of the president went viral.
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