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Date: April 18, 2023 08:48AM

Across the globe popular responses to the virus have been influenced by culture. In Australia it's get out of the cities (if you don't live on 1/3 acre or more - social distancing), as cities are incubators for a virus. Yay Leyand Brothers! This is less of an issue the further north you go, as corona viruses work best in cold weather, and here in the southern hemisphere north is warm.

The yank response is in the picture. Last I looked their deaths by firearm were rising 30% a year, suicides had plateaued and murders were taking up the slack. What a thing to write, but that's the culture.

Historically, with plague comes famine and war. Here in Australia there are now more firearm owners (that government knows of) than ever. We're not shooting our neighbours. We're preparing for war. No one trusts gumbyment - the just ousted political party is infiltrated by yanks who taught: "if nations trade with each other they don't fight each other, as they rely on each other". Only if you're stupid enough to believe this are you welcome in the party. The stupidity denies history: the German trenches in WWI lined with British Bluescope Cement bags, the Rolls Royce engines in Panzers, the alleged purchase of a bombing aiming sight from the British - by the Germans, who paid for it, in WWII, the frantic trade between warring sides using third parties (deniable criminal gangs) in the Balkans during the 1990's and now the wheat trade from Ukraine.