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NikolaiFyodorov  ·  1484 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 4, 2020

We've taken the day off work to watch the US Presidential election. We have hot dogs to accompany the event, complete with some sort of weird "America's favourite mustard".

News that probably doesn't have much significance elsewhere but is deeply significant to Melburnians, we've just recorded our fifth consecutive day of zero new CV19 cases. Feels great.





ButterflyEffect  ·  1484 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It is so weird hearing from people who have functional or at least not actively hostile towards their own citizens federal governments.

NikolaiFyodorov  ·  1484 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We've been really fortunate. I can't emphasise enough that the Victorian Government has achieved this despite a sustained campaign by News Corp and the conservative opposition to sabotage their efforts. It's been really quite remarkable to me.