Ausmumof3 Posted October 10, 2020 Posted October 10, 2020 Abc (us) Chris Christie has been released from the hospital following COVID-19 diagnosis: "I want to thank the extraordinary doctors & nurses who cared for me for the last week... I will have more to say about all of this next week” I thought I was easier to start a new thread than dig up an old one but I know some where worried about him so they’d be happy to know. 17 Quote
PeterPan Posted October 10, 2020 Posted October 10, 2020 I'm glad to hear that! Now can I just ask a total aside? Are you originally from the US? Why are aussies so into american politics? I've seen these clips of some kind of Sky News (Aus) following US politics. Is it kind of a thing there, sort of like royalty watching here?? Quote
Ausmumof3 Posted October 10, 2020 Author Posted October 10, 2020 3 minutes ago, PeterPan said: I'm glad to hear that! Now can I just ask a total aside? Are you originally from the US? Why are aussies so into american politics? I've seen these clips of some kind of Sky News (Aus) following US politics. Is it kind of a thing there, sort of like royalty watching here?? Yeah kinda. Well for me personally it’s because I hang out here so that’s why I’m kinda half interested. Also although we have no say in the outcome whatever the US does has a pretty big effect on us. Sky news is Rupert Murdoch owned or affiliated. 5 Quote
Lecka Posted October 10, 2020 Posted October 10, 2020 Yay!!!!!!! I’m so glad to hear that, and I hadn’t seen it yet! Thanks for sharing 🙂 Quote
Guest Posted October 10, 2020 Posted October 10, 2020 I was very glad when I heard that on the radio today. I am curious what his treatment plan is/has been. Im not sure if that info was available. I do have a lot of regard for him stating he will update next week, rather than, say, pretending like he’s totally beaten the virus and life is just back to normal again. 4 Quote
Ausmumof3 Posted October 10, 2020 Author Posted October 10, 2020 1 hour ago, Quill said: I was very glad when I heard that on the radio today. I am curious what his treatment plan is/has been. Im not sure if that info was available. I do have a lot of regard for him stating he will update next week, rather than, say, pretending like he’s totally beaten the virus and life is just back to normal again. Some of that may be related to wanting to talk about it “at work” and the need to continue quarantining for a bit. Maybe? 1 Quote
AmandaVT Posted October 10, 2020 Posted October 10, 2020 I'm so glad he's on the mend - I was starting to get worried about him. 1 Quote
Guest Posted October 10, 2020 Posted October 10, 2020 FWIW, when we were in Australia last December, we had a couple of times when people would, after realizing we were American, ask us about American politics. The one that really stands out was a young server in a restaurant who wanted to know what odds we would place on the impeachment because he wanted a leg up on the betting pool he was in with his mates :). The local library DH and I spent a happy morning at while DD played Pokémon with some local folks also had a rather large collection of books on US history and a lot of US periodicals-well exceeding what the US university libraries I have experience with have on Australian history and Australian current events. 2 Quote
Rosie_0801 Posted October 10, 2020 Posted October 10, 2020 8 hours ago, PeterPan said: I'm glad to hear that! Now can I just ask a total aside? Are you originally from the US? Why are aussies so into american politics? I've seen these clips of some kind of Sky News (Aus) following US politics. Is it kind of a thing there, sort of like royalty watching here?? No. It's much more serious than that. It's more like a view of the future. Quote
Spy Car Posted October 10, 2020 Posted October 10, 2020 We sneeze and the world gets a cold. Something like that. Bill 5 Quote
mathnerd Posted October 10, 2020 Posted October 10, 2020 15 minutes ago, Spy Car said: We sneeze and the world gets a cold. Something like that. Bill Yup, kinda like this ... if you watch the world stock market indices, they actually respond instantaneously to what the Fed has to say when they lower or raise rates. BTW/ I was optimistic about Christie getting out of the hospital in one piece because he is rather young compared to his WH friends even though he had some preexisting conditions that make him vulnerable ... Good to hear that he is out of hospital. 2 Quote
PeterPan Posted October 11, 2020 Posted October 11, 2020 11 hours ago, Ausmumof3 said: Yeah kinda. Well for me personally it’s because I hang out here so that’s why I’m kinda half interested. Also although we have no say in the outcome whatever the US does has a pretty big effect on us. Sky news is Rupert Murdoch owned or affiliated. That makes sense then about Sky News. Why does the US affect Aus so much?? 3 hours ago, Rosie_0801 said: It's more like a view of the future. Ahhh... Quote
Rosie_0801 Posted October 11, 2020 Posted October 11, 2020 22 minutes ago, PeterPan said: That makes sense then about Sky News. Why does the US affect Aus so much?? The US government sets the limit on what the Australian population allows from its government. Quote
Ausmumof3 Posted October 11, 2020 Author Posted October 11, 2020 1 hour ago, kdsuomi said: The Australian population has been allowing its government to do way more these days than the US government would be able to, unless the thought is that we'll infect the thought patterns later (or something else was meant entirely and didn't come across)? Seriously, I've been following what's been going on in Australia, and there's absolutely no way there's any comparison between what has been happening there to here government control wise. That’s true. I think the difference is more people here have been concerned about the severity of the virus and willing to support more drastic measures anyway. I think that is waning a bit now. Also coming off the back of a horrendous fire season people were already in emergency preparedness mode if that makes sense. 1 Quote
Ausmumof3 Posted October 11, 2020 Author Posted October 11, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, PeterPan said: That makes sense then about Sky News. Why does the US affect Aus so much?? Ahhh... Because we’re 25,000 people and you’re 331,000,000. Whatever you di effects the global economy and stability anyway and we’re close allies. If you go to war mostly we go to war. You have military stuff here. When you have a trade war with China that directly effects the economy. A lot of our popular tv and music etc is from America so it affects us culturally as well as practically. We are probably idealogically closer in many ways than European countries. We’re both English speaking countries with English heritage so in some ways culturally similar. Edited October 11, 2020 by Ausmumof3 2 Quote
Ausmumof3 Posted October 11, 2020 Author Posted October 11, 2020 @PeterPan this is old but gives a bit of an example of military stuff US has going on here. https://www.businessinsider.com.au/us-military-plans-secretive-new-305-million-naval-expansion-australia-usfpi-2019-7 2 Quote
katilac Posted October 12, 2020 Posted October 12, 2020 On 10/10/2020 at 9:49 PM, Rosie_0801 said: The US government sets the limit on what the Australian population allows from its government. Then please accept my sincere apologies. 2 Quote
Rosie_0801 Posted October 12, 2020 Posted October 12, 2020 43 minutes ago, katilac said: Then please accept my sincere apologies. Whose fault is it if my countrymen and women choose to gain their educations from tabloids and Facebook memes? *sigh* Quote
Ausmumof3 Posted October 12, 2020 Author Posted October 12, 2020 1 hour ago, katilac said: Then please accept my sincere apologies. Well we can apologies back for Rupert Murdoch if that helps 🙄 1 3 Quote
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