Hypocritical convict ****s Moment Covid struck Tahlia McGrath hugs Australia cricket teammates at Commonwealth Games 2022 4hrs ago Tahlia McGrath was permitted to play at Edgbaston in yesterday despite testing positive. She bowled and batted in the match and also took the catch that dismissed 's star opener Shafali Verma as the Southern Stars took gold. She batted at No4 without a mask before she was dismissed after scoring just two runs off four balls. McGrath then bowled two overs for 24 runs and also took a catch, when she held up her hands to warn her fellow players not to come and celebrate with her. But when they won the game, McGrath jumped into the huddle and hugged her teammates. Australian bowler Megan Schutt said afterwards: 'If we get Covid, so be it'. Had the match been played in Australia, McGrath would have been forced to isolate for seven days. But in the UK, where self-isolation rules are advisory only, Ms McGrath could play. She had woken up with mild symptoms yesterday morning and then returned a positive test. However, she was still selected in the Aussies' XI after tournament organisers approved her participation following consultations before the toss, which was delayed. McGrath did not line up with her team-mates during the pre-match national anthems and did not join them in the dugout while they were batting, instead sitting in the stands wearing a mask. After taking part in the match, Tahlia wore a mask at the medal ceremony and as she celebrated gold with her teammates on the podium, where she had her arms around Beth Mooney and Alana King. She is understood to be the first player known to have Covid to take part in an international cricket match, with Birmingham allowing each positive athlete to be assessed on a case-by-case basis. But critics have said she should not have been allowed to play. Many Indian supporters felt the decision was 'racist' and that India would have been ruled out of the final if the shoe was on the other foot. There was also anger because Indian para discus athlete Aneesh Kumar Pillai was banned from his Commonwealth final in Birmingham after testing positive for Covid-19. The virus was picked up by a random swab - and he was asymptomatic - but the Commonwealth Games Federation said he couldn't take part. There were also claims of hypocrisy by the Australians, given their very hard line on lockdowns and vaccination to slow the spread. Their strict rules led to Novak Djokovic being excluded from the Australian Open tennis and deported - despite him not having Covid-19. Former prime minister Scott Morrison even spent $2billion of taxpayers' money on quarantine facilities now scattered around Australia that sit unused and empty. One Australian tweeted that McGrath's participation 'makes a mockery of all the isolation we had to endure for the last three years'.
Hmm, I wonder how we'd have fared under a different flavour of government? Amid rising inflation and a bleak economic outlook, Ms Ardern - who became the world’s youngest female head of government at the age of 37 - could lose power to a coalition of the centre-Right National party and the Right-wing ACT at the next election, the latest opinion polls have shown. Ms Ardern said the results reflected the fact that times were tough for New Zealanders. “There’s absolutely no doubt increases in inflation are hurting New Zealanders,” she admitted. But she cited low unemployment, low relative debt and a reopening of the country’s international border as reason for optimism. “Those things will give a boost – a much-needed boost to us going forward,” added the prime minister. It was not a view shared by Mr Luxon, who claimed that “Kiwis are over the government and they want change”. “I think they understand that this is a government that is not good with money and not good at managing the economy,” he said. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/oth...pc=U531&cvid=5260e90117ba41bdc49a8063d0a1f80f
Why have you changed your tune, Doggy? I thought you were a mask cuck? Me, Dunc and Lochers are the three musketeers of Not606
You're a wee scamp. I've never agreed with the masks, or the lockdowns and have challenged a fair bit of the data put forward. I have disputed some of the things posted by the people you mention though.
Well, to be honest, I think you're trying to get back in with the cool kids after being a bit of a Judas ****. **** you, Dutch!
Sorry to disappoint you but I got vaxxed and boosted up the wazoo to go to Benidorm . I just started to wear a face mask in supermarkets too
