Crossie

I may never see Blue Mountains again, or Seven Mile Beach, or the Hunter Valley or anywhere outside my five kilometre radius.

I think that the five km radius only comes into play if you have to cross an LGA boundary or are in an LGA “of concern”. In those cases, you are limited to a 5km radius of your residence. Otherwise, you are free to roam within your LGA.

Mater, petition signed.

Dot says:
August 29, 2021 at 8:22 pm
We all should be using VPNs.

Most people have abysmal online security.

There is no such thing as online security.
Better to know those who want to break in, have.
Sure, some build great electronic vaults that make breaking in so hard it’s not worth the trouble, and some lives are so boring & worthless they’re not worth breaking into, and because of the two extremes people get the illusion of security being possible.
But the internet was not given to us to serve us securely, quite the opposite, as cancel culture has shown us.
‘Ooh, the idiot had password as his password. Don’t make that mistake!’
‘Here, let us sell you security. We promise Federal Tax, Police & Military oh and spooks, will never crack it.’
Some people don’t expect to be attacked by crazy people when they leave their house.
Others know crazy people will also break into their house, and they’re ready for them when they do.
Treat your online life like your really world life.
Know that sometimes you just have to leave justice to God because if you started delivering the justice the arseholes deserve, you wouldn’t be able to stop before becoming the monster they are.

I repeat:

Here in NSW –
Not possible if you live in a LGA of concern and need to work outside that LGA.
Not possible if you work but do not live in a LGA of concern.
Not possible if you have a business, or businesses, in a LGA of concern that you must visit.

I am hurting, my family is hurting. We are devastated.

In a futuristic world there is no way that a law degree person would be allowed to be a “politician”.

Sancho, can you come out of the closet?
I know you’re Leigh Lowe.
I just scrolled through this afternoon’s postings & it’s clearly you.

Fake lefties outnumber conservative 20 to 1 on twitter.
If they got rid of anonymity, twitter would go from 300mill active users to around 50mill, globally.

That’s a good set of personal policies srr, but you don’t think VPNs and Proton Mail etc are good things?

Yes there is stuff like keystroke loggers and all apps basically talk to each other.

*The utterly despicable Jon Faine had a piece in the Nine tabloids a week or so ago calling for it. He said there’s no justification for it here, as it’s not like we’re Hong Kong, where they shoot protesters.*

No, we just have murdered politicians with no one caught (Mackay) or Police Commissioners shot in their own front driveways (Winchester).

What could possibly go wrong?

I watched a little PM Live tonight & it was the first time I’d heard of the political parties wanting to make all the JobKeeper data public.
I think it should be linked to the exemptions list (travel, quarantine, work).
Make it all public.

Possibly someone impersonating a luvverly ladeee.

Haha. I just alluded to that very thing on DashCat.

The pie hole appears to have slammed shut. I’m going to have fun with this for months.

Excuse me, what’s Dashcat?

Adam’s site.

All Australian Government registered Lawyers, Doctors, Accountants and newspaper sellers are SHIT.

But the High Court Judges control the law over and above ‘politicians’ that are, laughably, meant to make the law.

Dotsays:
August 29, 2021 at 10:25 pm
That’s a good set of personal policies srr, but you don’t think VPNs and Proton Mail etc are good things?

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Yeah, but like all security, it can stop some people, slow others but can also lull people into a false sense of security.

But sometimes it’s not the getting in that’s the trick, but getting back out again.
Like an old Painters & Dockers Uncle who lived in what looked like a perfectly normal Melbourne Terrace house, nothing particularly security conscience looking about it, until you got in and then realized their was NO GETTING BACK OUT unless he wanted to let you out.

Sorry to hear you’re hurting, P.

We in Victoriastan have also been hurting – for the past 17 months almost non-stop – we are in our 6th lockdown, third imposed curfew, 5th only 5km travel BS, no visiting relatives for most of that 17 months, no funerals, no weddings, no engagement parties , police choppers overhead every night, fines and more importantly no Mass, no Sacraments for the better part of 15 months.

What you’re experiencing now, we’ve had to endure for a long time.

DB, on his substack Berenson said to follow this guy.

https://twitter.com/GenRescue

In Fact Checking news:

DID JOE BIDEN FALL ASLEEP? VIDEO WITH ISRAEL’S PRIME MINISTER DEBUNKED

No, Biden did not fall asleep. While everyone had their attention on his eyes, many failed to notice that the President’s fingers were continually in motion.

If you look carefully at the video, one can watch Biden’s thumb moving throughout the clip. It is most likely that he was paying close attention to what Bennett had to say. However, the angle of the snippet had everyone convinced that he could be sleeping.

Technical Note: Sometimes called twitching.

“come on pussies”

antifa

most likely that he was paying close attention to what Bennett had to say

Nah. That’s the look he gets when he’s listening to instructions from his special earpiece telling him what to say next. Requires intense concentration.

John Spooner.

Morten Morland.

A.F. Branco.

Al Goodwyn.

Gary Varvel.

Lisa Benson.

Spooner. Brilliant.

the Hazzard one should say the APM with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds.

Excellent.

In a just world Hazzard would spend his later, remaining years in a Penrith houso joint with holes in the ceiling, grating ‘Do you know who I am?’ over the back fence at the neighbours’ cats.

Sadly though, the world is not just.

Dilbert 2

CSPI are so full of themselves. They always have been. Don’t bother going there. It’s like the redux of the “Midwit Starter Pack”. They’re like Snopes on steroids.

They’re literally arguing that microbes do not evolve to be less dangerous to be successful.

“We believe in evolution and evolutionary pressures, but not the end result”

“No one had immunity to COVID”

(Gee, what a falsifiable statement…). Um, actually, you can’t prove that (not now, anyway) and given the number of asymptomatic cases, you’re probably quite wrong.

COVID was never actually dangerous. There is not a person in Australia who has died “from” (with) it who was healthy or of an advanced age otherwise.

That’s simply what the data says.

*Thats a very good article MT.*

Terrible, actually.

*Now can we stop with the fussing about the ‘death jab’ and focus on ridding ourselves of the yoke of overbearing politicians?*

No, we cannot. For anyone healthy and under 50, they’re better off NOT getting vaccinated. The risk is greater with vaccines at that age. Not my opinion. Just what the data bears out.

Herd immunity is impossible anyway given these vaccines have such low efficacy.

Even the RACGP says vaccines are only 70% effective – it is generally accepted that herd immunity requires a vaccination rate of 80%.

You cannot vaccinate 114% of the population.

Dot, asymptomatic Covid19 infection was always the clue. Many had already achieved a level of natural immunity via their immune systems from being exposed to years of coronavirus infections.

The big killers are compromised immune systems for whatever reason – illness, age and the like. And, of course, environmental issues like poor ventilation, sanitation and social practices. Obesity also appears to be a big no-no, but gee, we’ve been told that for years.

Decades of being fed disaster movies and apocalyptic scenarios have been very useful in priming populations for draconian measures to “fight” the unfightable. And the political and financial payout so far has been immense for the fear-mongers. No wonder there’s no end in sight.

Dotsays:
August 30, 2021 at 7:56 am
*Thats a very good article MT.*

Terrible, actually.

*Now can we stop with the fussing about the ‘death jab’ and focus on ridding ourselves of the yoke of overbearing politicians?*

No, we cannot. For anyone healthy and under 50, they’re better off NOT getting vaccinated. The risk is greater with vaccines at that age. Not my opinion. Just what the data bears out.

Herd immunity is impossible anyway given these vaccines have such low efficacy.

The Israel data indicates new vaccines will be required. People getting the jab now may be fine with a booster from a new vaccine. The Delta variant is an escape mutation, is more dangerous than the original, and much more infectious. Israel is the canary on the issue, it will be interesting to follow.

Neurons in visual cortex of the brain ‘drift’ over time

New research from Washington University in St. Louis reveals that neurons in the visual cortex — the part of the brain that processes visual stimuli — change their responses to the same stimulus over time.

Jubakka! That does not make sense! Are Hubel and Wiesel findings overthrown?

Remember Uncle Milt.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program…

I will gladly take a traditional vaccine that has proven high efficacy and minimal adverse effects as soon as we are not being coerced or blackmailed by our servants (this is a democracy, in theory) to do so. The medical industry should test for immunity first though (and should have been doing so with positive COVID tests and vaccinations so far).

Dot … I just like heat maps.

At least the article is not hysteria based.

Dotsays:
August 30, 2021 at 8:41 am
*The Delta variant is an escape mutation, is more dangerous than the original*

Hang on. It is commonly noted that this is not the case (that does not mean it is true). Why is it more dangerous? I don’t think we can use India (where it originated from) as a basis to make judgements because their public health is atrocious, let alone their hospitals.

Perhaps there are latent epigenetic reasons in different countries why a variant may be worse there?

PS

If you can and have the time spare, please explain in lay terms to introductory level of studies, explain what the differences in the variants are…? ?

DOT I am relying on recent results in Israel which find Delta is breaking through. The bods did call for a new vaccine. This is not about India nor epigenetics. Data in Britain indicates Delta is causing more severe disease. At this point though the data is incomplete but the trend is worrying.

One study from Scotland, where the Delta variant is predominating, found Delta cases led to 85% higher hospital admissions than other strains. Most of these cases, however, were unvaccinated.

This large national study found a higher hospital admission or emergency care attendance risk for patients with COVID-19 infected with the delta variant compared with the alpha variant. Results suggest that outbreaks of the delta variant in unvaccinated populations might lead to a greater burden on health-care services than the alpha variant.

A grim warning from Israel Vaccination blunts, but does not defeat Delta

What is clear is that “breakthrough” cases are not the rare events the term implies. As of 15 August, 514 Israelis were hospitalized with severe or critical COVID-19, a 31% increase from just 4 days earlier. Of the 514, 59% were fully vaccinated. Of the vaccinated, 87% were 60 or older. “There are so many breakthrough infections that they dominate and most of the hospitalized patients are actually vaccinated,” says Uri Shalit, a bioinformatician at the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) who has consulted on COVID-19 for the government. “One of the big stories from Israel [is]: ‘Vaccines work, but not well enough.’”

Deaths per million Covid
India 314
Denmark 444
Natural acquired immunity if on display in India basically pulls the plug on Doherty assumptions.
I suspect Doherty uses the naive immune system input and works from there.

NSW has recorded 1218 Covid-19 cases and six more people have died as the state reached the halfway mark to a 70 per cent vaccination rate.

Three of the people who died were in their 80s and three were in their 70s

good thing we destroyed hundreds of thousands of people’s lives

Andrews.
“We acted early but I’m not here to tell people this is easy, it’s not, it’s bloody hard.”

Always throws himself into the picture without any evidence he or his family have done it “hard”

NSW has recorded 1218 Covid-19 cases and six more people have died as the state reached the halfway mark to a 70 per cent vaccination rate.

So 35% fully vaccinated with 70% efficacy means 24.5% effectively vaccinated.

That’s a long way to 80% fully vaccinated “needed” for herd immunity.

Just stop this wasteful and destructive charade now.

via a frozen mallard.

#duckwars
#duckjustice
#haveaquack

right wing paranoid reactions
all about a passport
message

He’s a bug-weasel.

If you watch Sky News (or know how to watch it without subscribing), circle September 20 in your diary (Paywallian):

When Sharri Markson first began investigating the possibility that the coronavirus may have resulted from a laboratory leak in Wuhan, she was widely ridiculed by other Australian media outlets.

But her dogged pursuit of the story has paid off with a killer scoop, securing the first sit-down interview (for an Australian broadcast media outlet) with Donald Trump since he was elected president in 2016.

Markson’s interview with Trump will be the centrepiece of a one-hour documentary that will air on Sky News on September 20.

The documentary is based on Markson’s soon-to-be-released book, What Really Happened in Wuhan, and will also feature interviews with Chinese whistleblowers, scientists and high-ranking intelligence officials including John Ratcliffe, the US Director of National Intelligence from 2020 to 2021 who oversaw 17 intelligence agencies and spearheaded the investigation into the origins of COVID-19.

Markson, The Australian’s investigations writer, said her interview with Trump — conducted via videolink — was “combative” at times.

“I cross-examined him on his knowledge of when and how COVID-19 emerged, and the evidence that pointed to a Wuhan lab leak — and what convinced him of that to such an extent that he came out publicly and said it,” Markson said.

Markson said she was still shocked by the criticism levelled at her by others in the Australian media over her reporting on the possibility of a lab leak.

“This is a story that everyone said was a conspiracy early last year — the ABC, the Guardian Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald — they all attacked my reporting,” she said.

“And I was just doing news reporting on the agencies and their investigations into the origins of the virus.

“It’s just extraordinary how the media and the tech giants and the scientific community shut down reporting on this, and ridiculed people who were promoting the idea that it might have come from a lab — and now the intelligence agencies in the US are saying that both of the main origin theories are equally plausible.”

Link

Headline & first paragraph from a paywalled story I was reading.

US frozen beef exports to China surge, adding to Canberra-Beijing tensions but boosting trade deal
US exported US$107 million worth of frozen beef to China in July, compared to just US$35 million from traditional export destination Australia

Eyrie says:
August 30, 2021 at 9:42 am
“I’d love to send him a message, via a frozen mallard.”

One would probably fit in those devices that are used to test aircraft windscreens known as “chicken guns”.

Probably apocryphal story goes that one aircraft was tested by different group and the bird went straight through. What gives? Advice was defrost first.

An aviation company I used to work for discovered that an unfrozen wedgetailed eagle encountered in flight can punch a hole in the inboard leading edge of a Dash-8.

Looks to be enough stuff to re-equip the entire Australian Army three times over. Amazing.