Open Thread- Weekend 16 Oct 2021
1,513 responses to “Open Thread- Weekend 16 Oct 2021”
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I think it’s fairly clear by now that it is at least plausible that pilots have a much greater risk of vax-related blood clotting due to the nature of their work. Given all of the recent flight cancellations, this obviously known in the US, and surely Australian pilots are well aware of this as well. Is there any reason to think that a large chunk of Australian pilots wouldn’t make this same risk/benefit calculation of getting vaxxed, arrive at the same conclusions, and take the same action in similar proportions to their American colleagues?
However, given air travel in Australia is still massively down from pre-pandemic levels, most Australian pilots must still be furloughed. When more planes start taking to the sky and those pilots get back to work, are we going to see large numbers of flights cancelled with weird, inexplicable justifications, as has been the case in the US?
I’m waiting for a vaccine-hesitant group to emerge that cannot be dismissed as ‘anti-vaxxers’, and whose unwillingness to get vaccinated causes major interruptions to core functions of society. Construction workers – not yet. Truckies – not yet. Pilots?
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Bill Clinton releases a televised statement on his hospitalization for a UTI..
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/33703386-c919-48e0-81fe-f73f3f968862
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I’m waiting for a vaccine-hesitant group to emerge that cannot be dismissed as ‘anti-vaxxers’,
OCO, how about the hundreds of health care workers that have been furloughed since Friday in Victoria as the requirement that all Authorized Workers must be at the very least single-vaxxed or have an appointment by Oct 22 came into effect.
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Oh no! Now I’ve reported Dover’s comment. To Dover.
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Bill Clinton releases a televised statement on his hospitalization for a UTI..
Perhaps they’ve started pumping him full of whatever they’ve been giving his wife, and what they used to keep RBG’s lifeless body animated for all of those years?
I’m only slightly joking. I’ve no doubt these people have access to some kind of rudimentary death-postponing elixir (likely produced by a Gates Foundation-funded biomedical outfit). Goodness knows what it’s made of. Something terrifying and demonic, I suspect.
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OCO, how about the hundreds of health care workers that have been furloughed since Friday in Victoria as the requirement that all Authorized Workers must be at the very least single-vaxxed or have an appointment by Oct 22 came into effect.
Dover, the government has already started the replacements…
Pale, stale, some even male.
https://ntindependent.com.au/health-ministers-new-plan-to-fast-track-visas-for-nurses-already-happening-senator/
Health Minister’s new plan to ‘fast-track’ visas for nurses already happening: Senator“The Federal Government has already put in place mechanisms for the acceleration of critical staff including doctors and registered nurses in September last year (2020),” Senator McMahon said in the statement, emphasizing that measures are already in place.
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Ms McMahon added that the Federal Government has just facilitated a huge cohort of Pacific workers for the aged care sector. -
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Bruce of Newk.
Can’t confirm veracity and possibly misinformation but Caledonian may have links to an OMG. I know the Criterion definitely has aspersions that way in this town. Not saying I don’t support their stance…
Disclaimer on Caledonian those rumours have been around as long as I have been here and could be small town gossip. Only 12K permanent population here.
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OCO, how about the hundreds of health care workers that have been furloughed since Friday in Victoria as the requirement that all Authorized Workers must be at the very least single-vaxxed or have an appointment by Oct 22 came into effect
A good start. It needs to be enough to shut the system down, though. And the AMA’s unwavering vaccine zealotry seems endless. I’d have some hope if it started representing its vaccine-hesitant members even in some small way, but I don’t see it so far.
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And dont think the education Ponzi isnt already on board
University of Tasmania – Fast-Track Nursing in Sydney
Friday 28 December 2018
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This while it has taken me nearly 2 bloody years just to be registered as a paramedic after finishing my degree.
And we are still negotiating about the training hours.
Despite me submitting a program with more than 2x the necessary hours being completed already. -
Dr. Zandre Botha: Never Before Seen: Blood Doctor Reveals HORRIFIC Findings After Examining Vials
Interview with Stew Peters. Very heartfelt lady who is seeing vaccine injury patients.
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I’m only slightly joking. I’ve no doubt these people have access to some kind of rudimentary death-postponing elixir (likely produced by a Gates Foundation-funded biomedical outfit). Goodness knows what it’s made of. Something terrifying and demonic, I suspect.
They must have something keeping them alive. How else would there be so many creepy 80 year olds in the US left?
Biden, Pelosi, Warren, Sanders, Fauci, etc. -
Reading some macro analysis from one of the big brokerage houses.
These are extraordinary numbers. The real sick puppy in the US is government.
What to do? The rise in oil price is good for the dollar. We turn tactically bullish but just a bear market rally. It is tactically bullish because:
-US is a net petroleum exporter
-US shale production should increase
-US inflation in 22 below 21
-US excess savings more than any other region at 11% of GDP for consumer (& 5% of GDP in the corporate sector)Real rates are also rising in the US dollar favour.
US real rates have been rising more quickly than those in EuropeThat’s some mighty savings rate for both the consumer and corporate America.
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I lost a lot of faith in the jury system when I saw some of the cretins on the panels.
Mate of mine got called up for jury service in New South Wales, for a case of a single mum, who had committed sizeable welfare fraud. Just as the proceedings started, one of those on the panel declared that she didn’t care “what you guys say, she’s a single mum, the same as me, and there’s no way I’m finding her guilty.”
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Watched a doco about Michael Schumacher the other night.
Watching one about Senna now.
Both made their names in their first few races by performing in the pissing rain.
Senna’s seventh GP in Monaco.
The track is barely two lanes wide.
Tight as a trout’s arse on the opening day of fly-fishing season.
Senna is in a much inferior vehicle.
Starts 13th on the grid in pissing rain. Works his way to second after thirty laps on a track which has nowhere to pass.
He is picking up 3 seconds a lap on Proust. Three seconds, when picking up 0.3 would be considered flying.
They stop the race because it is too wet.
Ayrton thinks this is some sort of mercy rule.
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H B Bear says:
October 16, 2021 at 4:35 pm
Muddy at 1:48 – cafe lines are pretty sensitive, I had some snoozer have a go at me once. A bit rough when you’re in a wheelchair with a voice impairment. People generally fall into two camps – either overly compensatory or don’t even acknowledge you and get in the way. People,eh?Yeah, Bear. People. *Spit*
Actually, I’m more annoyed that I allowed myself to get annoyed over such a trivial issue. Normally I’m reasonably restrained, but as with others here (and everywhere), the last few weeks have been more challenging, so the thickness of my patience can barely be measured by the naked eye at the moment. At to that the fact that I had cracked myself in the forehead with a decent stick about one hour prior, and I was feeling edgy. It was a trivial non-event in the scheme of things, but my lifelong habit of overthinking everyfreakingthing is a hard one to crush.I’m pleased you’re still around, Bear. I look for your comments.
To everyone’s suggestions for foreign swear words – Speciba. Dasvidanya? Or something.
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Bruce O’Newk:
Predictably predictable:
Norway attacker to undergo psychiatric evaluation (16 Oct)
The Somali will get the same treatment, betcha.You realise the only logical conclusion to all of this is…?
“That Islam sends people mad.”
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Winston Smithsays:
October 16, 2021 at 7:03 pmI put to the Cat Readers that the 457 Visa Policy is precisely what a Fascist government would bring in.
Prove me wrong…Winston: Which iteration & which part of (the now defunct) 457 visa subclass?
The legislation, & especially the regulation (& thus effectively the visa) changed so often it’d make yer head spin.There were at least three streams that each should have been a separate visa subclass, in particular the “IT stream” & the “Regional 457” bore limited resemblance to the regular 457 visa.
Apart from the name (457) the 457 visa in 2010 had little in common with the 457 visa of 2009.…& it goes on & on & on.
In all my experience with the 457 visa subclass (probably 60 consummated sponsorships) not once was what happened in practice anything like what the brochure (& immi website) said.
Not once.
Surely a fascist government would be expected to have a consistent & clearly defined policy, especially when it came to implementing said policy?
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Senna’s seventh GP in Monaco.
The track is barely two lanes wide.The Beloved is a dyed in the wool F1 fan. Will set the alarm and get up and watch live.
We visited Monaco. Our guide discovered the Beloved’s fandom, so did the circuit. Himself was in seventh heaven, passenger’s seat, leaning into the corners.
Shame we were in a Merc 8 seater. 😀
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Dover, the government has already started the replacements…
Pale, stale, some even male.
https://ntindependent.com.au/health-ministers-new-plan-to-fast-track-visas-for-nurses-already-happening-senator/
Health Minister’s new plan to ‘fast-track’ visas for nurses already happening: SenatorCitizens are completely fungible with foreigners to urban bugmen.
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Don’t worry Roger, everyone in the game still calls them 457 visas.
I’ve never heard anybody in the game refer to another visa subclass as a “457”
Not the visa holder, not a migration agent, not a recruiting agent, not a migration lawyer, not anybody at Immi, calls another visa a “457”.
Not once in the 4 years since the 457 was abolished.(bogans/unionists with a limited & superficial understanding of visas & migration usually call anything a “457”, it’s become another word for “visa” (sorta like “esky” has become the word for “cooler box”)
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It’s a weapon o’ choice … 🙂
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I was just pointing out that as the article posted by frolicking? was eight years old the question of what is happening to those who were involved was no longer current which is the only reason I pointed out the name change.
You just keep waxing lyrical on another one of your mastermind subjects though, Queen Bern.
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Wow man, out o’ control … 😕
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Zipster:
‘No retreat’ as China sends a chill through Antarctica
Australia has vowed to ‘assert our authority’ in Antarctica, amid claims Chinese obstructionism is undermining the treaty system that protects the world’s last wilderness.No shit, Zipster.
Has Morrison finally noticed the Chinese bases on our territory in the Antarctic?
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The good news is that the VicPol coffee checkers are going viral via all the right places.
https://twitter.com/Diogothefive8/status/1449208824380854275?s=20
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1964, the Cavern Club (?) – I can’t explain why Mods are the best and will remain so.
Get those tailored suits out. 🙂
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F1 is a bit of a circus but it’s hard not to be impressed with the level of skill.
I love watching people at the top of their game pushing their limits. I’ve been getting into mountain biking lately and this run at the recent Red Bull Hardline is incredible. Here is the winning run.
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Bluddee hell – the hardest working man in show business … 🙂
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This was the winning run at Red Bull Rampage overnight.
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I’m only slightly joking. I’ve no doubt these people have access to some kind of rudimentary death-postponing elixir (likely produced by a Gates Foundation-funded biomedical outfit). Goodness knows what it’s made of. Something terrifying and demonic, I suspect.
Not to forget Soros.
Read Norman Spinrad “Bug Jack Barron” for a take on this. The novel got denounced in the Brit House of Lords IIRC, so it has at least that going for it. -
All aboard, the Night Train … 🙂
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From the smh CBD column re the Everest.
Another outgoing MP was spotted closer to the action. Former deputy premier John Barilaro – without a wedding ring – spent the day inside the Racing NSW’s Chairman’s Room among a crowd that (briefly) included Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese.
This week in the AFR Joe Aston made the allegation he’s been caught out with one of his now former staffers.
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Full column.
Brad Hazzard was at the Everest today.
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Let’s have some cultural garments, I tells ya! 🙂
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OSC:
A diversion from anti-Islamic feeling is also offered:
It is unclear why Sir David was attacked. He has been an opponent to LGBT rights and same sex marriage and was also fiercely opposed to fox-hunting. He had supported Brexit.The Oz is implying the victim’s history caused the murder.
Bastards.“She deserved to be raped, dressed like that.”
Now where have we heard that before…?
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