That was poorly worded.

Someone in the NT was attacked by a cow.

I understand that, Indolent. What about the rest of it?

Walking along this morning, I popped myself into a parallel universe where Trump was still president, the “vaccines” had been rolled out to much derision and ree-ing and tried to imagine where we’d be now.

That was all.

Sancho Panzersays:
October 21, 2021 at 8:04 am
Mater at 6:30.
Go here for total Kung Flu deaths.
If you had the stats for last year you could deduce this years.
But it is, as we know, weighted heavily towards older people.

if you really want to see what a big nothing burger the Wu Flu is, check out the UK excess mortality.

1999/2000 saw about 95k excess deaths over the two winters, or 1600/million population.

total UK excess mortality since March 2020 (ie: 18 months) is 115k, or about 1700/million.

Trafalgar Night

Today an age-old tradition of the Royal Australian Navy will be observed. We will always do well to remember Horatio Nelson, the greatest fighting sailor who ever lived, and one who should serve as a model for naval people everywhere.

Horatio Nelson, the victor of the Battle of Trafalgar, fought against his country’s enemies for much of his life. A short, thin man not blessed with good looks, he first entered the British navy as a midshipman at the age of 12 years and three months. His father was a parson and Nelson had behind him a boyhood that had not been characterised by anything except need. He was one of eight children; his mother had died when he was nine, and his prospects did not look hopeful. However, even at a young age Nelson had initiative – he persuaded an older brother to appeal to his father to arrange an entry to the Navy via the good graces of an uncle, who commanded the 64-gun Raisonable. Bending the rules which should have rated Nelson as a captain’s servant, his uncle made sure the boy was accepted.

The British Navy in those days was the greatest in the world in terms of power, and also the most professional, with high standards both expected and met, and characterised by discipline and great ability from sailor and officer alike. With hundreds of years of tradition behind it, this was the Navy that had sailed the seven seas in exploration under great navigators such as James Cook and William Bligh, and defeated Britain’s enemies at sea in fleet and single ship action, often achieving victory against the odds. It was a harsh Navy too, with unrelenting discipline that often had to keep crews on its ships by force, which was often the way the sailors had arrived there in the first place – by being “pressed”. (The British sailor, for all his tremendous stamina, courage and resourcefulness, was also no fool, and often preferred a more comfortable and profitable existence ashore). Even for the most junior officer – midshipmen such as Nelson – the life was hard. These young officers lived in discomfort, often with poor food, were as disciplined as their sailors – they were often beaten in the gunroom rather than flogged at the gratings. They had a great deal to learn; from navigation to naval combat techniques along with all of the complex construction and handling of a wind-driven ship of war. And of course, there was always the prospect of being shot at with all of the horrors of combat in those days: chain shot, grape shot, musket fire and cannonball along with the cutlasses and pistols of the enemy; all combined to kill, maim or wound -with no recourse to attention under anaesthetic – the sailors of Nelson’s navy.

Into this doubtful future in 1771 came the young midshipman, to his first ship. Despite being prone to sickness: “I have had all the diseases that are” he once said; he adapted well to the vigorous and often dangerous life that was the Navy. He volunteered early in his service for a two-ship voyage to the North Pole, where he and a fellow midshipman left the ice-bound ship in the middle of the night to hunt a polar bear. The two adventurers were later seen attacking a bear some distance from the ship; the signal was made for them to return; which they did reluctantly – Nelson’s excuse was that he wanted to send the bear’s skin to his father.

Passing his Lieutenant’s examination in 1777, Nelson gained promotion to Post-Captain in the following year. His early commands were frigates, and he saw varied action: against privateers; river forts; on blockade. He married in 1787, but while he and his new wife were able to spend time together ashore in a comparatively peaceful period of Britain’s history, Nelson hankered after a new ship. With the beginning of the French Revolution war looked imminent, and the young captain, now 34, was given his first line-of-battle ship, the fourth rate 64-gun Agamemnon.

Nelson’ leadership strategies – novel for their time

Nelson employed in his leadership style something quite unusual for its day: the art of effective communication. One characteristic of this is to invite others to contribute their ideas for a campaign, or a battle, or a change of some sort; to educate his men and get them – and him – to know each others’ minds. Nelson embarked upon the Battle of the Nile in 1798 by letting his captains engage in individual fashion. The French fleet, anchored by the bows in a line in shallow coastal water, were engaged in ship to ship fashion by five British ships sailing inside the line and anchoring, and the rest engaging from outside. Thus the French were caught between two forces. At the end of hours of fighting, the French had lost 1, 700 men to the British loss of 200, and their fleet was largely pounded to pieces; Napoleon and his army stranded in Eygpt. Nelson had hoisted just two signals through the entire battle.

For the autocratic manager this would have been disastrous – an authoritarian leader would not trust his subordinates to make momentous decisions and fight on their own. Nelson, however, trusted his individual captains. So too, in the long pursuit of the French, years later in 1805, which led to Trafalgar, he had regular meetings with his “Band of Brothers” – the name first applied to those who fought under him at the Nile. During the long chase the officers would pool their ideas for forthcoming battles; the best use of tactics; what a following ship would do when its fellow was sighted engaged and so on. Consequently even the necessity for signals within the ensuing battle was dispensed with; the captains knew each others’ minds.

There are many other such examples of this attitude; Nelson detested a formal meeting but rather preferred informal sessions where his fellows could relax and speak their mind freely. Perhaps this is one of the many aspects of the man that inspired such loyalty from his peers: Hardy, who was with him when he died, Collingwood, whose battle line he enthusiastically raced to be first to engage at Trafalgar; Berry, who followed him from ship to ship; Hallowell, who after the Battle of the Nile made him a present of a coffin fashioned from the mainmast of the French ship L’Orient – Nelson kept it in his cabin for some time and was indeed buried in it.

Nelson was the supreme naval tactician. He demonstrated this many times in battle; his earlier commands of frigates having given him an understanding of the advantages of maneuverability and speedy action which he later brought to bear against the more textbook examples of action such as the commitment of a fleet into line of battle order. One of his notable tactical decisions – typical of a frigate captain – was action in the 1797 battle of Cape St Vincent. Fighting against the Spanish fleet and commanding HMS Captain, Nelson without orders put his ship across the advancing line of Spanish warships – his two-decker of 74 guns facing a four-decker of 136 guns – then the biggest ship afloat – with three-deckers behind. In this way Nelson forced the Spanish ships to alter course, thus allowing others of the British van to join the battle. As historian Christopher Lloyd says: “Only a tactician of genius and a man totally without fear would have dared to do this on his own initiative”.

The development of “the Nelson touch” – that singular appreciation of the battle to come and the right actions to take – was part of his tactical repertoire time and again. For example, we may look at his pursuit in the van of the British fleet to capture the 84 gun Ca Ira in 1796. In the ship to ship encounter Nelson’s maneuvering allowed him to inflict damage on the French ship repeatedly while avoiding damage himself. The French ship looked like being relieved when one of her peers arrived to help, but then both surrendered to Nelson. He was even capable of showing brilliance in land assaults, as he did at the siege of Bastia in Corsica, taking command of 12,000 troops and 300 seamen, bringing the town to capitulation. But innovative tactics did not prevent Nelson from understanding the brute force necessary for naval battles of the day; at the peak of his success he was to declare: “No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy”.

Nelson was a master of naval strategy. He demonstrated this repeatedly. He was recognised by one of the great Admirals of the age, Sir John Jervis, later to be Lord St Vincent, to be “more an associate than a subordinate officer” as Nelson wrote to his wife, and Jervis made him a Commodore. An occasional diplomat, Nelson never lost sight of the “Big Picture” of victory against Napoleon Bonaparte, and was always one to rise against personal rivalry with fellow officers, and the inter-service rivalry which then as now was a pestilence upon campaigns. Nelson, for example, was the commander of the force at the Bastia siege, while his Army equivalent, the famous Colonel Sir John Moore, “sulked in his tent” as Lloyd put it. Before the battle of Cape St. Vincent Nelson was to write: “A victory is very essential to England at this moment”. He was truly an instrument of his nation rather than himself.

Nelson knew also when to fight and when to seek peace. Having fought the Danish fleet into a standstill at Copenhagen, he negotiated with Denmark’s Prince Royal afterwards, seeking to stop the Prince’s country from moving towards Bonaparte. A successful armistice of 14 weeks was concluded by Nelson, demonstrating his mastery of statesmanship and strategy; a vote of thanks in the House of Commons commented: “that Lord Nelson had shown himself as wise as he was brave, and proved that there may be united in the same person the talents of the Warrior and the Statesman”.

Nelson was a leader, who demonstrated ruthlessness when necessary: he sacked his secretary after the Battle of the Nile, when that man broke down at the sight of his leader’s wound and failed to carry out Nelson’s orders. But he also demonstrated a willingness to learn, to change bad old ways for new better ones, and he was always willing to take advice, from anyone of any rank. Nelson learnt from Admiral Jervis, for example, of the importance of cleanliness on board ship to prevent typhus, and the necessity of lemon juice to ward off scurvy. But he also looked for greatness in his juniors, having Edward Berry, his First Lieutenant in Agamemnon, promoted to Captain because “he is an officer of talents, great courage and laudable ambition”. The biographer Southey observed: “He could electrify all within his atmosphere” while St. Vincent, not a man who was prone to flattery, said that Nelson: “…possessed the magic art of infusing the same spirit into others which inspired their own actions”.

Nelson was a man of courage, honour and action who we would do well to emulate. This is the sailor who lost an eye when an enemy shell, exploding during the siege of Calvi in Corsica, drove splinters and dust and rock fragments into his face. He suffered most terribly and often from wounds, paradoxically being not so much a man who loved combat as one who stood back as demanded of a senior commanding officer crucial to the course of battle. His wounds resulted from being quite willing to lead from the front if that was what it took to win an action. His right arm was amputated after the battle of Santa Cruz in Teneriffe due to his being hit by grapeshot. On the way back to the ship – at that time the Theseus – Nelson was lying in the bottom of the boat with a tourniquet around his arm, half conscious from loss of blood. When they reached the ship, he was half-hauled on board, clinging to the rope with one arm while he climbed up the ship’s side. Once on board he gave orders for the surgeon to be called immediately, saying: “for I know I must lose my arm, and the sooner it is off the better.”

During the battle of Cape St Vincent – we recall Nelson had thrown Captain in the path of the vastly superior 136 gun Santissiama Trinidada – this man of courage and action himself led the charge up the side of the Spanish 80 gun San Nicolas, followed by “my old Agamemnons” – a detachment of the Sixty-Ninth Regiment of Foot. Together they stormed the ship, Nelson leading with a cry of “Westminster Abbey or Glorious Victory” and if that was not enough, when fired upon by the San Josef, which had collided with her sister ship, he led the way aboard her too. Together the men from CAPTAIN took this ship as well. By the end of the action Captain had to be towed away, but the British fleet – outmanned and outgunned – had won the day, thanks to Jervis’s training and discipline of his men and Nelson’s initiative; celebrated in the public’s acclaim as “Nelson’s Patent Bridge for Boarding First Rates”. Nelson himself was immediately promoted to Rear Admiral. His wife meanwhile, begged him to “leave boarding to Captains”.

This too is the man who had the courage of his own convictions, who could often have left off and blamed superiors for failure, but instead the man who chose to advance when he knew defeat was attainable and essential. At the Battle of Copenhagen, walking the deck while the guns roared their broadsides, and deadly splinters whistled about his ears, this is the man who confided to Colonel Stewart, commander of infantry, who was with him on the quarterdeck, that he would not be “elsewhere for thousands”. And when his uncertain superior, Admiral Parker, made the signal to leave off the action, Nelson refused to see it, putting his telescope to his blind eye and exclaiming: “I really do not see the signal”. The British won the battle.

However, Nelson was never one to be less than magnanimous in victory and brave in defeat. He once took on with his own two frigates two ships of equal size belonging to the Spanish. Before the fight began, the following dialogue took place between the lead ships across the water.

“This is an English frigate. If you do not surrender, I will fire.”
“This is a Spanish frigate. You may begin as soon as you please.”

A fierce fight then took place, and the English began to get the better of things. Called upon several times to surrender, the senior Spanish officer, Don Jacobo Stuart, replied with: “No sir, not whilst I have the means of fighting left”. When the Spanish eventually struck, Don Jacobo was most generously treated, and Nelson wrote personally to the captain general to whom was given the prisoners, and asked that they be looked after, saying: “It becomes great nations to act with generosity to each other, and to soften the horrors of war”.

Nelson was a Humanitarian ahead of his times. Although he served in a time when naval discipline was harsh indeed, he was never one to flog a fleet into shape, as even some of the more intelligent naval commanders were wont to do: Admiral Sir John Jervis, for example, although Jervis attained a reputation as harsh but very fair. While the famous naval mutinies of Spithead and the Nore raged, Nelson’s ships remained aloof from the dispute, although the stories had leaked through. Perhaps it is significant that when the Theseus, a ship implicated in the mutinies, was sent to join Nelson’s ships, a scrap of paper was casually dropped on her quarterdeck a fortnight later. It read:

Success attend Admiral Nelson! God bless Captain Miller! We thank them for the officers they have placed over us. We are happy and comfortable, and will shed every drop of blood in our veins to support them, and the name of the Theseus shall be immortalized as high as the Captain’s – Ship’s Company.

This was the commander, who even before his fame grew to its eventual immense proportions, who had men petition to serve under him, and who often took a personal interest in their welfare. Although we might think such interest as being perfectly normal, this was a hard and savage era of history, with the “mob” below and leaders such as Nelson far above. Nelson, unusually for the age, while not rubbing shoulders on all occasions with his men, saw them as being humans and worth his time. On one of the many occasions he was wounded, Nelson refused to allow attention to be paid to him before the others of the ship’s crew awaiting the surgeon’s attention. On another occasion, after the Battle of Copenhagen, and again unusually for the age, he visited the hospital in which his men lay wounded even before visiting Emma Hamilton, and took especial interest in them, giving their nurses a guinea each as a mark of especial encouragement in their duties.

On the 21st of October 1805 the British fleet, after months of pursuit, met the French and Spanish forces under Admiral Villeneuve at sea off Cape Trafalgar. The British, in two lines according to Nelson’s instructions, raced to intersect the enemy’s line of battle. In the late morning Nelson directed his famous signal be hoisted. The flag lieutenant suggested a more economical hoist of 12 flags, and therefore the word “confides” was changed to “expects”. The rolled flags raced to the masthead of Victory and snapped open: “England expects every man will do his duty”. At 11.45 the battle was joined. In Victory the band played “Rule Britannia” and “Britons Strike Home” as followed by Temeraire and Neptune she opened fire. The French and Spanish fought well but the British, ruling the seas after years of battle, were their master, and the fleet action, now joined on all sides, began to go against Villeneuve.

At 1.35 Nelson, pacing his quarterdeck amidst the crash of the broadsides, calm amidst the smoke that wreathed Victory, was giving his orders quietly and firmly, as always. A French sharpshooter, stationed in the rigging of the Redoutable, took aim at the distinctively-uniformed slight figure and fired.

The shot, from only 15 metres, was a sure one, and the Admiral fell. He was carried below, and while the battle raged, he lay dying in Victory’s cockpit. He was at last brought the news of the British triumph. His last words were as follows: “Take care of poor Lady Hamilton. Kiss me, Hardy. Now I am satisfied. Thank God, I have done my duty”. The ship’s log records. “Partial firing continued until 4.30, when a victory having been reported to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Nelson KB and Commander in Chief, he then died of his wound.”

While Australia is perhaps taking new directions, we must remember the origins of the Royal Australian Navy, born before World War I and initiated in fire and blood under the aegis of the Royal Navy. We have inherited its uniforms, its ranks, its tactics and techniques. Although we now learn from and teach other forces, and our ships are a mixture of our own design and the best from around the world, surely we must take the most from our history as we continue. Nelson is part of our tradition; part of our past, and he and all that was his should never be forgotten. The Tradition of Trafalgar Night and its toast – “To the Immortal Memory” should always be part of the Royal Australian Navy and its traditions.

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Top Ender served as a naval officer for 20 years. He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for his services to naval history. His latest book is Teddy Sheean VC, a study of the much-delayed Victoria Cross awarded last year to the only Australian naval member to be awarded the Victoria Cross.

I love the new But Of Course spinning about the vaccines:

“In the short term, the vaccines work particularly well,” Professor Bennett said.”

Rosie, the interesting thing about that link is the co-morbidities number.

Over 95% of the death certificates had other illnesses listed as present along with Covid. And that didn’t include obesity or age (although many of the co-morbidities would be reasonably expected to appear with age).

In other words, for Covid to kill you, you have to be already sick.

It’s clear from the US data that “vaccination” is completely unnecessary for people who aren’t already sick with something else.

Well, there’s a 5% window in the US data (around 35,000) that might include “healthy” people. But keep in mind that obesity isn’t one of the listed co-morbidities in the data as presented in your link, rosie.

London to a brick, that’s the game changer for most of those people.

wot is “aspiration”

Inserting the needle into the injection site, and then withdrawing the plunger slightly to see what is drawn in. If you get lots of blood then the tip of the needle is in a blood vessel and you need to withdraw the needle and try again.

I was speaking to one of our guys in Adelaide yesterday, one of the blokes there had his first Pfizer jab, no issues. He had his second one and immediately felt extremely ill and then spent the next 9 days in ICU. Direct injection into a blood vessel was the most likely cause.

I haven’t had a jab, so I don’t know what they are doing, but I’ll wager that a lot of the jabbers haven’t been properly trained on aspiration and it’s importance.

Bog standard government fuck up in progress.

Metro UK openly explaining the vaccine only lasts six months and that’s OK because boosters.

The Covid booster jab campaign is officially underway

Who could have predicted this??

Everywhere you look it’s lies.

Exactly.

Notwithstanding the risk to elderly or unwell people, lumping in together otherwise well people needing emergency acute care, on 35-40+ cycles of the PCR tests, is just chicanery.

Twostix says:
October 21, 2021 at 8:33 am

Snopes, factcheck.org,the guardian, any port in a storm ay Rosie?

Yes, some Jab-Pushers & their ‘neutral’ pals went a bit silly for a while, claiming there were no Jab-Pushers here.

Funny how at least two of those Jab-Pushers bragged about their wisdom in personally investing in Biotech & Big Pharma and tried to get everyone else likewise personally invested.

People personally invested in products that the Worlds Govts have decided to force on everyone, are far less likely to even question, let alone see, the sinister intentions in their Govts diktats through the masses of fat appearing in their investment portfolios.

Notafan having been an eager beaver covid Karen lined up first for her jabs is now walking around un-boosterised. Must be a worry.

And that is because Australians are only now being introduced to the already well established reality everywhere else that these ‘vaccines’ wear off after a few months.

So consider the politics at play, Australian s are being denied ‘boosters’ right now, because if they tell us you need ‘boosters’ after just six months it completely kills the “double jab” campaign underway to force Australians to get the ‘vaccine’. They know that people will simply walk away.

See how you’re in a highly manipulative campaign?

‘I can’t look after you if you won’t get in the lifeboat.’

Unsure how welcoming your lifeboat is, Anna dear.

Interesting that the Palacechook morphed from Warrior Princess and Iron Border Protectoress to Lifeboat Hostie in the space of of less than a week.

Judging by the similar reactions from the NSW and Vic oblasts and the Silence of the CMO’s, you’d have to think some new public health information hasn’t yet been divulged to the public.

Possibly: ‘Sorry guys, herd immunity isn’t possible…’

Possibly: ‘Sorry guys, herd immunity isn’t possible…’

If you need 80% herd immunity, the lower limit on vaccine efficacy is 80%, by definition.

The real world efficacy is between 30% and 60%.

You can’t vaccinate 133% or 266% of the population.

Speaking of diabetics, how long before we are mandated to have the vaccine pumps permanently attached?

Unboosterised notafan, now essentially unvaccinated, wandering around in public, a danger to herself and others.

Dear me what will ‘Dan’ say?

You don’t need to buy in to Struggle Sessions, you know.

I made the mistake of doing it last week, then realised how toxic it is. No wonder the CCP and others found the technique so useful to demoralise wrong-thinkers. By now regular readers of the blog should know pretty well what your thinking is on most subjects, and particularly those surrounding the latest efforts to crunch us under the heel of the state.

As new information comes to light, it’s great to discuss it and maybe change some of our thinking. That’s what rational people do, because we can’t all be right about everything. No need to be catechised every time you comment, or feel the need to offer up some sort of manifesto.

With over two thousand cases today, Dan has now surpassed NSW in total pandemic cases.
As he would say “Something all Victorians should be proud of.”

Sign ….. not sing.

Good grief!

You don’t need to buy in to Struggle Sessions, you know.
I made the mistake of doing it last week, then realised how toxic it is.

It’s a well-tried tactic in totalitarian countries, Calli. In the 1980s when I was there, if, as a foreigner, you strayed into an area the Chinese government didn’t want you in, your ticket out of jail was to write a “self-criticism”. Having confessed to the Public Security Bureau you were a bad person, you were set free.

It’s similar to the humiliation system currently underway in Australia for anyone questioning the government’s botched response to Kung Flu: shut up, get the jab and the government won’t destroy your life.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
October 21, 2021 at 12:51 am
FlyingPigs says:
October 21, 2021 at 12:44 am
Flying Pigs, just asking, your callsign anything to do with the old F -111?

Sad to think of the F-111 as “old”. And gone.

Same for the Huey.

Still reminiscing, I recall seeing the last of the Mirages at Amberley in the 1970s. A very pretty bird.

It’s a well-tried tactic in totalitarian countries, Calli. In the 1980s when I was there, if, as a foreigner, you strayed into an area the Chinese government didn’t want you in, your ticket out of jail was to write a “self-criticism”. Having confessed to the Public Security Bureau you were a bad person, you were set free.

twitter just did the same to me, suspended my account, told me I had to agree that I was wrong and had to delete the offending tweet to allow my account to be reinstated and warned if I did it again I would be digitally assassinated.

welcome to the century of fascism.

Thanks for the Nelson post TE. What a great man.

Tell us more about how Queenslanders weekending in Queensland hotels had saved the Queensland tourism industry.

Nah it’s not queenslanders alone, it’s tens of thousands of non-queenslanders who snuck up here over the last six months.

Mostly Victorians.

“The best I can come up with” is a simple appraisal of reality.

The vaccines wear off after six months, this is being hailed from every major newspaper in the world – bar Australia.

You got yours six months ago.

Hello? McFly??

Twostix says:
October 21, 2021 at 9:18 am

“At 70% introduce the public to the reality that you spent a year lying about the vaccines and they’re actually shit so everyone will have to have a booster every six months forever.

Some people will complain but remind them they accepted the vaccine passport system so now they have no choice in anything ever again and if they refuse they will become officially unvaccinated antivaxxers.”
***

Yes and it also astounds me that despite the self appointed watcher of all posts Jew/Israel related (and all the rest who bow to their self appointed ‘supreme authority’ on all things Jew/Israel related), that they so happily ignore the, Mandated, 3 Jabs or you are NOT Jabbed, rising to 4 and continued 3 to 6 monthly boosters, happening in Israel.

lotocoti says:
October 21, 2021 at 9:33 am

Unless I’m missing something, PLA Inc’s “hypersonic missile” is just a MIRV strapped to something speedy enough to put it into an orbital path, as opposed to a ballistic one.
It’s not the gadget Lex Luthor pinched to improve his real estate investments.

Yes, there are a LOT of ‘Western*’ Powers heavily invested in presenting ‘China’ as an, ‘imminent threat to the world that MUST be PLACATED.’
It’s how they get away with pushing through so many of their own evils.

* Technically ‘Western’ while being so far removed from Christendom that blessed The West, as to be Anti-Christ.

FDA Delays Moderna Covid-19 Vaccine for Adolescents to Review Rare Myocarditis Side Effect
Updated Oct. 15, 2021

Calli:

She’s mistaking the Titanic for a lifeboat.
Easy to do as it’s bigger.

Ha Ha!

Rorschach says:
October 21, 2021 at 9:53 am

Judging by the similar reactions from the NSW and Vic oblasts and the Silence of the CMO’s, you’d have to think some new public health information hasn’t yet been divulged to the public.

This

I am left scratching my head too. Less than a month ago Stairman was shooting people in the park for not wearing a mask and not social distancing; and Pony Girl was preventing kids from travelling 20 klicks across a border to get life saving treatment…

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-07/plea-for-toddler-to-cross-qld-border-for-crucial-medical-tests/100440054

And not one meeja question to the [all of a sudden rarely appearing] CHOs along the lines of: Why did your draconian rules suddenly change and do you agree?

If I was to guess, I’d say that there is swathe of studies coming out [from Sweden / Japan etc] that show lockdowns are useless and possibly even contribute to the infection rates. Or that the no treatment allowed – just get intubated and die – policy will be shown to be contributing to the death tolls and malpractice. All Health recommendations! Finger Pointing Time!

Funny, but I think telling people not to take Aspirin was a major overstep of The Dictators.

mRMA, Ivermectin, etc. were not things people were comfortable arguing with ‘experts’, but coming after Aspirin that’s been a family household first aid staple for generations and used as a blood thinner to prevent stroke & heart attack blood clots that the Jabs are known to cause, well that’s something that people do feel comfortable arguing from generations of lived experience … and suddenly they are wondering about the other things they’ve heard …

FDA Approves Mix n Match Booster Shots For Everyone – Pick a Jab, Any Jab
October 20, 2021 | Sundance

Saancho: That’s one way of looking at the bogus sign. The other is that neither the minister nor his bureaucrats had a clue if it was genuine or not, which is a telling example of just how loonytunes things have become in Victoria.

https://quadrant.org.au/sign-of-the-times-2/

FDA Approves Mix n Match Booster Shots For Everyone – Pick a Jab, Any Jab
October 20, 2021 | Sundance

I’m no expert, but if you mix different oils in different engines, infrequently, weird and bad shit can happen. Enough! Just shut up and follow da science!

Arky:

I could have done that for you in the shed.

With the Leetle Girl assisting, yes?

Top Ender thanks very much for the Nelson piece. His story bears repeating to all denizens of Western civilisation. (PS has the Kismet/Kiss me controversy been settled?)
Keep up your good work.

I haven’t eaten anything for 37 hours. Do they offer a mixed grill?

IArky says:
October 21, 2021 at 10:33 am
Nanna wriggler alert!

Lol. That would be the new mutation.

Class Enemy Nanna Wrigglers.

Activated by excessive and unexpected O’Briening.

Thanks for that great read about Admiral Nelson, Top Ender.

I believe the older people had lower mortality from the Spanish flu than younger people because they had survived a flu epidemic in the 1890s, and had some cross immunity.

That would never work today, of course!

custard says:
October 21, 2021 at 11:17 am

FMD
They just brought in a tray of melon, yoghurt and weetbix.

They probably thought you were on the diabetic diet, judging by what they feed diabetics in South Australian hospitals.

Finally, the Silly notices that highly vaccinated nations — in this instance, England — get walloped when protection diminshes and the WuFlu comes surging back.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/fading-vaccine-immunity-threatens-britain-s-covid-co-existence-freedoms-20211021-p591so.html

A month or so from now, SMH journos’ being a bit slow on the uptake, will wonder what all this means for Australia,

(and then they’ll hit the RoloDex for their favourite, habitually wrong, celebrity epidemiologists, who will say that rolling up for endless boo0sters is ‘the right thing to do’)

I seem to remember last year various people running around saying the cdc stats provided conclusive proof that 94% of covid fatalities had comorbities including obesity therefore only 6% (otherwise healthy) actually died of covid.

If “comorbidities” include being already older than average life expectancy, I’d say that looked quite plausible.

struthsays:
October 21, 2021 at 11:34 am
Facts.
The vaccines are totally useless.
They do not work.

I agree and am holding out.

But the mob has spoken, so I will be hounded and treated poorly by a society I no longer want to be part of.

The only hope we have is what we dont want, and that is a substantial death toll this winter in the northern hemisphere that they wont be able to hide.

Sucks to be us!

If I was to guess, I’d say that there is swathe of studies coming out [from Sweden / Japan etc] that show lockdowns are useless
The only studies politicians pay attention to are polls.

Well the polls are going to be driven by those now choosing to listen to the likes of Joe Rogan; Russell Brand; Dr John etc [who will only go more viral …].

We are working from a lot of different and very incomplete data sets to attempt to see the picture and communicate it.

This is of zero interest to rosie and the rest who have accepted that the government consists of responsible, competent ppl who live only to look after us and protect us from harm.

Woolworths has mandated jabs for all employees. You know what to do. Boycott. Couple of weeks should do it. They’re welcoming unvaxxed shoppers. Woolworths science.

In other NEWS – looks like Trump media is not too far away.

https://twitter.com/santucci/status/1450982968093253632?s=21

[TRUTH Social ?]

I seem to remember last year various people running around saying the cdc stats provided conclusive proof that 94% of covid fatalities had comorbities including obesity therefore only 6% (otherwise healthy) actually died of covid.

The reason why we quoted that ad nauseum is because the CDC purports to tell the truth.

Every time you allow yourself to be scanned to enter, to show your papers, and you QR code yourself to separate you from us, you accept the little pats on the head from tyrants, and go along to get along you make me sick.
Surely you should expect that.
The people you have made enemies of, are the righteous and the thinkers.
Have a fucking jab with an untested concoction from know Eugenic billionaires who want to save the planet by killing billions, I have done my duty to my fellow man and screamed don’t do it as loudly as I could, here on these blogs and in the real world.
You can’t deny that.
But when you show your permission slip of submission to get what the righteous cannot, you are then a POS.
An enemy of freedom and Australia.
A disaster for your children.
You know it, and that’s why you don’t want to hear about it.
If you had to get the jab for some family emergency, to travel, are you still using your “passport”
How many will your actions kill, or ….Wie viele werden deine Handlungen töten?

My dentist is flying out to South Africa on Tuesday to visit family.

They appear to be free-er than Australia.

I wonder if they’ll resurrect segregation or have they had enough already.

Seems too many of you want this forum to be an anti vaxxers echo chamber which in my book makes you exactly the same as the the people you supposedly despise.

Ignorance writ exceedingly small.

the righteous and the thinkers.

Yep, that’s me!

The conclusion to which I have arrived, by considered thought, is that the threat from tyrannical government is hugely greater than the threat from any microbe.