6 responses to “Mater’s Musings #35: Is that the best you could come up with?”

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   Mullumhillbilly

   Oct 23, 2021 2:43 PM

   Is there any source in Iz which discloses how many ‘cases’ are arising in the double vaxxed vs nonvaxxed? UK public health data has them near 50/50.
   If there is no difference in infection rate, there is no reason to segregate or for vaxxed to exhibit smug.
   Source available here…
   https://jamesfalk.com/uk-data-will-nsw-liberal-backbenchers-finally-act-with-honesty-and-reason/

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   Mullumhillbilly

   Oct 23, 2021 2:43 PM

   Oz
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   Mullumhillbilly

   Oct 23, 2021 2:52 PM

   Sorry, should have clicked on the link first. In NSW report, Table 8 says 11% of infections double vaxxed vs 51% of total population d.v.
   Interesting to note in the preceding tables however a high proportion (>50%) of health care workers with infection are double vaxxed.

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   Bruce of Newcastle

   Oct 23, 2021 2:55 PM

   Childless bureaucrats? If they had kids they’d know that kids pass every greebly onto other kids and then to their parents. It’s an endless merry-go-round, which these people seem never to’ve been on.

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   bemused

   Oct 23, 2021 4:07 PM

   Today’s vaccine protest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIVOS6H-m4k/. I counted four cops.

   Yesterday there would have been hundreds of cops including the riot squad and terrorist group for a nothing burger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTLOF3t_fis

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   Kneel

   Oct 23, 2021 5:22 PM

   “…NSW Health could do with expanding their thinking…”

   Well, there’s your problem!
   Government departments do not think about things, they do as their political masters order. That is always the safest course for those involved – the path of least resistance, as it were.

   Along with standard public service unspoken rules:

   If you don’t do anything, you won’t do anything wrong. If you don’t do anything wrong, you’ll be promoted. Therefore, you should do as little as possible for as long as possible.

   If you must do something, find a suitably complex question that is above your pay grade, and ask someone higher up to answer that question – in writing. This usually takes enough time that you can arrange to go on holidays, or be assigned “more urgent” work and therefore either put it off indefinately, or make it someone else’s problem.

   If you still must do something, you should always peruse the rules first, and find some obscure one from antiquity that can justify any choices you are forced to make – the older and more obscure, the better. Then you are only following the rules, and can’t be blamed even if the rule is obviously bad/wrong/stupid (no meed to cross anything out – they almost always all apply). This works well because you can be guaranteed to find a rule as well as it’s exact opposite, so you are never in a position of being unable to justify what you did. But finding such rules is time consuming, so you must do it before you decide anything.

   If all else fails, you must ensure that any instructions to your underlings are as vague as possible, and preferably use phrasing such as “standard procedure”, “normal practice”, “industry standards” etc. You can justify almost anything with such phrases, as can your political masters. As in “We were following standard procedure as outlined under section such-and-such. Alas, this appears to be out of date and in need of serious and urgent review.”

   If you have no underlings, then you should only do exactly as directed – nothing more, nothing less, and regardless of any obvious mistakes. After all, you have no-one to blame, so if things go wrong the only way to avoid blame is to ensure you followed the directions given you to the letter.

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