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The papers today indicate that Djokovic offered to isolate in accommodation of his choosing, where he would:
Have access to a private tennis court;
Have his meals cooked by his private chef;
Have private security to keep camera people (and presumably riff-raff) away; and
Otherwise prepare for his appeal, and in the interim the homo fest known as the Australian Open on Monday week.
He also offered to pay for all of it. They said no.
Suddenly all the rules apply to everyone for a change. Hanks, Clooney, Minogue et al would now apparently face the same treatment. Obviously, and certainly by the crop of toons Tom put up this morning, this shitfight has attracted attention well beyond our shores.
It is one of the great curiosities of history that lone, everyday individuals have the capacity to change it.
Without realising it, Djokovic may well become the Gabriel Princip of this century.
No. This one’s just for show.
I bought toilet paper yesterday, despite having plenty.
I wonder if we’ll see another round of toilet paper punch ups?
I hope so Cassie, they were fun to watch.
I never thought I could feel sorry for Djokovic but once again ScoMo has done the impossible.
Hanks, Clooney, Minogue et al would now apparently face the same treatment.
Just wait until the punters from WA find out it wasn’t just a French chap with the COVID who took it west & that it’s also been traced to a private jet that came from the eastern states around the same time.
Crossie says:
January 8, 2022 at 7:24 am
Not a tennis watcher, heard of him and neutral as far as he personally goes, but it wasn’t him issuing a visa was it?
So why the uproar?
“I hope so Cassie, they were fun to watch.”
For me it was a mixture of amusement and horror, the fact that people could behave like that…over toilet paper! I remember back in March 2020 calling those three women who were filmed in Woolworths bickering and punching each other “scum, peasants and trash”….which of course they were. For that accurate description I was smeared as a racist here. Of course my description had nothing to do with the colour of their skin….it was to do with their awful “peasant” behaviour.
A drama queen who’s on the WhatsApp group who lives on Long Island is saying you can’t get Nyquil in NY anymore.
Sold out.
Why can’t we get Nyquil in Australia?
“Hanks, Clooney, Minogue et al would now apparently face the same treatment.”
Doubt it…Scumbag Morrison has just picked on Djokovic for electoral optics. Only two or three months ago…Rebel Wilson was allowed to fly in to Sydney for a movie premier and was required to only quarantine for one night and I doubt she quarantined in some dingy inner-city Meriton apartment.
Some top events on the card at Summernats today.
There’s the Mullet Competition and also Lawnmower Racing. Something for everyone.
Hope the rain holds off – the sky is looking ominous.
I was asked about the soulless ginger Jonny Bairstow late last night.
I won’t necessarily sing his praises because he’s there to make runs, but it was a pleasing change to see someone, anyone from the Poms have a crack and show some mental fortitude.
Too little too late, of course, for the Ashes. If anything, it accentuates the abject failure of the Poms’ top order.
This is the third Test. If you take the top seven In the Poms’ order – of whom all are regarded as batsmen – and look at the numbers you find that seven batsmen have had five goes each to make a respectable score.
35 opportunities. One century. England’s best batsmen, apparently.
.it was to do with their awful “peasant” behaviour.
Cassie, I remember that, simply pointing out that fat, houso sheilas were indulging in some bog roll biff is definitely racist. LOL! you beast!
Electoral optics indeed, Cassie.
However, the Djokovic thing is playing out live in front of the globe. All those other twits were only found out well after the event, and it was easier to brush it off knowing that something else in the 24 hour news cycle would overtake it.
This one, however, is in real time. It IS the cycle.
They identify as “batters”
Their preferred pronouns are:
Bowled
LBW
Caught
The Long Island drama queen is on one of my WhatsApp groups that is made up of mates who live overseas, there’s only a couple of people who live in Oz on it.
These guys are pretty smart, some minted, all work in finance or private equity.
When I say smart, that’s under review because it’s clear some of them still don’t know why they caught COVID because they were all double jabbed (apart from one who got the J&J).
So if people I thought were pretty plugged in don’t get it, what hope does the punter who gets their news from Kochie or Karl have?
And this is the exact time that the freedom protests in Melbourne (which should have been publicly delayed after the bill was passed), should have been reactivated on a mass scale.
Imagine hundreds of thousands in the street today.
Funnily enough, this exact course of action was proposed on the Cat at the time…sans the Djokovic imprisonment part.
‘They identify as “batters”’
Thank you very much, Michael Clarke. Yet another reason he should be kneecapped.
Apparently the IRA had a delightful method for this that involved power drills. That would be. TikTok clip for the ages.
ScoMo doing this to the Joker is his job application post leaving politics.
Just like Gillard lined up her job with the Clinton/UN organisation while PM, ScoMo is doing the same.
*be a TikTok clip*
Geez. Where are my smokes*?
*Confers immunity to the coof. I’m running with this.
“kneecapped.”
I’m triggered!
The hatred of the unvaxxed is so great in swamp circles, this would be playing so well in overseas swamp dinner parties.
Non preferred adverbs.
Accept food.
Don’t eat food.
Don’t return untouched food after mealtime.
Hide food for a week or so.
Take photos of maggoty, mouldy food.
Post on social media with the claim this what you are expected to eat.
Bask in the outrage generated by your co-conspirators in the media and refugee activist ‘community’.
Enjoy as co-conspirators in the media recycle photos during the Djokovic detention.
Yep
And instead we get a pathetic mob of bimbo groupies and various other weirdos waving flags outside his motel.
That vacuous lightweight, Senator Amanda Stoker, was on Sky last night. She was warning people not to vote for minor parties, particularly minor right of centre parties. I suspect the polls aren’t good for the Liberals and that they’re showing a significant exodus of voters to PHON, UAP and the Lib Dems. Honestly I found her laughable. Stoker insisted that, despite people’s unhappiness with the Liberals, voters should still continue to vote for the stupid fucking Liberals. Oh yes, that’s worked out well hasn’t it? If we follow her shallow advice we’ll just get more Labor lite policies. Interestingly, Ms Stoker has frizzed her hair, rather apt I thought, it matches her very frizzy and lightweight behaviour in the senate.
Worth remembering that this is the same Ms Stoker who’s backed Scumbag’s net zero emissions policy, worth remembering that this is the same Ms Stoker who participated in the infamous senate censure of an Australian citizen, a senate motion put up by Labor and the Greens and which every Liberal and National in the senate, including Ms Frizzy Stoker, supported. Whilst she later tried to backtrack and apologise, the damage was done and the fact that she and other Liberals and Nationals didn’t walk out of the senate party room when that motion against Arndt was proposed, says it all.
Stoker can fuck off……she’s been relegated to number three on the senate ticket in QLD which means she’ll probably be gone. Good. I like a little payback.
I’m hesitant to complain because someone else didn’t organize a protest.
Haha, Goolag has just demonetized Roy Spencer for putting up official satellite data on his blog. They seem not to like what the real world is saying.
“Unreliable and harmful claims”: This website has been demonetized by Google (7 Jan)
My own analysis* shows clearly that even UAH is running too hot, probably because the algorithms for orbit decay correction aren’t quite right. Still it’s the best around and it shows nothing much is happening, whereas my data shows basically nothing at all is happening trendwise.
(* The UAH scale is flipped in the comparison graph to make it easier for the peaks to be seen lining up. That shows that when UAH is down snow cover anomaly is up, as you’d expect. But since the trend of snow cover is sideways it means UAH should not trend warmer in the period. That it does shows there’s a warming bias which shouldn’t be there, since the freezing point of water is fixed.)
Welcome to the new normal: 13-year-olds dying from cardiac arrest
The Black & Decker was more of a loyalist thing.
Also through the side, because worse.
While I’m on this Arctic Sea Ice area was up a fair bit from the minimum in 2012:
Arctic 2021 by Minimum (6 Jan)
Pretty much following the AMO, which we know to be cyclical for at least the last thousand years. CO2 doesn’t seem to be doing anything.
UK Daily Mail
Could Omicron be even LESS deadly than seasonal flu? Scientists believe ultra-infectious strain may kill 100 TIMES fewer people than Delta (and mortality rates were ALREADY similar to influenza before the variant emerged)
Not unexpected BoN.
Spencer enlightens us to the countless influences on climate and the unreliability of using one or a few select indicators to explain away a climate system of immense complexity.
Simple answers to complex questions are invariably wrong.
Anecdote o’clock (adjusted for AEDT).
My frangipanis have barely flowered this year. Normally they would be covered in blooms by now. Nothing but a few measly flowers.
Flowering is activated by heat, of which we have had half of bugger all.
When I saw this I naturally thought of Western Australia, but in fact it’s Washington State. I’m not sure of the situation in our WA but I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they tried something similar.
WA Board of Health may mandate COVID-19 vaccine to attend school and criminalize those who disobey related ‘health order’
We’re in so deep that the average normie has no idea about all the special exemptions handed out to the beautiful people over the last two years. Or worse, they do but subconsciously block it out as it causes too much psychic pain to consider the implications and now rage at this one guy to make themselves feel better because Antivaxxer.
We’re in so deep that the average normie has no idea about all the special exemptions handed out to the beautiful people over the last two years.
Make.
The.
Lot.
Public.
In the “there is some justice after all” category.
JUST IN – Austria: Fully vaccinated and “boosted” Chancellor Nehammer has tested positive for Covid.
Infertility: What Was Done to Innocent People with Secret Ingredients in “Vaccines”
‘Make.
The.
Lot.
Public.’
Ahem. There are leaders of this country who believe this would be ‘unhelpful’, and ‘just lead to arguments.’
GET FUCKED BARNABY.
Mouse roars.
WARNING: VOTING LIBERAL CAUSES CANCER.
WARNING: VOTING LIBERAL HARMS YOUR UNBORN BABY.
WARNING: VOTING LIBERAL MAY CAUSE SYPHILIS
Historians debate: moderated by Dr David Starkey – Did Henry VIII contract Syphilis from voting for the Liberals and Nationals?
Pogriasays:
January 8, 2022 at 7:24 am
I bought toilet paper yesterday, despite having plenty.
I wonder if we’ll see another round of toilet paper punch ups?
I hope so Cassie, they were fun to watch.
And the result is only some soft tissue damage.
Your point, Bespoke?
Before anyone gives Lithuania too many pats on the head, check out their domestic vaccine passport regulations.
Flowering is activated by heat, of which we have had half of bugger all.
I’m surprised you don’t understand the basic principles of climate change Calli.
Frangipani flowering early or out of season is climate change.
Frangipani not flowering in season because of cold is weather.
I’m not sure what this is all about but it can’t be good.
PCR Tests Have Served Their Purpose in the Covid “Crisis”, They’re Now Being Cancelled – Everywhere
I’m being too harsh on the Long Island drama queen.
He & his wife kept paying their staff all the way through over the last couple of years even though they cut back on cleaning & gardening etc.
A lot of their NY minted friends just sacked the help.
One America’s smartest women. Enjoy.
Criminalising those who won’t take a booster I suspect Indolent.
My eldest daughter’s entire family has come down with it and symptoms range from sniffles to bursting headaches and chills to very high temperatures and endless vomiting.
She is far from a panic merchant, but ended up calling the national health line over the youngest who has been extremely unwell. She’s quite run down physically and emotionally, so I suspect it hit her badly because of this.
Please don’t dismiss it out if hand. Keep your general health high and be aware that things can deteriorate, even with young children. I’m certain we’ll all get it, so please don’t be such a gung-ho ideologue that you miss the warning signs.
Correction KD.
It is the fourth test.
The Pom top six have had seven attempts and finally scored one century out of 42 attempts.
Bad batterering.
I guess she doesn’t see the contradiction inherent in those two sentences, when put together.
I know that comment will go down like a lead balloon. Tough.
I just want to give parents here a bit of a heads-up about what to expect if a little one gets a good dose. It’s all so idiosyncratic, you may be lucky. I definitely hope so.
And the result is only some soft tissue damage.
BJ, you are the King!
No, Whoopi. It isn’t “stronger”. It’s weaker. And it will effect individuals in different ways because of underlying health and viral load.
Just like every virus has in the past.
Calli
These symptoms you describe are nearly identical to the virus that my whole family endured on a trip to Sydney eight years ago.
It’s a nasty bug and can make certain people feel very ill. I remember racing to the toilet every ten minutes and making a quick decision as to which end was in most need.
I hope your near and dear all recover rapidly and return to robust health.
“callisays:
January 8, 2022 at 9:02 am”
Thanks Calli…..my nephew and his wife have it. My nephew started off with a sniffle but it became a headache and chills. He’s on the mend. His wife has had very few symptoms.
Oh, they were organised alright.
They were organised so often, for so long, with no discernible aim, that they were destroyed, along with any influence and strategic value they might have had.
Whoopi should be worried.
Morbidly obese
Probably diabetic
Black skin
Is that I have nether the time, skill set or a crystal ball, Bush.
Gez, I suspect it isn’t much different now to your normal seasonal flu bug. Except that it’s called “Omicron” and therefore super-deadly and we’ll all die-eeeee!
And quick! Throw money at it, because that will stop it!
My comment was simply to attest that, yes, the thing is quite real, and no, it won’t kill you but may make you quite unwell. And to keep an eye on the little ones.
45,098 in NSW.
A ban on breathing is the only sensible response.
My other nephew and his girlfriend now have it.
“My comment was simply to attest that, yes, the thing is quite real, and no, it won’t kill you but may make you quite unwell. And to keep an eye on the little ones.”
Agree…..and to keep an eye on our older ones. I suspect that it doesn’t impact people generally but those who are older than 70 need to be careful….as with any seasonal flu.
Scratching your balls in the morning in Viktoristan is now subject to a $15,000 fine.
Self reporting is encouraged.
WARNING: VOTING LIBERAL CAUSES CANCER.
Quote fail –
That’s not quite as silly as it sounds. Doesn’t stress affect the immune system? Aren’t there studies showing that the more constrained an animal is, the less choices they have in their lives, the more prone they are to illness – and self-harm? With what the uniparty, of which the Liberals are a leading light, have been doing to us over the past 2 years I wouldn’t be surprised if cancer rates spike, and not just for lack of normal testing.
Stoker put on quite a good act for a while, but she’s just as loathsome as the rest of them and her advice is the very last I would heed.
Pogriasays:
January 8, 2022 at 9:07 am
And the result is only some soft tissue damage.
BJ, you are the King!
I must confess that I borrowed that from a friend.
In a 95% vaccinated population? How weird!
For an avowed Catholic, Dom-Dom seems to have a lot of old fashioned Methodist tendencies.
No singing, no dancing, no making whoopee generally.
Will the next step be closing everything except churches on Sunday?
Yes. I’m caught between the “bringing the thing into the house” and neglect.
At least my parents aren’t locked down in a horrible care facility.
Tennis seems to be the common link with Fraudenburger, Tennis Australia and Novax in the news. A seriously underwhelming game. OK if you are about 60 and play a few sets of doubles before going for a drink.
“Stoker put on quite a good act for a while, but she’s just as loathsome as the rest of them and her advice is the very last I would heed.”
Yep.
In a 95% vaccinated population? How weird!
Yeah!
It’s almost as if the vaccines don’t stop an uncontrollable spread of the virus.
I blame the kiddies.
I’ve just spoken to my sister….she reckons we’re going to be locked down again.
As has been pointed out here already, Novax should be in the Federal Court which only suffers from generalised wokeness but should ensure he doesn’t get Pelled (nor can he rely on a reverse Pell) by the Victoriastani regime.
Sotomayer beclowns herself.
I can’t remember the last time that’s happened from the SCOTUS bench.
They say a lot of stuff in session & out of session, but rarely beclowning.
In the modern era that is.
At least my parents aren’t locked down in a horrible care facility.
I’m waiting on a test result for a nephew before I can go back to see Mum in care.
Slim chance but you’d be branded a killer if you rocked up.
Oh! the joys of this Saturday morning .. waiting on the youngest daughter to pick me up then off to Mascot for 2 of the Danistan grandees (10 & 12) .. haven’t seen them (other than vid) since November 2020 .. got them until next weekend .. woof, woof!
Maybe soft tissue trauma next time.
Mater’s Mischief #7: We’ve been tasting it for nearly two years
51,356 for Vic.
TaliDan will not be outdone by those Yankees.
No lead balloons in the OSC household calli.
Two grandsons (6 and 9) both caught it and everyone was on high alert to every cough, sneeze, and lethargy. They were lucky – short lived and relatively minor symptoms, for which I give many thanks to God.
It did force a re-think by many in the extended family, particularly the question “Why isn’t there a treatment protocol?”
I will trade on that aspect of their experience as I continue to try and convince their parents to avoid their own booster shots (they got covid too) and to prevent them from getting both boys jabbed before school starts this year.
Can anyone tell me why this is a non issue?
Never mentioned?
Ignored?
Even when athletes DO seem to be having more “issues” and the experts soft soap it with “Studies say no issue” BS.
Hardly a bunch of tin toilets.
Men under 40.
45,000 out of a population of 8.1 mill is 0.05%. So hah! it’s the unvaxed causing the problem.
#ThatWillBeTheNarrative
Sorry that should be 0.5%
Sorry, people, my mental clock is running a day behind at the moment. Steak last night rather than the usual fish and chips didn’t help either. Might just muddle along with this OT until Monday.
$$$$$ this auto correct.
tin toilets is ” tin foilers”!
Edit function please please please.
Omicron holds the trophy aloft after a stunning come from behind win at the Australian Closed championship.
Farmer Gez, are you saying Victoria has more new cases than NSW?
If that’s the case, great.
Because twitter will now immediately stop talking about it.
And so will Lisa Wilkinson.
Djokovic is to blame, of course.
The tennis going crowd are more of a danger to the players than the reverse.
The players have all tested negative, the fans aren’t.
Diversity hires can cause embarrassment down the track.
Finally, some investigative reporting done well.
The Oz writers Stephen Rice and Remy Varga have lifted the lid on the shameful Old Parliament House arson attack.
Smoking out the truth about parliament blaze names the perpetrators, identifies the mixed and confusing motives, describes how the fire was deliberately created, identifies the race of each participant, and unusually for a MSM outlet explains the cowardice of the police who were “kettled” away from the action by protestors.
Worth spending 2 bob to buy a copy from your struggling newsagent.
Helen Perrottet?
Do we need to race for the border or, have we got time for lunch?
A good many insane people on this blog said at the start of the pandemic that you can’t defeat an airborne virus.
I’m off to invade Russia.
Sajid Javid gets some truth bombs from doctor re the vaxxes. Well done that man.
johanna at 7:42 – I hope there has not been any price gouging on Woodstock cans. Fortunately I expect the ACCC will be all over it.
Word HB word.
Corona supplies are plentiful.
Russia vs Pharma Gez?
not happening
It’s Feb 2020 all over again.
Except this time they’ve fired hundreds of doctors and nurses and everyone have become junkies and Amwayesque salesman zombies.
Dr Mark Felton on Sir Tony Blair’s knighthood.
Tony Blair’s Knighthood – Historian’s Perspective
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOUBhK4Fm6w
Geez. Didn’t realise he was now a member of the Order of the Garter!
Honi soit mal y pense?
Mal, mal, mal.
Speaking of invading Russia, I’m reading “Hitler’s War on Russia” by Paul Carell. Only a little way in so far but very readable.
Notice how they’re not talking about saving lives now.
It’s exclusively about the healthcare system.
All centrally run systems eventually consume their society, that is society will be ordered slowly, then quickly to reorganize itself to protect the corrupt, inefficient, state run system from collapse.
Dotsays:
January 8, 2022 at 6:56 am
NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT, GUYS!
COVID vaccines may briefly change your menstrual cycle, but you should still get one
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/01/06/1070796638/covid-vaccine-periods
Um, do vaccines of any kind normally have an effect on the endocrine & reproductive systems?
My body, my choice… good days, good days.
Get your roasaries off my ovaries is so 2020, now its Just screw my cycles up sempai!
So many to update.
https://www.arcc-cdac.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/chants.pdf
…
Not the church, Just the state,
Women must submit
…
What do we want? Mandates!
When do we want it? ALWAYS!
…
They say no-choice
We say Needle me more daddy!
…
As reflected by the dickless upticking above, an outstanding Leak today. Thanks Tom.
Dover,
listening to that prick Javid laying into a FRONTLINE Doctor, that “he gets his info from experts”, just makes you want to punch the nearest pollie. There is a real, working Doctor, explaining why he will not be vaccinated, and Javid quotes garbage from lettered morons who have never treated a real, live patient and are only interested in 30 second sound grabs and how good they believe they look on television.
Nah, could be worse.
Yellowstone eruption warning: Human brains could be ‘popped apart’ (7 Jan)
February 2020 Part III
Some middle aged plod/doctors (what’s the difference these days???) try to sell some kids wanting ecstacy at a dinner party some quality Coronavirus drugs.
Where do you think we got most of these vaccines?
Imagine if they were the same quality as David Jones but at wholesale prices? You could literally earn a commission eating breakfast from Coronafederated Products.
“We can’t recruit salepeople from the force, it’s against the rules!”
AMWAY?
(Sigh….) Coronafederated Products
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkdLWuCRe0c
Obviously.
On a serious note, how could anyone … Oh wait, it’s the WaPo.
Imagine how damaging an opposition could be to a government in this. Unlimited opportunities to hang them over the visibly catastrophic policy failure of persuing a 100%”vaccine” mania I stead of, maybe, building a covid ward or something.
Instead we get the spectacle of Tanya Plibersek parroting the government’s gaslighting about “unvaccinated” people and dutifully acting as Pfizer’s saleswoman in their Amway Associate MP Delux, program.
But not the race of the dirtbag charged with arson?
To paraphrase the immortal Edward Melba Bullpitt,
“someone should blow up the Washington Post”.
Indeed, Pogria. The doctor also communicated info that can be corroborated. The two doses wane in 3 months, the boosters in 1 month, and he’s had COVID so has broad spectrum protection already. He also made the sane point that boosting every month is absurd.
Just when you think the government, establishment media etc are going to crack, they whip up some more BS.
How much longer can this go on?
We’ve almost outlasted them, but people need jobs, no one is literally invincible.
Indeed, Pogria. The doctor also communicated info that can be corroborated. The two doses wane in 3 months, the boosters in 1 month, and he’s had COVID so has broad spectrum protection already. He also made the sane point that boosting every month is absurd.
Dover, and not one bit of that matters because “mah feels and Pfizer says”.
Also, it’s good to be the King.
It always confuses me that if the vaccination is so good why are the vaxxed worried about the unvaxxed?
Surely we are no threat to them?
Two things:
Politicians are casually calling unboosted people “unvaccinated” when it suits them. A couple of 75 year olds with stage three cancer or morbidly obese with diabetes who can’t get vaccinated because it, or anything, will kill them, are not representative of anything or anyone. And they are now shifting from the already stretched thin lie of “90%” of people in ICU are unvaccinated to “unvaccinated people are the sickest” (because far healthier but vaccinated people are now rolling in).
If you are a bad person, or unable to get the Australian.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.theaustralian.com.au%2Fnation%2Fpolitics%2Fsmoking-out-the-antivaxxer-truth-behind-old-parliament-house-blaze%2Fnews-story%2F010ebb584722cd6b8cba41fb54991a14&memtype=anonymous&mode=premium&v21=dynamic-warm-control-score&V21spcbehaviour=append
I thought there were cracks appearing late last year, but it’ll go on far longer than you’d think. Governments are not going to give up this level of control any time soon. Probably until they all get booted out at an election, with the problem that the other side of the uniparty are just as bad.
So in 3 weeks when I’m officially out of a job because of the mandates for jabs that don’t stop you getting the disease and don’t stop you passing it on, are clearly a complete failure, I will be even less happy with our “leaders” than I am now.
I will expand a little on the Kingly analogy.
It’s good to be the King, or is it?
I want to see this ending in play.
And this is how the worlds’ western politicians see themselves.
Couint de Money, Count de Money!!!
Horseshit. Let’s see what colour he is.
*
Look up the Church Committee on Wikipedia you ignorant imbeciles. “The government doesn’t do evil stuff” – sure, and teachers would never molest your kids.
*I know there is no evidence of the above, but disproving it on the basis that it is nefarious rather than lacking in proof is A grade stupidity.
ICU “jabs” and patient profile breakdown would be quite a handy thing to see wouldn’t it? Given it’s the backbone of the governments diversionary message each day you’d think they’d just love to tell us all about it.
Yet it’s all a closely guarded secret everywhere and the media are curiously disinterested.
Funny.
Arithmetic skills and some logic capacity amongst the masses would see a quick end to the madness.
Apparaently, neither exist.
More than just absurd.
Heart inflammation risk rises dramatically for young with booster shots (7 Jan)
That study is only of myocarditis. Add in the underreporting, the incidence of other issues like pericarditis, blood clots and autoimmune issues. Forcing Russian Roulette onto voters every month or so would be probably quite fatal to politicians, once the population wised up.
Truth is finite. Bullshit, not so much.
Oh boy.
Barstool Sports is reporting that Aaron Rodgers (QB for the Green Bay Packers & current favourite to win back to back league MVP’s) has told team mates that if the Packers get the to Super Bowl, he’ll boycott it over vaccine mandates.
TaliDan has been on holidays since the 10th Dec except for a quick National Cabinet meeting.
51,000 cases and panic at the Covid Central Committee but Dan is getting in the beers.
Scumo is a useless dick but he could never get away with this. You’d almost think the media are Labor left flunkies.
Dan the Invisible Man?
Reports Tennis Australia gave unvaccinated players incorrect information about exemptions.
Perhaps this tournament should be taken off them.
Soviet command economy lasted 70 years.
If you want to know how long a society can be made slaves to a technocratic system run by tens of thousands of big brained professionals for, that’s a benchmark.
Damn it Aaron.
As a GB fan, why do you have standards, logic and a moral backbone?
I blame that unvaccinated white sexist heteronormative pig, Vince Lombardi.
“Coach, I have an idea…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbiFquCZYMs
Farmer Gez, I think those decisions in Victoriastan will keep making themselves. Besides it’s couta season.
One correction, I’d suggest – the theatrical rituals were there early on; Jeanette Young admitted as much re school closures.
Djokovic is a covid ritual sacrifice
Roger, that’s clearly a well placed (and no doubt self serving) leak. I’ll wait for the court hearing.
Cali, mate in north Queensland was saying similar about mangos this year. Not many flowered. Reason, the varieties that grow all over the place need the cold southerly surges in July/August to get flowering going that were largely absent this year. La Nina & the IOD are the culprits though not AGW as some would try to assert.
Dover’s video above is instructive.
Natural immunity is essentially being outlawed as a concept.
At the start it was because they said these superduper new untried wonder drug s were better than natural immunity and people suspicious, reluctantly gave the benefit of the doubt. 12 months on visibly that is not the case, the drugs are a catastrophic failure compared to what was promised and the vast system that was built to push them to the exclusion of all else. Yet as we see in that video nothing changes, even when faced with an ICU doctor who is immune. The only conclusion being that the outlawry of natural immunity is explicit.
That only leaves Rob Smith of The Cure to keep Barbara Streisand under control.
calli.
I wouldn’t worry about any flak from the usual suspects for reporting facts.
That is my experience too from people I know who have had it.
The individual impacts vary wildly, from “sick as a dog” for 10-12 days to very mild symptoms for 2-3 days.
Although it seems to me that when people say it was “worse than the ‘flu” they might be comparing it with the common cold.
No-one takes time off with a cold anymore. It is always the flu.
I memed.
twice
The public health class view the way people get sick then put themselves to bed then get better without any government oversight the same way the economist class view an unregulated economy.
Simply too dangerous to exist.
By the by bajillion dollar pharma companies completely agree with them.
Understand that and some of the things going on start to make sense.
Like Martha said, that’s a good thing.
Correct Baba.
This is all they say:
However, ACT Police alleges the fire was an act of arson. The courts will decide the guilt or innocence of Nicholas Reed, the 30-year-old activist alleged to have started and fed the fire.
The ACT Magistrates Court heard this week that he was videoed allegedly adding kindling to the growing blaze, his face smeared with ochre.
It won’t help the players’ case much (there’s another player confined to the same hotel apparently) since they were obliged to determine entry requirements from authoritative sources themselves, but it puts Tennis Australia in a very bad light, I’d say.
It’ll be interesting to see if:
A) Long COVID becomes a thing.
B) As with the UK, doesn’t affect the self-employed.
The sharks will be circling.
As I said the other day, the dumbarses re-branded it a few years ago as “the Grand Slam of Asia Pacific”.
Opening the door for Shanghai or Tokyo to pick it up without changing the letterhead.
The ALP don’t give a shit about F1 leaving but they have thrown shitloads at the tennis. They even named one of the new courts after John Cain.
It would sting if they lost it.
The second one doesn’t work. Why would governments be interested in rule of law?
TANJ is not just a Heinlein swearword.
Oops, Niven not Heinlein.
Grr.
For Tom and areff and other connoisseurs of quality journalism, this article at the admirable Conservative Woman may provide a few moments of enjoyment:
Alas, witty headlines are a thing of the past, in the MSM at least. And even in student papers.
Sometime in the 1960s, the Sydney Uni paper Honi Soit had a front page scoop:
I doubt if the editors of today’s student papers would know who Archduke Ferdinand was.
Don’t be silly. They was a pop group in the noughties.
Why would governments be interested in rule of law?
They arent.
But considering one day they will lose their emergency powers “divine right” to do anything they want and call it legal thats what they will be sweating on.
Once more, to hammer the point home.
New Study CONFIRMS COVID Vaccine Affecting Women’s Menstrual Cycles, CDC Says NOT To Worry
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG4t_jphxaM
Michael Trumble infected and moderately unwell.
This wicked virus has no standards.
Pop over to C.L.’s.
Best headlines evah. Even if I don’t comment, they brighten my day.
Broken.
Being a tacher is unnecessary detail.
They was a pop group in the noughties.
Knew a bloke in the 70s who was in a band known as The Throbbing Members.
Their posters were highly prized.
Very long time since the Daily Mail has had a three word headline.
All their sub eds these days seem to have verbal diarrhea.
And Honi Soit channeling the Bee is psychedelic.
It was awful in the late seventies.
Fish would’ve been embarrassed to be wrapped in it.
The first I heard of it was on 3AW being phoned in by the chef Adrian Richardson who is a 3AW guest presenter and who happened to be on the spot.
He was incredibly hesitant and guarded in answering questions about the details.
Straight away I knew.
It was either refugee activists, climate loons or pallid Aboriginals.
They certainly have some questions to answer. Let’s see.
Precisely; the rule of law was developed to keep the powers that be in check.
Given what English teachers in the US are like these days…
Karens have gone insane with this virus. It seems to produce a state of impenetrable imbecility.
At best, they’re shown to be incompetent, at worst they’ve been lying to the players & the public.
I have no idea what the state of world tennis administration is, but this – and being found out – must blot their copybook.
I could not care less about the old Parliament burning down.
Call me when the new one has a serious fire with all the vermin locked inside.
Bit of a Melbourne pun, but there was a band around in the early ’80’s called “Glen Waverley and The Mentones”.
The public service Deep State – in Australia and around the West – is relishing the task of destroying the economies that feed it by using 24/7 media hysteria to keep the population in abject fear of Omicron, Kung’s Flu’s weakest edition, as it makes its way out the door.
My brother’s partner, who runs a successful restaurant in regional Victoria, says the latest threat by the mad dog Marxist Andrews regime to name any business or locality as a Kung Flu hotspot means that it’s now barely worth opening the doors as people are scared they’ll be forced into isolation if they go out.
Same in Queensland, whose summer horse-racing carnival is meant to be one of the Gold Coast’s biggest annual tourism drawcards. The fear of government retribution against anyone enjoying themself in public means the forecast for crowds at today’s multi-million-dollar event is way down.
And it will cost the public service scum crucifying industries and the voting public not a cent as public service payrolls around the country boom when it’s least justified.
Just about covered the field of rent-a-crowd leftys there Sancho. Maybe in a Socialist Alliance Tshirt if you’re not too worried about being labelled.
More likely the imbecility was already there; the virus just gave it the opportunity to show itself.
The end result of 15 years + of the best in modern education!
ScoMo should leave the entrance to old Parliament House as is.
Barricade it up with ugly plywood and ribbed sheet iron hoardings and create another entrance.
Or tell the museum they will have to fund repairs out of their running budget.
I will bet that 93.1% of staff at the museum are totally on board with the firebugs.
Appears to be more substantial than media speculation.
Begs the question: WTF was Tennis Australia doing making up procedures and giving immigration advice that it knew to be incorrect?
That or some derivative turns you invisible to the MSM.
Blame the Dictator:
2021
“Victorian Premier Dan Andrews slammed the door shut, insisting — just like unvaccinated fans — that unjabbed players would not be allowed into Melbourne Park.
Djokovic, who tested positive to COVID-19 last year, has repeatedly declined to reveal his vaccination status.
Victoria has introduced a vaccination mandate for professional athletes as it battles a resurgence of coronavirus cases”
Archduke Ferdinand Found Alive – WWI for Nothing
Finished the book “dreadnought” a couple of days ago.
There was a little detail late in the book which was like a gut punch.
Where was 1/2 the Royal Navy the day Ferdinand was shot?
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/57468/wwi-centennial-archdukes-final-days
To demonstrate the new friendly relations, the Germans invited the Royal Navy to participate in the Kiel Regatta (above), an annual naval exhibition and sailing competition hosted by the Kaiser at the port city of Kiel in northern Germany. On June 23, 1914, the British Second Battle Squadron dropped anchor in the harbor at Kiel, kicking off a week of festivities when officers and sailors from the two navies fraternized (occasionally to excess). Although First Lord of the Navy Winston Churchill didn’t end up attending, he was hopeful that the regatta might be a symbolic turning point in Anglo-German relations.
The major powers had just broken up an ongoing peace/mediation conference about the Balkans/Ottoman empire which avoided a much smaller possible 2 power war…
Flood warnings upstream of the Somerset and Wivenhoe dams in SE QLD.
Wonder if Dr. Flim Flammery is holidaying up here atm?
I’m not sure incompetence has ever limited a career in sports administration.
Proposed amendment – It puts TA’s chief executive and the Australian Open director, Craig Tiley, in a very bad light.
However no such criticism for the invisible woman of Australian tennis, President Jayne Hrdlicka, TA’s first woman president. No public support from her for Tilley during this imbroglio.
She’ll only come out for the spotlight during the winners presentation like last year and deliver a marathon speech which gets booed, again like last year.
(h/t The Oz.)
Speaking of unimaiginative headlines, we might see this:
‘Djokovic bundled out of Australia’
Groan.
The latest is that it was paid agent provocateurs for ASIO..
Scott Boland’s Test career: 30 overs, 11 wickets.
Don’t worry about the poor bugger me Gurindji, Scotty. Your stellar record is what will get Abo kids in the Outback interested in cricket instead of AFL/NRL.
Queensland health workers with COVID-19 but no symptoms may need to work due to staffing crisis
The Rev. Gerrard speaks words of The Science, lays hands on the sick, and handles live snakes.
Next Up: Everybody else in the productive economy becomes ‘essential’.
TwoStix
Yet it’s all a closely guarded secret everywhere and the media are curiously disinterested.
The media are very uninterested, though I suspect that they are not disinterested.
Maybe a lot of wisdom in this.
Perhaps a regular day with much reduced interaction outside the local community can act as a weekly circuit breaker, rather than having to lock down.
Maybe the ancients knew a thing or two about plagues.
Zulu, have you been talking to Gargooglery again?
Regional hospital maternity ward had a case just before Christmas. All staff on the ward were tested and then asked not to go home. As it was some patients had to be sent to a private hospital because staff that chose to isolate couldn’t be replaced at short notice.
Perhaps TA were just trying to do what they thought was on the best interests of tennis and thought a handful of covid regulations could be honoured in the beach?
It’ll be interesting to see if:
A) Long COVID becomes a thing.
B) As with the UK, doesn’t affect the self-employed.
Long COVID is definitely a thing.
It comes from poor initial treatment by alleged health professionals.
Is Malcolm in Australia?
Or o/s?
NKP, what a quaint idea. Alas, not in these Karen infested times.
Yes.
A Venn diagram of those three groups would have a yuuuge area of commonality in the middle.
Who remembers that sometimes gory TV series “I, Claudius” (BBC, based on a book by Robert Graves)?
The most memorable quote was Claudius saying:
“Let all the creatures that lurk in the mud hatch out.”
Trump is the modern Claudius, underestimated by many, but a catalyst. The creatures in the Deep State Mud and elsewhere have been hatching out like mad since he started his run for the Presidency, then all through the four years of it – and it continues up to the present day.
He tried to save the USA. If he failed to do so, he certainly showed how many creatures lurk in the mud.
From the Mark Felton video “it’s been tradition…since WWII”…lol.
If so they’ve misread the public mood spectacularly.
Exhibit A : The Vicar of Rugby.
That also happened at a major Brisbane hospital, dil’s sister was one of the midwives. Her view: ‘No choice, really. Those babies are going to keep coming, virus or no virus.’
This is the reality dawning.
I gather there was a faction within the royal Navy who didn’t particularly care if they ended up fighting the Frogs or the Huns, and another which argued the Huns would be less inconvenient.
Queensland Government up to it’s old tricks, this in Weipa. Apparently cancelled “due to COVID”, yeah right more like after I would say it got out on Twitter and attracted the undue attention it deserves:
https://twitter.com/freethought202/status/1479220450299641860
Whatever way the optics aren’t good and seem to contravene some laws on consent and using enticement for medical procedures. The pharma companies have form and Pfizer has been caught out at least once. However governments really are crossing some lines here aren’t they?
Science news.
Great balls of fire: How heating up testicles with nanoparticles might one day be a form of male birth control (Phys.org, 7 Jan)
“Great Balls of Fire” is a fine journalistic headline re Johanna’s comment earlier.