I saw Stoker in action at the first CPAC.
Everyone was very excited about the event so she enjoyed a rousing reception. Unfortunately, her words were just platitudes. She was there for appearances sake.
She is no Canavan.
None of which implies that I agree with the sleeze Photios operative McGrath engineering her out of the Senate.

Queensland health workers with COVID-19 but no symptoms may need to work due to staffing crisis

Hundreds of perfectly healthy, many already immune, health workers still banned from entering a QLD hospital unless it’s an medical emergency.

Not about medicine, all about power and punishment.

Always was.

Alas, witty headlines are a thing of the past, in the MSM at least. And even in student papers.

My favourite of all time; [apologies to those who don’t know their AFL]

There was an article in the Fin Rev about the Sydney Swans getting a sponsorship from Pfizer, manufacturers of Viagra.
AFR headline:
“Up There Cazaly”.

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.

The UK always had a policy of not letting Europe be dominated by one power.

For centuries the most likely candidate was the French.

Once Germany unified and administered a few butt whippings it was reasonably obvious they were the dominant millitary.
So English calculations changed and you ended up with Germany/ Aurstro-Hungary/Italy on one side and Russia, France & the Poms on the other.

A few things seemed to stand out for me.
By keeping the reeking corpse of Austro-Hungary alive the Germans ensured the UK saw them as the power to be defended against. If they had disintegrated then the UK might have considered it not worth Allying with the Frogs.

The Boxheads made a huge mistake going through Belgium. The UK might have been hopelessly divided politically as the only “hard” alliance they had was the guarantee of Belgian sovereignty. Even if Belgium had chosen not to contest the entry of boxhead troops and allow themselves to be used as a transit the UK would have had trouble declaring war.

And finally the UK & France, despite not having a hard treaty responsibility had already carried out a naval agreement whereby France took over the Mediterranean as its responsibility and the UK was responsible for the Atlantic/costal areas around the English channel.

The fleets had already repositioned.
If the UK hadnt joined WW1 the whole Northern/Atlantic coast of France would have been open slather to the boxhead navy with little chance of the frog fleet being able to get back.

Its an amazing little book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadnought_(book)

The man behind Moderna.
Old history from 2016 and very interesting

S. Bancel.

Speaking of “the public mood”, the way the Chamberlains were treated was probably the first inkling that all was not sweetness and light in the modern Australian psyche.

Australia is unique in the world as an island continent that is a single country.

As a consequence, all visitors are foreigners – the “other”. Whether or not it was intended, that makes Australia one of the world capitals of xenophobia.

Even though he is someone I find a thoroughly unlikeable man, Novak Djokovich is on the end of that syndrome at the moment. Next month it will be someone else – because such xenophobia is a major component of the Australian national character.

Indolent
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?

Welcome aboard Indolent!

Emotional trauma leads to real physiological changes that help the animal cope. It’s a survival mechanism. And it isn’t a probabilistic thing. It’s a direct “if, then” causal relationship.

For a society to function in a semi-balanced way there needs to be three spheres of power operating and battling away:

Political
Religious
Material

Australia is drowning in two and completely missing one. In fact the political and material spheres have worked together to effectively criminalise the religious sphere. But it is a belligerent religious sphere that roots a country to the concept of an immovable truth that is greater and longer-lived than today’s news.com.au feed and this government’s term of politics. It can provide some mental immunity to the kind of political and material gaslighting that’s going on daily now, and importantly, fortifies people against an insane fear of their mortality – which as we see is easily abused to any end. Without all that you see what we see in so many people, almost a completely different person with a different ‘truth’ as given to them by politicians and media, week by week. You get young healthy people terrified out of their minds of the miniscule risk of dying from this or that. You get some old people willing to destroy civilisation and everyone coming after them if it means not facing the inevitable for one single more day.

If the end of a person is a dirt hole in the ground, as it is in the minds of so many in a godless nation, then it becomes self evident to people that there is nothing more important than staying alive. We see it, we’ve all heard people speak on those lines over the last two years. Which creates a downward death spiral into “I’ll accept anything, any condition of living, no matter how miserable, that’s not being dead, over being dead, because being dead is the end of me, so all resources must be put into keeping me alive. All risk to me, from you, must be eradicated no matter how low, at any cost.”. When that attitude becomes dominant in a large active and vocal minority in a society how can there be any way for it to continue functioning or remotely free?

Okay Cats, I made it home. Now for two weeks of home imprisonment, though I get a bit of day release today and day 12 to have a PCR test.

Figuressays:
January 8, 2022 at 12:43 pm
Indolent
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?

Welcome aboard Indolent!

Emotional trauma leads to real physiological changes that help the animal cope. It’s a survival mechanism. And it isn’t a probabilistic thing. It’s a direct “if, then” causal relationship.

It is chronic stress, days and weeks, that can deplete the immune response. Acute stress elevates the immune response by promoting inflammation which is an essential prerequisite for inducing a response to pathogens and promoting healing. The response to chronic stress is maladaptive giving rise to potentially life threatening conditions, inducing depleted T cell counts, high blood pressure, inhibition of growth factors, cardiovascular disease and cognitive deficits.

If you wish to correctly understand the relationship between stress and immune responses read the seminal paper by Sapolsky et al.
Full text at link.
How Do Glucocorticoids Influence Stress Responses? Integrating Permissive, Suppressive, Stimulatory, and Preparative Actions*

Dan always delivers a fuck up.

50,000 cases yesterday. How good do those fauxines work?!

Fucking idiocracy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yb57BsE7UI

Okay Cats, I made it home.

Huzzah!!!! Well done; more proof that bloody minded persistence gets you places brains won’t go. Particularly when dealing with government.

fauxines

I like that one.

Found a kid’s toy randomly looking on Gumtree with a (now) unfortunate name.

Chad Valley

Kiddies Tea Set.

(Fire up your Red Shoes and Cheese Pizza tunnels, Lizard! Peoples!)

Hmmmmmmmmm…..pretty sure the kiddos are meant to look like a young Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret.

Gee I wonder if there is a problem with the mRNA COVID-19 ‘vaccine’ – New Medicare item specifically for cardiac MRIs — hmmm

Sorry if previously posted – am unable to lurk at all -COVID-related

Melbourne protest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1m8xf0mauk

Bruce anything is possible atm, the Coral Sea/Gulf of C seem to be full of energy and we saw Cyclone Seth despite pushing into the sub tropical jest stream/lower SST defied odds and just bombed then persisted. A mate up that ways has said they got little rain in December and January is looking similar. The heat and humidity is that oppressive that something is going to have to break in his words.

That said 2 areas being watched in SW pacific, JTWC is usually good but was surprised by Seth’s development so I wonder if we will indeed see a significant cyclone in CS in a weeks time.

https://www.metoc.navy.mil/jtwc/products/abpwweb.txt

“… that is trying to legitimise its various agendas by co-opting Indigenous people and issues through a process activists and academics have termed “Blackfishing”.”

Which of course has never occurred at any mine site.
There’s definitely never been any case of a miner meticulously documenting the instructions of the local indigenous community about sacred sites etc., operating harmoniously with that community, and then having its operations disrupted by weirdos, ratbags, compulsive masturbators and macro-fuckknuckles blowing in from the cities and persuading a minority of the local community to renege on what the tribe had previously said.

that not every “disease” need be caused by the same phenomenon,

Good to know. Now give me an example of physiological conditions that you think are better explained by germs (predominantly) than trauma.

I detest this kind of broad-brush approach to our history. It is reminiscent of the plague affecting the US, where every single thing has to be viewed through the lens of slavery, no matter how little it has to do with it.

To suggest that Australia was/is uniquely xenophobic is simply ludicrous, and sounds like the leftist rubbish pervading the West – where every country is berated as being uniquely ‘xenophobic.’

Agree with your analysis Johanna.

Professor Michael Gore, founder of national science institution Questacon, has died in Canberra.

I haven’t checked upthread, is there any news about Jupes?

Did he get back safely to Perth or was his plane shot down over the WA border with a surface to air missile?

Calli:

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.

Mine have gone crazy.
We’ve had a bit of heat…

Feelthebern:

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.

Somewhere there is a file with all these names on it.
I’d suggest it be made public by someone in the department, but I’d end up in gaol because ‘secret’.

Malcolm Turnbull has tested positive for COVID.

Boambee John:

And the result is only some soft tissue damage.

We really need that downtick button.

45,098 in NSW.

You mean banning singing and dancing didn’t work? I don’t believe it!

Yeah I’m back Old bloke. Plane was delayed two hours so made it with three hours to spare. Only two hours to make it out of the airport so it could have been worse.

Indolent:

I’m not sure what this is all about but it can’t be good.

In other words, they are debating to have you vaccinated if you are “Attending a place.” and there’s no defining a ‘place’, so it can be whatever they define it as. This is a bill to have people imprisoned at home.
Here’s me hoping we had politicians who would stand back from the cliff their egos are pushing them toward.
It looks like I was wrong. Bigly.
Bloody ‘ell.

Gagool- will check it out Pogria!

Yesterday : Evil NSW Premier personally responsible for every case in the state, thank goodness Dear Leader in Victoria is keeping us safe.
Today : ….

The Age : “A Rugged Time”.

the French Sports Minister has said that Djokovic will be welcome in France, whether he is vaccinated or not, to play in the French Open.

Is that the France which has zero tolerance for the unvaccinated? Or a different France?

Macron Doubles Down on Plan to ‘Piss Off’ the Unvaccinated (8 Jan)

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
January 8, 2022 at 3:02 pm
Malcolm Turnbull has tested positive for COVID.

My sympathies are with the virus.

The poor thing had hardly recovered from its bout with Bananaby.

rosiesays:
January 8, 2022 at 3:08 pm
Bluey.
Is that on a proportion basis? Because it does look a little bit like the unvaccinated are overrepresented in those SA numbers.
It’s getting tedious pointing out that there was never a claim made for 100 percent vaccine efficacy and I think everyone now knows the effective of these vaccines wanes over time.
If you are over 90 and get covid your chances of dying remain quite high, vaccinated or not.

rosie I honestly have no idea. I linked it because SA is the only state that publishes the details and because of the political muppets breathlessly proclaiming it’s all the unvaccinated causing the issues. Regardless, from what I can make out it’s mostly the old and unhealthy that are ending up in ICU, someone who’d not either of those is at minimal risk. But you can’t push that through the fear that’s been conjured up over the last two years.

It’s getting tedious pointing out that there was never a claim made for 100 percent vaccine efficacy and I think everyone now knows the effective of these vaccines wanes over time.

No. One hundred percent efficacy is a ridiculous proposition.

So the sensible question is – how much efficacy, what percentage is acceptable given the price economies and people have paid? And what is acceptable re the tail-off? What interval between initial two doses and subsequent boosters?

These are serious questions and need serious answers, not “have the booster and be happy or don’t have it and lose your job”.

On “healthy young people” dying of Omicron, I remain a sceptic. If there are some in that position, they must be vanishingly small in number. Otherwise it would be blared day and night by the captive media.

So far, these vaccines have proved unimpressive to my untrained eye, at least. If I was giving a report card, it would be F and “try harder”.

When you’re looking at vaxxed/unvaxxed covid patients as a percentage, it would be helpful to know the percentage of the population that are vaxxed, so you could get a handle on the ratios involved.

Raw percentages can’t give the full picture.

if you are over 90 and get anything your chances of dying are quite high

Indeed. I have had many many relatives in their 90s where stuff just stops working and they die.

For example, El Camino is in California. Stats for that state are:

83% – first dose
66% – two doses

It would be interesting to know the vaxx uptake in the community surrounding the hospital to get an even clearer ratio.

This is the sort of stuff Dr Faustus has been talking about for weeks.

There’s way too much showboating going on.

A Nice cheery Christmas song! Be—lated, somewhat.

JMH:

Those bad people who refuse to sign and collect will be checked against a register and their payments substantially reduced or cancelled altogether.
Just a nasty little thought I had.

That’s been a worry for a while now – the Federal Government cracking down on people who are on one of the many pensions etc are a prime target for punishment.
Fortunately, most are not vulnerable because of State politics.
If Dan and his cronies had this lever then the pensioners would have been targeted already.

Pew, pew…pew

Bimbos, etc. – or so I read from this morning’s and later comments about the people outside the Djokovic hotel .

Well, those that made an effort – note, made an effort in the pouring rain – did so to protest against the actions taken to enforce mandatory vaccination. Recall, the root cause of the problem in the circumstances is that the state has been incompetent in enforcing its own tyrannical mandatory vaccination program by inviting someone who had, as required, made his vaccination status known to those who wanted to known.

So perhaps those not in favour of such wanton mandates might prefer to support the protesters.

(In case it was not clear, several anti-refugee protesters yesterday had attached themselves to the anti-mandate protesters some of whom were of a Serbian background, with Serbian flags. In the end, it was very much an overlap event, friendly, even though the persons I spoke to were not in agreement with the Manus refugee supporters.)

Winston Smithsays:
January 8, 2022 at 3:04 pm
Indolent:

I’m not sure what this is all about but it can’t be good.

In other words, they are debating to have you vaccinated if you are “Attending a place.” and there’s no defining a ‘place’, so it can be whatever they define it as. This is a bill to have people imprisoned at home.
Here’s me hoping we had politicians who would stand back from the cliff their egos are pushing them toward.
It looks like I was wrong. Bigly.
Bloody ‘ell.

I skimmed through the legislation.

Looks like the Feds are giving themselves the power to mandate vax’s for federal workers, and close the loop hole to get out of Oz unvax’d.

I’m still puzzled as to how they think old formulations will be effective against new mutations.

Is there any scientific basis for this?

twostixsays:
January 8, 2022 at 4:54 pm
Oh god I see notafan’s inner covid karen has returned with a vengeance.

It’s getting tedious pointing out that there was never a claim made for 100 percent vaccine efficacy and I think everyone now knows the effective of these vaccines wanes over time.

You’re so full of shit.

This time last year any statement, any contradiction with the “95% efficacy, two ‘jabs’ only and this is all over” lie had you busting out snopes and factcheck.org.

Best you go back to stepping over unvaccinated italians to get your coffee on your european grand tour.

Exactly. It was never 95%. The vax is useless, it doesn’t work as clearly can be seen with 100s of thousands of double clot shotted getting covid.

twostixsays:
January 8, 2022 at 5:03 pm
You’d get more truth out of the production reports from Tractor Factory #7 in 1953 Ukraine than from anything any health department are producing regarding covid now.

But let’s go to the reports of what our own lying eyes are telling us today:

95% efficacy: lie.
Grants immunity: lie.
Handles mutations: lie.
Stops it spreading: lie.
Two jabs and it’s all over: lie

Other than those few minor things, I’m sure they’re being up front and honest.

And yet they still mandate this useless, deadly poison that has no long term safety data.

Also I say again, the entire western world owes a truly deep debt of gratitude to all the unvaccinated, normal, healthy Africans whose rejection of our maniacal vaccination crazed mass-society ideology allowed Omicron to come into being in the first place.

Not only have we outsourced all the dirty and dangerous (read productive) work to the third world, and having babies which we then harvest the cream of to fill our declining universities, we’re now outsourcing virus protection. There will be an Aztec level reckoning for a society that operates like this.

I’m still puzzled as to how they think old formulations will be effective against new mutations.

Not only the vaxxes either.

Monoclonal antibody therapy not working against omicron variant (5 Jan)

Which makes sense seeing the monoclonal antibody is designed for the alpha spike protein and the omicron variety is vastly different. The virus has changed its locks and the old key no longer works.

South Africa’s cases peaked after a couple of weeks with little intervention. They were loud and brash in trying to tell us that omicron is mild and pre-2020 would barely have even made it onto the radar.

Our local health priests know all this, they are sober and fully apprised of the situation in South Africa, they have read the detailed stats and reports. Indeed you even occasionally catch them forgetting themselves and talking about it. All of this theatre, ‘returning restrictions’, masks, talk of lockdowns. It’s all extremely cynical and very disturbing fakery, it’s a governing class that has completely abandoned any duty or sense of connection with the people. Perhaps they are just as revolted by the Australian everyman’s grovelling acceptance of their endless lies and manipulation as everyone else is.

Bishop poo poo was a nasty little poseur

You’re lying or at least not fully understanding the process. The vaccine was effective against the first variant. That’s a fact.

ATAGI reports vaccine efficiency of Pfizer and Moderna (not AZ IIRC) of anywhere between 33% and 88% – different variants?

JC
Under what conditions does a virus decide it must mutate – can it do so without a host of sorts?

The virus has changed its locks and the old key no longer works.

It’s the same with pests and diseases in hort, Bruce. A simple principle that seems to have gone out the window.

I know we’ve paid a motza for lots of doses but why use them if they’re now obsolete? It isn’t just the price of the vials, it’s the whole apparatus of delivery that goes with them (especially for Pfizer).

It must be time for topical remedies like nasal sprays and the like, which I understand are in the pipeline. Amazing that these haven’t been fast-tracked like the intravenous rubbish.

Under what conditions does a virus decide it must mutate

Mutations are proportional to the square of the number of journalists

“Lots of people people in South Australia don’t have Medicare numbers”?

It someone is in an Australian hospital at the moment,I cannot fathom how they got in without being asked vax status

Unless they are in the throes of myocarditis induced agony.