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Pot calling kettle black. Three paras is OK BTW.
As is almost every second suburban fire in Sydney lately.
Is it like it’s OK for our gas to be sold overseas but we can’t extract any for our use…
But people talk about how they’re sick of being told what to do by a branch of self-righteous, unelected, corporate…
The authorities’ hypocrisy over Djokovic’s exemption is more nuanced than simple unvaxxed/vaxxed.
Djoker has had Covid. He is being given an exemption based on infection generated immunity. This is not an ‘out’ available to Australians facing mandatory vaccination.
A must admit I enjoyed the irony driving though towns with sines saying keep out so I do my essential work of pulling post out of a disused vineyard from property that is still unused.
Not any more.
The Djokovic decision was a sinister move:
It infuriates the populace about injustice
It validates compliance and past mad acts by the state
It furthers the polarisation of society
It adds to the coffers.
But I also think the same decision can reveal that what is right for some is the same thing that is right for all. Otherwise, the risk is that we become our own jailers because we want equality.
Or something like that.
Just caught up with Tom’s toons.
Judging by my seek jobmail, Bandieras may come true for here as well. One independent school is advertising for 12 new teachers. Depending on the size of the school that is between 1/4 and and 1/8 of its teaching staff.
In Long-held Desire news:
New $316m Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural precinct to be built in Canberra: ‘Ngurra’
It’s almost as if there’s an election coming soon.
min, my local chemist resorted to a sign in the window explaining there are no vaxx shots available until March.
I’m just welding it to the tandem trailer
Not entirely though. It was great not having to dodge tree change boomers wondering onto the road.
Djokovic v Andrews match highlights.
RickW, how many expert panels did you get?
I think it’s great the the Djoker got one through
but every silver lining has a cloud.
now that their hypocrisy is on a world stage, they won’t even need to pretend anymore.
this will cause more cog-diss for about 5 minutes before every-mong decides that its ok because its for their own good
Bugger, ftb got there at the turn of the page. You know, I could always delete his comment. Hmmm…..
Independent Medical Exemption Review Panel
Must be new. No official record of it online but then wait a minute one of the dozens of news stories the search throws up mentions Ash Barty so it has been around since last year.
So why the cloak and dagger? Who are they and what are their CV’s? Otherwise the committee and whole process sounds like a road train size pile of bovine excrement.
A spokesperson for Miss Julia Roberts declined to comment on the Novak Djokovic case and referred us to the Queensland Government media unit.
Bread and circuses
In other “only in Qld” news one of the 2 mass Vax centres on the Sunshine Coast is closed. We are away at the moment but #1 son tells me the queue at the other one , the hospital, is enormous.
Nope.
Not big enough.
got a spare low slung bogie?
and struth, can we borrow the mover?
Looks like Siouxsie finally got her wish.
(Nothing shrieks gravitas quite like anime coloured hair.)
I’m sure Gez has something appropriate now harvest has finished.
3AW has consistently tried to gin up hatred of Djokovic over his vaxx status. I think this is off a piece with the rest of the MSM.
Two expert panels seems unwise. Shouldn’t they have had one panel? Or three?
It’s “Animal Farm 2022”.
Before you know it our politicians will be starting to walk on two legs!
Tim Blair:
Modern sports reporters are insufferable moralistic scolds, and as a general rule anything that upsets them should be supported.
So let us all applaud the decision to grant Novak Djokovic a vaccination exemption for the Australian Open…….
Two points: “obscene decisions” stopped Australians flying interstate to see loved ones. Instead of complaining about one exemption, complain about being shut down for two years………
(For their next trick, by the way, watch Australian sports writers head to China for the Winter Olympics – and not say a damn word against the dictatorship that created a need for vaccinations in the first place.)
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/tim-blair/djokovic-decision-distresses-the-delicate/news-story/0afb2476cf6beced0801b251a58b5411
Bruce Pascoe was unavailable for comment.
Baba – I think you are absolutely right in that it is likely he challenged the ban on the grounds of medical immunity acquired via previous infection. Vic authorities will be loathe to reveal this because of the repercussions from those ordinary plebs who did not have the resources to pursue it.
liberty quote
Ahahaha! For the amusement of the singlet bag appreciation society.
The Beloved has just returned from hunting and gathering. Colesworths has no…that would be zero…multi use bags, either cloth or plastic. None.
Supply chain issues added to the summer visitor tsunami have cleaned them out.
I had the same question, and my wife said that, apparently, some GPs and pathologies are not letting people attend their clinics/labs without a negative PCR result.
In some hospitals they demand it even for cancer treatment sessions.
min says:
January 5, 2022 at 3:56 am
Tried to make an appointment with my doctor today and could only get an automated message that appointments could only be made on easy visit App . Could not get on it nor could the tech person I asked for help so tried web site no doctor available until 11 th , mine not on until 16 th Next problem occurred when prescription I ordered for delivery didn’t arrive when I rang chemist phone not answered .
Apparently phone s system collapsed in chemists in Melbourne due to vaccination enquiries . Son GP says medical system in chaos’
…………………
That sounds ominous, almost as if Dan of the dead might have an excuse to use some of those lovely new emergency powers he got for Christmas to “restore order”. I wonder how much of the chaos would be avoidable, and how much of it has been allowed to develop. Given it’s Victoria, no doubt nobody will ever know, and poor old creeping assumption will be blamed again.
Concerning times.
Where’s the guillotine?
I’m just welding it to the tandem trailer
I will bring my knitting.
Re the ALP running around with their hair on fire about the unavailability or cost (pick any two) of RAT kits.
It seems like only yesterday that the same people were dissing RAT kits is inaccurate and a danger to public health. If memory serves me well, an ALP government in the former Commonwealth of Australia even threatened individuals with a $20k fine for using one.
It’s not though.
CV-19 was likely endemic in Europe in March 2019.
Note the sample of wastewater from March 2019 that tested positive.
Hundreds of Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on January 6 have been charged. But a bombmaker remains free
A whole $US100,000!
And a heartwarming plea for help from the most senior levels of the FBI:
They must be deadly serious about catching this monster.
One word: Gideon Haigh. Don’t mention the South African high jumper.
From the Rogan-McCulloch interview, on the reluctance of doctors to treat covid patients:
“I think it was a grip of fear. Doctors for the first time in their lives felt like they could get the disease themselves if they actually saw and examined these patients. All the discussion was on personal protective equipment, hand sanitizer, negative air flow rooms. It was all about protecting the healthcare workers. There wasn’t any focus on sick patients.”
I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised. How many study medicine for the prestige & reward rather than a burning desire to heal sick people?
The obvious question then becomes – why the hell did you force useless injections on us?
Are they going to let people die because they test +ive after being stabbed with low grade bullshit juice?
Our medical system is utterly broken.
35,000 new cases in NSW and we are still supposed to check in everywhere using a QR system which is for what? So they can trace all the contacts?
Rubbish! It’s mission impossible and they might as well scrap it right away.
Same for the masks, which are useless.
The problem with the Djokovic double standard is that the incompetent buffoons of the Government Health Nazi Industrial Complex threw out their adherence to immunological science established decades ago (that catching a disease gives you immunity from future infections) in order to coerce people into getting vaccines that (unlike all vaccines developed before 2020) don’t protect you from infection, just stop you getting seriously ill because they were rushed into production without exhaustive trials.
Djokovic caught Kung Flu in 2020 before a vaccine was available, meaning he’s most unlikely to catch it again because of the immunity he now has.
That means his exemption is deserved – but no-one in the GHNIC is going to explain that because it stinks of hypocrisy and double standards.
Those knowall arseholes created the conundrum now kicking their arse that special treatment is extended only to celebrities and the rich.
Knuckles, I believe what the Beetrooter said in relation to enquiries about the injection status of pollies, was that such enquiries “would be unhelpful”.
So in other words, the genius disclosed that not only was he unjabbed, but that many other feral pollies were also unjabbed.
Rickw’s observation about what needs to be done to those disgusting fascist mongrels is spot on.
I’ve seen some MSM reports where other players are furious – ostensibly because they think he is being “irresponsible” – but I suspect the real reason is because they realise that they have been dudded. Forced to jab up on pain of exclusion, and no doubt at least some of them would have preferred not to, and then The Joker sails through, because he can.
The Open would have been a farce if he was not participating, and whoever won would be under a cloud of doubt forever because he didn’t beat the world’s best player.
I say kudos to The Joker for standing firm and showing up the hypocrisy of Our Betters. He made them genuflect and squirm in public, he showed up the lack of integrity of the system, and he gets to play on his terms. Good for him!
Dr. Robert Malone on Dr. Fauci: “Tony Has No Integrity. He Lies All the Time – It’s Tony” (VIDEO)
One more word: Mel McLaughlin
People forget that Djokovic is not the only exemption. What about commonwealth employees and judicial staff? What makes them more special than the rest of us.
My hope is that Djokovic will win convincingly and that the public will get behind him as an up yours to the to the government, media and “our betters” in general.
Because you are thinking logically. Most of Australia has accepted the fear porn mantra and also don’t want to go through the savage removals of personal freedoms again.
I stopped participating in this farce ages ago. All it did was put you at risk of being caught up in the “being forced to get tested and/or isolate for x number of days idiocy”.
If there are now that many “cases” then clearly there is no longer any need for it, especially if a) the “contact” rules have been relaxed and b) the tracing system has been overwhelmed.
Don’t expect any change to the need to engage in this theatre of stupid, however.
Don’t know about the rest, but Cardi told us that Beetroot and his daughter had both been enjabbenated.
Goodness knows what possessed him to make that stupid exemption. It has only come back to bite him.
Whipped into Bondi Junction at 9am this morning for a quick blood test and to pick up a last script sent by the doc to Chemist Warehouse in Oxford Street. As I was paying I hear a guy on his phone saying, quick, get in here, they’ve got two boxes of rapid antigen tests just come in, one set of two tests per customer for $25. I say to the girl at the counter oh I’ll have one of those too, picking one up from the first small box which is now already half-empty and suddenly there a long queue forming behind me, all of them clutching their test kit for purchase. I don’t expect those two small boxes of packages will last long at all.
I tell Hairy when I get home. Just another form of toilet paper panic, he says wearily to me, but I say it might be useful to have these two just in case one of us gets sick and we want to find out what it is for home treatment etc. He’s still in bed, yawning. It took him ages very late last night on the phone to arrange our preferred flights to the UK at the end of April. Computer said no, apparently stuck in some endless loop, but a long and tedious phone call managed to get it all home and hosed. Two business class return tickets at an excellent price with the option of changing should it be necessary. Selling like RAT tests apparently, i.e at warp speed.
I’m going to invoke the JC rule: Mel McLaughlin is exempt from criticism because she’s cute.
There was a km long line up of cars as I drove home by the Rose Bay official testing centre.
My youngest son texts that he’s over his Covid now. Three days. Not very sick.
H B Bearsays:
January 5, 2022 at 7:19 am
“Tennis virology” – a new branch of medical science.
Excellent work Bear.
Perhaps a committee of Fellows of the Royal Australian College of Tennis Virologists declared Djokovic safe to play.
My hope is that Djokovic will win convincingly and that the public will get behind him as an up yours to the to the government, media and “our betters” in general.
I hope he gets to the final maximising the exposure of the government’s hypocrisy.
I also hope the Packers go deep into the NFL play offs, causing brain implosions due to Aaron Rodgers unvaxxed status.
Another reason to get vaxxed. It “shows respect”.
FMD
Relax ussr. We’re all being discriminated against here.
BTW Sydney has gone barking mad with Omicron hysteria & we are fleeing back to rural sanity.
Inch by inch, the mindset is becoming more CCP and less Aussie.
When do we start the Struggle Sessions?
On matters Djoker related.
Sounds like he’s attempting to deflect the blame for the entire imbroglio onto Morristeen and his morons, as opposed to a certain grotesque deformed jug eared imbecile.
It’s a reflection of how stupid so many people are that they simply wouldn’t be able to comprehend why the Djoker was given his exemption (i.e. natural immunity). Hence all the subsequent self righteous squawking from various imbeciles in the meeja, who in classic fashion have gone after the hate figure du jour, as opposed to the monumental f*ckwits responsible for this ridiculous state of affairs.
It will also be interesting to see how these idiots’ screechings for a boycott of the AO plays out (as “reported” this morning on chiple j news). I’d be surprised if there’s any adverse impact at all on crowds and TV viewer numbers.
“n fact you could say you chose to publicly spit & shit hate against him personally, but it’s always OK when you do it, isn’t Cassie, because it’s only we ‘outsiders’, we ‘unpersoned’, we ‘Untermensch’ who see through you & dare call you out, but we don’t count with you Political Classes, do we.”
Diddums slag heap.
The PM from some African country get a positive result from testing his goat as well a pawpaw in the early stages of the pandemic. The test procedure might be more reliable now but who knows. Wouldn’t bet the ranch on what a RAT tells you though.
Well, pardon my scepticism calli, but he (i.e. the beetrooter) would say that wouldn’t he?
Opening your mouth exposes insanity.
I reckon Dan of the dead will unleash a few turtles to taser/beat a few tennis players at the tournament.
These uppity bastards need to be taught a lesson.
I know, Rabz. My bias is towards believing what people tell me, particularly commenters here.
I should stop. But that might cause more wrinkles.
USRR, this is insane. Get a grip for goodness’ sake.
Someone’s read the Daily Stormer this morning.
Well, thanks for that, Ali G.
“feelthebernsays:
January 5, 2022 at 10:27 am
Someone’s read the Daily Stormer this morning.”
Yep…I suspect it’s her daily fodder.
Not sure I approve of the JC rule, no doubt it works. Chris Gale was onto something all those years ago. I am not sure she is there for her cricket knowledge. And to be honest, I don’t really care. If I want to know about the cricket all I have to do is sit through a Chapelli monologue and try not to nod off if Jim Maxwell is on.
Good Moaning.
Lizzie, I can’t be bothered scrolling back here, so if you did answer me yesterday I didn’t read it.
Are you planning on getting the booster with all you now know?
It’s claimed to be a part of the society’s social contract.
Repeat after me
unvaxxed =/= covid positive
Vaxxed =/= covid negative
About time the State got involved. The AO is historically a good time to settle a few old scores.
If we argue that Djokovic should not have been allowed entry then we are affirming the COVID narrative, that we approve of mandates, etc.
If anyone had been arguing that, you would have had a point.
But it’s exactly the opposite.
No-one here is arguing that Djokovic should not be allowed entry, they’re arguing that letting him in shows the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the utterly unwarranted restrictions on the proles.
Looks like the word has been spoken from on high…case numbers are now meaningless.
Again, stuff that’s been called for here months ago is finally being accepted as the logical response. The thousands testing +ve are the tiny tip of the iceberg of infection, most of whom don’t even know they have it.
Now we just have to endure the spectacle of glacial government and their showboating hangers-on try to extract themselves from the farce with a shred of dignity.
Good luck with that.
It’s not the entire medical profession, but it is the entire medical administrative apparatus. They’ve become actual jackbooted totalitarian fascists.
On top of that what they are forcing onto people is medically in error and is much more harmful than helpful. It’s as if the complete medical administration had suddenly decided to enforce homeopathy on everyone and exclude any other treatment methods. It’s crazy and evil.
You dont have to control individual doctors as long as you control the agency which allows them to practice.
Our site Doc will move heaven and earth to never have anything to do with AHPRA.
Our poor site nurse has had 2 sessions with them so far, one lodged by a literal speed freak/mad man who made accusations against nearly everyone in the company before imploding.
The other was a borderline wrong call. Mystery abdo pain without deterioration… but second guessed to buggery by bureaucratic mongs.
“Is it because I is unvaxxed?”
Salem had its witch trials and associated hysteria and the French had the same in Loudun. Flip forward and you get the supposed reds under the bed scares that gets trotted out under the evils of McCarthyism. Typically these are all considered to be functions of ignorance, superstition and bigotry. Perhaps it would be fruitful for the covid Karens to be confronted with the fact that they are adopting that role for themselves in the current iteration of mass fuckwittery. Shame and ridicule seems the only way to deal with them, reason is clearly out the window. Dunking at the wastewater plant might work too.
We’re always a bit behind the US.
Campus Struggle Sessions USA (3 Jan)
If they don’t know they have it, they don’t have it.
The tests are faulty.
As we conspiracy theorists have been saying since that was explained by experts back in March 2020. We need more conspiracy theories now, since the old theories have all been proven truths.
He’s correct, though – international borders are a Commonwealth responsibility.
Link to Blair’s re tennis and sport generally here – paywall gone.
Thanks again to whoever put up the link to 12ft, paywall crusher extraordinaire.
H B Bearsays:
January 5, 2022 at 10:40 am
“Is it because I is unvaxxed?”
Well done, good sir.
Worthy of an uptick & a re-post.
The RAT tests approved in Oz vary pretty massively in their accuracy.
https://www.tga.gov.au/covid-19-rapid-antigen-self-tests-are-approved-australia
For each test a comment on the clinical sensitivity is assigned as follows:
Acceptable sensitivity – clinical sensitivity greater than 80% PPA
High sensitivity – clinical sensitivity greater than 90% PPA
Very high sensitivity – clinical sensitivity greater than 95% PPA
Anyone whos been a D&D tragic can tell you the odds of a 1 in 20 failed saving throw at a vital moment…..
McCarthy was correct, and much more of it needed these days.
To paraphrase – once you control the Medicare provider numbers you control the doctors.
Chemist at Chemist Warehouse BJ today told me that yes, you can have Astra Zenica as a booster at Chemist Warehouse outlets that do vaccines (not this one). I wonder if he was right, because my GP says the government only permits boosters of Pfizer or Moderna. Yet I read that AZ is used as a booster in the UK.
Neither Hairy nor I want a Pfizer or Moderna. We’d take an AZ or a Novovax just before we leave in April.
Big call, struth. You might have Omicron and just think you have a runny nose, or a slightly raspy throat. Most normal people would shrug and say, meh.
Also, at $10+ a pop, and basically none available anyway, would you bother with an RAT? Of course, if you’re an idiot or need to get clearance for work or travel or some creepy medical centre won’t treat you, you might front up to a testing centre. And wait 5 days until you get the result.
It isn’t about the existence/non existence of the virus. It’s about people’s response to it.
Remember the now memory holed CNN/MSNBC theory that Delta & Omicron would combine to become a super strain.
Bwahahaha.
& I am disappointed that that new French strain is being called IHU.
Seriously, back to the focus group guys.
Well if case numbers were meaningful, since there’re 35,000 of them today it might mean that Dr Chant and Minister Hazzard could perhaps be blamed for letting the coof get out of control.
Since that would be bad for Dr Chant and Minister Hazzard I can see why 35,000 is now a meaningless number.
Seriously, unless you work with at risk people (hospitals/aged care) who needs to be tested?
If you feel sick stay home.
Otherwise, do what you like, which includes sheltering at home if you are that way inclined.
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Good lord.
Here you go mongoloid government, your path out of insanity…
Work with pharmacists to produce an “at home care pack” for people with the Peking lung pox.
Paracetamol, an anti-viral, a few vitamins etc, plus instructions all in a nice daily blister pack.
And a separate “if you get these symptoms/signs call the hospital” bit.
When mongs get sick, they will feel the warm embrace of “somebodys doing something” as they take their over the counter placebos and be less inclined to clog hospital beds.
Hell maybe even sneak in some ivermectin or something effective…
Nothing can stop the envvaxxenenening™.
Well, you control those who need controlling; the rest seem quite happy to fall into line regardless.
Always the way, I suppose.
Is Gez a little farmer or a big farmer?
Never read srr stating anti- .. What’s this accusation based on?
OK so the Joker is allowed to enter Oz unvaxxed*, the bateared mong then says in Afdanistan “no jabbee no workee”, so theoretically he can’t work, then TA has its own rules, which THEY set.
*He can come and just play tourist if he likes
So how on God’s green earth is that Scummo or the Feds fault that he is playing ?
Turned the cricket on and they’re doing the land claim thing again. At least he cracked a self-deprecating joke about his mob saying “where there’s a will, there’s relatives”. Sums up the whole land claim thing, ironically.
To be clear. I’d be happy for them to do away with all of the fanfare except maybe the first test, and even that’s a stretch.
mole, well said.
Joe Rogan gets stick about treatments & who he speaks with.
But for 18 months, at least, he’s been telling people to lose the weight.
Eric Weinstein recently said he’d lost 30 pounds based on Joe’s advice.
14 kilos for a bloke in his mid/late 50’s is life changing & not just because of COVID.
Roger, I was aware of that, however the individual screeching the loudest about ensuring the Djoker was refused permission to play in the AO was none other than the Bat Eared Mong.
Tiley is just another loathsome politicised collectivist hack.
…politics.
Is Gez a little farmer or a big farmer?
It’s not the size of the farmer, it’s what you do with it.
Tommy Robinsons Car Firebombed as the UK Continues to Do Nothing About Islamofascism
Styxhexenhammer666 Published January 4, 2022
Rumble — Rioting is a trait islamic fascists share with leftoid fascists: https://archive.ph/ntSPO
Lizzie – AZ primary vaccine shouldn’t work as a booster because after two doses you’d be immune to the vector adenovirus. So the adenovirus would be mopped up before it could infect cells and then generate spike proteins via the mRNA payload.
On the other hand as a way of satisfying government edicts taking AZ as a “booster” for green tick reasons would be elegant, since the adenovirus is harmless in itself. So the “booster” would be very safe…just of no medical use for generating antibodies against coof. Which seeing the spike protein in Omicron is so different from Delta is probably a moot point anyway.
Thanks Diogenes – I missed your comment before posting mine.
Too good to check, for Carpe to ponder.
Yes. See comment above. Before we leave for the UK. It will probably still be needed there for travel, but also I will accept that with Hairy’s comorbidities and at my age and health status vaxx may be protective against Covid Original and Covid Delta while probably not necessary for Covid Omicron. If Hairy takes it into his head to do a side trip to Lappland (his latest rumbling) we may travel in May to parts where some bad Covid is circulating, including new variants.
We are in the category of people whom Covid (like influenza) actually does kill. Will have our yearly ‘flu shots then too. But we are basically healthy and intrepid. Haven’t let much stop us so far. 🙂
Spreading through the wife’s family. One day then quick recovery. Looking like a 24 flu at this point.
Forgot the video link –
Tommy Robinsons Car Firebombed as the UK Continues to Do Nothing About Islamofascism
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Lord, am I being pun ished?
As many people on twitter have been saying – and getting howled down for saying it – the AFL & NRL clubs should be having omicron parties to get it out of the way.
“Where’s the guillotine?”
Too good for them.
COVID mRNA vax by six doses, administered direct into bloodstream. Repeat daily until death.
If still around after 2 weeks, guillotine is then acceptable – make sure it’s rusty and dull though.
Does seem to have an, um, massive effect.
CDC Admits 61% Of Teens Hospitalized For COVID-19 Had Severe Obesity (4 Jan)
All those poor widdle kissies! Ok, waddle, not widdle.
Justin Trudeau, interviewed on Canadian TV, prepares the ground for doing something about the unvaxxed:
“We know people who are still making up their minds, and we will try to convince them…but there are also people who are vehemently opposed to vaccination…who do not believe in Science…who are often misogynists …often racists, too.”
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
STEVEN PINKER MEETS SOCRATES
by Mark Shiffman
1 . 4 . 22
First Things
Why?
Kiddies not kissies. Grr.
On the Djoker issue my real fear is some poor guy will collapse during a game due to vaccine-caused heart failure. Like the soccer players. The five set format in hot weather would be a great strain on their tickers.
Remember when COVID ripped through a few ships in the US Navy last year.
And the brave commanders “who stood up to Trump”.
You can’t tell me that omicron hasn’t done the same this year, times 10.
Where are these brave commanders now?
Believe it or not!:
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Just had a thought … If he were really that upset about the Joker playing, and it wasn’t about playing to the crowd, Dan could exercise his powers under his new legislation to prevent it
The medical system may be broken Calli, but it’s broken because of politics.
Governments, both federal and state, drive the “health” systems in this country, and it’s government policies that ultimately dictate how the hospitals and the entire medical system operate – more obviously during this current brouhaha. I’m not certain it was always the case.
I seem to recall (yes, memory is fallible) GPs in particular in my childhood and younger years being more interested in actually finding out what was the matter and helping patients become well again. They even discussed dietary changes and good foods that could help recovery from whatever it was that ailed you.
Anyway, I’m off to the beach before it gets too hot and the tide turns, boosting a bit of Vitamin D and getting some nice salt water up my nose to scare the coof. Apparently there is some of it circulating up here. 😉
incoherent ramblersays:
January 5, 2022 at 10:55 am
Nothing can stop the envvaxxenenening™.
[H/T The Village People, tireless proponents of getting jabbed.]
You can’t stop the vaxxing, nobody can stop the vaxxing
Keep people apart, wear a useless mask
Give small business the arse, that’s much easier
No, you can’t stop the vaxxing, nobody can stop the vaxxing
Let the Karens whine, make living a crime
‘Cause that’s easier to do
You can’t stop the vaxxing, nobody can stop the vaxxing
Give a jab in the arm, tell the proles there’s no harm
Panic then call for calm, ’cause it’s easier
No, you can’t stop the vaxxing, nobody can stop the vaxxing
Make up scary graphs, but take vaxx deaths from the stats,
‘Cause that’s easier to do
Lizzie, without the booster, you are already fully vaxxed are you not?
Did Fidel like calling people racist?
He’ll be gauging the Victorian public’s mood on that question as we type.
We’ve experienced this over the past year.
From the get go, Mrs F’s oncologist apologised for requiring a negative pre-consultation PCR: ‘I’m not especially worried about the disease itself, it’s about being unable to properly treat my patients if I catch it…’
Clearly a Whore to Socialism.
I expect the swine is boosted, too.
The point is he was no respecter of human rights when it came to dissenters.
What Bruce said at 11:08 am, five sets at 45C at the end of a gruelling tournament has got to be pretty stressful.
Yes, Bruce. I read you saying this before. I’m not so sure that vector viruses, which are commonly used as a vaccine transport mechanism, get dismissed so quickly in this way. I’ll have to read up on it. If we get Omicron in the meantime (I’ll hug my son and try to catch it) and if AZ is thus useful only for a green tick, then we’ll go the AZ for the tick and trust natural Omicron immunity and earlier vaxx to be protective. By April we are rather hoping that Novovax (with its friendly little nano transport packages, which seem so far harmless) will be available here for boosters.
There are risks with any vaccine for any disease. It’s a risk so far we’ve been prepared to take for other diseases and at our age are still prepared to take. It’s not as if Hairy and I are any sort of candidates these days for reproduction (although natch we still go through the motions). 🙂
True to form, the Vic Libs align themselves with idiocy:
Nothing…nothing about the stupidity of the lockdowns and other tyrannical government “policy”. Nothing about the exemption based on immunity. Just more ramshackle pile-on.
He thinks he looks like a leader. He’s more like this.
Ewww.
This.
Our friend, who was a women’s doctor (performing surgeries), before immigrating here, had to study from scratch because her qualification was not recognised in AU. She decided to become a GP. The whole process took her close to 10 years. She mentioned that 50% of the studies she does is not about medicine, but about administrative side of it, about what you’re allowed to say during consultation to not get sued, and other stuff like that.
More than just the medical system. Science in general is broken. The politicization of science started with the climate rubbish and that corrupting influence has had a couple of decades to fully metastasize. So when bat crud arrived the scientific administration landscape, of which the medical bureaucracy is a part, was a hollowed out tree full of leftist white ants.
Exactly.
Great news here in West. Aust. Ya dont have to wear a mask , as long as you sit down while doing it. huh?
Compliance among members of the Outer Party is almost complete at state level.
I take it you don’t think this latest mutation is real.
Okay.
Very very right Bruce.
Biden when the drug wears off:
Biden Looks Horrible After His Talk Yesterday – Sits and Ignores Questions with a Creepy Look on His Face
The question: who is really making the decisions: my bet: obuma.
True to form, the Vic Libs align themselves with idiocy:
Deputy Victorian Liberal leader David Southwick said it was a “disgrace”.
“What a disgrace! We have had 6 lockdowns – schools and small businesses closed, funerals and weddings told not to go ahead, families separated for months on end and now a tennis star gets an exemption,” he tweeted.
“A kick in the guts to every Victorian.”
Nothing…nothing about the stupidity of the lockdowns and other tyrannical government “policy”. Nothing about the exemption based on immunity. Just more ramshackle pile-on.
He thinks he looks like a leader. He’s more like this.
Actually calli I think he’s playing it cleverly politically.
The point politically is just to show up the hypocrisy.
The aim is that the sane people read his comment as “yes, this just proves what useless neofascist lunacy the last two years has been”, while the Karens read it as “yes he’s right – they’re LETTING AN UNVACCINATED PERSON INTO THE STATE – OMG WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!”.
Politically, there’s no point putting either group of voters offside by being clear about which he means.
You might be right, Tim. Is he that smart? Does he think Victorians in general are that smart? It just looked like more of the same to me.
The gruinaid prints a “civil war is coming” piece by a lefty flog (possibly bald headed).
The sharticle is pretty low rent, but does do a great job of “its ok when we do it” folgbaggery.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/04/next-us-civil-war-already-here-we-refuse-to-see-it
What the American left needs now is allegiance, not allyship. It must abandon any imagined fantasies about the sanctity of governmental institutions that long ago gave up any claim to legitimacy. Stack the supreme court, end the filibuster, make Washington DC a state, and let the dogs howl, and now, before it is too late. The moment the right takes control of institutions, they will use them to overthrow democracy in its most basic forms; they are already rushing to dissolve whatever norms stand in the way of their full empowerment.
So to stop existing institutions from “failing” by political processes the answer is to attack them and bend them to our will.
And this sub mongoloid thinks that will prevent a civil war…
The medical system may be broken Calli, but it’s broken because of politics.
Friend of mine sold out of his GP practise some years ago. Took a part-time job in a capital city hospital which had a walk-in clinic.
He kept a diary for two years, noting what his patients came in for:
– two out of ten wanted someone to talk to
– two wanted a sick certificate and didn’t need one
– two wanted drugs of some sort and didn’t need them
– four genuinely needed to see a GP.
Lizzie,
When we arrive at the farm & I get the chance I will post an important assessment of the problems with production of Novavax. Troubling. New information. Likely explains the delay in approval.
You might be right, Tim. Is he that smart?
Oops, yes, he’s a Victorian Liberal, so the chances of him doing something competent deliberately are negligible.
Sorry…
Struth, there are two types of immune system: the inate and the adaptive.
It is quite likely that two shots of AZ prime the inate system well enough to be reasonably long lasting. The antibody adaptive system may peter out but the inate system will still be strong and its t and other cells will still hit at Covid quite well with a ‘don’t kill me’ defense, not a cytokyne storm type of event which may happen if the inate system is not primed. This gentle reaction allows the virus to remain in you for a while to transfer to others (which makes the virus happy – in environmentally evolutionary terms). That’s what I think. I also think a booster can reinforce things.
Some people may prefer to rely on their overall immune system to be in tip top native nick.
That’s good too. Dissolute characters like me and Hairy, who eat, drink and make merry, not so much.
Is there someone here called “Rabz” ? I have a delivery of 2 flamethrowers and a tonne of salt .
I’m not sure Obama was making the decisions when he was president either. He always seemed more like an actor they used to sell it to the cameras and was kept closeted the rest of the time by Valerie Jarrett.
They did enjoy sticking things in each other. Not sure it was vaccines though.
The Joker has to come out and say that the bat-eared c*nts mandates are evil and wrong.
Then he would have won my respect.
Thanks Vicki, that would be good. I’d heard some rumours but hard data would help. Although if we’d read the hard data on Yellow Fever we may not have been quite so blase about it. Vaxx is like that.
In many ways, with AZ, it’s better the devil you and you body know. Hairy and I both did OK with it.
Women: “I demand to be allowed to flop my tit out anywhere and feed my Bezel-Bub”.
Also women: “I demand no man look while i flop my tit out to feed my Bezel-Bub on pain of jailing”..
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jan/04/breastfeeding-voyeurs-new-offence
A new offence of breastfeeding voyeurism, with a maximum sentence of two years, has been included by the Ministry of Justice in an amendment to the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill.
It follows a campaign led by Stella Creasy, the Labour MP for Walthamstow, who was photographed while feeding her four-month-old baby daughter on a train in north London.
She has been working with Jeff Smith, the Labour MP for Manchester Withington, on a campaign under the slogan Stop the Breast Pest.
Creasy told the Guardian last year she was breastfeeding on a train when she noticed a teenage boy laughing and taking pictures.
“He had his phone out and I thought he was playing with his phone, and then I realised with horror that he was taking photos,” she said.
“You feel exposed. I don’t think he can have got very much of a picture, but the sheer horror at the point when you’re focused on trying to support your newborn baby … and somebody is doing that, it was vile. Because I felt quite vulnerable, I just got off my train as soon as I could.”
The new offence of breastfeeding voyeurism, which would apply in England and Wales, is one of two new amendments to the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill. There will be a two-year maximum sentence for those caught and prosecuted.
I dont suppose something as simple as draping a towel/scarf over the area in question could be an alternative to involving the throbbing organs of the state?
Never and problems with us with the ‘flu vaxxes either. We get it yearly and have never had a ‘flu since.
bugger my typos- that’s ‘never any problems’
https://maryannedemasi.com/publications/f/are-you-waiting-for-a-protein-based-covid-19-vaccine?blogcategory=COVID-19
Lizzie – have stopped for break in Lithgow so have been able to post this link for you and any others interested in the development of alternate protein based vaccines. Cheers.
Which may explain why Vic Libs are not seen as a credible alternative government by anyone and are leaking votes to minor parties.
Meanwhile, “Over three-quarters of Victorians (76%) agree that an employed worker in Victoria is not allowed to enter their employer’s workplace unless fully vaccinated.” Roy Morgan, November 2021.
Which suggests that if Dan were to pull the pin on Djokovic, the 60% who approve of his leadership would be reinforced by his will to keep them safe.
It’s benign within a metre of any horizontal surface.
I thought everyone knew this.
That’s why most midgets are immune.
I’m a small farmer and I approve this message.
Top Ender at 11:30 – a mate of mine got a graduate position with a Trustee company and got stuck in the foyer on St George’s Tce when Transperth used it as a defacto busport. Reckons he spent most of his time giving out timetable information.
He didn’t last long.
As meaningless as “We don’t get it yearly anymore and have never had a ‘flu since”
Where’s the guillotine?
I’m just welding it to the tandem trailer
Fabrication Snap Matrix!
What colour are you painting yours?
Raining in Fairfield this morning so instead of the bike ride I went to the pool to deal with my, belated, burfday 1500mts .. around halfway I noticed the woman swimming breaststroke in the lane next to me was wearing a face nappie …… not all memes are imagination .. LOL!
Yes, and deservedly so, judging by that response ?
Oh, so smilies don’t work here.
Good. I don’t like big pharmas.
Good to see one of my two favourite cafes in Horsham are not giving a flying Fox about checking vax status or sign in.
Winston, you’re in Horsham 🙂
Highlights again a huge difference in the willingness to comply between country to city.
Lizzie – Here’s an article by a biomed guy:
3 doses, then 1 each year: why Pfizer, not AstraZeneca, is the best bet for the long haul (Apr 2021)
CSL will be aware of this, so the market for the AZ vaccine is self-limiting. Ok, yes, they can try to export it but that’s a competitive market and because the technology isn’t suitable for an effective booster it isn’t worth carrying on with.
You feel exposed. I don’t think he can have got very much of a picture, but the sheer horror at the point when you’re focused on trying to support your newborn baby …
“Sheer horror”?
OK, as a bloke I’ll never actually know what it would be like.
But I’m trying, and failing, to imagine any lady Cat breastfeeding, noticing some ghastly little oik ogling, and feeling any emotion stronger than irritated disgust.
It’s easy to breast feed discreetly. A light baby wrap over your shoulder makes a nice little tent in very public circumstances. An undone blouse can also shelter bub’s head and his source of noisy delight.
You don’t have to make an earth mother display of it all.
The only time I was upbraided for public baby feeding was when in a First Class train carriage in Sri Lanka in the 70’s I put a bottle of expressed breast milk in my son’s mouth. A kindly matron raced over and wrapped up the bottle in the nappy on my knee and smilingly handed it back to me. I discovered later that it is considered totally obscene to show milk in public in Sri Lanka. Tit-feeders, that’s OK as you don’t see the milk, and that’s culture for you.
Incidentally, the article I posted above also has important info about Petrovsky’s work that I didn’t know eg his successful development of many vaccines.
Time to go long on land around Queanbeyan.
Chicago ACT is programmed in by Morrisson – no consultation, of course.
Fortunately the inevitable urban decay will occur in a city that is utterly irrelevant to the nation.
One would hope it’s white, for contrast during operation.
Definitely not green.
Two expert panels
RickW, how many expert panels did you get?
None, because I’m just a fucking peasant in a third world shithole.
The Djokovic decision is absolutely right, he should be exempt.
What fucking burns is that Cunts in Government deny everyone else such sensible and personal decision making.
I haven’t had the ‘flu’ for over 30 years, never had the ‘vax’.
What’s your point?
The Beer whisperersays:
January 5, 2022 at 11:02 am
From close-hand experience: an evening of fever, a day to get back to normal, good to go!
It’s easy to breast feed discreetly.
But reality must bend to what I want it to be or society has failed!!!!
If Muslim women can breastfeed (pretty well using the method you used) in a compound full of men and no-one give a toss (fnar, fnar, snerk, snerk) then its a pretty effective method.
Bedazzler + Diving Helmet = Hot New Thing bux.
Had a few complaints eh?
Diogenes says:
January 5, 2022 at 11:09 am
Just let him try. The global headlines would be epic!
Brett Sutton didn’t need much of a nudge.
Brett Sutton
16 September 2019.
Eggsactly. It’s approved by the feminist leadership too so it’s not considered sexist.
At one stage FlashCat was keeping tabs on people close to us who have had the WuPox. So far for me – one. My sister in law. Smoker, overweight, out of condition. Survived. 😀
You are right re your Lady Cat.
It certainly doesn’t halt any woman’s ability to give the stern French death’s eye-of-disapproval to any misbehaving teenager. The best response to a phone-pest is to tell him to take his phone to the toilet and photo his dick so he could see a dickhead.
That unequivocal statement aged well, Brett.
Prince Andrew’s options becoming clearer:
1) Defend:
2) Pay away a big slab of Go Away money. Everyone hoots and shrieks for evermore.
3) Stop engaging in the process, and accept a default judgement.
Pro Tip: You’re ruined anyway, Champ. Most people would prefer to see the slapper and her legal team to walk away with narthing…
It’s all about the science, as explained here, Perth Trader.
Pilot: Pilots Still Taking Flight Despite Adverse Reactions To Covid Shot For Fear Of Losing Job
“Ngurra is the realisation of a long-held desire to have a home for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and histories at the heart of our nation,” he said.
So, will the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies now be closed?
Seems JC’s rule doesn’t work if you take the private equity guys for a few hundred million.
If Sutton were born a generation earlier he’d have subscribed to the Club of Rome’s simplistic predictions. A generation or two before that and he’d have been a eugenicist. And so on.
What on earth are you talking about?
I only farm 1000acres (personally)
Ergo- small farmer.
Nobody complains 🙂
Tuned into 3AW for the last half hour. Man are they livid re Djokovic and my word are they pumping the COVID hysteria to eleventy.
“Some people may prefer to rely on their overall immune system to be in tip top native nick.”
With a handful of exceptions, I haven’t had a cold or ‘flu for 30+ years, despite regular contact with many under 10 kids and/or parents of them. And for those exceptions, I had a runny nose and felt a bit “off” for a day or two, while those around me were in bed for 3 – 7 days. I never get the flu vax. Why would I want bat-flu vax? Yet by GovCo decree, I had to chose between one of two UN Universal Human Rights – the right to earn a living, or the right to bodily autonomy. But only after the vax became available – before that, I was “essential”, but I suddenly became “non-essential” once the vax was available.
I am supposed to respect all peoples human rights, but mine are violated on the say-so of a bureaucrat because “safety”/”community”.
FOAD you pack of blood-sucking dickheads – stay the hell out of my personal health choices, or just maybe I’ll ignore your right to due process and to not be subjected to cruel and unusual punishments. That wouldn’t turn out well for you. And as every day of your mandates continues, more and more are coming to the same conclusion – that you have no clue and neither do your “experts”. Which would be fine if you’d care to admit it and stop forcing me to do things, but you’re too full of hubris and false pride to ever admit to a mistake.
Giving “the science”, I take it you’re allowed to crawl without a mask, right?
Vox populi Victoriani.
It’s almost as if there’s an election coming soon.
Methinx, BRADBURY is gonna need a heck of a lot more votes than the 251 block can muster to follow thru … LOL!
Getting closer to an election date when the pie-in-the-sky promises start flowing thru ……!
Given, not giving…