Australian hospital wards may not be segregated but we need to decolonise healthcare

This decolonise thing is yet another cause that must not be reflected on at any cost. I realise the above is talking about Healthcare rather than the history of medicine, but it is used to justify so many ham-fisted attempts to re-write history.

Western people did not colonise Western medicine. They created it. When Louis Pasteur devised ‘germ theory’ he did not displace some POC or whatever. It was not someone else’s turn (turns being based on race apparently).

You can’t even say that someone was due to discover ‘germ theory’ and it happened to be him – as if there was a chair and someone had to fill it.

He made the discovery. Or, if you like, he made the chair. There was no guarantee that anyone would. It looks obvious now because after the discovery who branches of medicine have come into being, but without that initial feat by Pasteur they would not exist, all the ‘commonsense’ based on it would not exist. Our current society would not exist in its present form and the need for a ‘germ theory’ might not be there at all.

There are plenty of medical traditions without it. Not as good, but that is why we should be grateful for the likes of Louis.

Same for music. There is no patriarchy. Men didn’t force women from their rightful places.

The preferred practice in these cases seems to be to find a woman or a POC or an Indian (not really historically part of the West) – any kind of non-straight-white-male, and elevate them, amplify their contribution, and recast traditional historical hero as only having been chosen for misogynistic racist reasons.

In our modern world we do have composers and writers and inventors and whatnot of many different racial extractions. And of course they should get full credit for what they do – because they are here. But trying to manufacture grievance in history on such ridiculous grounds is just making the whole of the world about yourself and your gripes.

As for the original complaint above about representation in text books – it may have merit. But these days a lot of complaints about gender and race are as facile as the stuff referred to above.

Now look at advertisements i Australia, in pretty much all media. They have been so thoroughly de-colonised that major elements of the population appear only as court jesters.

Too true.

But I think the effect is to make people feel less likely to be persuaded by the ads.

TV and radio – particularly in the morning – proliferate the rubbish theories about Covid and the vaccines.

On radio today – I was in my car & I think it was 2GB – a female GP (I think from Melbourne) reminded the audience how deadly Covid was – using the example of her 65 year old uncle who had died (with it or of it?). She then went on to recommend the universal return of masks, citing a “Melbourne study” which “proved” the efficacy of masks!

Given that Covid is spread by way of a very fine aerosol which can easily penetrate most masks, and that there are now a vast number of OS clinical studies proving that masks are totally useless, this spread of erroneous beliefs is outrageous – particularly from a practising GP. But it is never challenged by interviewers who are complicit in the false information.

While I condemn the spread of fear and inaccurate information about this virus, I do agree with said GP that the virus should not be dismissed as innocuous. It may be for some people with good immune systems and natural or acquired immunity. But, like many influenza strains, it can be deadly for certain people. I have also always been mindful of the fact that CV19 was a gain-of-function pathogen, apparently engineered to infect human cells with comparative ease.

It says little for the breadth of education of our media, or indeed some GPs, that they are unable to reach a measured understanding of such an important issue.

I posted a while back how a lovely work colleague had her family home invaded at 2am by an African gang 18months ago outer subdued in SE Melbourne . Husband stabbed, family terrorised. The family are wonderful people and have had no previous incursion with criminals.

The gang of 4 teenagers was arrested that same morning in a stolen car. Have been held on remand facing trial.

Sentencing yesterday for the ring leader 16 yo at the time. Judge talked up how serious the charge was. Little xunt received 18months. He has already served 12months. 6 months to go but may get parole.
This is sickening. The leniency make me want to throw up.

The parent victims have been to hell. They then get dragged back at each of the 4 trials plus multiple hearings. These chaps have a seriously lengthy history with the law. What a fn joke Victorian Justice has become.

Beware they will be Out any day now coming to a suburb near you.

Snap, Mater.

When the lockdowns first started, many here and on OldCat were predicting a spike in all sorts of diseases which would go undetected and untreated.

Anyone remember any doctors or “expert” epidemiologists warning about this at the time?

None come to my mind.

It is ludicrous to make all sorts of claims about pre-colonial Indigenous engineering, astronomy, mathematics and so forth.

Air-head Plibersek told an audience at the UN Oceans conference in Portugal that aboriginal culture provided a model for ocean conservation.

chemotherapy treatments were also postponed.
If my chemo (2012) had of been delayed by even a week .. I would have been dead .. no ifs or buts .. FFS!

Carnage – More than 50 people shot in NYC on same weekend as Illinois parade massacre

I would point out that the mass shooting is still less common that the one-on-one incidents that are sadly not news any more.

They aren’t ignoring the dead in NY and Chicago. It just isn’t worth reporting.

Were there other mass shooting on the same weekend?

90% of the Australian media no longer has any interest in its core mission — being the public’s eyes and ears.

I thought they were there to sell advertising. The news, opinion , pictures etc is just to get you to look at the media and see the advertising.
The problem now is that governments do so much media advertising that can be easily removed, that nobody wants to gainsay the government.

If you have trouble coming up with a new surname, give me a yell. Trust me, I already have a few in mind.

“Pretentious wanker” is one that springs to mind.

Those damned whites are destroying America. Every single vid you see these days are of very destructive whites.

Those ones are the disorganised agents of destruction.

Antifa and its kin are the organised version.

EU parliament backs labelling gas and nuclear investments as green

It is Reuters, but it might be true.

Air-head Plibersek told an audience at the UN Oceans conference in Portugal that aboriginal culture provided a model for ocean conservation.

Plibbers could give AOC a run if she was given the chance. C’mon Liars.

Roger says: July 7, 2022 at 1:04 pm
When the lockdowns first started, many here and on OldCat were predicting a spike in all sorts of diseases which would go undetected and untreated.
Anyone remember any doctors or “expert” epidemiologists warning about this at the time?
None come to my mind.

Not sure what you are getting at here, Roger.

There have been dissenting GPs & others in the medical profession in Australia who have gone out on a limb & warned against the unknown repercussions of vaccinating with products that have not been tested to previous standards and protocol. Prof. Bob Clancy, Dr. Philip Altman (both published articles in Quadrant Online), Dr. Mark Hobart and our very own flyingduk (Dr. Bruce Paix) are among those who have gone public.

It has always been very difficult to even get an audience to challenge the official narrative. On 23rd June in Brisbane the Australian Medical Society (AMPS) was addressed on the issue of the dangers inherent in mandating the vax program by several courageous practising Australian clinicians. The Society also heard from Phil Altman, Senator Roberts, Senator Rennick and a zoom call from Dr.Peter McCullough.

For those who don’t know, before his retirement, Dr. Altman’s company ran clinical trials for new drugs in this country & he is therefore a “go to” expert on this issue. He is a vociferous public opponent of the Covid mRNA and DNA vaccines. His views and his public letter to the medical authorities in Australia are available in back issues of Quadrant Online.

For those unable to access Quadrant Online, here is an extract. from Altman’s excellent article on 25 July last year, entitled “The who, how and why of Covid 19”:

There is a considerable amount of misinformation, including bias by omission, in the mainstream media regarding COVID-19. As a pharmacologist involved in drug development, clinical trials and drug registration for 40 years – here are a few facts you need to know.

From where did Covid-19 come?

Coronaviruses can cause the common cold but there is little doubt that the coronavirus COVID-19 is a genetically engineered virus designed to be highly contagious. According to viral evolutionists, unique nucleic sequences have been inserted in this coronavirus, sequences which could not spontaneously arise by chance in nature. Since the beginning of this pandemic some leading infectious disease researchers and physicians and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have tried to claim COVID-19 came from the Wuhan wet market despite the absence of a single piece of evidence to support this proposition. Despite an intense search, no animal has been found to contain the virus.

There are many international patents which paved the way for the construction of COVID-19 based on work in association with the US National Institute of Health (NIH) and the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) using dangerous “gain-of-function” research.

Social media has de-platformed and censored anybody claiming the virus probably arose from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Experts and the media are finally walking back the natural origin bat/wet market theory and admitting it is probable COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. The implications of this are enormous as many people involved directly or indirectly in creating the virus (such as Drs. Anthony Fauci, Ralph Baric and Peter Daszak) now are involved in vaccine development and/or helping to set US government policy and shape public opinion while standing to gain financial benefit. Moore importantly, they count among some of the loudest critics of therapeutic measures other than vaccines to counter COVID-19.

These simple facts are the foundation for much of the misinformation and poor public health policy we are now experiencing. Until we clearly understand how this disaster happened we will be doomed to repeat the catastrophe.

The new vaccine technology

The new genetic vaccine technology used in the mRNA-based vaccine of Pfizer (and Moderna) and the DNA- based adenovirus AstraZeneca and J&J vaccines have never been previously approved for use as any new pharmaceutical. These vaccines could be called ‘genetic vaccines’ because they deliver genetic material for your cells to use as a template in manufacturing the identical spike protein which is found on the surface of COVID-19 virus. It is this manufactured spike protein, released into the blood from your cells following vaccination, which triggers your body to produce antibodies to protect you from a COVID-19 infection.

Have the COVID-19 vaccines been fully approved?

No.

Due to the urgency of the pandemic, vaccines have been provisionally approved in the US and Australia pending the generation of further safety and efficacy information. The following COVID-19 vaccines (listed below) have been released in Australia under “provisional approval” which includes strict conditions such as the requirement to provide further long-term efficacy and safety information from ongoing clinical trials and post-marketing assessment from the reporting of adverse reactions.

Unresolved questions about the new vaccines

What is the duration of protection from infection following vaccination?

What is the chance of transmitting infection if one is fully vaccinated?

What is the risk/benefit of vaccinating individuals who have had COVID-19 and have developed natural immunity on their own?

Which vaccine is best for older people or young people?

Should all children, babies or pregnant mothers be vaccinated?

Are there circumstances where specific vaccines should not be used (contraindications)?

How effective are the new vaccines against emerging strains of Covid-19 such as the Delta variant?

How effective are the new vaccines?

The new mRNA vaccines were provisionally approved on the basis of a single randomised, controlled clinical trial involving about 40,000 volunteers. Regulatory bodies, such as the US Food and Drug Administration in the US and the Therapeutic Goods Administration in Australia, usually require many clinical trials for approval. However, this was an exceptional set of circumstances. Gaining approval after only a single clinical trial means that it becomes extremely important to gain additional post-market safety and efficacy data.

Now that millions of doses have been used, experience to date strongly suggests the genetic vaccines can prevent, to a large degree, more serious COVID-19 symptoms, hospitalisation and death, especially in those individuals with co-morbidities (age, diabetes, compromised lung and cardiovascular function).

It has been widely reported that the mRNA vaccines were about 95 per cent effective, but the question is: “effective at doing what”? In fact, the trials of the genetic vaccines did not find any difference in the death rates for vaccinated and unvaccinated groups (there were too few COVID-19 cases) and, furthermore, the primary criteria for being “effective” was a positive COVID-19 test and a symptom(s), including even a mild ones like a cough or fever. While this clinical trial result is one metric to indicate the level of immune efficacy, the selected criteria did not permit any reliable estimate of the level of protection against progressing to serious clinical conditions, being admitted to hospital or dying from COVID-19. This was because the numbers in these categories were too small to be statistically meaningful.

What does the daily reporting of “cases” tell us?

COVID-19 tests use long-established Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) technology. This test is so sensitive it can be set to detect even a single molecule of the target substance.

PCR tests measure a short nucleic acid sequence which is present in COVID-19 whether or not this is in the form of an intact COVID-19 virus or a fragment of a dead virus from a previously infected person. The test cannot tell if there is the presence of a live virus, nor can it determine the viral load (the amount of virus) in a positive test. Then why is the number of positive PCR tests the key metric driving public health policy in this pandemic, which is causing such massive economic and social damage? It makes no sense.

Given more than 99 per cent of people who are infected by COVID-19 experience either no symptoms or mild symptoms, shouldn’t our health policy be driven by the number of seriously ill subjects, patients admitted to hospital, or the number of deaths due to COVID-19 (not “with” COVID-19)?

Let’s keep a sense of perspective. There are normally more deaths expected due to ordinary pneumonia/influenza each year than have died with COVID-19 since the pandemic began.

How safe are the new mRNA and DNA vaccines?

Safety is a relative term in pharmacology. Anti-cancer drugs are highly toxic but they can also save your life. There is always, with any drug, an assessment of risk vs benefit. The benefit side of the equation is becoming clearer with widespread vaccine usage, but the risk side of the equation is far from clear because there has been no detailed, publicly available overall analysis of the incidence of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) that are likely or, probably, related to the vaccines.

The evaluation of ADRs includes a detailed analysis of the subject’s medical history, the circumstances surrounding the ADR, the temporal relationship to the drug and co-administered drugs, and consideration of the mechanism of action of the suspect drug. There are various guidelines and definitions used to estimate whether or not there is a causal relationship. It takes experts considerable time to assess with any precision which serious adverse effects observed are actually due to a drug’s administration.

In the past, safety concerns have led to the withdrawal of certain vaccines following widespread usage, and regulatory agencies routinely monitor the safety of vaccines via various ADR systems. There is a specific ADR system used by the US Centres for Disease Control (CDC), the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

As a general rule, as few as ten per cent of ADRs are reported. This observation, coupled with the government’s perceived need to overcome vaccine hesitancy in the population, work to minimise ADR reporting and underestimate the true incidence of any particular ADR. This frustrates an accurate assessment of risk.

For mRNA vaccines, it has been reported that nearly one-third of those deaths reported in the ADR system occurred within two days of vaccination. These reports and thousands of hospitalisations following vaccination need full investigation to determine if there is any causal association. To date the public has not been appraised of any comprehensive, reliable and detailed analysis of the type and incidence of adverse reactions likely to be associated with genetic vaccines given the worldwide experience.

Claims that the vaccines are “completely safe” should be considered premature until further safety data becomes available. Until that time, the risk-benefit proposition in healthy young people, those previously infected with COVID-19, infants, children and the pregnant remain unresolved.

Every vaccine is different. The use of more traditional vaccines, like Novavax in the near future, may present a relatively more attractive risk-benefit position, but only time will tell.

Masks

There is much misinformation about face masks.

First, there is no credible evidence in the literature that cloth models or the ubiqitous blue-paper surgical masks prevent to any significant degree the spread of airborne viruses. N95 masks can be effective, but they need to be fitted so there are no air gaps. If you do use a paper surgical mask of the common blue type, do not reuse it, do not place it on hard surfaces, do not put it on and off repeatedly — it is designed for aseptic single use. Surgeons use masks to prevent the infection of open surgical sites. They are not used to prevent the surgeon from getting an infection. There has been a dramatic increase in bacterial pneumonia worldwide associated with the use of masks mandated by governments. As to wearing masks outdoors, most authorities consider outdoor transmission of COVID-19 as improbable.

Recommending that very young children wear paper or cloth masks, given the incredibly low relative risk, has been the subject of experts’ criticism due to the deleterious effects on their physical and mental health. Apart from anything else, small children tend not to wear masks correctly and are most unlikely to follow aseptic procedures.

Delta variant

Various medical bureaucrats and politicians have exaggerated the threat posed by the Delta variant now sweeping the world. Multiple sources report the Delta variant to be more infectious but less deadly. Claims that the Delta variant is a “beast” that will kill thousands are not supported by current knowledge and contribute without justification to the creation of unnecessary fear.

Challenges of a vaccine-centric strategy

There are several problems in relying almost exclusively on vaccines to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Theoretically, putting all one’s eggs in a single basket seems to be a risky strategy when there is so much yet to be learned about the safety and efficacy of these vaccines, and because so much depends on a successful outcome.

At this point in time we should be spending more effort in considering preventative and/or drug treatment strategies for ambulatory patients through to seriously ill COVID-19 subjects. The advice to those who have been determined as COVID-19-positive is to isolate. No treatment is actively recommended – just wait until you feel better or become so ill you need to be hospitalised.

Alternative therapeutic strategies – hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin

Given the sweeping global impact of COVID-19, it would seem prudent to hedge our bets and pursue alternative therapeutic strategies in parallel with mass vaccination. Some conventional drugs, including corticosteroids to counter the inflammatory effects of COVID-19, as well as newer approaches, such as antibody infusions and remdesivir (an expensive and provisionally approved antiviral drug) have been shown to have limited efficacy but they fall short of a complete solution.

Certain other candidate therapies, including hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, have been studied in many clinical trials and used in national programs in India, Mexico and South America with reported success. But there exists broad censorship across social media, mainstream media and the professional literature which is preventing the sharing of clinical trial results and the academic exchange of views. Up until recently this censorship has been further entangled in the stifling of debate regarding the origin of the COVID-19 virus………………………….

The TGA’s ban also raised concerns about interference in the sacred doctor-patient relationship. It is not uncommon for medications to be used “off label”, with doctors employing their discretion in prescribing a drug which they deem most suitable. In Queensland, early in the pandemic, prescribing hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 was criminalised , with heavy fines and up to six months’ imprisonment available to be imposed. This, too, is a step without precedent.

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Indigenous voice should address alcoholism: Leeser
Noah Yim
NOAH YIM

Opposition legal affairs spokesman Julian Leeser says the government’s proposal for the Indigenous voice to parliament should be able to address alcoholism, substance abuse, and pornography in Indigenous communities in order to tackle child sexual abuse, and domestic and family violence.

“Because of alcoholism, because of substance abuse, because of pornography, we see these scenarios of domestic and family violence and child sexual abuse,” Mr Leeser told Sky News. “Can the voice be designed in such a way which can help address some of those issues? And that’s really the challenge for the government in their design of the voice proposals, and that’s what we’ll be looking at when they bring their proposals back to us.”

“We’ve said we’ll keep an open mind, but we’ll wait to see the detail.”

The Labor government has identified as a priority a referendum to enshrine in the constitution an Indigenous voice to parliament.

“The Labor government has identified as a priority a referendum to enshrine in the constitution an Indigenous voice to parliament. “

If any change to the constitution deserves to be flung down the forgettery of bad ideas, this one has to be close to the top of that long list.

“Fox News host Tucker Carlson…”

Is it surprising that Carlson doesn’t “do” social media? When he seems one of the few MSM left that actually has some sort of brain and is inquisitive about what really happens.
Maybe that’s why he tops the cable news ratings… he doesn’t hide who he is or what he thinks, is careful to differentiate between facts and opinion, and is not afraid to go “against the grain”, admits when he makes a mistake, and even literally laughs at his critics on air when they get it wrong, or are just plain stupid.
Need more like that – many, many more.
“Tucker Carlson Tonight” and “Gutfeld!” are must watch Fox news clips on youtube – serious vs comedy, but both to the point.
“Facts Matter” (Roman Balmakov, Epoch Times) is also worth a look for so-called “alternative” news – like Carlson, very well researched and careful “reporting”(news), not “journalism” (opinion).

Speaking of arseholes, blackface boy is really treating the leader of the freedom convoy, a real lady, well.

“Tucker Carlson Tonight” and “Gutfeld!” are must watch Fox news clips on youtube – serious vs comedy, but both to the point.

Indeed. I watch both daily now. Although Gutfeld calling himself a “Libertarian” is a little worrying but I don’t mind the Ron Paul brand of Libertarianism as it still has morals… thankfully it’s not like the shitty Australian version.

‘Raising awareness’ just means rubbing their nonsense in people’s faces.

While it can be harmless (but annoying), “raising awareness” (aka consciousness raising) was borrowed by second wave feminists in the 1960s from the classical Marxist reviolutionaries, who believed the workers were often not conscious of their exploited status.

As such, it is one of the first examples of cultural Marxism.

Raising awareness’ just means rubbing their nonsense in people’s faces.

Or doing something you want to do a get someone to pay for eg “I am going to ride all of Australia’s preserved Steam railways to raise awareness of the tragedy faced by people with ingrown toenails”