The Mansard Roof, Edward Hopper, 1923
Too cold? Too hot? I wonder what’s in common with these two stories? Half of U.S. at risk for blackouts…
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I earlier this morning invited my family to share Christmas with us this year – a bold move considering the…
Good. And. Hard.
Re crashing EV sales: The bulk of EV sales are fleet sales to ‘woke’ corporations and government entities. We have…
I’m being rhetorical, but do people here really understand just how pervasive this gerbil warming bullshit is now? I was have a chat with the trader on the street earlier this morning. As we’re talking and sipping coffee, this lunatic randomly walks past and loudly says ..(paraphrasing) “look at all this petrol cars ruining the atmosphere. Go electric you arseholes”. He was yelling that out to cars waiting for the traffic lights. There’s no reasoning with these people and there are lots of them.
Rubio is an opportunist.
So is De Santis.
Cocaine Mitch is the best guy the Repubs have ever had.
It wasn’t that long ago, the Repubs only won the Senate once in a Generation, then lost it 2 years later.
I know. No other politician is an opportunist. Just them.
these..
Compared to Fetterman in Penn, right?
This one definitely is not … 🙂
McConnell spent hardly anything in AZ and NV but spent 9M in Alaska.
Trump endorsed Sarah Palin in the House and Kelly Tshibaka in the Senate.
Palin was well beaten and Tshibaka will likely lose in a Runoff.
It’s a battle for the Republican Party.
Since Trump was a Democrat until 2015, letting him win might turn out to be a dumb idea.
Ed Casesays:
November 12, 2022 at 5:32 pm
Rubio is an opportunist.
So is De Santis.
Cocaine Mitch is the best guy the Repubs have ever had.
It wasn’t that long ago, the Repubs only won the Senate once in a Generation, then lost it 2 years later.
Head Case, you really should be a Political Commentator on CNN which is the Clinton National Network BTW. You could be an Anchor on the News Network. An Anchor that is dropped 60 fathoms into the nearest waterway next to the CNN Broadcasting Building…………LOL
Salvatore:
Yep that’s my bet. I didn’t know the mechanism, but that explains the lack of taste.
The drive through would have baked in February.
And January, March, April, May etc.
Damn. That’s 4 blocks of XXXX undrinkable. …and no smartarse remarks from the peanut gallery.
Compared to Fetterman in Penn, right?
Compared to anyone, Mehmet Oz is still a fruitcake.
The point is, why not target races that are winnable rather than throw dosh down the drain in Pennsylvania, where the Democrat Machine can manufacture as many votes as it needs to in Philadelphia?
GOP’s 24 strategy is to raid a nursing home for dementia patients, find a candidate and then salt all the open house and senate seats chosen with mental retards. The more physically and mentally retarded the batter. They’d win in a landslide. No more smart people. Go full retard Idiocracy.
Russian administrators are being potted by insurgents in the occupied areas in the middle of a state of martial law. This is what plagued the Germans in Yugoslavia. Slavs. Slavs are the second best haters on Earth after muslims. About a thousand years of history are behind this mindset. Not going away overnight.
And the rest of Europe will be funneling light weapons to them all the while. Including AT missiles, which have been shown to be so effective and so portable. There is no way with Russia’s current political structure for them to control an existentially pissed-off Ukrainian population. Under communism it could be done, or under mature fascism, but Russia’s current half-arsed fascism isn’t going to do it. The totalitarianism is all in the top oligarch and political stratum, the ordinary people are too Westernized now. That’s why Putin has been leaning so heavily on the back country types like the Buryatis. Who aren’t happy either.
I know. No other politician is an opportunist. Just them.
Rubio has no record of achievement in the Senate, other than being a bumboy for the MIC.
DeSantis had a hard on for Vaccines before he backed off a bit.
What’s their motive for blaming McConnell for Trump being a divisive cockhead?
Whereas he does?
haven’t seen that for maybe 15 years
an oldie but a goodie
DaFisksays:
November 12, 2022 at 5:24 pm
Russia does not want Nuclear Weapons and NATO on its Border
Ummm, if Russia annexed Ukraine it would immediately have another four NATO members on its border! LOL
Which is why it is now taking the Russian bits of Ukraine in the east that are really Russian speaking anyway and leaving the rest for the West to fret about. Kiev was the Capital of the old Russian Empire BTW. That Ukranian Clown is no President. He is a dangerous Clown……………………. Putin does not want of the whole of Ukraine. He wants it to be neutral with NO Nuclear Weapons as per the original Agreements. And I don’t blame him.
My favourite photo of our own homegrown greenfilth carpetbagging stupidity.
It took years to finally remove the freaking ridiculous eyesore only for it to sink while being towed away.
To quote Tim Blair: “Nothing green ever works.”
what a genius. wouldnt that be no different to the current situation.
‘Pretty big recession’ baked in by 2023 despite strong GDP data release – Steve Hanke
Trump destroyed all the other Repub Candidates in 2016, there was low energy Jeb, Little Marco, Littler Rand, Lyin’ Ted, a few others, but the one he never went after is Mitt Romney.
I’d say Romney will be the 2024 Candidate, De Santis will be the stalking horse.
JC the WEF is a public health issue, our health.
MatrixTransformsays:
November 12, 2022 at 5:54 pm
Australia will survive if we have a World wide Nuclear War, sort of
haven’t seen that for maybe 15 years
an oldie but a goodie
The entire Planet will survive as it always has and as it has for the last 4 and a half Billion years. BUT, maybe Humans or not that many Humans will survive. And that could all be part of God’s Plan…………….LOL
Eddles – put down the bong and step away from it …
Nut Case Romney is more likely to be the Demonrat candidate. Get on your Vespa and find a real job.
Another Cue post overnight
I doubt it has been revealed here
So here it is, dated Nov 11 2022
Who are the Silent Thieves?
Why are they manipulating you?
How are they stealing your wealth?
Bubble.
Crash.
Steal.
Lie.
Repeat.
What is inflation?
Monetary manipulation.
Taxation without representation.
PUT AN END TO THE ENDLESS.
1913.
Cue
Chinese activist: A CCP overseas policeman was arrested by Dutch police
Rommel was the candidate in 2012. He wasn’t candidate in 2016, you dweeb.
JC I think there’s no doubt that the COVID imprisonment by the political class was a test run for climate lockdowns.
You were doing so well Groogles.
Cameras at Nevada Vote Counting Site Go Dark; Trump to Announce His Run on Tues as Planned: Adviser
https://qalerts.app/?n=4962
So what is the latest? Pelosi mafia cadaver is going to be speaker again I hope.
I’d say Romney will be the 2024 Candidate, De Santis will be the stalking horse.
Ok, so now you’re wearing your crotchless panties on your head.
Custard – yet again you are making an undignified spectacle of yourself.
Fatty Trump is never going to be Prez again in our lifetimes or anyone else’s.
Don’t be like mUttley and Eddles.
Qué.
*isn’t
The ATO. The ATO and state taxing authorities aren’t silent at all.
Humans are always trying to manipulate each other. Another word for manipulation is persuasion.
Taxing.
Okay.
But repeat for what purpose?
Okay.
We are represented and the electorate fully supports some form of taxation.
Yeah, stop posting this endless, insightful bilge.
What is love?
Baby don’t hurt me.
Don’t hurt me.
No more.
FTX just hacked and drained
I’d never heard about this climate lockdown stuff before. He reckoned Klaus Barbe has been championing it. Trust a fucking Kraut to be pushing for it though. No shock there.
Yes we live in dangerous times.
In 1962, comedian Dick Gregory “traveled South to march with Martin Luther King, and was routinely beaten up, and jailed for his pains. He became the master of one- liners that mocked the tormentors of his race. When told in restaurants “We don’t serve negroes” he responded “No problem. I don’t eat negroes.”.”
Max Hastings “Abyss.” Page 103.
It still comes in ahead of kero.
Not unusable though. Mix with bread and water and give it to the dogs (or you may know someone who could use it for that)
I’ve always found they love it.
And keep a couple in the vehicle for fire extinguishers – they’re even more effective on a bulldozer, combine harvester, etc. (coz on either of those they’ll at least get used)
The Federal Government was responsible for mandates, not the States
Malcolm Roberts
It will be in the form of restrictions and rations. Refining capacity is being wound down globally. Oil production and exploration is being regulated down to bare minimums. Eventually there will be diesel and petrol rationing. With big incentives of EV’s to offset the stick and save the planet. You could see mandatory garnisheeing of salaries to pay for the transition to cleaner energy.
That’s roughly where it’s headed.
Musk has been talking about introducing a payments system in Twitter. This is quite an interesting idea. He’s already had experience setting up a payments system as I think he was one of the founders of PayPal, which is where he first made his big bucks.
Let me ask.. with PayPal threatening to fine your account if you don’t conform to their political views, GoFundme threatening to close you down and keeping the money as is Ven, which payment system would you use where you think your transactions would be reasonably safe?
Comedian Dick Gregory, eh?
Name one joke he ever told.
Goose Morristeen: “We haven’t mandated vaccines, except when we have.”
Never forget, never forgive.
Don Stuber wrote a piece saying his exited Trump support. Today, he revisits Trump and what an excellent piece it is.
The Majestic Princess has docked in Sydney while carrying 800 cases of Yawnfest19.
Three gentlemen are golfing one sunny day. They come to a difficult par with a water trap just after the tee. The first golfer proceeds to hit his ball right into the water. To retrieve it, he simply approaches the body of water and extends his golf club. The water parts, he takes his next shot and it lands on the green.
The second golfer hits his ball towards the water, but rather than sink, the ball floats on top of the water. The golfer nonchalantly walks across the water and hits the ball onto the green.
The third golfer hits his ball directly into the water, where it quickly starts to sink. As the ball sinks, a fish grabs the ball in its mouth.
At that very moment, a hawk plucks the fish out of the water and begins to carry it aloft. As the bird soars higher, a bolt of lightning startles the bird, which then drops the fish into a nearby tree. When the fish hits a branch of the tree, the ball pops out, rolls down the trunk of the tree, across the green and right into the hole…
Moses turns to Jesus and says “You know, I really hate golfing with your Father”.
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
– Mae West
He seems to have had a fairly sharp wit, so any joke he told would probably have been beyond your feeble intellect, and powers of comprehension.
Johnny is literally Rick from The Young Ones reading golf jokes out of a golf book.
JC, I know you are not into tech so you don’t get this, but Musk has already killed Twitter. It is dead. The only chance for the company is if he sells it soon for about 20 cents in the dollar. Otherwise everyone loses their shirt.
Klaus Barbe ?
who the fuck are you talking about?
Goose Morristeen: “We haven’t mandated vaccines, except when we have.”
Never forget, never forgive.
+1000
Slowly but surely, these totalitarian arseholes are going to pay the full price for what they did.
Colonel Crispin Berkasays:
November 12, 2022 at 6:50 pm
The Majestic Princess has docked in Sydney while carrying 800 cases of Yawnfest19.
And they were all jabbed with the drug that did not work. Where will you ever here that on the ABC, Ch 9, Ch 7, Ch 10, SBS and any Radio Station? No fucking where……………Game Over. The Scam is now being more and more exposed each and every other fucking week. Thank goodness.
Fatty Trump has been one of the most significant public figures in my lifetime, if not the most significant.
The man is a legend. I was initially very sceptical of him and had little time for him before (or for a while after) he began his run for the Oval Office.
But he had this wonderful habit of annoying all the “right” people. His putdowns of the pygmies trying to stop him became the stuff of legend.
His demolition of poor li’l ol’ Jeb! being a classic case in point. So little effort, so much irreparable damage.
However, the Fatty Trumpism* movement is now a dinosaur thrashing around in a tar pit after the meteor has hit.
To have any hope of resurrection and reinvention, the USA must reject the current gerontocracy. Apart from Desantis though, I’m not sure who else can take on the dumbocrat kakistocracy – or if there’s even any point, given the blatant cheating now manifesting itself in their elections.
At the very least, Fatty Trump should run for the presidency again, but hopefully not destroy the Rethuglicans’ chances of winning, which he may do if he isn’t the successful candidate.
*Yes, yes, MAGA.
What am I missing? The turkey was already losing $28 million per week.
It wasn’t already dead?
Rick, I will ensure that they do. I have a list – a very long list, with many, many names on it.
A list that would put Arya Stark’s to shame.
On the so-called Covid panic of 2020, I remember exactly who was posting videos and information out of China and elsewhere, and all the commentary on airborne/contact disease and the great cloud of misinformation and disinformation that landed on Sinc’s blog. By well established commenters. One even live blogged his illness, fearing he had not only contracted the thing, but would perish.
The people who did it were many. The people commenting and opining and trying to sift out the truth were even more. This went on for months.
They seem to have either developed amnesia have lost their typing fingers. Some no longer comment here but are active on other platforms.
I find it amazing that just about the entire cohort who shifted from SincCat to here have focussed their disdain on one and one only as a type of whipping boy. Rosie. I don’t agree with everything she says, but the sludge of nastiness directed at her daily is pathetic.
$5B in annual revenue was decent. Like all startups, they led with losses, but they were approaching profitability.
Now though, it could get flogged off for scrap by Christmas.
Rabz
I reject your comments
If you can debunk Cue posts do so,
If you can’t well….
😀
The Australian has up on its site a puff piece on an unsavoury homosexual activist by the name of Peter Tatchell. Tatchell is an Australian who has lived in the UK for decades and decades. Tatchell also has some highly questionable (and sinister) opinions. Anyway it’s a fawning piece about his (questionable) accomplishments. A few weeks ago Tatchell travelled to Qatar to protest the country’s treatment of LGBTQI+ individuals. Being a Muslim nation, it doesn’t tolerate LGBTQI+ ideology and Tatchell was arrested and deported. Anyway, the piece in the Oz is a disgrace and it omits a particular incident (and it’s not the only questionable incident Tatchell’s been involved in) so I wrote a comment as follows….
“Umm, this turgid puff piece tries to make Tatchell out to be a saint and hero. He is neither. Julie Bindel, the British lesbian feminist, nailed the real Tatchell last year in a piece in the online magazine Unherd, “Peter Tatchell is not a perfect man”.
I also note the curious omission of Tatchell’s infamous apologia for child-abuse. Why? Probably because it doesn’t fit the above hagiography. It is a fact that in 1997 Tatchell wrote a letter to the UK Guardian supporting a book called Dares to Speak. This book was a favourable exploration of child sexual abuse, and it stressed the “positive nature” of some adult male/boy child sexual relationships.
As Julie Bindel wrote, Peter Tatchell is not a perfect man, and the reality is that he is as far as you can get from being from a perfect man”
REJECTED.
I somehow think that if a right-wing or conservative politician or commentator, or a priest or rabbi, had once written a letter extolling a book which promoted the “positive nature of some adult male/boy child sexual relationships”, that person would not be the subject of a fawning piece in any newspaper.
“Rosie. I don’t agree with everything she says, but the sludge of nastiness directed at her daily is pathetic.”
Hear hear.
“JCsays:
November 12, 2022 at 6:49 pm”
Thanks for posting that JC.
Things that happened in 1913.
Fed reserve, income tax, direct election of senators, Balkans war…the list goes on.
The spooks at the QStore need to be a bit more specific. I presume they mean the manipulation of money. Although trooble at t’Balkans is pretty endless. Too cryptic for me.
Perhaps look at some earlier posts calli
$5.7B in annual expenditure.
Anybody not able to see where there could be a problem?
Sixteen years, & they’re still a startup?
Losing $28 million per week is an interesting way to approach profitability?
If the approach to profitability of this startup was consistent, they’d had an operating loss of roughly $12B & were still sinking.
That aside, what straw did Musk pile upon the Twitter camels (approaching profit) back?
They are not the be end all
Just interesting
Trump regularly posts things associated with Cue
A stable genius
Trump himself said that today
Cassie the only reason your comment was rejected is because the kindergarten moderators don’t understand the words and besides the info it won’t be instantly found in Gluggle search – so it’s easier to reject something rather than do any digging lest Truth scare the tripe out of them. Truth is just soooooo tiresome
Why is 1913 relevant? I know what happened a year later.
callisays:
November 12, 2022 at 7:18 pm
On the so-called Covid panic of 2020, I remember exactly who was posting videos and information out of China and elsewhere, and all the commentary on airborne/contact disease and the great cloud of misinformation and disinformation that landed on Sinc’s blog. By well established commenters. One even live blogged his illness, fearing he had not only contracted the thing, but would perish.
So glad that I wasn’t here then. I didn’t need to get the Jab as the Guv.ment, Media, Health Plonkers, Eggspurts, etc, etc, etc, were all talking Bollocks. This was NOT the Black Death or the Spanish Flu FFS. And I did not need to get the jab. Or, could I be mandated into getting it. So, I was very fortunate. Long may it continue……………………………….My Innate Immune System Rules…………….So Fuck off Guv’ment…………………..
calli – I immediately recognised bat flu for what it was – a chinese commie (BIRM) psy-op designed to sow panic in the West.
We’d already seen all sorts of similar diseases emanate from that stinking shithole in the previous decades.
What I didn’t expect (for which I will never forgive myself) is that our not so beloved “leaders” would emulate the chinese commies’ “response” to this chimera.
If anyone had told me in January 2020 about the hitlerist insanity we were to be gifted with for the next three years I would have laughed in their faces.
Yet here we are. Over that period I’ve been subjected to many months of home detention, made to wear a face nappee in public (which thankfully I largely resisted, even if it meant almost coming to blows with strangers in the street), subjected to obscene fascist coercion to take an untested utterly useless and ultimately extremely dangerous chemical cocktail, which resulted in me being treated like a diseased leper and denounced as a selfish murderer (and no, that is not hyperbowl). I’ve lost friends and will never willingly communicate with anyone I have the misfortune to be related to ever again.
How I managed to emerge with some semblance of sanity after being subjected to all that anti-scientific fact and evidence free hitlerist horseshit is almost verging on the miraculous.
Rose got off lightly. I only ever chipped about her willingness to don a face nappee when ordered to do so by that obscene deformed grotesque jug eared imbecile in Disasterstan.
Apologies for the self indulgence peoples.
Rant />
Overheard a conversation today about Treasury Wines . They are getting around the China tax (80%) by buying French vineyards , blending Australian wine and selling it to China (8% tax)
Very clever
Maybe check cue post 1913
Ditto.
Re Trump – what he has put with these last few years would have broken 99.9% of us.
I can’t imagine the frustration and rage he must feel given he was cheated out of the Presidency whilst nearly everyone in authority (including the judiciary and the MSM) have gone missing, ignored or ridiculed the absurdity of what happened in Nov’2020.
So I cut him some slack given his recent outbursts but he has to realise his time is done and he need to pass the baton on. Now given what’s happened to him plus his enormous go this would be extremely difficult.
He has to move to become the kingmaker not the king.
poor old Franz
seemingly the last reason to bother with civilities
Sod that. I don’t have to accept people stating that Fatty Trump is suddenly going to Prez again because they read it somewhere on internet posts that make Alex Jones look sane.
I prefer the alternate realities I’m accused of existing in to bear some resemblance to, well, reality.
You’ve wandered off the reservation clad in your undies while mouth frothing at trees and clouds, Custard. I don’t take any great pleasure in witnessing your sad decline, Squire.
In other words he wasn’t even remotely funny.
Riddle me this, Zulu.
You’re on here day in, day out, hanging shit on Abos while praising to the heavens 13% of Americans who commit 72% of the Crimes.
A cubic bumload of debt, for starters. Classic vulture capitalist play. It’s like he didn’t want it to succeed.
Rabz is wrong about me
Simple as that
I won’t return serve
Keep things civil
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Ron Paul
Yeah, no.
Anyway, let’s have a song, peoples!
‘It Could’ve Been Worse’: Justice Elena Kagan Makes Entire Courtroom Laugh
forbes
People who don’t understand (at least something) about cue posts call us deranged
I don’t pretend to know all about cue posts
But they are in the mix of information
This is an information war
Venture capitalist? Yet Musk is the CEO. He’s a working capitalist.
Big difference.
He’s doing all the right things to give it a chance to succeed. Sacking staff who’re not contributing, building confidence back into a previously trashed brand. Indicating he’s going to open new revenue streams.
What is he doing wrong? (Keep in mind he’s only been a couple of weeks in an industry where 16 yrs & losing billions is considered to be approaching profitability)
Oh – and try telling anyone you know that the WEF and this monstrous nayzee are trying to enslave us all and see if you don’t get looked at like, well, Custard here on a Q posting spree.
Thanks, hitlerists!
Thanks for proving my point, Grogs.
just when I think mUnty cannot get any stupider
he gets stupider
he may not own all the stupid, but he’s like the Gina Rinehart of stupid-miners
built an empire of stupid on the shoulders of the pioneers of stupid that came before him
stupid talks … money walks
He’s not a Bond villain, he’s just another lucky dickhead whose luck just ran out.
Custard, you told me that in two weeks, something BIG would happen. If it didn’t, you’d give up on Q. That was two weeks ago. It hasn’t happened. I gave you another week, you still have that left. If nothing BIG happens, I really hope you’ll see sense and abandon Q.
The most sensible comment on this subject (including mine) in the past two months.
If I were to be running a pub that had annual revenue of $5 million, & was writing cheques to the tune of $5.7 million, no way would the bank say I was “approaching profitability”
If somebody took over & sacked a shedload of staff who were putting in a Four hour week & slurping on all the wine they could lay their hands on, the accountancy firm & the bank would not be saying “this new manager sure is stuffing up that almost profitable pub”
Rabz’s responses to my recent posts confirm my view that this blog is off the pace in almost everything in relation to Trump, election fraud, devolution, insurrection and almost everything in between
Whatever
“Rose got off lightly. I only ever chipped about her willingness to don a face nappee when ordered to do so by that obscene deformed grotesque jug eared imbecile in Disasterstan.”
By Rose do you mean me Rabz?
If so how incredibly wrong you are.
I very very unwillingly wore a face mask only when I absolutely had to. I actually had a sticker on mine saying ‘Not Happy Dan’ I stopped wearing the sticker because it made my children nervous. But no I didn’t and don’t begrudge those who chose to wear them voluntarily, or in the scheme of things see masks as a big deal, being forced to wear one didn’t bother me half so much as the curfew, the limits on going outside, to not being allowed take my grandson to playgrounds (we did that on the sly too) , to not being able to attend mass, to be not tobe able to see family without sneaking through side fences, to not being free to comfort loved ones in hospital no matter how much we or they begged etc.
As I mentioned here many times in 2020/21 my family and I including my then 85 year old mother broke the covid ‘laws’ in a daily basis throughout 2020 and 2021.
I will always remember sitting with my daughter (20km outside my 5km limit) and new grandson at the beach maskless pretending to drink coffee fron empty cups while a group of eight police and military walked past on covid patrol.
It was extraordinarily stressful.
So no I did not ‘get off lightly’.
It ain’t luck.
“He’s lucky” is the wail of failures & underachievers, attempting to rationalise their own underperformance.
Useful article from the Brisbane Times today :
Why you won’t get another COVID shot this year, despite rising cases
One of the nation’s top advisers on vaccination says it is unlikely young people under 30 will be approved for fourth doses, as Australia turns its attention to antiviral access to tackle yet another Omicron wave. Former ATAGI co-chair and current member Professor Allen Cheng said the increased risk of myocarditis and the lack of notable benefit from additional boosters meant it was likely the recommended vaccine schedule for younger people would remain as is. Some are approaching a year since their booster shot.
“A 30-year-old who gets COVID is probably not going to get into any trouble with it as opposed to a 60 or 70-year-old,” the Monash University academic said. “If it has been a long time since [an older person] got their last dose then we start to worry. A 30-year-old with … three doses will be optimally protected.” Indicators including reported case numbers, the proportion of positive PCR tests and hospital numbers for COVID-19 all suggest another virus wave.
State chief health officers have encouraged people to check they are up-to-date with their vaccinations, wear masks in crowded areas and stay home when sick to reduce the spread. Some overseas jurisdictions have expanded their vaccine rollout, extending third and fourth doses to younger age groups, as well as administering fifth doses. In the US, the FDA has authorised both the Moderna and Pfizer bivalent boosters for individuals aged six and older, while the UK and Europe approved them for individuals aged 12 and up. Last week Canada approved the Pfizer booster for ages 12 and older and the Moderna booster for adults 18 and up. Singapore also approved the Moderna booster for 18 and above. Both are recommending people get their boosters every six months.
The Moderna bivalent shot is available as a booster in Australia but is not recommended above other shots.
However, Cheng said overseas approvals were “a pretty mixed bag”, noting Denmark has not yet given children a second dose. “We’re all looking at the same data and landing in slightly different places,” he said. “Vaccinations are beneficial and protective even for younger people but the more doses you get the less benefit you derive from them and then we start to worry about causing side effects.”
Speaking at a Senate estimates hearing last week, Dr Lucas de Toca, head of the federal Department of Health’s primary care response to COVID-19, said ATAGI was “continuously reviewing the evidence and emerging trends” of vaccine approval, but its advice was to focus on increasing coverage among groups eligible for third and fourth doses. “Based on the evidence we have, an older person who has remained up to date with their vaccinations still has good protection against severe disease, hospitalisation and death,” he said.
While uptake of fourth doses is close to 80 per cent among people aged 75 and older, department data shows it has been significantly lower in younger age groups: just 38 per cent of people aged 50 to 64 have received their fourth vaccine. Of people aged 30 to 49, who are permitted to receive the fourth shot although it is not “recommended” due to its unclear relative benefit, just 16 per cent have had four doses.
More than half (52 per cent) of young people aged 16 to 29 are yet to receive their recommended three doses. Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly told the hearing he was “very happy” with vaccine coverage, noting there was also strong hybrid immunity in the community, from previous infection and vaccination. He said the best way for vulnerable people to protect themselves against COVID-19 was to ensure they had a plan to receive antivirals quickly if they test positive. Professor Tony Cunningham, the co-director of Westmead Institute’s centre for virus research, said the preliminary evidence overseas was emerging Omicron strains were more evasive of antibody immunity than the BA.5 sub-variant, which was dominant during winter. “Obviously we have to encourage that group of people who are eligible but have not had a booster to do so,” he said, adding he personally believed Australia should prioritise the use of the Omicron bivalent vaccine, although ATAGI had not expressed this.
“But we also need to remember there is that hybrid immunity of people. The majority of people in Australia have had COVID in one of the three Omicron waves: one might argue that is the equivalent of having the bivalent vaccines.”
Associate Professor James Wood, an ATAGI member and mathematician at UNSW’s School of Population Health, agreed hybrid immunity would likely curb the severity of the new wave.
However, with recent serology surveys showing less than half of people aged over 65 have antibodies evidencing a prior infection, he said it was particularly important that older and vulnerable people were up-to-date with their vaccinations.
Kate Aubusson is Health Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.
Useful summary :
Current COVID-19 vaccine recommendations by ATAGI
Ages <5 (select group eligible since August 2022)
Primary course: Two doses of the age-specific paediatric COVID-19 vaccine for children severe immunocompromise, disability or complex or multiple health conditions which increase the risk of severe COVID-19, with a third shot after two months for the severely immunocompromised
Booster: Not yet approved
Ages 5-11 (age group eligible since January 2022)
Primary course: Two doses of the paediatric COVID-19 vaccine, with a third shot after two months for the severely immunocompromised
Booster (after three months): Eligible if severely immunocompromised, have a disability with significant or complex health needs, or have a complex and/or multiple health conditions that increase the risk of severe COVID-19
Ages 12-15 (age group eligible since September 2021)
Primary course: Two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, with a third shot after two months for select health conditions
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Comment at The Australian:
define: supercilious
custard says:
November 12, 2022 at 7:41 pm
Why bother?
Compared to Q, Nostradamus’ messages were as clear as sunshine, completely unambiguous.
Sally, I am sure you are an honest publican who does a hard day’s work… but you don’t know much about this stuff.
Yes, I am pulling rank on this one. Just trust me. Musk is in the middle of an epic faceplant.
He has taken control of a speedboat and has had the wheel tied to his old fella, and is now doing the Macarena with dual-wielding flamethrowers as the boat steers itself into an ammo dump.
There is still time for him to jump off and save himself. Does he want to, though?
Rose – I have a memory like an elephelant*.
Feel free to go back and search our comments at the time. Here’s a hint that will help your search – keyword: baa
*Deliberate
Ha ha.
How many Trump endorsed candidates flipped Seats?
Zero.
How many Trump endorsed candidates lost seats?
Sarah Palin is one, there’s a few others.
You were probably off skulking after getting smacked in your ginger nuts about something else when that phrase was used last time.
You are not excused from the inevitable pisstaking.
Private mUnter.
Well the Dems stole another election, if that counts.
It’s getting pretty routine though.
I’m not having it, Squire. You can denounce me as a personage with appalling musical and fashion tastes all you like, but I did very early and loudly call out the grotesque farce that was the 2020 presidential election. As for insurrection, the word clearly no longer means anything. I could be accused of “insurrectionary behaviour” for being loudly cross about the fact that I can’t buy my favourite tastee mushrooms* from the grocer following a downpour the previous evening.
For goodness’ sake, Custard – Fatty Trump will never be Prez ever again.
Deal with it and move on. This obsessive behaviour is undignified.
*No, not those ones …
Just seen at Herald Sun but article is dated 4 NOV so not sure why popped up.
“Major infrastructure company to recruit AFLW players into construction to fix skill shortages
Construction giant John Holland, with projects including Metro Tunnel and Airport Rail, wants 40 per cent of its workforce to be women by 2025”.
Going to be fun being an experienced male construction worker with 40% of your fellow workers being inexperienced females.
The way this woke employment “help the females” quotas is going it is going to be hard for guys to get a good job.
How come never see the story about increasing ratio of males in civil service and teaching etc.
John Holland is Chinese owned too- what a fucking joke. A critical engineering outfit owned by the CCP.
AWFL ladies drilling tunnels. That’s very Freudian.
He will Rabz
News Flash. Women don’t want to be construction workers. Good luck.
I’ve just finished a half hour phone call with custard. He still hasn’t given up on Q. With any luck he will on Jan 31st if trump isn’t President by then.
Yes, that’s a cartoon caricature unworthy of anyone capable of intelligent analysis.
The recent synod of the Australian/NZ diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, mindful of its responsibility as the local representative of the “free” (quote:unquote) portion of the ROC, recently offered its fervent prayers for peace in Ukraine.
I doubt they are pro-LGBT Satanists.
No, he will not.
You sure about that?
Tracking
@SBF_FTX
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Gulfstream G450 jet as it left Bahamas. Currently heading south over South America and flying on a path that might be for Paraguay
Ed Casesays:
November 12, 2022 at 7:49 pm
Name one joke he ever told.
He seems to have had a fairly sharp wit, so any joke he told would probably have been beyond your feeble intellect, and powers of comprehension.
In other words he wasn’t even remotely funny.
Riddle me this, Zulu.
You’re on here day in, day out, hanging shit on Abos while praising to the heavens 13% of Americans who commit 72% of the Crimes.
Richard Cranium voluntarily proves Zulu’s points about Dick Ed’s limited intellect and lack of reading comprehension.
You forgot the Extra-terrestrial Lizard Peoples, the WEF and Standartenführer Schwab.
Sade in 1984. Harry high
pantsbass, on … bass.To stop yourself going down a rabbit hole, and developing an obsession, you need to have a clear cut criterion for when you’ll abandon a belief. Q looks too much like Nostradamus, as someone else pointed out. It gives you lots of dots to join, and the temptation to make them into the lines you want to see is very strong. Remember the Martian canals?
John Holland were the contractor on the Perth Childrens Hospital. I don’t think they’ll be doing any government work in WA for a while.
Extra-terrestrial Lizard Peoples receive a phone call from Standartenführer Schwab shortly after their arrival on this planet* …
*For when political debate on this site has to be reduced to the absolute bare bones 😕
m0nty-fa
Yes, I am pulling rank on this one
The “w” is two keys to the left.
the 5th dimensional plot will turn out to be a 6th dimensional plot twist
Rabz, I certainly wouldn’t bet on him in 2024, however, I am not counting him out. Churchill became PM after being written off. I see (hope) history repeating itself here.
Very nice to talk to dr BG tonight
Extra-terrestrial Lizard Peoples experience Joy Division for the first time in their existence … 🙂
So do I, Rabz. I’m glad you were able to sort out truth from lies. I had a great deal of difficulty with the avalanche of garbage. Which was, with 20-20 hindsight, the intent of it all.
Again on this. This is likely a strategy by JH to corner the big projects as the big projects are .gov funded and they will weight their selection partially on gender quotas. So JH will offer top dollar to get the small number of women who what to work in the industry leaving fewer for other companies. Same in the large engineering firms. It’s got to the point now (for engineering firms) where some will pay a staff member $6k if they recommend a woman join their company and they do. They will only pay $3k if its man. Discrimination against men is increasing.
I’m currently working on the Rozelle Interchange project in Sydney.
John Holland are hiring as many women as they can to exist there.
The actual no shit work is still being done by the blue collar yobo crowd though, they can’t get the project done otherwise.
Most guys don’t last long in the tunnel industry, I imagine it would be even worse for women…
more on Sam
jupes – I was responding to custard’s assertion that Fatty Trump will somehow be back in the Oval Office before 2024.
It’s called an intervention, custard.
Well, custard has said that he’ll admit he was wrong if trump isn’t President by 31st January 2023, so we can hold him to it. He’s an honest man. But I suspect that it will be like the end of the world prophecies, there’s an unexpected revision when it doesn’t happen, and the faithful just carry on having faith.
nd, with projects including Metro Tunnel and Airport Rail, wants 40 per cent of its workforce to be women by 2025”.
I’m currently working on the Rozelle Interchange project in Sydney.
John Holland are hiring as many women as they can to exist there.
The actual no shit work is still being done by the blue collar yobo crowd though, they can’t get the project done otherwise.
Most guys don’t last long in the tunnel industry, I imagine it would be even worse for women…
PJ Watson does some really good commentary on the worldwide Covid swindle. His piece, Oops, sorry has a disturbing segment towards the end of the TicTok nurses. It puts what Rabz calls the psy-op into creepy context – the sheer number of these things is remarkable.
calli, when you’ve been raised copping an unrelenting spray of the latter your entire life, you quickly twig.
My ol’ man was crotchety personage and he more than anyone taught me to question everything, having zero tolerance for collectivist bollocks as he did.
The lectures about collectivist stupidity delivered in the Merc when dropping me off at St Paedophiles in the seventies left a lasting impression. As did his somewhat incongruous patronage of the ALPBC and the Silly Moaning Haemorrhoid.
Thank goodness we had Jack the Cat to hold him to some account.
It’s a boring job.
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I’m not big on faith. You may have noticed.
I’m not big on trust, either. So discovering that the government and the medical establishment were pushing for big pharma with damn all concern for the general populace didn’t break my heart. Although the depth and breadth of the corruption did surprise me. That’s the biggest and best thing Trump did: he exposed the extent. There are still ppl who haven’t noticed though.
Stop pretending you’re a tech expert, Fatboy. You were telling us 4G was it when we were all saying the NBN was an albatross. 4G was it and there would be nothing else on the horizon. 5G put paid to that stupid prediction.
Every enterprise past PayPal Musk has been involved with has been close to the brink. Here’s a piece in this weekend’s Barron’s talking about this very thing.
Neil Oliver – ‘…sinister cabals are coming this way…’
$2BN of clients’ money is MISSING from collapsed crypto exchange FTX: Founder Sam Bankman-Fried denies secretly transferring $10BN to trading company run by his girlfriend
Hahahaha! My great skill. Coming in halfway through a conversation and embarrassing myself. I’ve been honing this for decades.
Cough, cough, ahem, “Operation Warp Speed”, cough, cough …
Yet it bought Fatty Trump zero points with the covidiots, who were busy running around in ever decreasing circles screeching incoherently.
For me, that was a new low in his presidency.
The Doc has a big heart. Occasionally annoying but who isn’t except me of course.
Everyone has a different belief threshold. Or maybe in this case that should be doubt threshold.
For instance, a couple of days ago I linked a Spectator article that stated that a scientist had seen little machines in a magnified and accelerated vaxx sample. They were assembling and disassembling objects.
This was in the Spectator.
Let’s just say I found that claim doubtful. Others may believe it.
Chinese owned JH have a huge chunk of the big Vic build out. A hangover from Dan’s Belt and Road? They are in prime position also for prime portions of the multi billion rail loop Dan will build with our taxes. How cosy?
As well as loving watches I would not be seen dead wearing, e.g. that square TAG this morning – seriously, Squire?
The Carrera is one of my great accidental treasures. That is, it was bought it at a bargain basement price and that model can no longer be bought new (just like the Strat 🙂 ).
Goils notice it as well. Watches are jewellery and I’ve always hated jewellery, which is why I didn’t wear a watch for many, many moons.
However, in the last few decades, belt buckles, cuff links and watches have been conveniently exempted from that exclusion.
This is presumably known otherwise as “pragmatism”.
If there is any fed money tied up with the project, probably not that cosy. Currently there is a large $500mill that I know about with only 2 tenderers. It will be interesting to see which one wins.
calli – they are known as “nannybots”* and I don’t believe them either, if that’s any consolation. 🙂
*Spelling may not necessarily be “strictly correct”
Pissing rain in the ancestral seat.
Hot as fuck at the other end of the country.
Rabz, it wasn’t so much the bots, it was that the Speccie gave the story column space. Why would they do that?
Anyone heard of the blog, War on the rocks. The dude I had dinner with told me about it. Is it any good?
Chicken feed.
The Loop in total is a $50 billion project. $11 Billion will come up for contract in the next 24 months.
It looked loony to me. I’m not in favour of the current vaxes, but support of this sort for rejecting them is not a good idea. Opposing one lunacy with another is a lousy strategy.
don’t believe them
Sacré bleu – a most annoying typo, although not completely incorrect – I don’t believe in nannybots nor do I believe the charlatans who claim they exist.
Clarity is everything, Cats – in case mUttley should blunder on here and accuse me of being incoherent (again).
You lost that argument, JC. Bigly. Wireless is not and has never been a mainstream viable replacement for fixed line, which was the actual discussion we were having at the time. It’s 2022 and 5G has only just come out of vapourware status in Australia.
Even if everything you say is true, the NBN was worth it as a transitional technology. But you are full of shyte, as usual.
calli – presumably because the Speccie thought it wouldn’t diminish their credibility – and no, I’m not trying to state the bleeding obvious here, just searching for the most logical explanation (if one exists).
“Nanotechnology” is best expounded on here by peoples like the Zipster and Pol Dot.
Cloives company jet is on the ground here.
Until it isn’t. Why do people keep voting for these irredeemable idiots?
Jaw-Dropping! The Simpsons Predicted COVID In 2010!
True that. It’s the never ending project. 50 B is the down payment.
Calli, we’ve seen it. It wasn’t new. I don’t know that I’d call them machines, but something was coalescing and moving around in people’s blood.
It wasn’t just me. We won the argument, bigly, you big fat donut gulping idiot.
5G is immensely suitable for most people and we didn’t need to spend 40 billion dollars on a ridiculously expensive turkey.
it was slowed down because of the 40 billion dollar turkey.
Every single thing I’ve said is true, including the fact that you’re a tribal fat idiot who should be in his basement because Brett Sutton says you not allowed out with regular folks.
You wear a watch made out of marble. Whatever for?
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Will all those looking to hold Custard to account also hold DB to account for this load of pixie crap:
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And:
No, fuck off.
It was never going to be rolled out for most people. It is for rich people like you. No wonder you like it.
Not the NBN, but a landline based communication system is essential for a nation, unless of course one believes that there never be a calamity interrupting wireless.
Good point Arky. db has not had a fun time of it lately. I would feel sorry for him, but he is so arrogant about his wrongness that I don’t really.
No, Squire, quite possibly the most exquisite timepiece in human history – A TAG Carrera 2015. Automatic.
Beauty and simplicity. I hate gold and there is precisely none on the Carrera. Leather band as well.
A true dress watch.
Just kidding around, Rabz.
Call it what it is. it’s not a “watch”, it’s a timepiece.
I now have it. No discernible difference to 4G, except it’s $30 cheaper a month.
Grogarly would know the color of the boat shed at Hereford, though, surely?
Download something.
Fark. It was a punch in the face hearing on this on the radio after separating from the lady friend.
https://youtu.be/3MMXjunSx80
Calli, we’ve seen it. It wasn’t new. I don’t know that I’d call them machines, but something was coalescing and moving around in people’s blood.
I think a better term is self assembling structures. This isn’t a new tech or idea either, you can find plenty of examples of people experimenting with these types of compounds and materials.
Why would these sorts of materials be in a COVID 19 vaccine? Well, Pfizer are completely immoral, already having got caught running experimental medications in the third world and killing and maiming plenty as they went. Now if you were Pfizer, with you long history of immorality and incompetence, and Government exempted you from liability for your new COVID vaccine, what would you do?
Why, I’d run a mass trial on some of these new, but not yet useful compounds! I’m sure the proto Mengeles in Pfizer saw this as a once in a lifetime opportunity which was not to be missed!
Looks like Hunchback’s Gestapo is beating up on freedom fighters again.
All perfectly normal. Nothing to worry about, except DB may or may not have something wrong .
JC – it goes with the Rochefort’s exquisite tailored shirts featuring the French Cuffs and some understated links. Miss Emily loves them.
Weather permitting, I’ll soon be taking her through the Royal National Park in the convertible for some lunch at the newly refurbished Imperial Hotel at Clifton, perched as it is over the mighty South Pacific.
The drive through the park is one of the best in this country.
https://twitter.com/benitakolovos/status/1591194178230550528
‘Liberals’ are dead ducks. How is this going to help get rid of Hunchback?
This is not a cunning plan.
It’s a cunning plan on behalf of the Liberals – if they can’t win a majority, they’ll render Victoria ungovernable.
Yes, as mentioned just before, what’s old is new again
https://youtu.be/yOEkGY-0WiY
Rabz
I was talking with the site’s watch king a while ago… Jupes.. We agreed that Longines offers the best value for money of any of the top Swiss brands.
Eggsactly. If the liars party has to rely on the greens, it will push the state even further to the left. Good work, Libs.
Fukn hell. Is there any state in this country that isnt on a road to ruin?
This is not a cunning plan.
Wilie E Coyote disagrees!
Oh yeah. The Carrera is a lovely watch – sorry timepiece – but the Monaco has a cultural history in that Steve McQueen wore one in Le Mans, and a horological history in that it (yes, along with the Carrera) had arguably the world’s first automatic chronograph movement way back in 1969.
Plus, it has a presence. One of the few watches that can be identified across the room. I nearly bought one a couple of years ago, but went with the Zenith El Primero instead. (Arguably the world’s first automatic chronograph).
maybe victorians need a good dose of gaianism
I’m guessing this is coming straight from those highly credible military analysts, “Armchair Warlord” and “Geroman”.
I was driving the Hume yesterday and can confirm there were some alarmingly large potholes.
My fossil smartwatch looks better and measures my heartbeat as well as paying my bills. It does lots of other things too. So boo to your Carrera! 😉
Absolutely. I think this also applies to Russia/Ukraine analysis on Twitter. In particular, if you look at Gray Connolly’s feed, he always maintained an air of “neutral” or “objective” analysis, but then you read down the main threads and notice he had an update every single time Russia took a village, or a corner of a hamlet, in Donbass, but only begrudgingly posted (if at all) after the large scale failures of Putin’s Kyiv, Kharkiv and Kherson campaigns. This is a pretty obvious tell for his real position. I’m sure there are some equivalent cases on here.