You killed Penny, classic. ?

Are these cartoons takes on old silent movies you are so fond of? If so, how do the silent characters communicate?

its a little known fact that everyone was deaf in ye oldde days.
So it mattered a lot less than you think.

Former ABC journalist Zoe Daniel to run as an independent against Liberal MP Tim Wilson in Victoria

She’s out of the insane asylum? She came down with one of the worst cases of TDS I’ve ever seen while she was the DC correspondent. Trump broke her.

Before the March election, Ms Sanderson received praise from the Premier for her role in delivering Western Australia’s Voluntary Assisted Dying laws.

followed closely by the mandatory assisted dying laws.

For instance, I was reading a reach-around level “interview” with CHO Lex Luther where he was saying how awesome he is for setting up a vast “infectious disease” unit at the gold coast hospital. About what a massive risk it was and, people were starting to give him shit for it, but then “Yes!” (fist pump) “Covid proved me right”.

And what were his Big Brained ideas for it?

From 2019:

On a regular day at Gold Coast University Hospital, Dr Gerrard and his colleagues in infectious diseases respond to returned travellers from the tropics with unexplained fevers or other infections, and monitor the infection risk of patients post-surgery.

He said Gold Coast University Hospital was among the first in Australia to be built using evidence-based design of predominantly single-bed rooms, which has shown to reduce infection rates and allow for a sophisticated response to infectious threats should they occur.

“Infection control has become increasingly important in our modern hospitals. These days, we have a big focus on hand hygiene with alcohol-based rub and hand-washing basins readily accessible within a few metres of wherever you are in the hospital,” Dr Gerrard said.

Big Brained CHO boasted that the Gold Coast Hospital puts infectious patients in single rooms, and encourages the washing of hands.

No joke.

Salvatore:

Good work Winston.
Keep it up. Every day.

I can’t get to the marches, but at least I can “raise awareness” here.

Gabsays:
December 17, 2021 at 5:29 pm
So a FULLY VAXXED ONLY music festival in Newcastle is closed down due to the risks from a virus that everyone is vaxxed against?!?!

Why aren’t the jabbers getting fired up?

A lot of interesting stuff comes up when you google ole Dr Gerrard Luther.

For instance this was obviously now his job interview for position of understudy CHO in QLD.

Just look at this little scumbag:

A major Queensland hospital will barely cope with the influx of COVID-19 cases when the state reopens after administrators were left shocked by the community’s “reluctance to receive a vaccine”.

John Gerrard, the Gold Coast University Hospital’s infectious diseases director, has sounded the alarm for his facility as the city sits at 54.7 per cent fully vaccinated (69.7 per cent first dose) on Tuesday.

We now know the first wave of COVID infections will be coming to us sometime in the next few weeks or possibly next few months,” he said.

Every area – from the emergency department to intensive care unit, obstetric units, operating theatres – is preparing for what is about to happen.

That was back in October. December Fact Check: 100% WRONG.

And here’s the money shot:

“What we are talking about is a pandemic for the unvaccinated,” he said.

Oh Gerrard. Oh you sycophantic bald little manlet, could you signal any harder they you’re Their Guy?

And his pre-emptive answer to the ever-feared “what is your greatest weakness” question:

“We’ve been planning for pandemics through my career, which spans 30 years,” he said.

“And for years, we’ve talked about how we would minimise the impact on the hospitals as a vaccine was developed.

“Perhaps we just didn’t think enough about reluctance to receive a vaccine.

“We just assumed that in the event of a major deadly pandemic like the one we’re in, people would just get the vaccine.

“Maybe in retrospect, that was a mistake in our planning.”

“Me and my public health colleagues sat around for thirty years and fantasised about how in a pandemic the public would do exactly as we told them, how they would be so in awe of us they would prostrate themselves before us in the streets so as we may step on their bodies instead of the filthy infected ground, and how they would inject themselves and their children in the eyeballs with whatever random concoctions that we delivered to them without question. How did we get it so wrong? Well, it’s the public’s fault to start with…”

In an age of hyperbole this sadly isn’t. It’s fun but.

And so, as 2021 goose-steps toward its fanatical finish, it is time for my traditional year-end wrap-up. It’s “The Year of the Ox” in the Chinese zodiac, but I’m christening it “The Year of the New Normal Fascist.”

And what a phenomenally fascist year it has been!

I’m not talking amateur fascism. I am talking professional Class-A fascism. Government and corporate sanctified fascism. Bug-eyed, spittle-flecked, hate-drunk fascism. I’m talking mobs of New Normal fascists shrieking hatred and threats at “the Unvaccinated” as they are dragged off “Vaccinated Only” trains, painting Nazi-era messages on their windows of their stores, leaders of government fomenting mass hatred, TV commentators literally quoting sadistic Nazi SS doctors, leftists going full-fascist on Facebook, concentration camps, Goebbelsian propaganda, censorship of dissent … the whole nine yards.

Here in Europe, things are particularly fascist. One by one, New Normal countries are rolling out social-segregation systems, ordering “lockdowns” of “the Unvaccinated,” and otherwise persecuting those who refuse to conform to official New Normal ideology. Austria has made “vaccinations” mandatory. Germany is about to follow suit. “Covid passes” have been approved in the UK. Greece is fining “Unvaccinated” pensioners by reducing the amount of their state-pension payments. Swedes are “chipping” themselves. And so on.

In New Normal Germany, “the Unvaccinated” are under de facto house arrest. We are banned from society. We are banned from traveling. We are banned from protesting. Our writings are censored. We’re demonized and dehumanized by the New Normal government, the state and corporate media, and the New Normal masses on a daily basis. New Normal goon squads roam the streets, brutalizing pensioners, raiding barber shops, checking “papers,” measuring social distances, literally, as in with measuring sticks. The Gestapo even arrested Santa Claus for not wearing a mask at a Christmas market. In the schools, fascist New Normal teachers ritually humiliate “Unvaccinated” children, forcing them to stand in front of the class and justify their “Unvaccinated” status, while the “Vaccinated” children and their parents are applauded, like some New Normal version of the Hitler Youth. When New Normal Germany’s new Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, announced that, “for my government there are no more red lines as far as doing what needs to be done,” apparently he wasn’t joking. It’s only a matter of time until he orders New Normal Propaganda Minister Karl Lauterbach to make his big Sportpalast speech, where he will ask the New Normals if they want “total war” … and I think you know the rest of this story.

Jah, jah, we know the rest of the story. But since history in schools has been turned into wokeness I suspect most of the European population don’t. Certainly not Aussies younger than fifty.

The Year Of The New Normal Fascist (16 Dec)

He’s backed all his tangential language with a couple dozen links, so it ain’t just demagoguery. Mr Hopkins looks like an interesting guy, although I only know what he has on his about page.

Rogersays:
December 17, 2021 at 5:45 pm
So a FULLY VAXXED ONLY music festival in Newcastle is closed down due to the risks from a virus that everyone is vaxxed against?!?!

So the point of getting jabbed is …. ?!?

To keep pressure off the public hospital system.

It’s all just BS. It must be something nefarious going on.

Surely in a smart society, once everyone’s had a chance to have a clot shot, it should just all be opened.

My educated opinion is: This is fucked in the head.

For data tragics.

Snapshot of the Omicron Variant, currently destroying the NHS and Boris Johnson:

As of Wednesday:

Indicated Cases: 49,138
Hospitalisations: 20
Deaths: 1

The UK HSA is awaiting 250 cases in hospital to generate enough data to say what it all means.

But I can guess.

Oh…and you’re not allowed to ask what they’ve been doing about hospital and ICU capacity over the last 20 months of a “global pandemic” such that the hospitals need to be protected from sick people..

They could take all the unvaccinated nurses that they’ve run out of the system, set up a special hospital just for them to staff and send all of the covid patients there.

I mean, with the complete embargo on any possible non-mRNA treatments, it’s not like there’s a vast and complex treatment regime.

Reminds me of that Yes Minister episode about the hospital with no patients in it.

Yep. The opening year or so of Fiona Stanley Hospital was the best it has ever been. Even with the early-days staff haemorrhages…

To keep pressure off the public hospital system.

Wowee!

This is called a cover or a rerun.

Lipstick on a pig.

The band could be “cool” doctors, on Tik Tok, called “Johnny and the Injectors” or “The Readmissions”…

They sound delicious. Flaky pastry or choux?

Alright, how about this pile; same place, same price; a bit more sedate.

Bluddy hell cohenite it looks like a crematorium

Regarding deaths from/with COVID I can attest to the death hitherto of at least one 45-year friendship, a 25-year friendship as far as I know, more to be certified I am sure.

callisays:
December 17, 2021 at 7:50 pm
That’s tragic, Tinta. Those sorts of friendships are like a marriage. They just can’t be replaced.

In this universe, everything must come to an end.

That’s tragic, Tinta. Those sorts of friendships are like a marriage. They just can’t be replaced.

Indeed and speaking of marriage the 45-year friendship is that of my Madge, so that is very sad but there are reasons, seasons and lifetimes — so I guess I’ll have to go with seasons.

I think we should bear in mind the parable of the Prodigal Son here. I’ve had friendships scorched and associations forsaken… but if anyone would return to me, admit that they were less than 100% right, realize that the scales have fallen from their eyes, ask forgiveness, they will be welcomed back to the fold. Without hesitation, without condition.

Areff:

Anyone shunned from the Christmas table by kin gripped by fear of the unvaxxed?

Yes.

Good to know, Wally. That first made you sound like the older brother (who was well within his rights).

I hate losing friendships over rubbish…and it has happened to me many times.

Areff
Am sort of shunned in that have shunned myself – was told by brother about some outsiders (coming to the large family gathering at his place – he wanted the event at his place) who wanted to know if anyone was unvaxxed. I said not on. Not their business. But but … people were just being responsible and simply would not come if unvaxxed came. So – why tell me? So I asked if he and his wife were concerned about unvaxxed – ah, er, not particularly. So I though the correct answer would have been, not at all. Brother. Seems the non family persons are most worthwhile, though. So there it is. I said goodnight. An unvaxxed DiL will be going and has said she will test on the day to reassure persons, all to keep the peace. There’s more madness to the story, but it’s all too much. So it will be Christmas alone, and have also been cancelled by my choir (not my local church), no midnight Mass music; no Christmas morning sung Mass, nothing of the sort. Don’t know what they are doing. Could not earlier bring myself to sing in a grotesque masked choir; and I called the music director a busybody after there were moves afoot for the choir to work on parishioners to get jabbed, while we were zooming. I think it will be a splendid Christmas, though. I don’t know why, but it will be. Because Christmas is simply wonderful. The Incarnation revealed.

I think I’ve got that kind of cold temper that the vaxx fascists can’t tolerate- i stand my ground, i back up my info, i will not be distracted or misdirected,

I am actually like that in real life.

My sister told me Trump was a fascist for locking up BLM and other Soros backed terrorists. Her husband was very rude to me when I rather politely suggested that BLM and Antifa were actually violent terrorists who support totalitarianism.

I should have cut them off there and then. They were incapable of adult discussion.

This is exactly what Mitt Romney was talking about.

Mitt Romney is a Small Government guy?

media and govt say we’re all gonna die

real life … not so much

The Little Bloke had been far far sicker from bugs with no name.

Uncanny
I happen to know for a fact that areff’s initials stand for “Randy Fag”

Last machines moved into the new workshop!

Cool! My brother renovated his house a few years ago, and they moved to a flat up the road during the carnage. The flat had a nice courtyard. So he rang his landlord and asked if he could install a mast and a dish in it. (He needs serious bandwidth for his business.) No, says landlord, nothing permanent.

Okay. So brother puts up a 20 m tall pole, with dish, all temporarily attached to balconies and whatnot using cable ties. A bit of careful juggling and he’s in the zone and all his servers are happy.

It was fun to turn up that Christmas Day to see a giant telecom mast in his courtyard held together by cable ties. But landlords are boss.

Someone meme Alan of Nottingham calling off Christmas.

I would like to know more.

Tailenders smacking the Poms all over the park before putting them in for the last hour.

8/473. Righteous.

Had a chat to crane truck driver to check he made it back ok.

Asked how his son and DIL were going as they had been both crook from Pfizer last time he took up a load.

DIL (28) has just had an MRI done on her heart as they try and work out what the hell Pfizer has done to her heart.

FMD.

Daniel was endorsed by Voices of Goldstein as an independent candidate to run in the 2022 federal election in the seat of Goldstein. Her candidacy was endorsed by former member for Indi, Cathy McGowan, former leader of the Liberal party, John Hewson and minister in the Fraser government, Ian Macphee.
The old deadshit is still around.

9 for 473. Declared.

Bam.

KD – You forgot to mention that the feral bogans scored nearly 300 of those runs.
I rather like feral bogans, they’re Ncl denizens in spirit, if not in geography.

I’ll never forget seeing McPhee and Menadue ( a Whitlam pubic serpent) standing side by side. Proof that the uniparty existed as early as 1982.

aka The Skank

How’s her new slow cooker going?

My family must be a 99% percentile outlier. Of everyone meeting up, only ONE is vax’d.

100 from a moon unit, and almost-tons from the uberbogan and the sooking cheat.

Exactly! I love feral bogans.

To win in desperate contests you need nutters who are very good at what you need them to do. Like Warner, Smith, Labuschagne, Sherman and Grant. Sherman would’ve loved sandpaper.

AHAHAHAAAAAAAA.

Cack-handed manbun-wearer Rory Burns just mentally retired from all forms of the game.

Gorn.

Young people drowning in debt are getting vaxxed to keep their jobs [and their houses and their toys].
And their Missus.
Think of it as Getting Vaxxed for The Bank.
Which Bank?
Any Bank, they’re all crooks.

rickwsays:
December 17, 2021 at 9:00 pm
after poor-quality aluminium was imported from China.

What the fuck is wrong with defence procurement?! Surprised at poor quality materials out of China AND caught out by it?! These people are either fucking retarded or traitors.

Bottom dollar 3rd world project engineers who don’t have a clue about materials & quality control. Just went for the cheapest shit they could get.

We’re going to have a pardee

Anthem!

Rickw:

DIL (28) has just had an MRI done on her heart as they try and work out what the hell Pfizer has done to her heart.

Pericarditis and myocarditis at 62 was bad enough in terms of lifestyle/working, but 28?! That’s bloody rotten luck.
Problem is that there’s going to be a massive shortage of transplantable hearts unless they change the criteria for donors.

Winston Smithsays:
December 17, 2021 at 9:24 pm
Rickw:

DIL (28) has just had an MRI done on her heart as they try and work out what the hell Pfizer has done to her heart.

Pericarditis and myocarditis at 62 was bad enough in terms of lifestyle/working, but 28?! That’s bloody rotten luck.

Luck has nothing to do with it. This is a coordinated attack on our health and liberty, and the sheep just lap it up.

Clown World.

Razey:

Bottom dollar 3rd world project engineers who don’t have a clue about materials & quality control. Just went for the cheapest shit they could get.

And not one will lose their job or pension over it.

Winston Smithsays:
December 17, 2021 at 9:43 pm
Razey:

Bottom dollar 3rd world project engineers who don’t have a clue about materials & quality control. Just went for the cheapest shit they could get.

And not one will lose their job or pension over it.

We live in a no blame culture.

But what actually happens is that as soon as a project goes pair shaped people start quitting. The smart ones who can see what’s coming quit the earliest.

By the time the project really starts bleeding lots of cash, pretty much everyone who worked in the project has been replaced. The lower level engineers who know they cant be blamed for any fuck ups will tend hang around. That way it’s not their responsibility the project has gone to shit. ‘It was the previous idiots Mr Manager Sir!’

From the “woeful” thread.

https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1411/rr

The “false positive paradox” and risks of testing asymptomatics

Similarly, Baden et al., 2020, found a 0.6% background positive PCR test result in the 30,420 clinical trial participants for the Moderna vaccine, after initial testing. Study participants for this trial were selected based on being at higher risk for exposure to the virus and the testing was conducted from late July to late October 2020.

Common sense would suggest that a test with 99% specificity would return only about 1 in a 100 false positive results. But this is not how it works. The false positive rate is far higher when disease prevalence is as low as the studies just cited have found. In other words: the Positive Predictive Value of screening testing is very low when background prevalence is low (Bokhorst et al. 2012; Skittrall et al. 2020; Dinnes et al. 2021).

Here’s why: If we test 1,000 people randomly in a population where 1% have the illness at issue, and our test is 99% specific to that illness, we will have one true positive and one false positive for each 100 tests. So testing 1,000 people results in 10 true positives and 10 false positives.

Using the BMJ test accuracy calculator (Watson 2020; see link for the calculator in the references; it’s educational to play with the calculator to see how different inputs affect false results)., we calculated various scenarios using real-world background prevalence data and test accuracy data.

First, we conservatively assumed 1% pre-test probability of active infection, which is, based on the data reviewed above, which is a higher level of active infection than was found in the large vaccine clinical trials.
We also assumed 58% sensitivity and 99% specificity, which are the findings of a recent Cochrane meta-analysis combining 64 published studies of antigen test accuracy, when used to test asymptomatics (Dinnes, J. et al. 2021).

The result in this scenario is 50% false positives (1 true positive and 1 false positive)?—?even with a 99% specificity test. There would theoretically be zero false negatives, so the risk of missing actual infections is not at issue.

50% is the same as random chance. In other words, this 99% specificity test can do no better than a coin flip when declaring a positive result. So screening in this scenario is not warranted because data that is no better than a coin flip is not data?—?it’s random chance.

However, the situation is much worse than this because neither PCR nor antigen tests are close to a 99% specificity level in practice, for various reasons (Braunstein et al. 2021). Lee 2020 performed a lab analysis of the CDC PCR test accuracy, which was widely used in the first months of the pandemic, and found it had a 70% specificity (i.e. 30% false positives) and 80% sensitivity (20% false negatives). This is because of faulty designs built in to the test from the beginning, as various news accounts from the Washington Post, NPR and ProPublica have since revealed.

This level of inaccuracy matches the CDC’s own internal report that found 33% false results when its PCR test was released in late February 2020, as reported on by National Public Radio (Temple-Raston 2020).
Intuitively, and in an emergency situation, we may think that a 70-80% accuracy rate is far from perfect but may still be “good enough.” But this is where common sense and intuition gets us – and the public – into trouble. If we input these figures in the BMJ calculator, we obtain a catastrophic 30 out of 31 false positives.

In other words, at a 1% pre-test probably (background prevalence), just one out of 31 positive test results is a true positive. And, again, we have zero false negatives, so the tests are not missing true positives in this scenario.

This problem relates to more than just misidentifying positive COVID-19 cases; it also is relevant to data on hospitalizations and death rates. After testing became widely available, it became standard practice to test all patients admitted to hospitals in the U.S., regardless of symptoms. While this may have been a necessarily cautious step in order to minimize outbreaks in hospitals, it significantly inflated hospitalizations and deaths attributed to COVID-19. A positive test result was the primary basis for defining COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths since no symptoms were required to designate a COVID-19 hospitalization or death as such.

In other words, since the CDC and WHO case definitions took the unprecedented step of defining a “confirmed case” as simply a positive lab test result, and then most jurisdictions also defined a COVID-19 hospitalization and a COVID-19 death in the same manner, if the large majority of positive test results are false positives, it is necessary to re-examine the pandemic surveillance data chain from the beginning.

These people are either fucking retarded or traitors.
They’re public servants.

Salvatore
Q1.
A 1.Some of those you turned away may in principle have been saying myob. Principles are what they are.
Q2.
A2. As my mother would say, biznest is biznest. So why turn away biznest. That too is a principle.

Europe Faces Dire Winter as Nuclear Outages Deepen Energy Crunch

Bloomberg) — Europe could face a grim winter as nuclear outages in France put the continent’s energy market near a breaking point, raising the risk of rolling blackouts in the coldest months of the year.
Electricite de France SA is halting reactors accounting for 10% of the nation’s nuclear capacity, worsening Europe’s energy shortages and leaving the continent at the mercy of the weather at the height of winter in January and February. Even before the outages, a shortage of natural gas had already forced Europe to rely on burning coal to keep the lights on.
Supply concerns plaguing Europe have sent gas and electricity prices breaking fresh records several times this year, a headache for policy makers already contending with rising inflation. Geopolitical tensions between Russia and Ukraine could also further crimp supplies. Jeremy Weir, chief executive officer of commodities trader Trafigura Group, last month warned that Europe could experience rolling blackouts in case of a cold winter.
“Europe will have a lot of problems if it gets cold,” said Emeric de Vigan, CEO of energy analysis firm COR-e. “Now it would only take 2-3 degrees Celsius below the seasonal normal to get into trouble.”
The French nuclear fleet is a crucial round-the-clock source of power not just nationally but at peak times in markets such as Germany, Italy and Britain. Plant availability was already low as the pandemic delayed works on some reactors, and now EDF is halting two units and extending stoppages at two others after discovering a fault at a plant during regular maintenance.
Without these units, about a third of France’s nuclear fleet will be halted at the start of January, forcing the nation — which typically exports electricity — to import more supplies at peak times from neighboring markets. The crunch will mean Europe — already faced with shortages of natural gas — has to burn more coal, and even oil in places like Germany and Sweden, another obstacle for policy makers trying to curb carbon emissions.
Europe’s energy crunch could still get worse. An escalation of the tensions between Kyiv and Moscow could lead to further disruptions, with the potential for Russian gas shipments to be curbed or halted altogether in the case of an invasion. Conflict could also further delay the start of the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline linking Russia to Germany, which has already suffered repeated delays. Tom Marzec-Manser, an analyst for European gas and LNG at ICIS, said Europe faces tough choices ahead.
The price of power for delivery in January in France soared 60% to a record 630 euros ($715) a megawatt-hour on the European Energy Exchange. In neighboring Germany, the equivalent contract surged 25% to an all-time high of 381 euros a megawatt-hour.
France may need to stop exports to Britain and Italy, according to Jean-Paul Harreman, an analyst at energy consultant Enappsys Ltd. If that happens, it will push up prices in the core markets across the continent.
The French grid operator had already said vigilance would be needed at the beginning of the year in the event of a cold snap. To cope with supply shortages, RTE increased contracts that allow it to briefly cut power of some large manufacturers. After that, it can reduce the voltage on the grid, and then utilize rotating regional power cuts of less than two hours as a last resort.
“I can see grid managers paying industrial companies to not run if it gets really cold in a short period, they have done so in the past and they can do it again,” COR-e’s de Vigan said.
Before this latest blow, markets were already under severe strain. Gas prices that are more than six times higher than usual have pushed up the cost of generating electricity, and Europe’s wide network of renewable energy sources hasn’t been able to fill the gap due to low wind speeds. High energy prices risk further industrial shutdowns, halts to cross-border power flows and even full on blackouts.

Yeah, nah, I was being a bit uncharitable then … she doesn’t make it up, just spreads it … like poison …

You want that I should break the law? How do you think that will work out for me?

Yep.

Loicensing sarjun’s can be real coves, the powers that Police Supernintendos have in QLD (and NSW) are bloody absurd.

Remembering the great Gary Gilmour this Christmas.

Which Gary Gilmour? The one executed by firing squad in Utah – the first capital punishment in the US for ten years? (Personally, I think shooting was too good for him)

Salvatore:

Winston: You can’t force the issue. It is law.

Correct.
Except I forced the issue by turning up and ordering a beer.
I could have walked past the pubs and not made an issue of it, but I chose not to.
This is what I meant by making the stand.

These people are either fucking retarded or traitors.
They’re public servants.

Liberty quote from Kate Bingham, who mistressminded the vaccine roll-out in the UK, about Civil Servants:

A devastating lack of skills and experience in science, industry and manufacturing… treats business with hostility and suspicion… paranoid about the media… a culture of groupthink and risk aversion that stifles initiative and encourages foot-dragging.

The ABC continues to cheerfully lie in its contradictory reporting regarding the OMG variant:

What do we know about the severity of Omicron?

Earlier this week, Professor Kelly said Omicron “still appears to be relatively mild in most circumstances, but we need to have further information on that over the coming week and we will share that when that comes.”

We do know vaccine booster shots are key in protection against Omicron.

“Unfortunately, with this new variant, Omicron, the two-dose vaccine schedule is not as effective as it was against previous strains of the virus, such as Delta,” Professor Kelly said.

[bolded text as it appeared in original article]

Oh, we do know that, do we? And how do we know that, given what we just said we don’t know? We really are a bunch of fuckwits, aren’t we?

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