Now admittedly, I’m not overly experienced in this ‘suppression of your citizens’ gig. The only time I’ve stood the line was when a mass of humanity was coming at us with raised Machetes, in a foreign country*. ‘Peppering’ my own citizens for wielding freshly emblazoned placards, is not my speciality. However, I do know a…

Projection: Reality:

Police taking a knee during the BLM Protest, amidst restrictions: Police taking a knee during yesterday’s ‘Freedom’ protest: What struck me strange whilst watching a replay of the Nine News live feed of the event was how many of the rolling comments reflected this thought (or something similar): OMG, Morons! They are just giving Dan…

They don’t expect you to swallow the big lie; they just want you to accept the small ones … for now. Bundled together and streamed from near on every media station is a big smorgasbord of apparent ‘facts’, ‘science’ and self-serving opinion. The poor old punter who is a plumber, schoolteacher, architect, or whatever, can’t…

GENERAL RECOMMENDATION That, as far as possible, the people be encouraged during the course of the epidemic to take all possible advantage of fresh air as a means of increasing the natural resistance to infection, and of lessening the risk of infection, and also to avoid crowds.

I received this unsolicated SMS message on Thursday. Apparently it went out to 287,000 ‘Veterans’, everyone on DVA’s books and not limited to those who served there. It’s a nice touch, I guess, but in my opinion, it addresses the wrong event and is 508 days too late. I didn’t sign up to make or…

In 2003, it was ‘profiteering’ and playing on peoples “fears and anxieties” to sell surgical masks under the pretence that they provided “effective” protection against the SARS virus. Individuals and businesses faced fines of $22,000 and $110,000 respectively In 2021, individuals and businesses face fines for NOT wearing or carrying around those very same (dubiously…

…And they did! They weren’t even confined to their houses, and two goes were enough. If only we actually learnt from history. A further violent recrudescence of the influenza epidemic places the State Government in an unenviable position. Owing to the precautionary measures insisted upon by the use of sovereign powers during the two previous…

I note that there is NOT an IC4 recommending ‘Mask wearing by asymptomatic individuals or the entire population’. Both snippets might explain why such a move was never documented, but perhaps they focused on these little gems: Although work-related influenza infection is well document (e.g. Kuster et al.), very few studies have been undertaken about…