Author: Mater

  • A non-answer to the MOST important question

    So in other words, they really don’t know what it might do more than 6-8 weeks post the jab being forced on you. But don’t worry. If something truly untoward happens to you, there’s a team of specialists who’ll investigate and do their damnedest to blur the cause with all manner of other explanations and…

  • Mater’s Musings #37: Grievance Day

    At the end of the second day of a module designed to teach the kids about The Great War (obviously designed to coincide with Remembrance Day), my son poses to me the following question just before dinner: “Dad, why did Aboriginals play such a big part in World War 1, and why were they treated…

  • PM Mandates Military Service

    By political editor Tow Mater in Canberra Posted 3 hours ago, updated 2 hours ago Fresh from saving Australia from Armageddon in Glasgow, the Prime Minister yesterday announced the re-establishment of National Military Service, with the call up of all eligible individuals between 12 to 59 years of age. “In light of, and in response…

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  • Mater’s Musings #36: This is how it starts

    Pfizer’s request to roll out COVID-19 vaccines for Americans as young as 5 years old cleared a key regulatory hurdle Tuesday, after a panel of the Food and Drug Administration’s outside vaccine advisers voted by a majority to back Pfizer’s request.  OK, this passed the panel, 17 for, 0 against and 1 abstention. One of the panel members (in…

  • Mater’s Musings #35: Is that the best you could come up with?

    Interpretation: In the current outbreak from 16 June 2021, people aged under 40 are over-represented among the cases, relative to their proportion in the NSW population. Under-representation among older groups may be due to vaccination programs targeted towards elderly and aged care residents. Yeah, well I guess that is the one ‘interpretation’ that supports the…

  • Professional, Amateur & Wannabe Statisticians Alike – Let’s See What You’ve Got!

    I put these graphs together from information gleaned from: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemiology reports, Australia, 2020–2021 and COVID-19 vaccination daily rollout update. I’m by no means saying they are 100% accurate, because there is some extraordinarily sloppy work contained within these documents, and it can be easily misunderstood. Combined with their constantly changing of age…

  • Guest Post: MatrixTransform – The Langoliers

    On the Open Thread, Makka  says: October 16, 2021 at 9:27 am “The fact is most people threw their lot in with the Man long ago. Credit cards, mortgages, the o/seas holidays, keeping up with the Joneses. Debt up to the eyeballs. To service it there can be no interruption whatsoever to income. Then there…

  • Why so keen?

    Why are so many Australian’s so keen to be part of a medical trial? A question for the ages, right? The answer is simple: they probably don’t know they are. Let’s start with the mother of all lies from our very own Health Department. What utter bullshit! A ‘Full Assessment’ (as most people would understand…

  • Mater’s Musings #34: Bait and Switch

    I was speaking to a Health Professional the other day (one who is very preoccupied with reading medical papers), and it evolved into a friendly discussion about the vaccines and the mandate. It’s rare that such discussions remain civil nowadays, but he clearly didn’t support mandating medical procedures, so it was fruitful and light-hearted. What…