Author: Mater

  • Mater’s Musings #26: “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows”

    Amongst the many, varied and wonderous symptoms of Covid-19, we see an aligning of opinion between myself and Waleed Aly. I assure you, truly unprecedented…another one racked up to the pandemic. Credit where credit is due. In my book, they don’t come much lower than Waleed. However, maybe, just maybe, he’s raised himself up onto…

  • Guest Post: MatrixTransform – Ask Your Doctor

    I tried some subtle questioning of medical types in my sphere. Some of them MDs, also a nurse, an Osteo, a Neurologist, and a Dentist. Almost every time I ask about this COV thing and try to root out actual numbers, all I get are anecdotes. Tall tales about how bad things are in London…

  • Mater’s Musings #25: Look Familiar?

    “Giant concerns like Mannesmann, Krupp, Thyssen, Flick, and IG-Farben, and leading banks such as the Deutsche Bank and the Dresdner Bank, were the major beneficiaries, while a variety of business consortia, corrupt party functionaries, and untold numbers of small commercial enterprises grabbed what they could. ‘Aryan’ pillars of the establishment like doctors and lawyers were…

  • So I’m An ‘Anti-Vaxxer’?

    For my own reasons, I don’t intend to get the Covid-19 vaccine – not that it’s any of your business. Before you start referring to me as an Anti-Vaxxer, perhaps you’d like to volunteer for some of the more exotic vaccines that I currently have running through my veins. Japanese Encephalitis and Anthrax immediately come…

  • Good Try, Dan, Fail!

    This flashed across my FB feed this morning. The kids have got it sussed. It only took Covid to get Dan to fund more adventurous skate parks. We can now fill the hospitals with kids who tried to do a rail slide on a precariously balanced block of concrete.

  • Mater’s Musings #24: Excess Deaths

    I’ll point out the obvious, and you can make conclusions. The Orange line represents the average number of deaths for the five years 2015-2019. The Blue area represents the range of deaths for that same period. The Red line represents Deaths last year, running into this year, and the Blue line represents the daily new…

  • Guest Post: MatrixTransform – How to tell UP from DOWN

    If it is for your own good … then you are locked DOWN. If it is for the greater good, well … then you are locked UP. Easy-peasy, right? If your mind is a fortress, then who keeps the key?

  • Jacqui Wields Her Big “Package”

    For those tuning in from overseas, no, this isn’t the Nuremberg Rally Reenactment Society’s latest. This is Australian Senator, Jacqui Lambie, defending the rights of her beloved Tasmanians – the role she was elected for. To be fair, at least she’s not doing secret backroom deals to strip us of our rights, whilst we’re locked…

  • Before commonsense died of Covid

    Let’s have a quick look back at a time when commonsense still existed. This was aired on the 23rd March 2020…approximately 7 days before the Governments went full retard. What happened to these expert opinions, especially about the usefulness (or lack thereof) of ‘literally closing the place down’?

  • Mater’s Musings #23: I like the Shirt

    I like the T-Shirt. It strikes a chord with me. I think I might buy one.