Author: Steve Kates

  • “Former US president Donald Trump was right …”

    Now there were words I have not seen in any newspaper anywhere, possibly ever. Yet there they are in today’s Oz in Adam Creighton’s column: I caught Covid and it was no big deal – providing a perspective equally rare in this day and age. Here’s the full sentence: Former US president Donald Trump was right…

  • “Just zip it Andrews…we have had enough of you”

    I think Daniel Andrews is finally beginning to see what a screw up he has been and how tragically he has mangled the response to Covid. Of course, he doesn’t put it quite that way: Andrews declares Covid response a ‘triumph’. From the article: Daniel Andrews has declared Victoria’s response to the pandemic has been a…

  • We’re all stuck in South Park

    I wish this was actually in any way funny. It is a madness that just will not go away. I came upon and watched these one after another with the parallels so striking it is beyond idiocy. We should be ashamed but this is where we now are at. 

  • Why do governments across the world want us to take these vaxxines?

    Across the bottom of the front page of The Oz is an ad from The Australian Government: ALL COVID-19 vaccines have been approved and rigorously tested to Australia’s highest safety standards After you read this – Research “Game-changer”: Spike Protein Increases Heart Attacks and Destroys Immune ?System – you may wish to think twice (and then…

  • “I think it’s shocking how people acquiesce to this sort of thing”

    This is from Adam Creighton in today’s Oz: Hysteria of Covid to endure for years, says top Trump medical adviser. Scott Atlas, who was a top health adviser to former president ­Donald Trump, has warned that “destructive and ineffective” Covid-19 restrictions could loom over economies for “years” because of an “unscientific obsession” with stopping cases.…

  • “Why are we made to be bouncers?”

    Here’s something unexpected: Dymocks hires security after jump in assaults on staff over COVID rules.  A popular bookshop in Melbourne’s CBD has been forced to hire security guards to guard its main entrance after employees were attacked by customers refusing to follow Victoria’s COVID-19 rules, with one worker being pushed down an escalator. Pretty gruesome…

  • The Melbourne protest in pictures

    And there were many many more who stayed home who are just as angry as the ones who showed up.

  • Geoff Giudice [1947-1921]

    There are people who are too little appreciated for what they have done, even though they have done a great deal. One of these is the just-departed former Chief Judge of Fair Work Australia, Geoff Guidice. I was devastated to learn he has now departed from this life. His funeral was today. I came to…

  • Oh my goodness, a pandemic!!

    From Jupes in a previous thread, with thanks. The ‘38th’ figure is where Covid was placed on the ABS list of 2020 causes of death. Thirty. Eight. No, seriously. It’s official. Well, as official as a number from the ABC can be. Anyway all part of our current forms of insanity. As others have pointed…

  • There were a lot more than 20,000

    The headline in the Sunday paper today read 20,000 rally in CBD. There were a lot more than that, as I did my own count as the procession passed by on Flinders Street. This was my calculation. There were approximately 16 persons in each row of the procession. Each row passed by at the rate…