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“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…
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“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…
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All-cause mortality tells the story
Slowly but surely, evidence is emerging that the COVID vaccines are not fit for purpose. Once you focus on all-cause mortality rather than COVID deaths alone, the picture changes remarkably. His colleague, Prof Neil, explains the situation in this thread: Here is a longer discussion by Prof Fenton here:
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Open Thread – Mon 6 Dec 2021
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Suffer the Little Children
Israel started vaxxing young children in late November, as did Canada and the United States. Reports out of the UK suggest it may start there in Spring. I see from this morning’s news that the TGA here has “provisionally approved” Pfizer for 5- to 11-years-olds. Only one child under 12 years has died with Covid…
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Leunig in conversation
With Nick Cater of the Menzies Research Institute. He does not describe himself as a conservative but he sees that some of the best commentary at present is coming from conservative voices.
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Mater’s Musings #44: Again, why stab the kids?
STOP: DO NOT FLICK BACK TO THE OPEN THREAD JUST BECAUSE YOU SEE A GRAPH DOWN PAGE. As of October, the CDC started providing weekly data on COVID-19 cases and deaths by vaccination status. Let me start this thread by saying that I’ll treat this data as though it is a true reflection of reality,…
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Open Thread – Weekend 4 Dec 2021
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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.
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Guest Post: BBS – Is there a payoff for the PM in his unholy alliance with State Labor?
It has taken me some time for the penny to drop in the cosying up of the Prime Minister to the State Premiers, for I kept thinking what does Scott Morrison gain in continuing to provide protection for the worst of state government excess imaginable who have continued to undermine his position throughout most of…