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In context of debate about Omicron, Israel’s Coronavirus Commissioner Professor Salman Zarka suggested that compulsory vaccination needs to be considered. Separately, in the same Jerusalem Post article, it was noted that only two cases of Omicron had been confirmed, both fully vaccinated. One with AstraZeneca; the other with three (yes three) Pfizer shots. Just watching…

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…

Really Guys? Some of the moral posturing here of late is not only unnecessary, but it’s also largely unwarranted…and unseemly. What follows is not me changing sides because I’m now on my way to being ‘vaxxed’, what follows is me laying out a few facts for the good of the cause. The moment the ‘Vaccinated…

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

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…

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…