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The details of the agreement that The Feds of Oz signed with Pfizer will be kept a deep, dark secret. This government is obsessed with secrecy. More and more governmental activities and decison-making are shielded from the public on the grounds of “national security” or “commercial-in-confidence” or both. The level of secrecy itself seems to be a secret.
I suspect the sales agreement closely resembles the one Brazil entered into. References to AstraZeneca seem to be fading away, Novavax is a non-starter, Moderna and J&J are nowhere to be seen, local efforts to develop a vaccine get nowhere.
John Day wrote of the “Penal Continent of Oz”. Not bad, but as I recently wrote (here or somewhere else; forget) I much prefer “The People’s Democratic Republic of Australia.” Splendid misnomer: it’s not of the people any more, democracy is steadily receding, and it never was a republic. Sigh. Another form of governance and government gets thrown into the dustbin of history, another failed experiment. We know what’s next — a reversion to form.
By the way, Britain sent more convicts to north America prior to the War of National Liberation than were ever sent to Australia.
In Australia there are proposals to frack large areas of land which is of deep cultural significance to the indigenous peoples. These have been mounting a resistance campaign with much popular support.
The Feds here are OBSESSED with exhuming and selling fossils fuels, especially natural gas: they want a “gas-led recovery” to use their own term.
I am not sure and don’t have time to investigate, but this forced deportation of at least some first nations people — another stolen generation or three — may perhaps provide a convenient way to undermine indigenous opposition to Extractivist Economics and Politics.
May God have mercy upon them all.
The problem with shame is that it requires a sense of guilt over one’s actions.
Australia is blessed with a prime minister who has said publicly (on radio 3AW) that he has never — knowingly — lied in public. Yeah, right.
What is more, in the benighted land of Oz it is NOT illegal for political campaign advertisements to make totally false accusations and allegations. Few of the political establishment seem bothered about this.
Our PM has let it be known that he is a churchgoer (Hillsong). What on earth does that church teach its congregations? The Epic of Gilgamesh? Certainly not the 9th commandment, “You shall not bear false witness.”
Casualty estimates:
World War I (Great War): 1.7 to 2.3% of global population.
World War II: 3 to 3.75% ditto. Over twice as many civilians died as military.
World War V (accine): stay tuned
The Conversation editorial this morning:
It’s a common phrase to see online at this point in the pandemic – that vaccinated people who contract COVID are just as infectious as unvaccinated people.
However, it’s false, according to Victoria University immunologists Jack Feehan and Vasso Apostolopoulos.
It’s borne out of studies that show vaccinated people have a similar peak viral load to unvaccinated people if they do get the Delta variant of COVID.
While this is true, this does not mean vaccinated people are as infectious to others as people who haven’t been vaccinated. Firstly, because vaccinated people are less likely to get COVID in the first place.
And secondly, even if the peak is similar, research suggests vaccinated people clear the virus faster, have less time with very high levels of virus present, have less virus overall, and are contagious for a shorter period of time.
So, on average, they’re likely to be less contagious than people who haven’t been vaccinated.
Got work to do now, but later today I’ll read the article. Wil I understand it?
I wish you all the best. Hope that toilet remains available.
Maybe the effects of that big demo in Melbourne will flow through, but how long will it take? How long will the insanity go on until someone, somewhere gets his Ceausescu moment on an equivalent balcony?
And yet consider how many people in former Communist countries think that their lives were better pre 1989.
TAE Summary, a thousand thanks for that post. It describes our national (Oz) cognitive environment very closely indeed.
It also describes the cognitive environment of religious cults very well. Among the more extreme, prophecies can be an important component of the belief system, a fear- or promise-based means of exercising dominion over the congregation.
If dire prophecies fail, never mind, God changed his strategy, we must plug on regardless. Better luck next time.
If the promises fail, it was because we did not merit God’s gift. Obviously. We must repent and change our ways. Better luck next time.
In the above, replace the words “prophecies” and “promises” with “vaccine”, and “God” with “medical science” and see how it reads.
It’s too late now to do much to counter the vaccination
hysteriaprogram. If the promises fail, what can we do? If the dire prophecies turn out to be over-wrought, OK then, some form of society will continue. Either way, all we can do is wait and watch.In Canberra because of our (uniquely?) high vaccine rate, we’re starting to relax and lift restrictions, e.g. don’t need the wretched masks outdoors any more, we can go shopping again especially in big box retail stores, sizes of private and public gatherings have been increased yet again. The gov’t is meeting now to consider relaxing things even more.
The moral? In Vaccine We Trust.
Given the demonstrably high vaccine failure rates, I am morbidly curious to see how quickly and extensively the cases resurge, and how soon after that all the restrictions and the de facto house arrest come back. The main part of the response I expect will of course be to get busy with the booster shots, not to look for alternative treatments.
Maybe, just maybe, our experience will add weight to the claim that the vaccines aren’t working. I dunno. The juggernaut has gained so much momentum, nothing will stop it.
Will we see justice? Eventually perhaps. But how many corpses lined the roads to Nuremberg?
“This is the line at an NYPD station of officers lined up to go out sick tomorrow as that’s the deadline for the vaccination.”
Sorry, I’m a hopeless laggard when it comes to this sort of thing: are these officers taking a sickie to avoid being vaccinated? Or are they de facto quitting their jobs? What happens to them next week?Does anyone know the statistics: out of the total number of NYPD officers, how many are refusing the jab and how many are accepting it? I suspect that this is the only statistic that TPTB will care about: weight of numbers.
(And this “Let’s go Brandon” thing that’s floating around has no resonance in Oz at the moment. No doubt it will filter into our consciousness eventually, given the all-pervasive US media presence, but not yet.)
“The “pandemic of the unvaccinated” phrase is officially dead”
Not in Australia. It still resonates in Viktoria.“You can cite all the trivia you want, but we know this is what works”
Yes, in Australia. This is a widespread attitude, clearly evident in the censorship carried out by formerly reputable organisations such as the MSM and my favourite bugbear, The Conversation, which has badly let us down with its one-sided narratives.“He also expressed hope that the vaccines would in the end make Corona indistinguishable from the common cold.”
Vaccine failure, a.k.a. we-need-booster-shots, has been accepted as a fact by at least some of the state health authorities and by the Oz Feds who reportedly are laconically signing up to purchase plentiful supples of Pfizer (and only Pfizer) for booster shots to be administered in 6 months’ time. And presumably again and again until the virus is vaccinated into oblivion. The reports say that this booster won’t be mandatory. Yeah, right.“we ARE the majority. The tide has turned against them and they are losing the narrative battle.”
Not in Australia. Most people believe that we orta get jabbed because it just works. Simple as that. I was speaking to an acquaintance a couple of days ago, a highly educated engineer with no more of a medical education than I have (i.e. tiny), who told me happily that the NSW data shows the double-jabbed have one-third the risk of infection of the non-jabbed. Or something.I don’t blame the GP (general public) for thinking as they do: a tremendous indoctrination campaign has had the desired effect. If it hadn’t been for sites like TAE, I would be completely among them.
The antipodean summer is coming in. I’ve been tending to my veggie gardens — lovely day today to be outside in the sun and fresh air. If cold weather provokes infection, then we are in for a comparatively quiet season. But I unhappily await narrative-puncturing developments in the wintry northern hemisphere. Oh the humanity.
The august, objective, rational, unbiased, scientific, apolitical, academic-powered website calling itself “The Conversation today emitted an article entitled “COVID vaccines for 5 to 11 year olds are inching closer. Here’s what we know so far“.
I thought I’d stir the possum a little by chucking in a comment along these lines:
I would like your opinion on where we are heading in view of this: ‘70% of Covid Patients in Flemish Hospitals are now fully “vaccinated,” Belgian Health Minister yesterday in Parliament’
But when I went to post it, oh what a perfect surprise: comments are blocked! Who would ever have guessed that The Conversation would be, could be, one-sided?
Hmmph.
A great many Irish migrated to Australia for various reasons including the potato famine. They’re quite a noticeable element of our society.
Ireland had become too reliant on a single variety of potato, and this lack of biodiversity was a major factor in the famine (1842–1852). When it was well under way, Ireland was exporting grain. This should have been fed to the people, but no. According to a TV documentary I saw some time ago, “Her Majesty’s government did not wish to disturb the market.”
Good grief. The Great God Market must not be disturbed or else he will punish us. Nothing has changed.
If the “Great Die-Off” has started, then I await with interest to see who among the jabbed ruling classes does NOT die off.
… although to make this a proper experiment we need better knowledge of what they have been inoculated with.
Australia’s PM made a big point of being photographed while being jabbed. Marketing? Or leading by example? So far he seems quite healthy. On verra, as the French say.
To much rejoicing, NSW has greatly eased restrictions, Sydney will become accessible to outsiders in a few weeks (but only to the double-jabbed), house arrest in Melbourne has at last almost ceased, Canberra won’t require masks in the great outdoors as of today, and so on.
Based on what I’ve been reading thus far, the great resurgence lies just ahead. But so does summer.
Thanks, Dr Day, for your splendid attitude: “Let’s help them out by gently relieving them of duty. Nope, I’m not sure how that works, but not by becoming like them…” It never works to respond in kind to threats and bullying.
Talking of “the totalitarianism of vaccination in places like Australia”, as a resident of that country, it doesn’t FEEL like a totalitarian state much at all. Riots and demonstrations have been few in number, but luridly presented in the MSM. Only Sydney and Melbourne have had much in the way of unrest. In the national capital where I live, conditions have been calm and peaceful for the entire plague period.
The people in the main are entirely convinced of the need to be jabbed, and there is comparatively little social division because of it. Canberra is one of the most jabbed cities in the world, methinks. Today’s report is that 98.8% of the people aged 12+ have been jabbed once, 74.7% twice.
Only time will tell if we’re vaccinating ourselves into extinction. The Southern Hemisphere summer is approaching, so if the plague is made worse by winter then we have a long time to wait before experiencing that ourselves.
I await developments with interest — and morbid curiority.
So, ADE begins.
Where does that portend for Canberra? Here are our latest statistics as of yesterday:
41 new cases
407 active cases
694 recovered
3,109 new negative tests
15 in hospital (7 in ICU, 6 of them on ventilators)
6 lives lost (all were aged and in palliative care)
96% vaccinated once (ages 12+)
67.2% jabbed twice
Total vaccines doses at ACT Government Clinics now at 342,233
Canberra’s population is about 460,000.I await developments.
@ TDub
So, a Chinese rocket over Australia. They could have fired it in many directions but chose to send it over us? Pretty well over my head.
Hmmm. A warning shot across our metaphoric bows, perhaps. No wonder that our prime minister, who seems to think that he has the Mandate of Heaven, has jilted France and gone back to the old lovers, the US and UK, for (imagined) defence — and has copped enormous flak for it.
Beats me why the MSM here aren’t reporting this, as it would bolster his case for making the AUKUS deal at all. Maybe it’s too early?
I haven’t visited TAE for a few days. Oh man, even a short break is enough to show the level of insanity in this world is increasing exponentially, especially in the Glorious West. We who were so proud of our commitment to justice and fairness, we who imagined ourselves embarked upon la mission civilisatrice, we who esteemed ourselves nobly setting out to bear the white man’s burden, are now disintegrating at an equal and opposite exponential rate while an astonished world watches.
I’m old and glad to be — not much time left in the asylum Fine for me, but what about our younger people in mid-career with families and responsibilities? God help us all, because nothing else can.
Good on the Australian corporations for taking a stand at last. A big problem here is that the feds are desperate to re-open the economy but the states are scared silly that the plague will swamp their healthcare systems (each state runs its own) if they don’t take extraordinary precautionary measures. So we have two diametrically opposed viewpoints.
This makes me wonder that if covid is just a stalking horse for the Big Reset, then why aren’t the Australian feds supporting indefinite restrictions and economic paralysis by agreeing with the states that the plague is too dangerous to deal with carelessly? Or are they playing some kind of clever double game, pretending to oppose the states while underneath supporting them?
Because the medical community here has by and large accepted the doctrine that covid has no treatment other than vaccines, they see no alternative path out of the morass. Because Australia has lagged far behind the likes of Israel in jabbing its people, we still don’t see much if any empirical evidence that vaccine effectiveness wears off after just a few months — while, paradoxically, there appears to be growing public awareness that this will happen. Until vaccine failure becomes impossible to ignore, the juggernaut will roll on and over us. What happens later I cannot guess.
I was zooming the other day with some people widely scattered around the country, and we got onto the topic of vaccines (well off-agenda). I was pleasantly surprised at how they viewed the situation, seeing it as a loss of democracy and covering up some other agenda. I don’t know if any of them reads TAE (fairly sure they don’t read PP), so it was good to see this high level of knowledge and disapproval displayed. We also agreed that the juggernaut is very large and will be very hard to deal with as it gains yet more momentum.
Youtube deleting and re-instating Ron Paul’s account is just a warning shot to everyone. “We can take you out of existence at any time we choose.” Why we’ve let Youtube achieve the quasi-monopoly position is has is sad. In other areas I find Youtube a hugely useful source of knowledge in practical matters such as home maintenance.
Posting this again minus the links. First posting disappeared.
The august, science-affirming, academically-powered, trustworthy blog known as The Conversation just did it again: censorship!
This morning they ran this: “Ivermectin shows us how hard it is to use old drugs for COVID. Here’s how to do better next time”
People started to make comments, some of which did not support the narrative. I weighed in with what I’ve posted below. About 10 minutes later I reloaded the article to see who else had made comments, and lo and behold! all comments had been deleted and the comments closed off. Yep, science has been replaced by ideology.
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Here are some articles to digest.
1. Ivermectin, successfully used in India, confirmed as Covid treatment by Bombay High Court
2. LEGAL NOTICE FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT AGAINST DR. TEDROS ADHANOM GHEBREYESUS, DR. SOUMYA SWAMINATHAN AND THE DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF HEALTH SERVICES (DGHS)
The accused are served legal notice for their attempt to undermine the authority of the Bombay High Court and obstruct the use of Ivermectin for Covid-19 treatment.
3.Uttar Pradesh government says early use of Ivermectin helped to keep positivity, deaths low, claiming that timely introduction of Ivermectin since the first wave has helped the state maintain a relatively low positivity rate despite in its high population density.
4.HUGE: Uttar Pradesh, India Announces State Is COVID-19 Free Proving the Effectiveness of “Deworming Drug” IVERMECTIN
5.Indian Bar Association vs WHO | Adv. Dipali Ojha with Rajiv Malhotra
Advocate Dipali Ojha of the Indian bar association and a team of young indian lawyers have issued a legal notice to the world health organization over their blatant campaign against any alternative treatments. (Watch this asap before Youtube delete it.)
The Indian and Australian stances simply do not comport. In view of the evidence from India, I would say that the Indians have it right and the Australians don’t.
While this was written to ancient Israel first, it is sharply relevant to just about all Australian governments right now, and clearly reflects the situation worldwide.
Isaiah 3:4–7: I will make boys their officials; mere children will govern them. People will oppress each other—man against man, neighbour against neighbour. The young will rise up against the old, the base against the honourable. A man will seize one of his brothers at his father’s home, and say, “You have a cloak, you be our leader; take charge of this heap of ruins!” But in that day he will cry out, “I have no remedy. I have no food or clothing in my house; do not make me the leader of the people.”
Am I waiting for the day when people will NOT want to be leaders, to dominate and control? Yes? I am entitled to dream, no?
A non-vaccine comment: this astounding new tripartite anti-China alliance rejoices in the acronym of AUKUS. The Great Auk is an extinct bird. How long before the Great AUKUS follows suit?
vivarta,
Thanks for linking to those articles in the Indian media. I’d been after such reports for a while and couldn’t find them!
The chief minister of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), site of the city of Canberra where I live, has said that he is reluctant to start a passport vaccination system because it would be discriminatory and unfair. This is encouraging, unlike Victoria which seems pleased to starve the unvaxxed into compliance.
OTOH, I wonder what pressures will be brought to bear on him to change his mind?
The most-afflicted states, NSW and Victoria, are tired of the restrictions and consequent huge economic damage, and want them gone, and this includes the various levels of government. Naturally, being convinced that vaccination is the only way out, they are enthusiastically promoting the campaigns, dangling before us the carrot of freedom-if-we-reach- 80%-or-so!
I presume we go through this rigmarole all over again in 6 months’ time. And 12 months. And 18 months…
Australia just jilted France after only a few months ago declaring what great like-minded, freedom-loving friends we are. Now we’ve become yet more entangled in US affairs and US ambitions, yet more losses of independence and freedom.
I’ll try to be even-handed in this brief analysis: maybe the Antipodean PTB really do foresee great dangers in our future and they really do think that insulting and angering France, and putting our free trade deal with the EU at risk, is an acceptable price to pay.
Good grief, we’ve really poked the dragon now, the very dragon upon whose trade and commerce depends almost our entire national livelihood. China could bring us to our knees in a week simply by cutting off most trade with us. It would inconvenience them; it would crush us.
Trouble with living on an island, even of continental size, is that there’s nowhere to go; no border guards to bribe to slip under the wire. I gave up my Norwegian citzenship decades ago. I wonder if they’d let me have it back?
Splendid essay, David! Many thanks for writing and sharing it with us, and many thanks to Raúl for providing the medium to do it.
David’s gentle, reasoned and reasoning approach is most welcome in these increasingly disturbed and quasi-deranged times.
It seems only yesterday that RetroSuburbia was released. Who’d have thought then that the future would include today’s situation. We may be retrofitting our suburbs far sooner than anyone anticipated.
I strongly recommend that everybody read How to Have Impossible Conversations by Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay (ISBN: 9780738285320). I have read it, need to re-read it, and find that it is indeed a very practical guide. Today more than ever we need this kind of practical wisdom and advice. May those who attend TAE become bright examples of reasoning and reasoned discourse.
From Booktopia:
Whether you’re in a classroom, an office, a town hall–or just hoping to get through a family dinner with a stubborn relative–here is a guide to having effective, civil discussions about today’s most divisive issues.
In our current political climate, it seems impossible to have a civil conversation with someone who has a different opinion. Dialogue is shut down when perspectives clash. Heated debates on Facebook and Twitter often lead to shaming, hindering any possibility of productive discourse. How To Make Impossible Conversations guides readers through the process of having effective, civil discussions about any divisive issues–not just religious faith but climate change, race, gender, poverty, immigration, and gun control.
Coauthors Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay distinguish between two types of conversations: those that are oriented toward arriving at truth, and those that may require changing the beliefs of people who do not want their beliefs changed (interventions). They then guide readers through the straightforward, practical, conversational techniques necessary for every successful conversation, up to expert- and master-level techniques to deal with hardliners and extremists. With key principles like the “Seven Fundamentals Necessary for Good Conversations,” this book is the manual everyone needs to foster connection and empathy with anyone.
Please do not buy it from Amazon if you can possibly avoid it. Give someone else a go.
In Australia 9/11 produced some comment in the media, but not much. That day is already ancient history for so many people.
Thomas Cole’s painting is one of a series of 5. Number 4 has had a lot of exposure on the Internet. Wikipedia says that his paintings reflect “popular American sentiments of the times, when many saw pastoralism as the ideal phase of human civilization, fearing that empire would lead to gluttony and inevitable decay”.
Gluttony and decay. Ain’t that the prophectic truth! All empires follow the same trajectory. When will they ever learn?
Great post thanks! In view of the waning effectiveness of the vaccines, having other treatments available may be vital.
OTC in Texas might not be OTC in Australia. A research project awaits me!
The situation in Victoria is becoming totally surreal, a huge experiment in applied psychopathy. The madness is affecting other parts of the country. Only 18 months ago we had plenty of our freedoms, although even then the various federal and state governments were drawing up and passing restrictive legislation.
The only way out of this is through it. We’ll just have to wait for the side effects to kick in — if any. Who knows; there may be few of them after all. There’s no shortage of other catastrophes looming: climate change, financial collapse, biosphere destruction, soil depletion, plastic pollution, costly energy, and so on.
No hiding place anywhere. The entire planet is being shaken to its foundations. What next?
Really like Vighi’s paper. Most of it rings very true. He doesn’t say in as many words that the plague was deliberately released. It may have been an accident. Whatever; it’s here now and being exploited.
It always makes me wonder how TPTB, if they’re so intent on saving themselves and disposing of the rest of us, imagine their heavily depopulated economy will succeed. Capitalism relies on a consumer class, and if there’s too few consumers then there’s no real economy. Do TPTB really imagine themselves living luxurious, technologically maintained lives in their castles, while the plebs somehow make a living outside the moat? If this is anything like their thinking, then it has no future. It can’t have a future. If so, the term “suicide capitalism” has never seemed more appropriate.
Here’s a recent video from Steve Keen, one of my gurus. The first half is mostly about economics; the second half is a discussion of the climate crisis from an economist’s point of view. A bit of (understandable) bad language in it. Steve heavily criticises neoliberalism for much if not most of the mess we’re in, and is profoundly and yet almost cheerfully pessimistic.
The Arctic and Greenland icecaps are melting far more rapidly than projected, it won’t be too many decades until sea level rise drowns the world economy — and the projected 6m rise is more than enough to stop the game.
Kendrick’s article articulates what I have been feeling for some time: what is truth? Yesterday I spent some time looking for solid evidence of the effectiveness of IVM in Uttar Pradesh (or even India more generally). I found evidence for and just as much against. So hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. We can ask the age-old question, “What is truth?” Reminds me of a situation in ancient Israel where “… justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter. Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey.” Nothing new under the sun.
After Australia reaches its target of 80% vaccination and the heavens are opened and blessings poured out upon us, I rather expect those who are not jabbed to become the scapegoats, our sins loaded upon us and driven into the wilderness, preferably to die. Even when the effectiveness wears off and the vaccinated become infected and new variants arise, still it will somehow be the fault of the control group.
Sorry. I’m getting a bit too maudlin today.
That BHF article is hugely interesting and relevant to me as I have heart disease. A pacemaker is keeping my condition stable, but if the heart tissue itself is undermined then I doubt that the pacemaker could resurrect me!
My concern with these articles is that they can be traced back to quality sources. I’m hoping to accumulate a dossier that may have weight in any argument. If ever I have to mount a defence of my position, most anecdotal sources will be deemed irrelevant — maybe a medical doctor’s personal blog would count for something but I suspect I’d need a few of those to avoid being laughed out of court. So far so good.
A couple of days ago I received this reply to an inquiry I made about Novavax in Australia, having noted that our federal government has ordered 51 million doses of it. Make of it what you will.
Thank you for contacting the Australian Government Department of Health.
The Therapeutic Goods Administration, or TGA, has granted the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine with provisional determination and is currently evaluating it.
Provisional determination means that the TGA has decided that US biotechnology company Novavax is eligible to apply for provisional registration for its vaccine. The Novavax COVID-19 vaccine is not yet approved for use in Australia — or anywhere in the world.
The Novavax vaccine must pass the TGA’s rigorous assessment and approval processes before it can be approved for use in Australia. These processes include assessment of the vaccine’s safety, quality and effectiveness.
If the vaccine is proven to be safe and effective and the TGA approves it for use, it’s expected that the first of 51 million doses will be available for use in the second half of 2021.
In Oz we are seeing a growing number of MSM warnings about this dangerous ivermectin. Its safety record is of course never mentioned. The people must not be allowed to make up their own minds. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Well, yes it is. But I don’t mind warnings but I do mind that they’re totally one-sided. No recgnition, no possibility of alternatives. There is only one true god, whose name is vaccine. Do we see a form of medical idolatry in all this? An overblown faith in the ability of medical technology to solve this problem, and by extension all health problems? I think I do.
In the graphic near the top of this edition, I think the most telling argument is that if the vaccines are so safe, why do the manufacturers have no liability? Flies in the face of just about all other consumer protections — and we the people are consumers of vaccines as much of anything else.
Res ipsa loquitur, I think.
Dr Da Costa’s testimony has the ring of truth and aligns with much of what I have seen and read and heard elsewhere. Thanks Germ for bringing this to our attention.
I am at a total loss in what to think of the Australian medical establishment who continue to reject ivermectin saying that it doesn’t work and now is becoming dangerous.
Are they genuinely concerned and protective of public health?
Are their standards of evidence too high?
Are they wilfully blind?
Are they deceived?
Are they ignorant?
Are they frightened?
Are they lazy?
Are they proud?
Are they … ?Just learned that yesterday afternoon in parliament, a vote to stop the Morrison Government granting $50 million in public money to oil and gas corporations to frack the Beetaloo and McArthur Basins failed – opening up the largest new fossil fuel basins in the country against the consent of Traditional Owners. The loyal opposition also voted for the grant.
We are squandering our resource base as fast as we possibly can, and never mind the consequences because there won’t be any. Both major political parties regard climate change as a myth, and if it isn’t, technology will always save us.
Covid has conveniently shut down a lot of possibilities for protest, and even before it struck the feds were working out ways to silence and/or destroy charities who make any sort of political noise.
I am bitterly ashamed of where Australia has gone and is going. No integrity, no reason, no honour; only galloping greed and terminal stupidity.
Sorry to be so glum. I do have my cheerful monents.
The ABC article I referred to above has as its first line:
A growing number of people are importing an unproven treatment for COVID-19, prompting warnings from the nation’s pharmaceutical regulator.
So for the time being importation into Australia is a fact. How soon before they close off that avenue remains to be seen.
It links to another ABC article reporting on the bright idea in Queensland of not letting unjabbed people go to the hairdresser. The hairdressers are resisting—good. If the worst comes to the worst, my cutting my wife’s hair would be a tonsorial catastrophe!
In ancient Israel lepers were required to keep at least 4 cubits or about 2 metres distance from others. If one was downwind from the leper, it was 100 cubits at least.
Today, depending on the part of the world you’re in, the physcial distancing requirement is anywhere from 1.5 to 2 metres, or 3 to 4 cubits.
I guess we’re all lepers now.
