From the Daily Mail (because local media won’t dare touch it)
From the article:
‘I am looking forward to a future working high above Covid which is “apparently” “ravaging” Sydney.’
But the July 15 message of thanks to his mate, complete with a picture of a bearded Brummer nestled among the city’s skyscrapers, would tragically be his last.
Just two days later, on July 17, the NSW Government paused all construction in greater Sydney for two weeks, in a desperate – and failed – bid to arrest a surge in cases of the Indian Delta variant.
The lockdown was a devastating blow for Brummer, who took his own life at his parent’s Glenhaven home, in the city’s north west, on Saturday, just one week after the restrictions were announced.
‘He was really excited and really grateful about the job,’ his grieving employer, who has known Brummer for two decades, told Daily Mail Australia.
I was told today that my bubbly 9 year old niece is depressed. Living in Wollongong who are under similar restrictions as Sydney despite zero community infections she is unable to go to school, go to dance classes, visit friends and is currently not getting out of bed.
Closer to home we have made a decision to close our gym, losing over half the members since the first lockdown. Who would of thought people like training in a mask?
But these tragedies are not counted in the daily figures and the cumulative effect of the lockdowns for millions of people and businesses would be unmeasurable not that anyone who matters would care to try.
I consider I have a reasonable grasp of language, but after almost 18 months of this surrealist living sculpture, I still cannot find any other word to describe our existence other than – surreal.
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The measures aren’t measured or proportional. They display for all to see the limitations of having epidiomologists making decisions for jobs they know nothing about. Even areas they should understand, like outdoors, they fail at, and in doing so, subject people to indoors, where all the transmission takes place.
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Thanks Rosie, the Reuters link is very informative.
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Following the lay-offs at Jetstar and Quaintass, I gather Air Services is expediting their early retirement programme.
Experienced controllers are taking the opportunity to hit the exits, which may cause complications later.
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Brummer’s death is the tip of the misery iceberg.
I talk to my little grandies and some are doing well. Others not so much. This rubbish is being imprinted into developing minds.
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Gladys has her new boyfriend. And her salary. Gladys has no worries.
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Local shopkeeper hung himself in his shop.
Young lad in my Daughters class took his own life during last lockdown. When I think of my daughter breaking down crying and letting forth with what had happened and how she felt I burn with anger at the imbeciles in Government and my heart fills with pity for the boys parents.
None of this had to be but the incompetents in Government made it so. They are in a spiral of idiocy. Not even Dickhead Dan was dumb enough to stop construction, yet the idiot who was supposedly “better” went further.
If there’s any group in Australia who should be topping themselves it’s our Politicians, Health Officers and Police. They are a disgrace by any standard.
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Cost of a 3 day lockdown to SE QLD small businesses = $15K-65K*.
Compensation offered by state government = $5K.
But only if you meet the criteria and if you complete the onerous forms correctly.
* C0urtesy QLD Chamber of Industry & Commerce.
Since the lockdown has been extended, you can work out the costs yourselves.
No wonder some small business operators are despairing.
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Starman Dan takes his orders from the CFMEU, so didn’t dare inconvenience them, right up until the last lockdown, where cowed by the perils of the Delta variant, he also stopped construction. It’s the CHO’s preaching fire & brimstone & the pollies are too gutless to look for alternative advice.
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The constantly changing rules and regulations are designed to grind people down, it’s psy-ops. Minor lifting of ludicrous regulations leads many to be become grateful subjects, willing to accept alternate rules for rewards like seeing family again.
The mid teens through to 30’s are the primary target, prime fertile years.
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As someone whose immediate family are almost all current and former small business owners, I cannot imagine the misery that tens of thousands (at least) families are going through, watching years of toil, worry and hope, plus all their money, go down the drain.
They would all be waiting for the next election with baseball bats, if only there was someone viable to vote for. For those living in safe seats, there is not much hope of having an effect on the carefully insulated political and bureaucratic class. Even in marginal seats, the outcome will usually be Tweedledum or Tweedledee.
It would be great if one of those preference whisperers we hear about worked out, for each forthcoming election, how to vote in every seat to maximise the pain for both the sitting member and their gutless ‘opponents,’ irrespective of who is in power. I don’t mean simplistic nostrums like putting the sitting member last regardless of the circumstances. A more nuanced approach is required.
In particular, there is real potential to punish these awful people in the Upper House elections, except in Queensland, where they don’t have one.
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Suicide difficult to discuss at best of times. People top themselves in a free society and government not to blame. When government shuts society down it’s very different story.
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“forthcoming election, how to vote in every seat to maximise the pain for both the sitting member and their gutless ‘opponents,’ irrespective of who is in power”
In NSW at least, you can simply vote for one candidate on your lower house ticket and avoid having to give any preferences to any of the rest.
I’m tempted to look for the most obviously unhinged lower house candidate and vote for them only, but it’s more likely to be another box drawn on the ticket with “None of the above” next to it.
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Never forget what these arseholes have done. Never forgive.
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Not even Dickhead Dan was dumb enough to stop construction, yet the idiot who was supposedly “better” went further..
The only reason construction was allowed to remain out of the cage was because of the threats made by the building unions. Dan was actually a fucking coward for not shutting them down.
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“ Never forget what these arseholes have done. Never forgive.”
Liberty Quote
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Shy Ted says:
August 3, 2021 at 6:02 pm
Never forget what these arseholes have done. Never forgive.
+∞
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Covid has put almost unbearable pressure on children already made tense and worried by the hyped-up climate madness. Some of their teachers are undoubtedly trying to link Covid to climate issues, further turning the screws. Soon the kids are going to be screaming for the Great Re-set to offer them a future.
This sort of thing is how communism stakes its claim.
Covid has nothing at all to do with the climate. Anyone telling you that is lying. That is the first thing to tell worried children. And Covid is simply a disease like many other diseases. Doctors can make you better if you get it. There is no need to be concerned about it. That is the second thing to tell them. The third thing is to tell them they are born male or female and that is the end of the matter. There are no ‘genders’ in your house, just boys and girls.
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“Experienced controllers are taking the opportunity to hit the exits, which may cause complications later.”
Yes, quite likely. You can’t just run down one part of an industry, i.e. the planes, without many other ancillary but essential parts also being affected.
Put this maxim out across a whole nation in lockdown and realise the real opportunity costs of lockdowns.
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would have
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[i]Rex Mango says:
August 3, 2021 at 5:40 pm
Suicide difficult to discuss at best of times. People top themselves in a free society and government not to blame. When government shuts society down it’s very different story.[/i]
Suicide is difficult to discuss HONESTLY… your own comment being a case in point.
Partly because every time something bad occurs in a free society, the usual suspects abuse the government for “not doing something”, when the “something” usually makes us less free. A classic case of an issue being hijacked by those who care less for the victims than for their own agenda.
Primarily – there is a strong correlation between a heavily restricted society and suicide. That’s in the evidence, not simply someone’s agenda.
Suicidal people are hurting, not stupid. Those who choose non-recoverable methods do so because they don’t want to come back. They have no expectation of change for the better and so take the only way open to them to stop the pain and despair.
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MPs and bureaucrats have their salaries. They don’t need to worry.
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The only reason construction was allowed to remain out of the cage was because of the threats made by the building unions. Dan was actually a fucking coward for not shutting them down.
Definitely a coward, but it all comes back to two fundamental issues:
1) Does Government have a right to stop people earning a living?
2) What’s the point? From my perspective it looks like a outbreak will run its course lockdown or no lockdown.
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“ 2) What’s the point? From my perspective it looks like a outbreak will run its course lockdown or no lockdown”
More broadly why have we shifted health responsibility away from the individual. If you are worried about covid there is no reason you can’t do a self imposed lockdown. We are selfish for not protecting the elderly days the people who took away the freedoms of every single person in the country
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I heard today of 4 local suicides. All young men. Money issues, mortgage issues, family issues…all caused but this utter shit. None will ever be linked but the families that are left to deal with it will never forget.
Covid has certainly killed, just not in the way people think. This is government mandated homicide.
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Covid has certainly killed, just not in the way people think. This is government mandated homicide.
Not far away from the truth. I have a 1st year uni son, and yr 11 daughter. They have essentially been locked up now for half for months on end. The cost is that they are essentially missing out on what makes the best years of their life best. Zero social interaction. And zoom don’t cut it.
There is a interesting article on the costs to kids on The Federalist:
https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/02/new-study-shows-just-how-much-school-lockdowns-harm-innocent-kids/
A lot of truth and fodder for serious contemplation.
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Anxious, fearful kids taught to rely on daddy government to keep them safe and the only stable employment as a government fluffer.
Our scum politicians would see that as a good thing.
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… fearful kids taught to rely on daddy government to keep them safe
The risk is that the kids may later turn out dysfunctional once daddy govt goes away (broke). Especially if their real daddy is also not there!
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Gladys has her new boyfriend. And her salary. Gladys has no worries.
This and the psychotic fixation on the single issue of zero covid.
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The two years having just got my driving licence & finishing school/starting uni I would trade in for any decade since.
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Oh dear they really haven’t thought this through — Get on the ground sir doesn’t cut it — this is in downtown Merrylands NSW where the multiculture is very strong – sorry don’t know how to do a tiny url — this is the raw footage:https://worldtruthvideos.website/watch/australian-039-s-are-starting-to-fight-back_FaBYrN3Gr8m2rwi.html
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“Gladys has her new boyfriend. And her salary. Gladys has no worries”
Her main worry might be getting the new man to propose, I think.
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Then there’s the truism that I’ve not heard expressed that much since the early days of all this…abhorrent idiocy. That while, yes, the alpha strain probably did come out of that lab in Wuhan, in one way or another and given perhaps malign intentions, it is not the only corona virus encountered by humans and other animals. Just because they weren’t described formally before 1960-something doesn’t mean they weren’t around for as long as their host species have been. They didn’t just pop up.
The oft ignored fact that one of the reasons the “flu” vaccine isn’t that effective is that what historically and generally is referred to as “flu” includes both influenza and corona viruses. People get sick with them every year. We evolved with them It’s not clear to me to what extent the present ones have been modified for gain of function studies/ weaponised, though it would be a significant departure from the observed norm if there wasn’t already a proportion of the population that had natural immunity courtesy of “last year’s” or the other years flu. Or perhaps a relative not yet described by science/taxonomy.
Same as everything the hell else infectious or parasitic. There’s always going to be a subset within any sexually reproducing species that can’t be infected for whatever reason of biological diversity. Such as the cell surface marker variation found in high frequencies in Northern Europe, which means HIV can’t actually get into cells.
Ebola is pretty deadly though a proportion of people apparently don’t get sick at all.
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Numerous teen suicides in the local private schools during our last long lockdown (#2) here in Melb, mostly girls, including 3 friends from the same school. Similarly multiple ‘Pedestrian incidents’ on the Eastern Freeway, always near the overpasses. None of it ever seems to make the news, the dots are never joined, just suppressed. Not an abnormal year for suicides they tell us, but people know, everyone can see what’s happening in their own local communities.
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I have a daughter who is at uni and struggles with mental illness. I am genuinely concerned for her. I am fairly resilient normally but I am quite lonely and devoid of the company of friends I would normally see.
I understand they are trying to limit the overun of ICUs, and believe me hospital wards are starting to get stretched with Covid patients. But we are going to have to live with this long term and there will be a reckoning with people not being able to face this. Those who have a settled income through this are not seeing that we are approaching Niagara Falls at a very fast rate. The only way is down.
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NSW records 199 new “cases”?
What are pollies gonna do – get plod and the grunts to beat up Joe Public with truncheons?
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Kids Helpline counsellors call ambulances as kids suicidal
Natasha Bita August 3, 2021 – 8:04PM
News Corp Australia Network
Lockdowns are taking a toll on Aussie kids, with counsellors now calling ambulances for suicidal children as young as five.
Kids’ counsellors are calling ambulances to save 37 suicidal children every week, with kids as young as five calling for help during Covid-19 lockdowns.
Pandemic panic is hitting high school teenagers the hardest, with 1635 suicidal 15 to 18 year-olds calling Kids Helpline in the first six months of this year, shocking new statistics show.
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Does Government have a right to stop people earning a living
No it does not. And this is the aspect to the entire thing that overrides everything else. Asking something of someone that you do not have to give is reprehensible. The most basic thing is self-preservation. There can be no society and therefore no government if there is no right for the individual and his/her family to be able to live.
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“ believe me hospital wards are starting to get stretched with Covid patients”
I’m gonna call complete bullshit on this. The hospitals have virtually NO Covid ‘patients’ whatsoever. My contacts – Nurses and Ambos – are bored shitless coz they have nothing to do
If you disagree – produce proof. The handful of patients in hospital are in there for every other reason other than bloody covid. Pneumonia, Influenza. you name it – and calling this shit covid just doesn’t cut it.
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The globalist money must have stopped flowing to him:
Amy Tarkanian
@MrsT106
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Aug 2
Julian Reichelt, the editor-in-chief of @BILD – one of the largest newspapers in Germany, apologized to the children of Germany for the COVID-19 coverage in his newspaper that made them “victims of neglect, isolation and loneliness.”
Read the subtitles.
https://twitter.com/MrsT106/status/1422147592239124481?s=20
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.” I am fairly resilient normally but I am quite lonely and devoid of the company of friends I would normally see.”
Real Deal, I feel for you. Having a family member vulnerable with a mental illness is a worry, always there, and relief from it is hard to find. I have some similar worries so I do know what it is like. Try the Open Thread here for some company and liveliness, as it may make things a little bit better for you.
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Looks like Mutti Merkel’s lasting legacy will no greater than being a Stasi whore.
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Lockdown is Working
http://www.informationliberation.com/files/that-means-its-working-1.jpg
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Roger says:
August 3, 2021 at 5:28 pm
There’s also a Jobkeeper-style payment direct to staff who’ve been laid off or stood down for the lockdown.
Not covered: Businesses outside the lockdown areas but still impacted. (example: Guided tour group company [and staff], say in a Unimog bus with pre-booked itinerary – gotta cancel everything at the last minute, coz the punters are locked up)
Also not covered: Lockdown lag. That is, staff stood down [and the impacted business operator] in the weeks following the lockdown, due to the lag of business lost due to lockdown. (example: The accommodation & travel businesses catering to commercial travellers with a one-week long run, who couldn’t leave home last week, so aren’t calling into their usual motels & cafes the following week.)
Totally & completely covered: Public servants & council staff, etc. Saving on the bus fares to work, full pay while watching Netflix while chomping on delivered pizzas.
“We’re all in this together”
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Covid has done nothing Lizzie.
The criminals in our governments have done it.
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Hospitals are starting to get stretched with covid patients. ….
Listening to the ABC?
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“believe me hospital wards are starting to get stretched with Covid patients”
Is that a strange way of referring to NSW Health’s consistent history of poor planning and underinvestment? Hiring Architects that seem to think the average person is 5’8″ and 60kg, that windows and green space are unnecessary. Locally, Public Hospitals are running at capacity for two reasons:
1) Despite hundreds of millions, billions re-building hospitals including those at Wagga Wagga and Griffith, they end up with exactly the same number or a couple more inpatient beds and smaller hospitals.
2) Given the attempt to catch up on elective surgery from last year’s mass of corona patients- that never materialised. At least the aforementioned are running at capacity. They however were essentially running at capacity for as long as anyone can recall. Run on the same model apparently as commerce is – the just in time model.
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Hospitals will get stretched and overloaded quickly as the current model is to run at 90% occupancy and efficiency. It only takes a small increase to claim the hospitals are full and overflowing. Makes a great headline for the msm and fear mongers.
As for the mental health aspect it’s a massive hidden cost. From my own small viewpoint my son has now lost 3 seasons of basketball. It was a critical time for rep selections and pathways. That’s all gone now. It was his dream and passion. The light has gone out in his eyes. He has a close group of mates and fingers xed we get through. But our political leaders really are the scourge inflicted on our community.
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Fair Shake says:
August 4, 2021 at 6:35 am
Hospitals will get stretched and overloaded quickly as the current model is to run at 90% occupancy and efficiency.
Almost correct.
In my experience, the aim was for 95%+ at all times, while the COAG funding agreements funded for 85% bed occupancy since the 1990s, at least, the rest was supposedly picked up by private insurers.
When below 95%, management would hammer the “this low occupancy is unsustainable!” line ad nauseam, threatening bed-cuts and ward closures.
$$ wastage was everywhere, of course, but the Budget and the taxpayers always picked up the bill.. and kept voting for the same lying, incompetent psychopaths.
When blaming the Government and its bureaucracy, look in the mirror.
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Really? I was just treated to a lengthy brand new TikToc video of Sydney nurses and doctors dancing. Propaganda for vaccination.
When they take it seriously, so will I.
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Real Deal says:
August 3, 2021 at 9:35 pm
I have a daughter who is at uni and struggles with mental illness. I am genuinely concerned for her.
I hope she pulls through.
Has she thought about CBD oil?
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Wasn’t this the recent evidence that Grigs demanded?
“No idle nurses” says the omnipotent.
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‘Really? I was just treated to a lengthy brand new TikToc video of Sydney nurses and doctors