Open Thread – Saturday, 01 January 2022

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  1. mh says:

    Thanks scoop

    ‘The federal Health Minister says Omicron is clearly more transmissible, it results in milder symptoms.’

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    South African medical authorities told you that from the fvcking beginning, you arse hat.


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  2. mh says:

    Cold watch:

    ‘Queensland recorded 3587 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday.’


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  3. stuth says:

    I’m at home here as anyone ST.
    That’s nothing to brag about, though.


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  4. struth says:

    Woops forgot which Cat I was on. Disregard answer Shy ted.


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  5. mh says:

    The Age

    Coronavirus pandemic
    ‘Little utility’: Doubts grow over usefulness of QR code system
    The Andrews government wants people to keep checking in at every venue, despite changes in close contact definitions and doubts about whether the system stems COVID’s spread

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    Re supermarkets,
    I haven’t ever QR coded to enter a supermarket here in Qld.
    Woolworths had a Karen at the entrance a few months back,I had an argument with her, never seen anyone there again.


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  6. mh says:

    Oops, correction

    ‘Queensland has recorded 4249 new Covid cases overnight’


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  7. Shy Ted says:

    mh, cloth masks – I wouldn’t think so but remember they are only reading the autocue. It’s the actual authors of the script who are calling the shots and largely it’s just cut and paste from the standard script. IMHO no over the counter mask is any better or worse than any other, they’re all harmful and any inhaled or exhaled gases, like water, will take the path of least resistance, that is, not through but around the mask.
    In a previous life I was a registered nurse and due to the nature of my role I was privy to how all the guidelines come about. It’s by committee, more or less, and they never dare omit any idea no matter how stupid. Hence you always have a completely over the top policy or guideline such is the desperation to avoid any down the line responsibility.
    it’s a sad but true fact that the characters who get involved in these projects are often sidelined from clinical practice for a number of reasons and have or never had the grassroots understanding of reality.
    I did an intramuscular injection clinic 3 days a week for 2 years and the “rules” and “guidelines” change all the time, based on dubious research, whereas a clinicians practice does not, they just do what works and that’s very often what a patient will accept. I feel I can say with confidence that the elites we see getting their jabs are getting or “not getting” them from a regular injection giver because they look like complete amateurs. I’m a little sceptical of the “fake injection” stuff based on different colour needles and syringe sizes because very often you run out of stock of the recommended sizes. But in some of them you can clearly see capped needles and the plunger not being depressed. I also don’t pay much notice to nurse wearing or not wearing gloves. They’re mandatory in many places but they make everything harder because you can’t feel anything. I used to wear one glove on the hand that touched the skin and I never ever didn’t apply pressure to the injection site because you always always always get liquid and/or blood leakage at the site.
    When you see the likes of Biden or ScoMo getting jabbed and the nurse just walks off, no, not an injection.
    Back to masks – who knows where cloth masks are made and whether they are sterilised in any way.
    I would wear a mask only when I thought there was a likelihood of bodily fluids being sprayed. Masks just make things harder, speech, vision and so on.
    We used to do little experiments such as wear an oximeter on your finger, mask up and watch your O2 sats go down in a few moments. And I am a believer that the sterilising agent Ethylene Oxide (EO) on mask boxes and on swabs causes cancer. That’s not disputed, merely at what rate the mask degrades so we breathe in nano-particles with every breath and how our immune systems deal with it, even the immuno-compromised.
    It’s a multi-pronged attack on our immune systems, germs will do the rest.
    But in today’ health system nothing, absolutely nothing, exists without research and the research is usually undertaken by the naive and the ideological for their PhD thesis. It’s just not the real world because no 2 people have the same health or ill-health status. Cheers
    PS I might write a piece about dodgy research I’ve seen one day.


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  8. mh says:

    QWeekend
    Columnist Rory Gibson picked up Covid at the local pub – this is what it has felt like.

    ***

    Yes, fully vaxxed gets Covid from fully vaxxed.


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  9. caveman says:

    👍ST, I’ve tested the T-Shirt collar lifted up and stretched over the nose ,it makes people freak and yell wear a mask.


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  10. mh says:

    Why is this even a headline?
    Do we send him a box of tissues?

    Cricket Australia CEO Nick Hockley has tested positive to COVID-19.


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  11. caveman says:

    I just came thru the SA border , RAt tested myself prior and was negative. The border guy wasnt interested ,just wanted to know if i had any fruit.
    I had it all there ready my little test plate and the UV torch that came with it, ready to show them.
    I feel ripped off.


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  12. Steve trickler says:

    I am going to assume these people don’t give a rats arse about covid. With their immune systems, it would be akin to taking a pin and trying to poke a whole in a sheet of corrugated iron.

    Consider the fear p*rn promoted from all the CMO’s and Premiers in this country; the rules with no scientific merit that have brainwashed the masses and change at a whim contrasted with what you are about to watch here. Gee whiz!

    Part 6 and finale of the Nigerian series.

    Indigo Traveller:

    Harsh Reality in Nigeria’s North (brutal living conditions)


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  13. mh says:

    Can the MSM report when NRL boss Peter V’Landys has diarrhoea.

    Thanks.


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  14. Black Ball Black Ball says:

    Yes, if only the booster had been rolled out quicker Ms Felgate. FMD


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  15. mh says:

    Craig Kelly MP
    @CraigKellyMP
    ·
    39m
    Scaremongering over number of cases MUST STOP.

    Time to focus on reported deaths & ask what other strategies can be used to prevent unnecessary deaths.

    Sun 2 Jan • NSW.

    Sadly 2 deaths.

    2 x 💉💉
    0 x 💉
    0 x NOT.

    Is a pattern is emerging ??

    Time for an open mind ??

    Antivirals ??


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  16. Steve trickler says:

    Another stellar performance from the Danes; production of the event equally as good.

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    Danish National Symphony Orchestra:

    Gravity
    From
    GRAVITY

    Recorded as part of the sci-fi concert Galaxymphony Strikes Back in August 2021 in DR Koncerthuset, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Gravity // Tuva Semmingsen, Christine Nonbo & Danish National Symphony Orchestra (LIVE)

    4:12


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  17. Steve trickler says:

    This is pretty neat.

    *****

    MetaBallProductions:

    🔱 How deep are some of the best known sunken ships?
    Some of them are shown in this 3D animation, including some submarines and airplanes.

    ⚓ SHIPWRECKS Depth Comparison ⚓ (3D)

    6:00


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  18. Delta A says:

    Shy Ted says:
    January 3, 2022 at 12:30 pm

    Excellent post, Shy Ted. Thanks.

    All your medical comments are interesting and very readable. Please keep them coming.


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  19. shatterzzz says:

    I haven’t tested positive or negative to anything .. then again, might have something to do with never being tested but ……
    just thought you’d all like to know ..
    peace of mind and all that .. LOL!


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  20. johanna johanna says:

    shatterzz – as an oldie myself, I agree. The conventional advice is to have yourself tested for this, that and everything at least once a year, and then spend valuable time worrying about the results before they appear. Very stressful.

    My view relates to the old fashioned advice – don’t meet trouble halfway.


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  21. srr says:

    This place is a great read and ready source of current news & issue links.
    A pleasure to regularly visit.
    Great job AdamD & Co.


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  22. Black Ball Black Ball says:

    Well shatterz and johanna, if no one was tested, the current shitshow would have ceased many, many moons ago


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  23. caveman says:

    If he can change a word in the National Anthem , hell, why not change the definition of hospitalisation.
    PM seeks to change definition of hospitalisation

    Must be coming to the end of this pandemic.


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  24. Eyrie says:

    This place is a great read and ready source of current news & issue links.
    A pleasure to regularly visit.
    Great job AdamD & Co.

    +1


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  25. Cardimona says:

    Two recent LTEs, neither got any ink…
    ***
    The Editor

    Atticus* (31/12), you’re assuming climate alarmists tell truths. They don’t. Here’s proof.

    The only heat that water vapour leaves for CO2 to absorb is in a narrow band (14.8 microns, Planck’s Law).

    It can only do so where it’s very cold (-80C, Wien’s Displacement Law).

    It only gets that cold at the mesopause (about 80km up).

    -80C is 95 degrees Celsius lower than average surface temperature (15C).

    The Second Law of Thermodynamics means heat won’t flow from cold to hot.

    CO2 cannot “trap heat.” It can only delay it for a few seconds as it heads out to space.

    Atmospheric CO2 depends on seawater temperature (Henry’s Law).

    Only the sun has enough energy to heat 1.335 billion cubic kilometres of seawater.

    Ergo, the sun controls Earth’s climate; CO2 does not.

    CO2-warming has been propaganda all along. Joseph Goebbels would be jealous of the CO2 alarmists’ agitprop skills.

    (147 words)
    * The “Atticus” mentioned is a serial greentard text-to-the editor author who claimed sceptics wouldn’t know how to operate a Bunsen burner…

    ***
    The Editor

    Climate alarmists took yet another major faceplant during the covid shutdowns.

    When global governments lock-stepped their covid responses and stripped citizens of their natural rights, alarmists gloated that we’d see a reduction in CO2, and therefore in temperature.

    In fact, the opposite happened – and here’s why.

    The reduction in power generation and surface travel, but more relevantly, air travel, reduced airborne particulates and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emissions.

    The reduction in those compounds reduced planetary albedo, allowing more solar irradiance and solar wind particles through the atmosphere to the planet’s surface.

    That additional energy caused higher recorded surface temperatures and provided more warmth to the uppermost 300 metres of the oceans.

    That warmer seawater released more CO2, in accordance with Henry’s Law, which fractionally accelerated the steady CO2 increase observed since the Little Ice Age.

    Once again, as usual, alarmist “science” failed – not expectedly, as it has always been political propaganda.

    (150 words)


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  26. Cardimona says:

    I, too, would like to express my appreciation for the regular content contributors here.
    The, er, cattiness on the other Cat is a bit much sometimes – at best, I speed-scroll through it looking for interesting links or control-F search pages looking for four posters who generally provide inspirational content.


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  27. Steve trickler says:

    The premise of this blokes thinking is: Once upon a time, a massive cataclysmic event took place and gave the Earth a good reset;
    via meteorite? volcanism and floods.

    What your are seeing is ancient petrified trees. Biblical, in a sense? Just having a squiz at the mesas in the Pilbara and it makes me wonder.🤔

    Whatever you think, it is a good geological slideshow.

    Final Jig-Saw p11


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  28. cohenite says:

    The UAH 6.0 lower troposphere mean temperature anomaly for December 2021 was -0.06C, compared to the ACORN 2.2 December anomaly of +1.04C.

    So the December difference was 1.10C, maintaining the separation of lower troposphere and surface observations/calculations since mid 2012.

    h/t Chris Gillham


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  29. cohenite says:

    Islam never rests:

    Kansas City: Firearms store won’t let Muslima use gun range with hijab, Hamas-linked CAIR sues

    The involvement of Hamas-linked CAIR makes this suspicious on its face, as does the fact that the woman was told she could not use the range unless she removed her hijab not because of “Islamophobia,” but because of a headgear rule that is enforced for everyone, Muslim and non-Muslim. This is a highly dubious lawsuit, but despite their lack of substance, such suits are often successful — and lucrative for CAIR’s lawyers and their clients — if they come up before a judge who is susceptible to their rhetoric of hatred, discrimination and “racism.”


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  30. Steve trickler says:

    GTV:

    The Prime Minister will press premiers for a uniform definition of Covid hospitalisations — after it was revealed that hundreds of patients listed as hospitalised were not taken to hospital because of the virus at all.

    They Can’t HIDE it anymore

    8:28


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  31. mh says:

    BBL – Stars v Renegades on the tv.
    Stars lost most of their regular line-up due to Covid cases.
    The CH7 commentary team just mentioned that no one followed the protocols more closely than the Melbourne Stars club.
    Then concluded that it’s just a case of “bad luck”.

    Hey guys, maybe the reason is the ‘protocols’ aren’t worth a handjob.


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  32. mh says:

    CDC latest advice for Americans:

    Key Information for Cruise Ship Travelers

    Avoid cruise travel, regardless of vaccination status.

    Even fully vaccinated travelers may be at risk for getting and spreading COVID-19 variants.

    The virus that causes COVID-19 spreads easily between people in close quarters on board ships, and the chance of getting COVID-19 on cruise ships is very high, even if you are fully vaccinated and have received a COVID-19 vaccine booster dose.

    Outbreaks of COVID-19 have been reported on cruise ships.

    If you travel on a cruise ship, make sure you are fully vaccinated before travel and get a COVID-19 vaccine booster dose if you are eligible.

    People who go on a cruise should get tested 1–3 days before their trip and 3–5 days after their trip, regardless of vaccination status or symptoms.

    People on cruise ships should wear a mask to keep their nose and mouth covered when in shared spaces…

    https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/covid-4/coronavirus-cruise-ship

    ***

    Bon Voyage!


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  33. Eyrie says:

    The, er, cattiness on the other Cat is a bit much sometimes
    Effin hopeless much of the time.


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  34. Steve trickler says:

    Scroll alert!

    Watching a bloke camp in the woods. Those mini wood stoves are new to me. You might want to break the clip up into parts…

    Clip length is 59:59.

    ******

    Hot tent camping in winter during snow fall. camping in snow storm with lightweight hot tent and wood stove in the forest on this winter camping adventure.

    Hot Tent Camping In Snow


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  35. mh says:

    Paywallian

    To win in 2022, Labor must woo Clive’s ‘outsiders’
    It is not the split in the progressive vote that Labor need be concerned about as much as voters from its traditional working class base turning to right-wing populist parties.

    NICK DYRENFURTH
    Contributor

    ***

    Those working class voters know you can’t trust the Liberals, Labor or the Greens.


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  36. nb says:

    Is there a weird belief on the part of pharmaceutical companies that they can contract themselves out of the criminal law? Not so.


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  37. Steve trickler says:

    Just having at quick squiz at Dutchsinse on Twitch. Watching a few rotations of the globe.

    Forecasts are on track.

    Tree Lopper.


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  38. Steve trickler says:

    Geoscience Australia budget.

    A$207.30 million (2020)

    FMD! When will they give a earthquake warning or forecast?

    A bunch of useless overpaid pricks that do f*ck all when you think about it. Pricks topped by a tree lopper. The only staff worthy are those keeping the sensors running; upper brass are as useless as the USGS.

    But, but but but but but, you cannot forecasts EQ’s says the overpaid pricks from the USGS and Geo-Science OZ.

    YOU CAN!, you dickheads.


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  39. Steve trickler says:

    The insider joke is that the USGS is called the .9 society.

    Quakes at prelim 6.2 – 6.1 – 6.3 from past history, all downgraded to 5.9. Same with 5.2 – 5.1 – 5.3, all downgraded to 4.9.

    It happens, over and over and over again.


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  40. Steve trickler says:

    The last three USGS directors are f*ckheads.


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  41. Steve trickler says:

    So James J**hston is the CEO of GEO-SCIENCE Australia.

    Give us an EQ forecast you overpaid piece of filth. Take on the tree lopper.

    😉

    Anyone that lives on a fault line and pays attention to these .GOV fuckwits are morons.


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  42. Steve trickler says:

    Always good to go back in time. Typical BBC bimbette taking orders via the ear piece from the producers. A press whore. Skank! S – Carr equivalent, R- Ardon press gigolo following suit. Sprouting BS for over 30 years.

    BBC Channel interview


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  43. Steve trickler says:

    If it does take place? Nuremberg 2, I am happy to see S-Carr, R- Ardon, the big nose prick – Zemplis and all affiliates, including 6PR talk back radio hosts past and present etc, take the stand for aiding the greatest crime against humanity.

    All FM /AM radio hosts that have ( I must save my job) jumped on board. Get f*cked, you are gone.

    Kerry Stokes on trial would be good viewing from the get go. Watching the botox fat bitch, Carr, waiting for her turn would be equally satisfying. Ardon, watching you tremble in the stand would be a hoot.

    Despicable creatures of the MSM.


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