Open Thread – Saturday, 09 April 2022

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  1. mh says:

    Stock Moronic variant?

    I expect so.
    It’s like a cold but skips from the first day to the last of a common cold cycle.
    I felt rough, but symptoms minor, mostly a headache/brain fog.
    Went to bed early last night once I started to shiver. Sweat during the night.
    Then Sunday not too bad, felt better throughout the day.
    Hardly any symptoms left.

    My experience with most colds is I would have at least two days with really bad symptoms, then go the shivering/sweating stage.

    It seems that if you are unvaxxed your immune system can handle Omicron far more easily than the common cold. Obviously if you have a shot immune system that changes the outcome.


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  2. mh says:

    * Big Pharma does not approve my message


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  3. egg_ says:

    symptoms minor, mostly a headache/brain fog.

    Apparently the headache is due to Cytokine inflammation proteins fighting infection in the bloodstream.


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  4. johanna johanna says:

    Steve T, that article about nurses is spot on. I don’t think we are as far down the track as the UK, but my only stint in hospital 20 years ago was a horrible experience thanks to the poor quality of nursing during the ten days I was there. It was a large public hospital.

    I rarely saw a nurse the whole time, and when I tried to call one it was entirely random whether or not anyone responded. The nursing station was a long way away, and there were always three or four of them sitting around chatting, but they were not to be seen in the actual wards.

    The ward itself appeared to be reasonably clean, but the bathroom had black mould in it. Couldn’t believe my eyes!

    Despite the endless bleating about lack of money undermining the quality of care, the real reasons are cultural and managerial, and nobody has the guts to do anything about it.


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  5. mh says:

    Thanks egg_

    Cytokines are small proteins that are crucial in controlling the growth and activity of other immune system cells and blood cells. When released, they signal the immune system to do its job. Cytokines affect the growth of all blood cells and other cells that help the body’s immune and inflammation responses.

    Makes sense.


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  6. egg_ says:

    I rarely saw a nurse the whole time, and when I tried to call one it was entirely random whether or not anyone responded.

    Cause for the patient monitoring stations to have an AI bot – prolly more personality than some medics.

    Scarlett Johansson sounds good.


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  7. mh says:

    Bog roll wars mk2

    China’s Covid-zero lockdown to hit Aussie supply chains
    China’s complete lockdown of the Covid-ravaged city of Shanghai will cut supply chains, impacting almost all Australian businesses.


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  8. egg_ says:

    Dementia Joe: “America is a nation that can be defined in a single word – ‘Shadanadadapressure!'”
    Timmeh! Timmeh! Timmeh!


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  9. Ragu Ragu says:

    C’mon man.

    I was out at the range with John Wilkes ahh err John Boothe rehearsing some lines for his latest thing, and we were at santa monica pier when this bad dude started rubbing ‘roaches on my legs and I looked around and Jarack O’bama who was the vice president said “easy on there Corn Pop” and ahh err whatever.


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  10. Ragu Ragu says:

    Listen Fat, I was serving with Major Custer at the Alamo before your father was sunshine in your grandmothers eye. And I turned to him and said ‘if the Inca want to shake off our government they better get some F-15 ammunition’


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  11. candy says:

    How long can Biden last before they can’t get him out of bed or he just refuses to do what what he’s told or take the medication they force on him, wear the suits he has to wear and talk to people in the White House, and just wants to watch TV in his room, drink his tea and be very old and wait for the inevitable.


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  12. johanna johanna says:

    Sad to hear that Chris Bailey of The Saints has died.

    I got to know him briefly in the late 1970s while they were in Sydney. A really nice bloke with a razor wit and that slightly skewed view of the world common in artists.

    He managed to make a living all his life as a musician and composer, which is no easy feat, especially for someone out of the mainstream.

    Here is one of my favourite songs of his, Ghost Ships.

    Vale, Chris.


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  13. JohnJJJ says:

    candy says:
    April 11, 2022 at 8:40 am
    How long can Biden last before they can’t get him out of bed or he just refuses to do what what he’s told or take the medication they force on him..

    Once they let these videos out, you know the neocons are preparing the American public to “retire” the old boy.
    On another issue, note the slick PR campaign for the NATO/Zelensky gang. Now the Russians are using pro Nazi troops and they are using local people as shields. There must be some PR term for this technique.
    Every story must have 1. Crying old woman 2. Baby/child in distress 3. part of human body and rubble. For extra: good looking Ukr. chick before the war and now in uniform. Common man, it’s getting formulaic.


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  14. Old bloke says:

    mh says:
    April 10, 2022 at 2:48 pm

    Obviously being unvaxxed and shaking this off so quick is good news.
    But then Gladys warned that you can feel fine in the morning and be dead in the evening. Thanks Gladys, I’ll bear it in mind.

    Not a word from MH since yesterday evening, looks like Gladys was right.


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  15. Ragu Ragu says:

    Nothing worse than waking up dead.


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  16. Shy Ted says:

    Thinking of doing one of those calendars – hot chicks from the WEF.
    Miss January (Aussie hottie)
    Miss February (Note the evil mining product from which she drinks)
    Miss March


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  17. JohnJJJ says:

    egg_ says:
    April 11, 2022 at 12:13 am
    Joe Biden Has A Stroke While Celebrating Diversity Hire SCOTUS
    Salty Cracker

    Notice that was a green screen. Hence the weird edges and the ankle-up frame – otherwise you would see the lack of shadow on the grass. Most likely there was a group of doctors and nurses there to catch and inject.


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  18. mh says:

    Not a word from MH since yesterday evening, looks like Gladys was right.

    I’m still alive.
    Last night was the aches and pain stage in back and arms.
    Feels like you’re lying on a bad mattress.
    The big difference with this from a cold or flu virus is I still have a good sense of well-being.


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  19. Shy Ted says:

    Miss October (No wedding ring, chaps)
    Miss November
    Miss December (nuther Aussie hottie)
    Coming up, the contestants in the swimwear section. If I’m not banned.


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  20. JohnJJJ says:

    Shy Ted says:
    April 11, 2022 at 1:48 pm
    Thinking of doing one of those calendars – hot chicks from the WEF.
    Miss January (Aussie hottie)

    Ted, put me down for the wall calendar – the local auto garage has a spare wall near the dunny. Miss Jan or Lynette Wallworth according to Wiki
    Wallworth manages to build a sense of community and compassion with these tools with a sense of beauty, revelation and wonder That and the photo says it all. Exciting project there, Ted.


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  21. mh says:

    The United Australia Party’s lead Senate candidate and former lower house MP Clive Palmer says his party won’t be giving its preference to the Liberals, Labor or the Greens.

    “[That’s] because they are responsible for the mess that Australia is in,” Palmer told Channel Nine earlier today.


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  22. egg_ says:

    The big difference with this from a cold or flu virus is I still have a good sense of well-being.

    You’ve been describing this manufactured flu’s symptoms perfectly.

    P1ssweak Fauci bug – the cure is far worse than the bug, eh Anal-Scwhab?


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  23. Fat Tony says:

    Shy Ted – Miss January (and the rest) remind me of the old saying:

    Beauty may only be skin deep
    But ugly goes to the bone.


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  24. Ragu Ragu says:

    So, mh. You’re all set for a return to the Treasury at 00h01 on the 14th?


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  25. Fat Tony says:

    The descriptions of the dreaded COVID remind me of when I was sick in January with what I thought was the Omigod variant. (Young healthy guy (about 16) from the local IGA was diagnosed with Omigod & was sick as a dog for over a week – he, of course, was double-“vaccinated”, whereas I am not.)

    Felt a bit off for a few days, then one day aches & pains like I’d gone 10 rounds with Mike Tyson (impossible to be sure…)

    Currently I have a normal cold – which is considerably worse than what I experienced in January.


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  26. egg_ says:

    I got to know him briefly in the late 1970s while they were in Sydney. A really nice bloke with a razor wit and that slightly skewed view of the world common in artists.

    He managed to make a living all his life as a musician and composer, which is no easy feat, especially for someone out of the mainstream.

    Sad to hear that.

    There was a Rage Vault special a while back (may now be repeated) featuring Aussie artists “backstage” at an open concert where Bailey featured prominently, likely has he had something intelligible to say – others included Michael Hutchence and Chrissie Amphlett, where it appeared that Hutchence was trying to get into her pants, surprise, surprise.
    Hutchence low brow conversation about masturbation and Amphlett’s reply she never (had to?).
    Whereas Bailey was discussing inspiration for the various songs on an upcoming album.
    Fugly dude from the Models bragging about dating Wendy Matthews.


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  27. johanna johanna says:

    That fits, egg.

    Chris genuinely liked women and they liked him – there was not a particle of sleaze about him. That was in sharp contrast to the dickheads who mostly inhabit the music industry.

    Also, he was 100% serious about music, it wasn’t just a means of getting laid or getting famous. He didn’t care about that stuff at all.

    Sad that he’s gone, but he lived his life entirely according to his own priorities, and not many people in the music biz (or anywhere) can say that.


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  28. mh says:

    (Young healthy guy (about 16) from the local IGA was diagnosed with Omigod & was sick as a dog for over a week – he, of course, was double-“vaccinated”, whereas I am not.)

    My experience too.


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  29. Steve trickler says:

    This research from the BMJ should come as no surprise.

    *******

    Russell Brand:

    Does critiquing the pharmaceutical industry and the medicines we all take make you a conspiracy theorist? In this video we look at a recent peer-reviewed article taken from British Medical Journal to look more closely at the industry of “evidence based medicine”.

    This Is Impossible To Ignore


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  30. Steve trickler says:

    It is worth a squiz.

    *********

    Kurt Caz:

    We took the ferry from Belém to Macapá in the North East of Brazil and from there we had no idea what we were going to get up to.
    Join us on this little adventure.
    Excuse the delay in uploads, I’ve been struggling with terrible internet and even lost a few video files due to it so I made the decision to fly to Dubai to focus and get these out for you guys.
    This is probably my least favourite video but decided to release it anyways.
    Vamos!
    Kurt

    Misbehaving in The Outskirts of Brazil 🇧🇷


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  31. JohnJJJ says:

    Earlier in the day, Khan reiterated his allegations against the US, blaming his ouster on Washington and branding it a “regime change” operation aimed at bringing “into power a coterie of pliable crooks all out on bail.”
    pliable crooks all out on bail

    Demonstrations by his supporters.


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  32. egg_ says:

    “a coterie of pliable crooks all out on bail.”

    Demonstrations by his supporters.

    Sounds like a rerun of Jan 6 – standard regime change M.O. for the CIA?


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  33. egg_ says:

    There was a Rage Vault special a while back (may now be repeated) featuring Aussie artists “backstage” at an open concert where Bailey featured prominently

    October 2016, 30th Anniversary of the documentary of the “Australian Made” concert tour of 1986-1987.

    Australian Made (1987) Doc – INXS, Divinyls, Models, Triffids, The Saints, I’m Talking, Jimmy Barnes
    Analog Video Shop


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  34. Cardimona says:

    I made some more memes, Cats…
    https://imgur.com/a/UzL9oz6


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  35. egg_ says:

    made some more memes

    Caught a late night repeat of Insiders on ABC24?
    with Karvelas saying that young Australians were now putting their hands up to open small businesses.

    Hyperbolic propaganda of the worst kind?

    https://iview.abc.net.au/video/NC2209V011S00


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  36. egg_ says:

    The general Election meme on Insiders seemed to be “Marketing” – people don’t know who Albo is.


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  37. egg_ says:

    The U.S. Is Run by a Selfish Oligarchy, a Ruling Elite with a Pretend Democracy & Free Market (1993)
    The Film Archives

    “The Power Elite is a 1956 book by sociologist C. Wright Mills, in which Mills calls attention to the interwoven interests of the leaders of the military, corporate, and political elements of society and suggests that the ordinary citizen is a relatively powerless subject of manipulation by those entities.”


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  38. egg_ says:

    Joe Biden Has A Stroke While Celebrating Diversity Hire SCOTUS
    Salty Cracker
    Notice that was a green screen.

    Salty Cracker reckons that ALL of Biden’s “White House” presentations are done from a studio across the street, with Medics just off screen in case he stumbles.


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  39. cohenite says:

    And some memes.

    My work is done.


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  40. egg_ says:

    The general Election meme on Insiders seemed to be “Marketing”

    Host, Karvelas: Scummo “Look – small business is opening – I did that!*”.

    *Worthy of the Biden “I did that!” stickers on petrol bowsers in the U.S. – here, it should be on boarded up former businesses.

    Let’s go Scummo Brandon.


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  41. Steve trickler says:

    If true, these sounds are eerie. 0:58

    Surreal screams in Shanghai


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  42. Steve trickler says:

    Viewer discretion is advised. This is pretty rough.

    Serpentza / ADV have confirmed the pet round up..as for the rest of the vision with people falling…it is harrowing to watch. Is it recent? I do not know.

    PROTESTS, LOOTING, PETS DESTROYED AND MASS SUICIDES IN SHANGHAI AS PEOPLE STARVE DURING LOCKDOWNS


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  43. mh says:

    Yuja Wang (2021) plays Rachmaninov – Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Op. 18

    Sep 21, 2021

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdvbVI6WbQw


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