Open Thread – Tuesday 17 August 2021

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  1. MatrixTransform says:

    Comorbidities?
    Ages?
    Underlying health issues?

    Bat Eared Mong said theyre still looking into it.


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  2. struth says:

    The government of Australia, by forcing the jab for movement between the states,by denying the right to leave the country, by imprisoning millions of healthy Australians and denying them the ability to work and feed themselves, tracking everything they do, stopping them seeing loved ones, to get married, to have funerals, while killing people with untested concoctions, have declared war on the Australian people.
    That’s as obvious as tits on a bull.


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  3. twostix says:

    Notice the complete lack of engagement our resident vaccinated ‘conservatives’ have on the monstrous mandating of vaccines from WA, to NSW to QLD?

    You know why?

    Because they quietly want it, they need you to be vaccinated. By force or not, whatever.

    Darkness creeps into their hearts as time goes on towards people who won’t wilt like they did.


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  4. calli says:

    Thanks for that Nature link, Rosie. Answered a couple of my questions.

    Iceland’s COVID-19 results are limited by the fact that cases are occurring in a small and genetically homogeneous population compared with other countries, notes Palsson. But in some cases, that small sample size is also a strength, because it has led to detailed, population-wide data.

    and

    In Iceland, where the median age is 37 — relatively young compared with other wealthy nations — and patients have access to good health care, Stefánsson’s team found it to be 0.3%.

    Same median age as Australia, but a more homogenous population. Interesting stuff.


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  5. rosie says:

    Or maybe they commented about it elsewhere and couldn’t be bothered joining the chorus here.


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  6. Mater says:

    Answered a couple of my questions.

    And this, Calli. Find all the asymptomatic cases, and you dilute the fatalities and lower the CFR. The opposite is also obviously true.

    Iceland has tested a higher proportion of people than any other country (9,768 individuals), equivalent to 26,762 per million inhabitants the highest in the world (as a comparison, South Korea has tested 6,343 individuals)….

    Iceland’s higher rates of testing, the smaller population, and their ability to ascertain all those with Sars-CoV-2 means they can obtain an accurate estimate of the CFR and the IFR during the pandemic (most countries will only be able to do this after the pandemic).

    https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/global-covid-19-case-fatality-rates/


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  7. Franx says:

    I’m not sure if it’s already been discussed, but given the ‘unfinished’ nature of the vaccines, are placebos also part of the roll out? Would our governments have been advised either way.


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  8. mh says:

    I wonder if this is union sponsored at the Courier Paywall:

    Covid super withdrawals too damaging to repeat
    Last year’s superannuation early release scheme delivered Australians $36 billion. Here’s why it shouldn’t be repeated.


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  9. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    If authoritarians taught self help

    https://youtu.be/dBVm5XuT78g


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  10. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    JMH says:
    August 17, 2021 at 12:14 pm

    JMH, thank you but it’s a combined effort with Struth, whose FB post it is (maybe?).

    & Steve, can swim, but too cold yet 🥶!


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  11. JC says:

    Cronkite

    Stop swearing as it’s not that sort of blog.


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  12. incoherent rambler says:

    Do the construction restrictions in the Peoples Popular Democratic of Danistan prevent the building of staircases?


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  13. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    Ragu says:
    August 17, 2021 at 1:57 pm

    that’s just wrecked that song!😫


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  14. cohenite says:

    Stop swearing as it’s not that sort of blog.

    Is fucking to.


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  15. incoherent rambler says:

    The Cat
    Rated M15+ with occasional course language.


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  16. Figures says:

    Now that every government is all in on boosters it would seem those of us who got none of these disgusting concoctions are every bit as “fully vaccinated” as people who have received two of them.

    It would be nice to get a survey done of how many vaccines the average brainwashed moron would be willing to get before they started to get a little suspicious that maybe this isn’t all about “SCIENCE!!!” after all.


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  17. JC says:

    Okay, no probs, Cronkers. 🙂


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  18. Armadillo says:

    Rated M15+ with occasional course language.
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    I liked Callis moniker the “Tradies Cat”. The “Dirty Cat”, not so much.

    Having said that, I’m not dissing the idea altogether. It could have merit.

    I’ll think it through. Put me in the “undecided” bucket.


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  19. cohenite says:

    UK officials shift blame for looming COP-Flop onto enfeebled Joe Biden

    And other exciting news from the whacky world of alarmism including:

    The Prince of Wales will address Cop26, it emerged yesterday, amid concerns that the UN climate conference in November may end in failure.

    That’ll get the punters revved up.

    https://www.thegwpf.com/?mc_cid=5e865c2574&mc_eid=38089d59cb


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  20. JC says:

    Let’s be very clear about what just happened with Afghanistan. It’s true, Trump had a conditional agreement to leave, but since the stolen election the Taliban has broken all the conditions set up with the previous administration. Trump would never have tolerated these fucking towelheads turning away from what they agreed. Moreover, it’s very likely the Taliban began to break the agreements because Trump was no longer there and they knew Hiden was a pigshit dumb coward who wouldn’t dare stand up to them.

    Would I call it a US disaster? Nope, it’s not. This is 100% a Hiden/Demonrat disaster and the Afghanis also own a percentage.
    This is all Hiden’s doing and no buck passing by this loser administration will change that.


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  21. ikamatua says:

    “This is all Hiden’s doing and no buck passing by this loser administration will change that.”
    ..
    No.
    This should have ended 18 years ago.
    For sure, Biden has screwed up the details, but the error was not leaving after defeating Al Queerda.


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  22. Pogria says:

    dillo, I like Tradies Cat also.

    I believe this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Uf8bLl6yU, should be all of the unvaccinated’s and the anti dictator’s theme song. It should be shouted out loud and played on Boomboxes at every press conference and at every bullshit information junket.

    It was THE Rafter Shaker at the Comb and Cutter back in the seventies when I was a junior headbanger. mmmmmmmmmmmmm


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  23. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    Steve, that vid you put up, the interview with that Canadian bloke, Chris Sky:
    COVID, THE AWAKENING, PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE & THE CAPITOL HILL – ‘RIGHT NOW’ HIGHLIGHT.

    Well, at the 8 minute mark, Sky said that on quarantine the CDC rescinded in August last year the 14 day period and changed it to 9 days, after reviewing all the worldwide evidence that people are not infectious after 9 days? Then he referred to the UK having 10 days quarantine?

    Does anyone know about the CDC changing the length of quarantine for the ‘rona?


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  24. incoherent rambler says:

    pigshit dumb coward

    JC. Master of understatement.


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  25. JC says:

    Harry Hindsight has proven to be 100% right about everything in the past, Ika. |Amazing ability to see the past so clearly.


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  26. Woolfe says:

    I bet there are a lot of ex Afghan Generals and pollies accessing their Swiss bank accounts.

    US “accidentally” bombed neutral (lol) Switzerland during the war. They should finished the job.


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  27. rickw says:

    Bat Eared Mong

    My favourite description of The Bat Eared Mong.


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  28. rickw says:

    Good for light ops but hardly the strike force required to provide air support to troops on the ground in urban areas.

    The Americans left the ANA to be slaughtered.

    The golden opportunity was the road from Bahgram to Kabul. BUFF territory for dropping tons of HE on them out in the open. An opportunity apparently not taken.


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  29. ikamatua says:

    “JC says:
    August 17, 2021 at 3:07 pm
    Harry Hindsight has proven to be 100% right about everything in the past, Ika. |Amazing ability to see the past so clearly.”
    ..
    I’ve been saying for eight years they need to get the fuck out of there.


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  30. cohenite says:

    Better late then never:

    BECAUSE THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA WAS NOT VERY INTERESTED IN THIS STORY (FOR OBVIOUS REASONS) IT IS LIKELY THAT YOU DID NOT SEE THIS WHEN IT BROKE. FOR THIS REASON WE ARE POSTING IT AGAIN.
    The sh*t show the Democrats staged at the confirmation hearings for Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, was a disgusting group denigration of the high office Democrats have been entrusted with.

    This was borne out again yesterday when Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley made a third criminal referral, this one against a second Kavanaugh accuser, Judy Munro-Leighton.

    Here is Grassley’s letter of referral to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray:

    https://thebeltwayreport.com/2021/08/p6203/

    Skanks who falsely accuse men of rape are doubly guilty: firstly for ruining the man’s life (see Rush, Jarratt, McLachlan, Diamond etc), but they also make it harder for genuine cases to gain traction. Of course the demorats and the left have never cared except if it provides political capital for them. Look at the disparity between accusations against the scomo government compared to the hidden accusations in the liars.


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  31. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    Thanks, Mark A, for the pictures. Bit late, I know, but I finally got up to the top of the thread – +1 with cohenite on The Quiet Man quote.


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  32. Armadillo says:

    BUFF territory for dropping tons of HE on them out in the open.
    —————————————————————————————————-

    Attention ALL motorists.
    You are about to enter a “KILL ZONE”.
    Please proceed carefully.
    Have a nice day 😊


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  33. JC says:

    There’s ways out and ways out.

    Hiden has no idea what the fuck he was doing with the exception of his coke and prostitute addicted son and corrupt brother making money on his behalf.


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  34. ikamatua says:

    “JC says:
    August 17, 2021 at 3:24 pm
    There’s ways out and ways out.

    Hiden has no idea what the fuck he was doing with the exception of his coke and prostitute addicted son and corrupt brother making money on his behalf.”
    ..
    Fine.
    But there are deeper lessons to learn here that shouldn’t be glossed over in the rush to use it politically.
    Around 4000 dead US personnel. Trillions of dollars. Who knows how many dead Afghanis. For NOTHING.
    Now we’re hearing that the NGOs were busy spending taxpayers money trying to teach these jokers gender studies.
    What a fucking joke. Twenty years, trillions of dollars and thousands dead to try some sick social experiment in the graveyard of Empires.


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  35. egg_ says:

    they knew Hiden was a pigshit dumb coward who wouldn’t dare stand up to them.

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    Does Dementia Joe literally know what day it is?

    Hasn’t Kamala reportedly been secretly steered by others in regards to Foreign Relations from day one of the Administration?


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  36. calli says:

    Please, please don’t saddle me with the nickname!

    Sinc’s Cat always felt like a saloon, with a rinkey-tink piano and a bar. Nasty Canasta style. Arguments, feuds, battles. Plus shoot em ups and dramatic entrances and exits.

    AdamD’s Cat reminds me of smoko – crappy old site sheds, folding chairs of dubious stability, roll yer owns and meat pies. Plus swearing and good talk.

    Hence TradieCat.

    Dover’s, to me, is NovoCat, because it’s nice and shiny and has that new blog smell. And some nice trim that makes it go faster.


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  37. calli says:

    There were always going to be dead Afghanis, US or no US.

    It’s that kind of place.


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  38. Steve trickler says:

    Mum Willie Wagtail is going off. She’s being an absolute bitch.


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  39. ikamatua says:

    We spent 20 years telling our young men to go over there and take on the lifelong burden of having killed c*nts. Meanwhile, the underlying reason seems to have been to try to teach moslims about toxic masculinity, gender fluidity and empowering chicks.
    It’s not even funny.
    Not even.


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  40. ikamatua says:

    “calli says:
    August 17, 2021 at 3:35 pm
    There were always going to be dead Afghanis, US or no US.”
    ..
    Beside the point.


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  41. Armadillo says:

    Eggy, that article from the Daily Mail is hilarious.

    Lefties trying to justify the unjustifiable.


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  42. incoherent rambler says:

    Let me look up my history notes of invaders of Afghanistan …

    Ahh. Yes, it seems like it might not be a good idea to send an army into that place.


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  43. Rorschach says:

    With the blow out in COVID cases, it is near inevitable that we’re all going to get it. So it’s AstraZeneca for me tomorrow. [Weighed up the risks and it is falling on the side of caution…]

    And yes Rosie – I know the risks – as per the Dept of Health I have a significant change of having an adverse reaction and a non-trivial chance of death:

    https://apps.tga.gov.au/prod/daen/daen-report.aspx

    If you select AstraZeneca you get:

    1 medicine selected between 01/01/2021 – 17/05/2021.

    Selected medicines
    Trade name Active ingredients
    COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca ChAdOx1-S (Viral vector)

    Search results
    The results are shown in two tabs.

    Number of reports (cases): 12660

    Number of cases with a single suspected medicine: 12549

    Number of cases where death was a reported outcome: 88


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  44. cohenite says:

    Now we’re hearing that the NGOs were busy spending taxpayers money trying to teach these jokers gender studies.

    This is what biden’s embassy in kaboom was waving before the talifucks took over:

    US Embassy in Kabul Was Celebrating Pride Month as Taliban Launched Final Campaign to Retake Country

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/pride-comes-fall-us-embassy-kabul-celebrating-pride-month-taliban-launched-final-campaign-retake-country/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=daily


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  45. egg_ says:

    With the blow out in COVID cases…

    ————————

    OK, Grigs.


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  46. cohenite says:

    FOX News Dirtbag Chris Wallace Tries to Blame Trump for Biden’s Afghanistan Debacle (VIDEO)

    In March 2009 Barack Obama reached out to the Taliban terrorist organization for peace talks.

    Joe Biden at the time told reporters “only 5% of the Taliban is incorrigible.”

    In August 2010 Barack Obama removed the Taliban from the national terror list.

    In May 2012 Barack Obama rewarded the Taliban terrorists with their own office in Qatar for peace talks.

    Also in May 2012 the Taliban bombed Kabul two hours after Obama announced peace talks with the terrorist group.

    In 2012 the Obama administration even paid for the Taliban peace office in Qatar.

    In 2013 Barack Obama secretly released five deadly Taliban prisoners from Gitmo in exchange for peace talks.

    In 2014 the Taliban officially released a statement on victory in Afghanistan 6 years into the Obama presidency.

    On Sunday FOX News host Chris Wallace blamed the Trump Administration for situation in Afghanistan.

    This is after years of Obama and Biden appeasing the Taliban, releasing their top operatives from prison and building them an office for peace talks in Qatar.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/fox-news-dirtbag-chris-wallace-tries-blame-trump-bidens-afghanistan-debacle-video/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=daily


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  47. Professor Higgins says:

    Struth at 1:06.

    That’s as obvious as tits on a bull.

    You need to get your Strayan idioms right.
    For something which is prominent or obvious it is “sticks out like dog’s balls”.
    For something which has limited practical use it is “as useless as tits on a bull”.
    Be careful.
    It’s a slippery slope.
    Next thing you will be saying “fair shake of the sauce bottle”.


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  48. min says: