(10-06-2021, 08:52 AM)PaulP link Wrote:Hmm, so no Labor, no Liberal. You're almost certainly not a Greens voter, which tends to leave independents, fringe parties, or Katter / Palmer / Centre Alliance types.

(10-06-2021, 11:56 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:That's very strong on me not voting for the Greens...how did you arrive at that theory?

(10-06-2021, 08:18 PM)PaulP link Wrote:Just reading your material over 15 or 16 years, you never struck me as a Greens kind of guy.

As an aside, once you remove the 2 major parties plus the 3rd wheel (used to be the Democrats, now the Greens) there isn't really all that much left. I think 2 major parties plus very little else is an appalling state of affairs. There's very little genuine choice. Much better IMO the way it is in some European countries where 5 or so parties get decent votes and hold a good amount of power. The situation in the US is worse.

(10-06-2021, 12:04 PM)spf date Wrote:Dr. John Campbell discusses Covid immunity - Natural versus vaccine immunity.

(10-06-2021, 08:37 PM)Thryleon date Wrote:My sister has 3 kids in primary school and luckily for her I was able to repurpose some items marked for disposal and give her access two laptops she could use for them else they were dividing up 2 computers among 5 people to use for home schooling and working from home.

Quote:An epidemiologist has poured cold water on calls by business groups and others to overhaul Victoria’s isolation rules, saying any change would cause the virus to spread “like wildfire”.

Nancy Baxter also says the reason the state’s outbreak is being controlled is because of the stay-at-home requirement, despite the focus on vaccination.

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“The lower we can keep the numbers, the safer we can keep our hospitals, so when we do open up, we have the space to put the patients that are going to increase, because because of openings.”

Dr Baxter said before the AFL grand final long weekend she hoped Victoria would beat predictions by getting vaccinated as quickly as possible and bring numbers down.

But a failure by Victorians to abide by rules helped drive the outbreak.

“All of us know people who are not following the rules and most of the time they get away with it,” she said.

“But the more people in our community that have COVID, the more the chances that they’re not going to get away with it and they’re going to fuel the outbreak.

“I do think the narrative is a bit precious that somehow the government is to blame for the increase in people in isolation, when actually it’s because we’re not following the rules and the cases are spreading, and so there’s more people in isolation.”

(10-06-2021, 11:06 PM)Mav link Wrote:EB, looks like the Mu variant has been beaten by Delta: How the once-feared mu variant all but disappeared, Salon.