CV and mad panic behaviour

[ElwoodBlues1]

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.

That's very strong on me not voting for the Greens...how did you arrive at that theory?

[spf]

Dr. John Campbell discusses Covid immunity - Natural versus vaccine immunity.

https://youtu.be/9bamaEMftg4

[PaulP]

That's very strong on me not voting for the Greens...how did you arrive at that theory?

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.

[Thryleon]

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.

I can't comment for all nations but in Greece you end up with 3 or 4 representations of the same stuff anyway, and see people changing parties accordingly.

Kke were far left, pasok moderately left and over the years its not uncommon for them to alternate leaving people more capable of being hoodwinked into voting for the wrong party because reps change parties more frequently and some may not notice.

Politics is broken more because they provide people the illusion of choice then maintain the status quo, and the rulers are far too disconnected from the true lifestyle of Joe average.  I wonder how these lockdowns would occur in situations where leaders had young children and not a device for each one to use for home schooling in an equation where IT hardware wasn't easy to come by and technology is a luxury purchase?

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.

[PaulP]

What are your opinions on Yanis Varoufakis ?

[LP]

Dr. John Campbell discusses Covid immunity - Natural versus vaccine immunity.

Dr Campbell's conclusions make an even stronger case for cross vaccination, and they support the idea that B and T cell development is even stronger in people who have had any two exposures to either, Sars-CoV-2, AZ or Pfizer.

This isn't new information, there have been many virologists and epidemiologists pushing this stance for many months now, but it's being largely ignored by the media and as such it gathers zero political momentum.

Interestingly, the new GSK and Merck wonder drugs for treating Sars-CoV-2, might inhibit or diminish B and T cell production, the studies looking into that are really just beginning. I don't know if those concerns are founded in any substantial science or not, just that it is being looked at, the suggestion does have a feel to it not unlike the vaccine disinformation that Merck and GSK happily allowed to circulate early on, a bit of doubt about competitor products never hurts the bottom line!

[LP]

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.

As an aside to this last point, I've been helping guys at work setup Raspberry Pi 4b for use at home for their kids and grandchildren. You can get a kit including a case and cables for under about $150, and you end up with a NUC style Debian Linux box that runs LibreOffice, etc., on any HDMI capable display.  The biggest expense is often keyboard and mouse if you have to add them in assuming you can't get hold of old ones, the Logitech K400s work quite well as a combo and can be found quite cheaply. Because Raspian is targeted at young kids learning to be coders, even though oldies can use it for IoT dev, it's setup to be quite simple to manage compared to a normal Debian distro, and has some useful generic controls for printers, WiFi, etc., etc.. You still need to have a home WiFi or Ethernet setup, because at that price there is no real-time clock in those devices, so they get the date and time off the network. Being Linux, and being Raspberry PI, they are also easy to pre-configure in kiosk mode so that a power cycle cleans all the garbage.

In a decade or so we might have a whole generation of tech heads come out of this pandemic!

[Mav]

Epidemiologist warns Covid will spread ‘like wildfire’ in Victoria if rules are relaxed now,news.com.au

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.”

[Mav]

EB, looks like the Mu variant has been beaten by Delta: How the once-feared mu variant all but disappeared, Salon.

[ElwoodBlues1]

EB, looks like the Mu variant has been beaten by Delta: How the once-feared mu variant all but disappeared, Salon.

That's good news Mav, that looked nasty... how you doing with those Irish nurses