CV and mad panic behaviour

[LP]

Maybe some of the self righteous living west of the Eucla Roadhouse might develop some empathy for others over the next five days.

I couldn't help but think political retribution the moment I read the headline, secession or expulsion?

The irony is the state that threatened to leave the Federation rather than open it's borders, will now put it's hand out for Federal funding.

Does the hypocrisy and randomness of decision making around COVID expose just how little some in power know, or do they know more than they let on?

[Thryleon]

Doesn’t the Chinese vaccine come with a free microchip ... or is that all of them?

Why would they bother implanting a chip, when they can just put them in all smart phones and have everyone happily carry it around?

[LP]

Thanks Nando.

Thought you might be interested [member=64]PaulP[/member]‍

I've read a bit of argy-bargy online discussing the virality versus lethality, with some deniers claiming the new variants prove COVID isn't a risk because lethality hasn't risen despite increased transmission in the new variants, it's a pretty poor conclusion they've come to, firstly because deaths lag infections by a couple of months so it's too early to call, secondly because the fundamental conclusion is very wrong.

A simple calculation illustrates why. Suppose 10,000 people are infected in a city and each infects 1.1 other people on average, the low end for the estimated rate of infection in England now. After a month, 16,000 people would have been infected. If the infection fatality rate is 0.8 per cent, as it was in England at the end of the first wave of infections, it would mean 128 deaths.

With a variant that is 50 per cent more deadly, those 16,000 cases would result in 192 deaths. But with a variant that is 50 per cent more transmissible, though no more deadly, there would be 122,000 cases after a month, leading to 976 deaths.

 

[PaulP]

Thought you might be interested [member=64]PaulP[/member]‍

I've read a bit of argy-bargy online discussing the virality versus lethality, with some deniers claiming the new variants prove COVID isn't a risk because lethality hasn't risen despite increased transmission in the new variants, it's a pretty poor conclusion they've come to, firstly because deaths lag infections by a couple of months so it's too early to call, secondly because the fundamental conclusion is very wrong.

Thanks Pat.

[DJC]

Why would they bother implanting a chip, when they can just put them in all smart phones and have everyone happily carry it around?

Stop being logical Thry ... you'll spoil it for the tinfoil hat brigade 

[kruddler]

Why would they bother implanting a chip, when they can just put them in all smart phones and have everyone happily carry it around?

There is a new series on Netflix call spycraft.
Only 1 episode in, but its eyeopening.

Its worth a viewing.

[Professer E]

Apparently they're already embedded within the Hardware, hence Hauwei excluded from infrastructure contracts

[LP]

Apparently they're already embedded within the Hardware, hence Hauwei excluded from infrastructure contracts

Lay people thinking about embedded chips believe they are devices you can see with your eye if you open up a gadget for inspection. But the current surveillance chips can be so small they are smaller than the fullstop at the end of this sentence. They can be soldered into a circuit and not even an expert will find them, or even worse still, most circuit boards are multi-layered laminate structures and the spy chips can be put in-between the circuit board layers sandwiched between two layers of copper.

The next generation of devices are going to be even more insidious, they can be printed with conductive polymers in what looks to everyone like normal everyday colour ink, a logo or a picture can effectively become a surveillance device. You can send a flyer to a target and bug their office, home, etc., etc., sending hundreds or thousands of them because they cost 1c a piece to make, the same cost as printing a coloured A4 page!

But perhaps if you want to discuss this stuff it needs a new thread.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Chinese vaccine is a bummer and looks like their latest testing technique is similar.

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

[madbluboy]

Security guard at the Aus open hotel tested positive to the mutant strain. Was only a matter of time.