CV and mad panic behaviour

[LP]

Sarah Henderson, another stooge of the Oligarch

Needless to say lots and lots of politics in this, with Deakin's Geelong campus in Sarah's backyard benefitting massively from any shifts in Federal funding away from CSIRO, or should I say any change in the distribution of funding.

But this is not new news to those of us involved or connected with this sector long term, it's a bitch fight for every last Fed dollar! Deakin has been doing very very well in recent years, but at the moment there is a significant Western District bent to the Federal and State representation.

[LP]

Nice 1st hand report from someone working on the ground in Wuhan.

https://www.theage.com.au/world/asia/aus...584sv.html

Danielle Anderson was working in what has become the world’s most notorious laboratory just weeks before the first known cases of COVID-19 emerged in central China. Yet, the Victorian virologist still wonders what she missed.

Interesting that Anderson and lots of her Wuhan colleagues attended a Singapore Conference on Nipah virus before being vaccinated and were tested for COVID, none indicating they had tested positive for COVID antibodies, not even something to get excited about. I gather you won't find that in News Ltd or the Hansard as it doesn't suit the politics! Some on here will do doubt use that info somewhere to claim Sars-CoV-2 is a hoax! :

[Thryleon]

^^

I reckon Sars-Cov-2 is not a hoax and to accuse anyone of thinking so is a bit false anyway as I think people have looked at this pandemic and decided its not that dangerous (rightly or wrongly).



Whilst that doesn't mean a lot for anyone, its worthy to consider the golfer who was leading the tournament, and was not far from the final hole when news of his positive test came through and he was inconsolable.

He was immediately out of a tournament he was leading and likely to win given he was 5 strokes ahead, he was tapped on the shoulder, and then embraced by others.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-06/c.../100193772

Rahm, the defending champion and current world number three, seemed poised for victory in Dublin.

He had produced a commanding performance that included a hole-in-one to complete his second round and an 8-under-par 64 to tie two tournament records.

He was the first positive asymptomatic case as part of the Tour's contact-tracing protocols.

It was a shocking turn of events for Rahm given the timing.

He was close to perfect on the back nine, running off six birdies in an eight-hole stretch to turn a one-shot lead into a six-shot cushion.

Rahm tied the Memorial record for largest 54-hole lead set by Tiger Woods in 2000.

Now I get it, he won the covid lottery and he was asymptomatic, but is he just lucky or is this closer to the norm than not?

I think this is where the majority of people (including myself) struggle with the whole covid situation.

Whilst we can count ourselves all quite lucky considering low case numbers, it appears that we were quite unlucky last year in the fact that it got into our aged care facilities.

Its a tough tightrope to walk and it would be nice to know more about it all I guess.

[Mav]

From world champions to laughing stock: Sydney in lockdown, borders shut and hardly anyone vaccinated. How long can Australia go on like this? CNN.

In the window of a vintage shop in the Sydney suburb of Annandale, a sign expresses the frustration of many Australians with their country's pandemic strategy.
"Dear Customers, We will be closed for the foreseeable future because Scott Morrison is a useless dickhead who only ordered enough vaccine to vaccinate 4% of the population 18 months into a pandemic," reads the sign, shared on Twitter, in reference to the Australian Prime Minister.

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[capcom]

"Dear Customers, We will be closed for the foreseeable future because Scott Morrison is a useless dickhead who only ordered enough vaccine to vaccinate 4% of the population 18 months into a pandemic"

I don't know of anyone who's been turned away from receiving a jab and 25 million doses were ordered in April and May 2021.  So who is this Annandale dickhead?

[PaulP]

https://www.health.gov.au/initiatives-an...agreements

This is the official government page, that shows each vaccine and the doses purchased / manufactured / secured for each one.

[LP]

Now I get it, he won the covid lottery and he was asymptomatic, but is he just lucky or is this closer to the norm than not?

I think this is where the majority of people (including myself) struggle with the whole covid situation.

Possibly, but in the USA they are starting to realise that being asymptomatic doesn't mean you won't be impacted, recent early reports from some large longitudinal studies suggest as many as 30% of asymptomatic and mild cases are reporting deleterious effects 3 to 6 months later. For this reason they are now calling for a renewed push for effective treatments as well as vaccination.

[LP]

https://www.health.gov.au/initiatives-an...agreements

This is the official government page, that shows each vaccine and the doses purchased / manufactured / secured for each one.

Yes, the ordering isn't the supply problem if the supply problem really exists at all, it's the delivery timeline which most reports do not mention.

Regardless, at my local vaccination centre the staff there were begging people to come at get vaccinated right up until the last Melbourne lockdown, and then they were flooded with patrons, I bet it's the same in Sydney.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Sarah Henderson, another stooge of the Oligarch, is now calling for an enquiry into the CSIRO.  I'm not sure that she would be doing that if one had already been announced  :-\  And Christian Porter, the responsible Minister, has said nothing  :

This article has been overtaken by events (vaccine availability) and was published well before the WHO investigation but it does give a good account of the likely origins of COVID-19:

https://www.publish.csiro.au/ma/pdf/MA20013

There are very few organisations that I trust less than the Oligarch's media empire.  The CCP is one of them, but it's a close-run race.

Porter is a lame duck minister of Science and Industry and the 5th minister in that role in 5 years.
I doubt whether he has authority or the willingness to order a pencil sharpener given he is being hidden away from the spotlight
after his legal issues.

[DJC]

"Dear Customers, We will be closed for the foreseeable future because Scott Morrison is a useless dickhead who only ordered enough vaccine to vaccinate 4% of the population 18 months into a pandemic"

I don't know of anyone who's been turned away from receiving a jab and 25 million doses were ordered in April and May 2021.  So who is this Annandale dickhead?

Ordered but not received!

Dr Norman Swan thoughts on our Government's vaccine procurement:

“I’ve now had three sources telling me the same story, including from the United States, of what happened with Pfizer last June,” Swan told ABC Radio Melbourne host, Rafael Epstein, earlier this month.

“And if these three separate sources are right, what happened with Pfizer last June is that they wanted to make Australia an example to the world about how to roll it out, a bit like Israel or other places, and they said, ‘How much do you want and when do you want it?’

As we reported in January, Israel implemented a world-leading Covid-19 vaccine roll-out, with preferential vaccine access from Pfizer playing an indispensable role. Being a small country with a modern health system, Israel was offered first access to the vaccine in exchange for real-world data on safety and efficacy in a population-wide roll-out via its health system’s vaccine surveillance programs.

According to Swan, “On 10 July [2020], there was a meeting, and what I’m told happened at that meeting is that there was an inexperienced person there with procurement. They were pretty rude, and they said, ‘Oh, well, you’re going to have to give us all your IP,’  which is an amazing thing to have said, and then started nickel-and-diming on the cost.

“Essentially, the conversation stopped, and then they came back in November, the Commonwealth and only got 10 million doses. They should have got 40 million so that it was a true back-up.”

If Swan’s sources are correct, the Commonwealth’s blunder on the vaccine is responsible for the ongoing lock-downs and border restrictions Australians are having to live with. While Australians are still struggling to get an appointment to be vaccinated, Israeli doctors have been calling people to offer them the vaccine since late February.

By late March, 60% of Israelis had already received their first shot, which is about as many people as wanted to be vaccinated at all.