CV and mad panic behaviour

[madbluboy]

Nothing but a witch hunt.

[Thryleon]

It is a little.
I'm just wondering where it's coming from...
I noticed a Greek flag amongst the protestors, there may have been more than one.
Do Greeks in general feel some type of affinity with the Serbs, Thry.
It's not something I was aware of and is there a background to that.

Kind of.

Some of it dates back to Orthodox Christianity, Geo Politics, and a break away from the Ottoman empire.  Some of it is steeped in Byzantine empire, and is similar to the Uno Fazza Uno Razza with the Italians.  It all dates back to Roman times, and is quite irrelevant these days, but in the last couple of hundred years, the break up of the ottoman empire has contributed to that affinity.  There is even talk of Greeks having taught the Cyrillic alphabet to the people from that region, and when you look at Cyrillic and Greek there is a sharing of script there that looks familiar in some places (possibly like the skandinavians.

Strange thing to say

This is my experience of living in Australia.

I am white and have white privilege to minority groups, true dark skinned people, the LBGTQI community and females (i am male).

I am not truly one of the club like some of the others. 

I have been told to f%ck off back to where I came from as recently as 2017, from someone who is "more australian" and am leaving a place where people who have names with 2 syllables in them continually end up in leadership roles, whilst any more, and you get tokenism at best, with respect to leadership roles.

Would that be all "anglos"? Sounds like a pretty wide-ranging assumption about a very large group of individuals.

Not all people are guilty of the same crimes, but yet, when the boos were going for Adam Goodes, they did all end up racists didnt they?

Just applying the same argument.  If the shoe fits, you can wear it or not.  Your choice, but I find it interesting to see that people don't like being lumped into one group like this, but are happy to do it to others. 

[LP]

You have to be very careful trusting what you read in mainstream media.

I read today the case numbers and deaths, about 35K cases and 21 deaths, News Ltd had stated for Victoria. Then I go to The Rage, it it states 35K cases for NSW and 21 deaths. Something seems wrong, both sites had screen grabs of Tweets to support the report, it is like the name of the state was changed and the figures remained the same!

Then I go to the official sites, the 35K cases and 21 deaths is NSW, and 40K cases and 13 deaths in Vic as of 10am today, it may change of course.

The media seems to be getting it's figures from a 3rd party aggregator site, and that site seems to have munged the figures. It is lazy reporting, but I sometimes wonder if it is deliberate use of a questionable source for sensationalism! But that is hard to imagine as the numbers are universally bad, so making bad even more bad is pretty pointless!

btw., This will get fixed up on both sites during the day, the numbers will change, but for many many readers the damage is already done!

[cookie2]

Kind of.

Some of it dates back to Orthodox Christianity, Geo Politics, and a break away from the Ottoman empire.  Some of it is steeped in Byzantine empire, and is similar to the Uno Fazza Uno Razza with the Italians.  It all dates back to Roman times, and is quite irrelevant these days, but in the last couple of hundred years, the break up of the ottoman empire has contributed to that affinity.  There is even talk of Greeks having taught the Cyrillic alphabet to the people from that region, and when you look at Cyrillic and Greek there is a sharing of script there that looks familiar in some places (possibly like the skandinavians.



This is my experience of living in Australia.

I am white and have white privilege to minority groups, true dark skinned people, the LBGTQI community and females (i am male).

I am not truly one of the club like some of the others. 

I have been told to f%ck off back to where I came from as recently as 2017, from someone who is "more australian" and am leaving a place where people who have names with 2 syllables in them continually end up in leadership roles, whilst any more, and you get tokenism at best, with respect to leadership roles.

Not all people are guilty of the same crimes, but yet, when the boos were going for Adam Goodes, they did all end up racists didnt they?

Just applying the same argument.  If the shoe fits, you can wear it or not.  Your choice, but I find it interesting to see that people don't like being lumped into one group like this, but are happy to do it to others.

Can you please tell me when you think I did this?

[madbluboy]

This would be over if they just got rid of the vaccine mandate which is useless now.

[LP]

This would be over if they just got rid of the vaccine mandate which is useless now.

The vaccine mandate helps reduce/prevent severe COVID cases, and that is saving hundreds or nationally thousands of lives, and stopping our hospitals being over-run!

[madbluboy]

The vaccine mandate helps reduce/prevent severe COVID cases, and that is saving hundreds or nationally thousands of lives, and stopping our hospitals being over-run!

Helped.

[madbluboy]

This will be looked back on as a shameful time in Australia's history treating the unvaxxed as deplorables.

[Thryleon]

Its tricky.  The word seems to be coming out that of the people hospitalised, most are hospitalised with not by covid.

This poses a logistical issue for a few reasons, but largely its risk to other patients with similar co morbidites and liability.

How you treat a covid positive patient for cardiac issues, where other cardiac patients cannot catch covid as it might hurt them, is a real problem.

Beyond that, we will see in time.  The mandates have caused a few issues, but like the boy who cried wolf, when the future strikes, and a vaccine does actually work, you will have bred much greater mis trust in a lot of people, given the current state of play. 

[LP]

Helped.

Still is.

It's a shifting demographic, Omicron affects a different spread of ages to Delta or earlier strains.

They'll mandate the boosters next, because it's obvious beyond doubt that vaccinations reduce the case load in hospitals. The economic cost benefit must be 1000x compared to just 3 or 4 days in hospital, let alone those who spends days or weeks in intensive care!