I think these stupid bureaucrats lie so much they become a little bit crazy themselves. They actually think if they just keep repeating something works, it will actually work. Good for us, this way they destroy themselves faster.
The absurdity is beyond belief. I had been a volunteer firefighter with the NSW RFS for about 17 years, the last 7 years of which I was both secretary and treasurer of our little rural brigade due to the difficult task of attracting members. I'll leave you to guess why I am no longer a member.
About 10 years ago I was at a fire incident whereby I was assigned to patrol a freshly bulldozed firebreak with only one other person on the truck, that being the driver who was approaching 70 years of age and had already suffered one heart attack. When we got dry bogged on a particularly steep section of the firebreak in 45 degree heat and about 600 acres of burning hillside to our west, it occurred to me that if my assigned partner were to have a heart attack right there then I would be in deep do-do. However I never raised this incident as a safety concern because of the understanding that there will always be implicit risks in theses situations.
This brave new world of risk aversion is full of such contradictions.
Lol....Before I retired, January 2019, from teaching high school English, I did a novel study unit of Brave New World and 1984......The past couple decades, our society's inclination to amuse ourselves to death and hysterically welcome govt to keep us "safe" and surveilled gave me ample articles to complement the unit - connect it to real life events. Also added a section on the top persuasive advertising techniques (propaganda).
Even our high school "Effort" categories mirrored Orwellian euphemisms. Eg: Good, Satisfactory, Unsatisfactory changed to Good, Satisfactory, Needs Improvement! Heaven forbid we tell a 16-17 year old that not attending and not handing in assignments is unsatisfactory.
I found my visit to a tiny fishing village in Mexico for two months (when I was allowed to leave & travel freely out of Canada in early 2020 without fear of being denied re-entry) so refreshingly free from the insane safety measures practiced here. Reminded me of the days my awesome Dad towed us behind the car on a long rope through white, sparkling, packed snow roads. As they say today, "Good times." They sure were.
I never thought of the grading categories that way. Good point. Have you read Antifragile by Nicholas Nassim Taleb? Similar vein. I read it because of my interest in robust debate strengthening people and their ideas.
No, but I have the Michael Schellenberger audiobook at the top of my 'next listens' and will add Antifragile by Nicholas Nassim Talib. Trish Wood's podcasts and Lean Out w Tara Henley, both former CBC reporters, now independent, host excellent shows promoting w guests offering alternative views to restore debate in the public forum. Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind is also good.
Thanks for doing that dangerous job for so many years. You are of course quite right, taking risk is necessary, especially in service of keeping people safe (by which I mean ACTUALLY safe, from real threats... not from fake and imagined threats that are really cover for removing rights and wealth from formerly free peoples).
Choosing to take calculated risk is a sign of reaching maturity. Adults must necessarily take risk to protect their children, to earn a good living, or to act in service to their communities as you have. Civilisation has been built on the cumulative decisions of millions of humans beings deciding, of their own volition, to take risks in order to achieve something better, greater, or new.
Imagine how different human history would look, even just in Australia, if Captain Cook decided not to sail ...because it seemed a bit risky. For the lovers of safety I would note that "for your safety" has been the rallying cry of every oppressive tyrant throughout history, and that all the great leaders and heroes we teach our children about were those brave enough to wade into the unknown, despite risk.
When we are at a point (have been since early 2020) that people ‘elected’ to serve the people are able to get away with openly lying and deliberately misleading said people in order to try to legalise discrimination and force people to take a pharma product that likely has a negative risk/benefit ratio in order to keep their fundamental right to earn a legal income it’s very dark times indeed. These assholes should be in jail and yet they dig ever deeper
People are either to lazy, stupid or just don’t want to see, if they are not vaccine injured the bulk have no reason to question the narrative.
I would suggest deep down many people now know they have been misled and lied to and refuse to acknowledge it, if they lie to themselves there is no reason to investigate further or admit they what they (should) inherently know.
I have NFI what number jab they are up to now in WA but will McCoward start pushing the fourth or fifth jab, it’s basically a coward leading lemmings over a cliff, I am staggered how many otherwise intelligent people have fallen for this scam which involves not so much money but there actual health and lives.
“I would suggest deep down many people now know they have been misled and lied to and refuse to acknowledge it, if they lie to themselves there is no reason to investigate further or admit they what they (should) inherently know.”
Paul has nailed the problem. For me, the events of the last two and a half years have exposed astonishing facets about the propensity for self-deception that must exist in human psychology. I never dreamed that could have been the case in a Western country with ‘free’ media. I have found it extraordinary how so many supposedly ‘educated’ people have been able to suppress innate natural curiosity and not see the pattern of deceit in the way the injectable products have been ‘marketed’. Like automatons, so many people have just taken as gospel the words of ‘advice’ urging more-and-more jabs, pumped out by talking heads on television, reading their scripts from a teleprompter.
An interesting piece of collateral information that many may not be aware of is that there may be an inverse relationship between the level of tertiary education that a person has acquired and their susceptibility to fraudsters. Some years ago I attended a public seminar conducted by the senior police officer responsible for investigating internet fraud in the Australian state in which I live. I was surprised to learn that the persons most likely to fall victim to the likes of Nigerian scammers were well ‘educated’ professional people who worked and moved in a ‘high-trust’ social environment. The corollary is that the ordinary working bloke having a beer in a pub is more likely to smell a rat and detect fraud. This tendency would not apply in all cases, however. Like everything else with social attributes, it would be an overlapping bell curve for each of the two social groupings.
This psychological susceptibility to fraud would also help explain why so many ‘educated’ people have blindly fallen victim to the assertions of activists and their media enablers claiming that the world is on the brink of catastrophic disaster due to the human-generated portion of the trace gas of Carbon Dioxide – an assertion that actually has no basis in empirical science. The accelerating decay of the West is very troubling indeed.
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels by Alex Epstein is great to share with open-minded friends fooled by the climate hysteria. Great audiobook. Easy to listen - persuasive and full of facts.
Yes it’s a long video, but around 48 minutes in they compare the lady who made all the Nazi propaganda films to today, she was interviewed in the 1970’s doing a wildlife film in Kenya and asked how she did it - the success of her operation relied on “ the submissive void of the German people which included a higher % of the educated liberal elite”
Actually, your last point is really important. It is becoming increasingly clear to me that prior health is the main determinant of COVID mortality (and pretty much all excess mortality during the COVID era). If public health (and people themselves) were genuinely concerned about people dying, the only mandates should be on people who are obese and have weak immunity due to poor lifestyle choices (apologies to the minority who couldn't help it due to some genetic disposition). It's not a slippery slope. It's a no-go area. The one fundamental choice people have is whether to live or die. Obviously, I'm not talking about suicide or euthanasia here. I'm talking about lifestyle choices that affect your longevity. And taking part in the mRNA experiment is not going to improve that for you or reduce any kind of burden you might otherwise put on the fabric of society. That much is "irrefutable"!!
I totally agree. I was taken aback when we seemed to lose the right to choose what we wanted to die of. Why on earth should I not be allowed to die of Covid? Or at least risk dying of Covid? Once the question of transmission was out of the way, I was struck by the absurdity of mandating life (you will bloody well live whether you want to or not, so much so that we'll make sure you wish you were dead if you resist).
*All of the above presuming that Covid vaccines are safe and effective. Lol.
And the parallel crackdown on treatment options that were safer than Aspirin.
That was an early signal that something was seriously messed up.
If human flourishing was the desired endpoint then so many decisions would have been 180 degrees apart from where policies settled. Just look at what they did in Uttar Pradesh, and contrast that with the average western medical policies. Could not be more stark.
"During the estimates, Hazzard and Pearce both suggested that the “effectiveness” of the vaccines in preventing severe illness and death from Covid is sufficient justification for workplaces to require vaccination as a condition of work."
No-one should have to partake of Russian Roulette for a paycheck.
Public good. Greater good. The noble lie of vaccinations & public health authorities isn't noble and it is nothing but lie.
There was never the chance such policies would protect anyone beyond the individual jabbed; and anyone who'd read anything about Coronavirus history would know even that wasn't going to happen. Indeed, the opposite was likely. And has been born out around the world.
The whole history of vaccinations is riddled with so many lies, and the mandates associated with it were the thin edge of the wedge for medical coercion and over-reach by government.
Once this war is won we need to address such things, restore medical freedom for all citizens. Certainly, injecting a newborn with things that have never been successfully trialed would be deemed insane in a rational world. Using non-inert placebos, likewise. Or trusting captured regulators funded by Pharma Felons.
I've sent this link off to my usual penpals. I will now send it off to the NSW Premier - using my real name. (I've even sent him, and them, that $25 Dine voucher to prove I am a real McCoy - no, that is not my real name!)
I just received a reply from the Premier's department: they flicked it off to Brad Hazzard - and cc him in on the letter!
I think that was the third time I sent notes to the Premier - and each time I got I reply. However, the Health Minister hardly replied to my questions - BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT!
I did not give them my voucher. I showed the voucher which contains my name as proof of my ID. Of course, I wiped the QR code and serial number. I left the date on to prove it was legit if they really wanted to find out.
Such officials, either Down Under or here in the ole US of A will never admit they were wrong to aggressively push the jab because admitting that would be acknowledging they f'...ed up one of the biggest things so far in the 21st Century. They will only admit the mistakes when they are forced into a situation where they need some form of "grace' to continue. I feel bad for you Aussies because of your much smaller population and higher overall jabbed rate, whatever bad things are yet to come from taking the jabs will probably effect your society worse than here. Take care!!
Latham missed a great opportunity to follow up as to whether 2 doses were still working. Hazzard has stated publicly that those with 2 jabs who don’t get a third are ‘crazy’ so just how much faith does the NSW Health advice have in 2 dose mandates?
Importantly, the majority of NSW Health require only 2 doses to work as does NSW Police. The booster requirement for Class A health workers seems to have an opt out clause by signing a waiver but I can’t confirm.
I think even more importantly, ATAGI released a statement back on 2 March this year relating to boosters and in the summary of evidence they highlighted major deficiencies in the 2 dose primary course against Omicron. Not just for infection and transmission but protection against illness. This info didn’t make it into the health advice of course as pumping booster doses was more important than being transparent. Transparency wouldn’t have provided a great deal of confidence in the vaccination campaign, especially when they couldn’t even provide accurate info at the time as to how long these boosters were going to provide the claimed “extra protection”.
I agree, I thought it was a shame that Latham jumped straight to the Gotcha! what is a woman question. If he stayed on the data he could have had them pegged.
Very good point on the 2 dose program being all but useless... although interesting to note in NSW data that the 3 and 4+ dosed seem to be doing worse than the 2 dose group. Which could be for all manner of reasons.
Don’t worry Terry, the Rockefeller foundation will cure what ails you, they would love to get more kids vaccinated, my question is why - they are so desperate - all headed to agenda 2030!!
Great piece of work there. Now to get funding to run this govt data in national newspapers. The nazi politicians and their corrupt medico advisers will not be able to shut it down without looking like the bumbling fools they are. I mean it will not look good censoring their own figures will it ?
I think these stupid bureaucrats lie so much they become a little bit crazy themselves. They actually think if they just keep repeating something works, it will actually work. Good for us, this way they destroy themselves faster.
The absurdity is beyond belief. I had been a volunteer firefighter with the NSW RFS for about 17 years, the last 7 years of which I was both secretary and treasurer of our little rural brigade due to the difficult task of attracting members. I'll leave you to guess why I am no longer a member.
About 10 years ago I was at a fire incident whereby I was assigned to patrol a freshly bulldozed firebreak with only one other person on the truck, that being the driver who was approaching 70 years of age and had already suffered one heart attack. When we got dry bogged on a particularly steep section of the firebreak in 45 degree heat and about 600 acres of burning hillside to our west, it occurred to me that if my assigned partner were to have a heart attack right there then I would be in deep do-do. However I never raised this incident as a safety concern because of the understanding that there will always be implicit risks in theses situations.
This brave new world of risk aversion is full of such contradictions.
I call it SAFE NEW WORLD.
Lol....Before I retired, January 2019, from teaching high school English, I did a novel study unit of Brave New World and 1984......The past couple decades, our society's inclination to amuse ourselves to death and hysterically welcome govt to keep us "safe" and surveilled gave me ample articles to complement the unit - connect it to real life events. Also added a section on the top persuasive advertising techniques (propaganda).
Even our high school "Effort" categories mirrored Orwellian euphemisms. Eg: Good, Satisfactory, Unsatisfactory changed to Good, Satisfactory, Needs Improvement! Heaven forbid we tell a 16-17 year old that not attending and not handing in assignments is unsatisfactory.
I found my visit to a tiny fishing village in Mexico for two months (when I was allowed to leave & travel freely out of Canada in early 2020 without fear of being denied re-entry) so refreshingly free from the insane safety measures practiced here. Reminded me of the days my awesome Dad towed us behind the car on a long rope through white, sparkling, packed snow roads. As they say today, "Good times." They sure were.
Great article, thanks. Loved your funny memes! 👏
I never thought of the grading categories that way. Good point. Have you read Antifragile by Nicholas Nassim Taleb? Similar vein. I read it because of my interest in robust debate strengthening people and their ideas.
No, but I have the Michael Schellenberger audiobook at the top of my 'next listens' and will add Antifragile by Nicholas Nassim Talib. Trish Wood's podcasts and Lean Out w Tara Henley, both former CBC reporters, now independent, host excellent shows promoting w guests offering alternative views to restore debate in the public forum. Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind is also good.
Thanks for the recommendations ☺️
Thanks for doing that dangerous job for so many years. You are of course quite right, taking risk is necessary, especially in service of keeping people safe (by which I mean ACTUALLY safe, from real threats... not from fake and imagined threats that are really cover for removing rights and wealth from formerly free peoples).
Choosing to take calculated risk is a sign of reaching maturity. Adults must necessarily take risk to protect their children, to earn a good living, or to act in service to their communities as you have. Civilisation has been built on the cumulative decisions of millions of humans beings deciding, of their own volition, to take risks in order to achieve something better, greater, or new.
Imagine how different human history would look, even just in Australia, if Captain Cook decided not to sail ...because it seemed a bit risky. For the lovers of safety I would note that "for your safety" has been the rallying cry of every oppressive tyrant throughout history, and that all the great leaders and heroes we teach our children about were those brave enough to wade into the unknown, despite risk.
Great comment, Hot Beer!
When we are at a point (have been since early 2020) that people ‘elected’ to serve the people are able to get away with openly lying and deliberately misleading said people in order to try to legalise discrimination and force people to take a pharma product that likely has a negative risk/benefit ratio in order to keep their fundamental right to earn a legal income it’s very dark times indeed. These assholes should be in jail and yet they dig ever deeper
People are either to lazy, stupid or just don’t want to see, if they are not vaccine injured the bulk have no reason to question the narrative.
I would suggest deep down many people now know they have been misled and lied to and refuse to acknowledge it, if they lie to themselves there is no reason to investigate further or admit they what they (should) inherently know.
I have NFI what number jab they are up to now in WA but will McCoward start pushing the fourth or fifth jab, it’s basically a coward leading lemmings over a cliff, I am staggered how many otherwise intelligent people have fallen for this scam which involves not so much money but there actual health and lives.
Quoting from Paul Della’s comment:
“I would suggest deep down many people now know they have been misled and lied to and refuse to acknowledge it, if they lie to themselves there is no reason to investigate further or admit they what they (should) inherently know.”
Paul has nailed the problem. For me, the events of the last two and a half years have exposed astonishing facets about the propensity for self-deception that must exist in human psychology. I never dreamed that could have been the case in a Western country with ‘free’ media. I have found it extraordinary how so many supposedly ‘educated’ people have been able to suppress innate natural curiosity and not see the pattern of deceit in the way the injectable products have been ‘marketed’. Like automatons, so many people have just taken as gospel the words of ‘advice’ urging more-and-more jabs, pumped out by talking heads on television, reading their scripts from a teleprompter.
An interesting piece of collateral information that many may not be aware of is that there may be an inverse relationship between the level of tertiary education that a person has acquired and their susceptibility to fraudsters. Some years ago I attended a public seminar conducted by the senior police officer responsible for investigating internet fraud in the Australian state in which I live. I was surprised to learn that the persons most likely to fall victim to the likes of Nigerian scammers were well ‘educated’ professional people who worked and moved in a ‘high-trust’ social environment. The corollary is that the ordinary working bloke having a beer in a pub is more likely to smell a rat and detect fraud. This tendency would not apply in all cases, however. Like everything else with social attributes, it would be an overlapping bell curve for each of the two social groupings.
This psychological susceptibility to fraud would also help explain why so many ‘educated’ people have blindly fallen victim to the assertions of activists and their media enablers claiming that the world is on the brink of catastrophic disaster due to the human-generated portion of the trace gas of Carbon Dioxide – an assertion that actually has no basis in empirical science. The accelerating decay of the West is very troubling indeed.
Fascinating observation re: Nigerian fraud scheme!
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels by Alex Epstein is great to share with open-minded friends fooled by the climate hysteria. Great audiobook. Easy to listen - persuasive and full of facts.
Thanks. I've been listening to Apocalypse Never by Michael Shellenberger. It's eye opening, to say the least.
Yes it’s a long video, but around 48 minutes in they compare the lady who made all the Nazi propaganda films to today, she was interviewed in the 1970’s doing a wildlife film in Kenya and asked how she did it - the success of her operation relied on “ the submissive void of the German people which included a higher % of the educated liberal elite”
Yes cheers, I listened to this today and coincidentally they make the same observation about the highly educated inner city elite.
https://rumble.com/v1kly91-jerry-roberts-a-retried-journalist-talks-about-our-current-world.html
Astonishing (if unsurprising) fuckery.
I like your mode of expression, Isaac! It sums things up.
Actually, your last point is really important. It is becoming increasingly clear to me that prior health is the main determinant of COVID mortality (and pretty much all excess mortality during the COVID era). If public health (and people themselves) were genuinely concerned about people dying, the only mandates should be on people who are obese and have weak immunity due to poor lifestyle choices (apologies to the minority who couldn't help it due to some genetic disposition). It's not a slippery slope. It's a no-go area. The one fundamental choice people have is whether to live or die. Obviously, I'm not talking about suicide or euthanasia here. I'm talking about lifestyle choices that affect your longevity. And taking part in the mRNA experiment is not going to improve that for you or reduce any kind of burden you might otherwise put on the fabric of society. That much is "irrefutable"!!
I totally agree. I was taken aback when we seemed to lose the right to choose what we wanted to die of. Why on earth should I not be allowed to die of Covid? Or at least risk dying of Covid? Once the question of transmission was out of the way, I was struck by the absurdity of mandating life (you will bloody well live whether you want to or not, so much so that we'll make sure you wish you were dead if you resist).
*All of the above presuming that Covid vaccines are safe and effective. Lol.
And the parallel crackdown on treatment options that were safer than Aspirin.
That was an early signal that something was seriously messed up.
If human flourishing was the desired endpoint then so many decisions would have been 180 degrees apart from where policies settled. Just look at what they did in Uttar Pradesh, and contrast that with the average western medical policies. Could not be more stark.
What do you expect from liars and charlatans?
"During the estimates, Hazzard and Pearce both suggested that the “effectiveness” of the vaccines in preventing severe illness and death from Covid is sufficient justification for workplaces to require vaccination as a condition of work."
No-one should have to partake of Russian Roulette for a paycheck.
Public good. Greater good. The noble lie of vaccinations & public health authorities isn't noble and it is nothing but lie.
There was never the chance such policies would protect anyone beyond the individual jabbed; and anyone who'd read anything about Coronavirus history would know even that wasn't going to happen. Indeed, the opposite was likely. And has been born out around the world.
The whole history of vaccinations is riddled with so many lies, and the mandates associated with it were the thin edge of the wedge for medical coercion and over-reach by government.
Once this war is won we need to address such things, restore medical freedom for all citizens. Certainly, injecting a newborn with things that have never been successfully trialed would be deemed insane in a rational world. Using non-inert placebos, likewise. Or trusting captured regulators funded by Pharma Felons.
Peace.
I've sent this link off to my usual penpals. I will now send it off to the NSW Premier - using my real name. (I've even sent him, and them, that $25 Dine voucher to prove I am a real McCoy - no, that is not my real name!)
I hardly imagine they deserve the voucher Barry, but good plan nonetheless.
I just received a reply from the Premier's department: they flicked it off to Brad Hazzard - and cc him in on the letter!
I think that was the third time I sent notes to the Premier - and each time I got I reply. However, the Health Minister hardly replied to my questions - BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT!
Nyet.
I did not give them my voucher. I showed the voucher which contains my name as proof of my ID. Of course, I wiped the QR code and serial number. I left the date on to prove it was legit if they really wanted to find out.
Such officials, either Down Under or here in the ole US of A will never admit they were wrong to aggressively push the jab because admitting that would be acknowledging they f'...ed up one of the biggest things so far in the 21st Century. They will only admit the mistakes when they are forced into a situation where they need some form of "grace' to continue. I feel bad for you Aussies because of your much smaller population and higher overall jabbed rate, whatever bad things are yet to come from taking the jabs will probably effect your society worse than here. Take care!!
Latham missed a great opportunity to follow up as to whether 2 doses were still working. Hazzard has stated publicly that those with 2 jabs who don’t get a third are ‘crazy’ so just how much faith does the NSW Health advice have in 2 dose mandates?
Importantly, the majority of NSW Health require only 2 doses to work as does NSW Police. The booster requirement for Class A health workers seems to have an opt out clause by signing a waiver but I can’t confirm.
I think even more importantly, ATAGI released a statement back on 2 March this year relating to boosters and in the summary of evidence they highlighted major deficiencies in the 2 dose primary course against Omicron. Not just for infection and transmission but protection against illness. This info didn’t make it into the health advice of course as pumping booster doses was more important than being transparent. Transparency wouldn’t have provided a great deal of confidence in the vaccination campaign, especially when they couldn’t even provide accurate info at the time as to how long these boosters were going to provide the claimed “extra protection”.
I agree, I thought it was a shame that Latham jumped straight to the Gotcha! what is a woman question. If he stayed on the data he could have had them pegged.
Very good point on the 2 dose program being all but useless... although interesting to note in NSW data that the 3 and 4+ dosed seem to be doing worse than the 2 dose group. Which could be for all manner of reasons.
Don’t worry Terry, the Rockefeller foundation will cure what ails you, they would love to get more kids vaccinated, my question is why - they are so desperate - all headed to agenda 2030!!
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/rockefeller-foundation-non-profits-spending-millions-on-behavioral-psychology-research-to-nudge-more-people-to-get-covid-vaccines/
EXCELLENT GEORGE. WELL DONE.
They are completely into Delusional Thinking.
Great piece of work there. Now to get funding to run this govt data in national newspapers. The nazi politicians and their corrupt medico advisers will not be able to shut it down without looking like the bumbling fools they are. I mean it will not look good censoring their own figures will it ?