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That’s kind of circular reasoning. Why would anyone think about applying for a visa when travel and immigration is banned until further notice?
Australia was built on foreign investment & migration.
Leigh down er LOWE.
Your pompous attitude to people just trying to initiate a little bit of push back which entails all of sharing a post or standing silently in front of an Anzac memorial, and comparing it to people egging you on toward some sort of fist fight or violence is, well, pathetic.
But, without proof, just by your own psychic vision to claim those people wouldn’t be at a fight they didn’t ask you to be at anyway, takes some impressive mental gymnastics.
FMD
The law of diminishing returns has kicked in big time. Turns out all cultures aren’t fungible.
Time to restructure.
Every piece of useful land has been fully utilised and inhabited, and we are now at the stage of piling poor quality dogbox apartments on top of each other. We don’t need any immigration at all, which is fortunate because we now have none. Zero!
From Nepal?
1st
Well that’s a different situation.
Who is allowed to invest.
Who is allowed to migrate.
But you need foreign investment & migration.
No it isn’t.
What “evidence” did the idiot think he was collecting?
And, in any case, just copy it to a USB stick and hide it, and send an electronic copy to your lawyer.
Publishing photos of cops splattered all over the road is just a xunt’s act.
I reckon this bloke has been a coke-head for years but now might have moved to ice.
I believe that at 30% foreign born. we’re getting to the point where it begins having an adverse impact on the social side of things.
But this:
That’s the Greens manifesto.
Just an observation as to how your daily rants might appear.
Take it or leave it.
As someone who isn’t quite as wedded to the cause as you, I am suggesting the tone of your posts is just as likely to turn people off as attract them to the cause.
We have a cause?
hookers!
Coronavirus heat maps reveal which Queensland regions have more cases, with young women the largest demographic
He is a canute, but why has he been arrested and why have his personal information littered the press? This is Tubby’s modis all over again like when he smeared Pell by leaking shit to the media.
Again, he didn’t roll over the cops… and to be perfectly frank, the cops may have been at fault for stopping him at a dangerous section of the road. There’s no stopping on a freeway unless the car has broken down and the cops stopped him.
Is it the eradication of whales, giraffes and all shelled mammals?
Of cause!
Agree
Chang that to “most productive land” JC?
Not even true bespoke.
The greens have locked it up!
Just an observation as to how your daily rants might appear.
Take it or leave it.
As someone who isn’t quite as wedded to the cause as you, I am suggesting the tone of your posts is just as likely to turn people off as attract them to the cause.
No skin off my back, but if we are making observations, I’ve met thousands of “sneering from the side lines” do nothings, that love to whinge about their lot, and then sneer at those having a crack.
Precisely the attitude that got us into this mess.
I’ll give you this, in this shit hole of a country you are not alone, and you may deserve all you are going to get.
I don’t.
Missing from that article was any comment at all on how sick they were from COVID-19.
Clinical study report by Dr. Raoult who treated 1061 COVIF-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin. Dated 20 April 2020.
Early treatment of 1061 COVID-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, Marseille, France
Calli projection and paranoia with delusional thinking are characteristic of a narcissistic personality that BrendanNelson diagnosed when he was leader and had been working closely with him . Although NPD is used often for him, Brendan only one qualified to make diagnosis..
Credlin and Kenny describe behaviour that could be classified as narcissistic rages . However I believe he has suffered by the abandonment by his mother , a massive rejection so no wonder when he receives more massive rejections , loss of leadership and as PM he sinks to more than loss and grief but the loss of self.
NPD do not have self acceptance only self esteem boosted by success and achievement .
I tend to agree.
His response to the accusation of screaming at a cancer patient was just a smarmy “oh, right. That’s what this is?”
Not a hint of embarrassment or remorse.
The original inhabitants of this wide brown land would probably agree with you.
Bespoke
No, we can’t say that. We can’t say the most “productive land” has been taken because you haven’t taken technology into account. Just yesterday, there was a report of a revolutionary wheat strand that will grow in the worst dry conditions experienced.
But in any event, immigrants are not heading our to farms. Nearly all are living in the cities.
I agree with everything you said.
The evidence was his being at the accident scene at the time of the accident.
Why he would feel the need to establish his whereabouts at the time of a multiple fatality involving police, i can’t say.
Earlier today a commenter here discovered that the plates on his Porsche were identical to the plates on a different model Porsche listed for sale.
So, who knows, perhaps the cops were running some racket with licence plates as well as making speeding fines, DUIs etc disappear for businesspeople that could make it worth their while?
Basically, Police Forces, as distinct from individual Police, have a poor reputation.
For what it is worth, this thing is a balancing act, and I think the restrictions aren’t targeted properly.
But be honest.
Is your concern about “the country”?
Or is it about restrictions on you driving your mini-bus tours or doing your piano accordion gigs, or whatever it is that you have been prevented from doing?
Even if we left them the way we found them?
Perhaps you should have read the disclaimer in the intro –
VERY interesting report from think tank Per Capita!
https://percapita.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Some-facts-about-debt_FINAL.pdf
So immigration-caused labour slack has smashed productivity and caused our living standards to stagnate. Luckily, immigration is now approximately zero, which will be good for long-term productivity
Leigh, I’m sure it was on 3AW that Ashton talked about the Porsche driver as ‘low’ and known to police for DV but I don’t have a link so take it as hearsay. We’ll know more tomorrow.
Cops being grown on the side of a hill and tree changer imposing noise restrictions as not very productive.
We know all about the Porsche driver. We know he has a criminal history. We know his name and we know the line of work he was involved in. What do we know about the idiot who ploughed into the cops? Why not?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8247603/PICTURED-Melbourne-chicken-truck-driver-crashed-Porsche-911.html
Meeeeooow!!
What was my concern for leading the convoy?
Still had work (I had to get time off for), and still could play gigs.
I did a lot more back then.
To be honest I am not doing much this time, as I realise people such as your good self are in the majority here, and love government ruling you with an iron fist, while you kid yourself and call it a balancing act.
I also know that not everybody who realises you must fight to keep your freedoms is on catallaxy either.
Thank Christ for that.
Kerry Stokes better get on and enjoy his inside run from WA police.
Channel 7 is set to join Virgin on the corporate scrap heap.
Your point being?
A successful clinical test was done on a treatment for a newly emergent disease.
Now go find one that says it is wrong.
That is a more useful line of enquiry.
Why did the previous dash-cam footage sit unactioned for a month?
As was said upthread, finding a 911 turbo should take no time at all.
How many coppers had loans arranged through him?
How many had been taken for a racetrack spin in the Porsche?
Did APRA know of his priors?
If not, why not?
He would struggle to keep a broker’s licence with priors for theft and criminal damage.
Did someone lose his file, or drop his name off a list somewhere?
Mmmyes.
Everyone who doesn’t adhere to the Gospel according to Struth is a totalitarian.
Total lock-down is ridiculous.
But open slather is just as stupid and irresponsible.
JC
You have an almost religious faith in new tech saving the world. I’m still waiting for my flying car.
So, who knows, perhaps the cops were running some racket with licence plates as well as making speeding fines, DUIs etc disappear for businesspeople that could make it worth their while?
Basically, Police Forces, as distinct from individual Police, have a poor reputation.
I knew someone in glass who made a lot of money giving Vicpol a little thanks for calling them for emergency repairs on shop fronts. In the end Vicpol were chucking the bricks through windows themselves if no one else obliged.
He was Sudanese, a lesbian and wasn’t a priest?
Chicken man is Mohinder Singh Bajwa.
Well, it’s called the constitution.
It really is yours as well.
I have seen reference to criminal damage and theft, but it was confused as to whether these were convictions or pending charges.
I suspect a bit of both.
But no reference to DV.
It does seem like the fuse is very short.
And that proves LL right, Struth.
The Megafauna. Nah, they were too busy getting wiped out by the 65th nations.
Well sure. 25,000 of human history proves my point. From the time humans begin to move away from foraging/hunter gathering to farming etc. it’s been technological progress all the way. Humans fucking rock with this shit.
Something I heard, off someone whose name I immediately forgot, going back 40 years ago:
Cops on the Gold Coast greenlighted sensible businessmen, for $1500/annum, against DUIs.
Not saying that’s true, but since most business gets done with alcohol, something like that has to happen or nobody would ever get anything done and restaurants and pubs would go broke.
I saw your reference to the Constitution, and don’t see how that comes into play with quarantine.
You have selectively pulled up the bit about cross border trade and ignored everything else.
Nah… just the useless koalas and wombats.
For the next time some idiotic leftwing clown brings up money being the big decider in elections.
No total lockdown you are ok with.
Illegal border closing you are ok with.
isn’t the right word for it, and you know it.
That’s just a cop out.
However, as I said there are thousands like you, and this argument is therefore pointless.
I never pulled out anything to do with cross border trade, I quoted section 117, backed by 109.
Please stop now Leigh Lowe
I argue with notafan to prove a point.
The emasculation of a nation.
Ours is just a difference in degrees of apathy.
I like this dude. He despises Trump, but at the same time I think he’s a gifted economist and should be Fed chair.
Yep, on the other had how of the dive to renewables been driven by the same faith?
I question the validity of the state health orders.
There are limits to peace, order and good government, but it is a very wide ambit.
Eggsactly
🙂
How so?
You know what, who cares?
It takes all types, but remember, I wasn’t sneering at Leigh Lowe, for not doing anything.
There’s millions of Aussies like that.
He should at least keep the sneering down at those attempting a push back, as they have kept their sneering of him out of it.
If I spoil your day, scroll.
Zero immigration should be written into our Constitution.
The original inhabitants of this wide brown land would probably agree with you.
How much of a crayon connoisseur would you have to be to take that as an argument against immigration?
Also note mong breath avoided completely the Link and extract from the Chinese medical study over the page. The one that showed he was talking shit.
The one that was highlighted the section that showed him talking shit.
4 times.
Its almost like hes a pathological lying turd with no redeeming features at all.
Pussy on bail for theft and assault.
Probably initially thought he could do a runner and maybe deny he was even there.
What the photos were about, fuck knows.
That is why I think he might have graduated to ice.
Raging paranoia and zero judgement.
Coke doesn’t tend to lead to that.
Things go better with Coke.
I’ll give you another go, as I should.
Wang…
multicenter clinical trials
multicenter clinical trials
multicenter clinical trials
multicenter clinical trials
I was genuinely trying to give a bit of feedback.
It can come across a bit like Grandpa Simpson shaking his fist at the clouds, which tends to alienate people.
Anybody brined olives before?
brined?
brinned?
brinered?
apostrophe Olive’s
and no. I avoid her.
?
But, hey … let’s all download the CV-19 app. We’ve been told it’s safe and protected; what could possibly go wrong? And this is just a state instrumentality.
Can you point to where the Commonwealth has discriminated against residents of a particular state in this matter (s117)?
Sure, there may be disparate regulations state-by-state, but that is true in many different aspects of law.
And as for s109, where is there a conflict in C/W law vis-s-vis sate law in this matter, where having the C/W law prevail would apply to your particular circumstances?
No and No
Have about 8 kilos in jars at the moment.
Need a hand??
BTW, if anyone in Perth wants some free kalamata olives, I’ve got a tree full of the things — more than I can possibly use. I’ll even lend you a ladder …
Perhaps you should have read the disclaimer in the intro –
Numbers, that doesn’t mean that the results are wrong.
It just means they haven’t been validated in the rigorous way that’s used when time isn’t an issue. (FFS numbers, there hasn’t been time since the virus first appeared for a clinical trial to have been organised and done – do you really think that fighting a potential pandemic should stand still and wait?)
Sometimes we have to act on an inductive assessment of what appears true, rather than paralysing ourselves with insistence on absolute certainty. Especially here where the risk/reward is so overwhelmingly in favour of using the stuff.
Here, patients are presenting now and needing help. The stuff is known to be safe (as long as known side effects are managed in a known way) and there’s an ever increasing tidal wave of evidence like this survey that it’s effective.
Do you really think doctors shouldn’t be using it? Would you refuse it to spite Trump if you got the virus?
When you were on your taxpayer-funded all expenses paid holiday jaunt in South East Asia fifty years ago, if an Asian had appeared pointing a gun at you, would you have thought “well there isn’t yet proof to a forensic level that he’s got bad intentions towards me, so I won’t bother ducking till I know for certain what he’s doing with that gun”?
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Australia was built on foreign investment & migration.
Seriously? By the late 1800’s pretty much all the significant buildings and infrastructure in Melbourne and Sydney had been built. All underpinned by wool and gold. The only think that was messed up was railways thanks to the gauge clusterfuck.
This pretty much coincided with Australia being ranked as having the second highest standard of living in the world, only second to New Zealand.
Since then we have been getting enriched by immigration and foreign investment, what are we ranked now for standard of living? 16+ and falling?
Even freaking Geoffrey Sachs argues that if you’re “in front” with respect to standard of living and wealth it takes some doing to drop. (The guy with $100 on 5% compound interest versus the guy with $50 on 5% compound interest.)
For those that can read studies there is an actual interesting study released in New York
Presenting Characteristics, Comorbidities, and Outcomes Among 5700 Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19 in the New York City Area
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765184
A lot of noise is being made about a speeding driver who seems to have complied completely with police orders until they were crushed to death in front of him.
Not much about the truck driver.
Strange place Victoria.
How do you know what I have done?
I have written to papers, posted on FB and rang local MPs about a bunch of Kung Flu matters.
Some repeat everything they do in those areas (you, Cardimona etc).
I choose not to repeat it all here verbatim for a couple of privacy reasons.
My themes have been targeting restrictions to the old and vulnerable, opening businesses with sensible traffic and distancing management, opening schools in defiance of teacher unions, not paying bailouts to large corporates without a yuuuge pound of flesh.
Struth only likes arguing with women.
It makes him feel manly.
Drivers home raided.
Items seized.
Taking something to keep his eyes open?
I am going to be interested to see what his mobile phone tells us.
Possibly a text sent or received within ten seconds of the prang.
A lot of Punjabi Transport on Viktorianistan roads.
And not a lot of social distancing when they get up your arse either.
It alienates people who hate being confronted with reality.
Now why would I give a shit about that?
Those people are irrelevant, they weren’t going to do anything anyway, hence why I have no will to continue this discussion.
I’m not here to stir anyone to a cause, because if the country gets to this stage and you aren’t already stirred, at what point will you become so?
I haven’t done shit about China Flu except bitch here and to friends.
The Australian occasionally publishes my milder criticisms but not often.
Nowhere have I said it shouldn’t be used.
Providing that “first do no harm” is observed, (and in some cases it hasn’t been, with people who need it being denied it).
The problem here is the drug is being touted for political, rather than therapeutic goals.
And that is completely disgraceful because of the unintended consequences.
It resembles giving a toddler a 9mm Browning to play with.
Of course, in some parts of the world, that’s seen as OK.
..
How long do you have to keep rinsing water through them to get rid of the bitter taste?
Sure looks like that. Only interested in grand plans, dismissive of passive resistance that goes against the narrative the all Australians are sheep and belittling those at risk taking responsibility for there own health.
I think you worked it out when you were writing this didn’t you?
There is no state law that discriminates against people based on where they live in the commonwealth, and if there is 109 invalidates it.
It’s quite simple.
Corkboard.
Drawing pins.
Newspaper clippings.
Coloured string.
The problem here is the drug is being touted for political, rather than therapeutic goals.
multicenter clinical trials
multicenter clinical trials
multicenter clinical trials
multicenter clinical trials
You are a lying liar who knowingly lies to fill the aching void where you squibbed living up to your own convictions 50+ years ago.
A hollow man.
You are so predictable.
That did make me smile.
FMD notafan, not you too, all at once!!!!!!
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Radiator still not arrived.
And what parts of the current restrictions are invalidated by any section of the Constitution?
And why?
Some Case Law would be nice.
The problem here is the drug is being touted for political, rather than therapeutic goals.
And that is completely disgraceful because of the unintended consequences.
Such as? A couple of registered Democrat voters who hate Trump drinking fish tank cleaner? I’ll accept that as a downside.
Otherwise who cares what Trump says about it – it’s up to the doctors what they do or don’t do with it. Do you really expect a doctor to say “sorry you’re going to have to roll the dice with Chicom virus, because there’s a chance that someone else may present with lupus later”? In fact, if a doctor really thinks that, they don’t have to give the stuff to the Chicom virus sufferer. It’s got nothing to do with Trump’s perfectly accurate comment that there was hope that the stuff would turn out to be effective.
When you get a bit excited, your sentences seem to become a bit mish mashed.
Look mine do too, seriously, I know it’s hard to believe, but yes every now and then I drop a comma or use an incorrect adjectival clause.
I don’t get what you are trying to say, but be careful will you bespoke, I don’t need my feelings hurt again.
Leigh Lowe has stomped over them today, and all I can say is there seems to be no free speech allowed on this so called Libertarian blog….sniff.
feelthebern
#3425295, posted on April 23, 2020 at 2:02 pm
#3425269, posted on April 23, 2020 at 1:43 pm
Ashton fingered Pusey for domestic violence.
Chief of police muddies the jury pool.
Surely not! That would never happen in a well run justice system.
Oh! Wait!
I ordered a package from Brisbane on April 2nd. Still not here.
The country’s logistics have collapsed.
A crucifix, a copy of Penthouse and some home brew no doubt
Has anyone ever come across this guy before? Stuff for the nerd, but perhaps also others.
Fuck me, keep up.
They are discriminating against entry into a state based on where you live, not where you have been, not what disease you have, but where you live.
That is unconstitutional.
Full stop.
They are now placing themselves above the rule of law and it has nothing to do with quarantine, of course.
Got a “made in China” IR thermometer today, thats one out of the 5 we ordered, the first being about 4 weeks ago.
Tested.
Out by 4 degrees.
Thanks China, you are our greatest ally in the fight against Corona!
One for Ellie:
Struth’s been possessed by MV and all it took is a bit of ego fluffing.
Dude at the Chemist tested me the other day with one of those guns and it said my temp was 35.5.
Cold blooded.
And no I’m not excited that’s not my thing.
Why not?
Infidel Tiger King
34.1 and similar for the crappy thing here.
Problem is I cant get temp probe tips for the ones we have on site.
The ones that are actually accurate and not junk.
The BoM might be interested in buying the dodgy PRC thermometers.
Compatible with their current therms.
And which sections of the Constitution do you say do not permit this?
You haven’t answered that question.
I think you have been posting your daily rants here for a month assuming everyone (except the one or two who bother to reply and disagree) has been reading them assiduously and nodding in agreement every morning.
You may have to a little better than tell me it’s Mabo, it’s the Constitution, it’s the vibe.
Some precedent in Case Law would be handy.
There’s more than a century of High Court cases, so there’s got to be one in there, right?
The original inhabitants of this wide brown land would probably agree with you.
When will the pelican be handing over all his possessions (stolen from the original inhabitants by colonisation) over to the local indigenous people, and taking his extended family back to Ireland, where he can amuse himself and bore everyone else by ranting about the “butcher’s apron”?
I have a probe based thermometer attachment that came with my multimeter.
Good to a tenth of a degree C.
incoherent rambler
#3425455, posted on April 23, 2020 at 3:55 pm
The BoM might be interested in buying the dodgy PRC thermometers.
Compatible with their current therms.
Nah these ones are running low not high.
Otherwise a perfect plan.
What we are living through is a parable.
Those of us in our late 40s/ early 50s are stuck witnessing the toxic relationship between the boomers and their 20 or 30 something kids being played out with the virus as a background.
And there just isn’t enough of us demographically to cut through the shit tell them both to cut it out.
And when the boomer generation is safely rotting in their cold, cold graves we will be left behind for their kids to kick around.
They’ll tell us it was us who stole their chance of a solvent existence and/ or killed their granny.
(I just posted this on the OT, as always I’ve missed the bounce!)
A few days ago I wrote in a post that the govt doesn’t seem to have any way out of this pandemic lockdown strategy, apart from the introduction of the tracking app. Currently, we are being told, that if the public accepts this intrusion into our private lives and activities and continues our social distancing and isolation, the country could move to a cessation of the lockdown.
It now seems to me that we’re all watching a variation of the movie, Eye in the Sky.
If you’ve not seen the film, it’s a depiction of the use of new technology, especially of the remote controlled variety, to mount a pre-emptive strike against an Islaaa-mick suicide-bomber terrorist cell in Nairobi that is about to kill hundreds of people but somewhere unknown.
Almost all of the film is contained mainly inside four sites: the terrorist’s safe house, a street market adjacent to the safe house centred on a young child (girl) who is selling from a small table at the side of the road her mother’s homemade bread, a British government conference room in which the Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Alan Rickman) is in discussion with a number of government ministers – the Secretary for Defence, the Attorney General and the Parliamentary Under-secretary for Africa – and who is liaising with a British Army Colonel (Helen Mirren) at a British military site, who herself is overseeing a multinational team that has been originally engaged in capturing the three highest-level leaders of this terrorist group.
The strategy and tactics change when the optical surveillance reveals the suicide bombing mission that is about to commence. Wanting to release a hell-fire missile to kill the cell before the terrorists can depart on their operation, the multi-national team realise that in the killing of the terrorists the young Kenyan girl who is adjacent to the safe-house may be also killed.
The remainder of the film explores the concept of collateral damage and how political and military wings of democratic nation states attempt to determine the value of life at the same time as seeking to tactically respond to a clear and present danger directed toward a large number of unknown, innocent people.
Without giving anything else away, if anyone wants to check this film out, the decision-making inside the government conference room suggests a correlation with what is happening in the decision-making process of our political masters because of the China Pestilence.
Thus, in trying to save every single Australian life from this disease (symbolised by the little girl) , our political and public servant class can not see, or their gaze is being averted from, the many, many other Australians who financially and/or mentally may not survive if this lockdown continues much longer (the potential hundreds of victims from the suicide bombers).
Throughout the film my frustration grew and grew because of the political paralysis evident by the ongoing discussions taking place between myriad players, including the Foreign Secretary who is at distance from the political team, as well as US Government officials, to determine whether the operation has a legal basis on which to proceed. Suffice it to say, that everyone of the government ministers seemed to understand the great danger to a great number of innocent people but not one of these ministers wants to be the person who decides the course of action because of the possibility that the operation may cause the death of the little girl.
And because it seems to me that no one in the Government’s Covid-19 decision-making group can accept that the lockdown should end, because of the risk that the public and the media may perhaps think that the political-public expert class has over-reacted due to the very low numbers of cases – we have” flattened the curve!” ffs; Australians are now at risk from a bigger and more deadly attack – the attack on livelihoods and the resulting national and individual penury – because of the delay in their decision-making.
Hence we now need another safeguard before those in charge can relieve themselves of the collateral damage of, perhaps, of some additional people contracting the disease, and this requirement that there be no collateral damage – no deaths or illness – is taking precedence over the clear and present danger if the lockdown is extended any longer.
For a moment i thought the radiator had arrived.
Nah. Just groceries.
I blame Arky
Why?
His interspecies relationship with armadillo.
Traveling to Asia and returning.
MX5
Patient zero!!!
What fucking political goal did the President have when he reassured Americans that there was a treatment for a fearful virus that was showing great promise?
No, the problem here is that as usual the Left took a perfectly legitimate comment of the President, twisted it, and politicized it.
Unquestionably. Because in playing their little propaganda game the Left has sewn great and totally unjustified distrust in the treatment itself. They have made it into some sort of perverted party-line issue instead of the plain medical one that it is.
Someone somewhere is going to die because they refuse to take “that Trump drug”. And their blood will be on the hands of people like you.
Just like to point out that those most at risk of covid 19 are ‘the silent generation’
Those born before and during World War Two currently in their late seventies, eighties and nineties.
Boomers especially at the junior end aren’t particularly at risk.
Getting called a boomer by stupid young snots.
Getting called a millenial by old geezers.
Both are very offensive.
I really cannot believe the precision of these model projections – 65,976 for heaven’s sake! To the nearest single person! Don’t they know about error bars and rounding? Epi models – garbage in, dogma out.
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/04/22/ihme-increases-coronavirus-death-projections-9-percent-biggest/
About five minutes after they discover their super is gone forever, Struth.
Or maybe five minutes after they discover that they are no longer allowed to spend “their” money however and wherever they want, even though they earned it and paid taxes on it.
Or maybe when they discover government has changed ubstantially; decisions are made by a bi-partisan “National Cabinet”.
Or maybe when the annual Budget is replaced by a “Five Year Plan” produced by the National Planning Committee, drawn from the National Cabinet.
Or maybe at the next election, when the only candidates will be Liberal, Labor, National, LNP or Greens.
Or maybe when they discover they are tracked 24/7 by their phone, regardless of whether they download the app or not.
Or maybe hen they discover every time they speak they are identified by their voiceprint.
I’m not sure when it will be, Struth, but I know what the universal Catallaxian response will be:
“Why wasn’t we told”.
A correspondent writes:
Yes, by Fatty Ashton.
Infidel Tiger King
#3425442, posted on April 23, 2020 at 3:44 pm
Radiator still not arrived.
I ordered a package from Brisbane on April 2nd. Still not here.
The country’s logistics have collapsed.
Waiting on a parcel from Australia Post? This is why it is taking so long
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-22/waiting-on-a-parcel-from-australia-post-why-its-taking-so-long/12172772
I was trying to give you an excuse.
No one is asking anything of you bespoke.
You or Leigh Lowe.
If he’s doing things fine, if he isn’t fine, maybe if he shared what he did we could reinforce him instead of flying solo against this.
You mistake ego and bluster for trying to find like minded souls with which to work together, and if I can’t find them here, there ain’t too many other places left.
I don’t expect anything.
And When I make the comment that I find most Australians a disappointment, I am not alone on this blog, and I am not including catallaxy people, ………well maybe some.
Top 374
I could well be patient zero.
There are bats that lives in the trees around here, and shit on the car, and I was travelling through Singapore just before the thing blew up.
How many people have I killed at this point?
You are correct BBS.
If only power hungry Dumb Andrews hadn’t raced to stage three lockdown for no reason.
And of course even though people had been taking personal responsibility for their own wellbeing before being forced, they couldn’t be trusted to continue doing so.
Leigh Lowe.
Read 117 back to me.
There’s a good chap.
I’ve already read it and quoted it here.
It’s as plain as the pom on your pous.
D-Day fast approaching for those expecting Jobseeker benefits after losing jobs due to government imposed actions only to find out that your luckily working partners income means you receive fuck all.
Massive ticking time bomb, luckily petrol is cheap.
OK Arky
😎
And yet, when you said this (twice) today:
You omitted this:
I put mine, after washing them, in a small (11L) plastic bucket with lid (Bunnings) that I sterilise (Milton tablets, baby section, woolies). One full cup of cooking salt (NOT iodised) dissolved in water — enough to cover olives. Plate or something on top to keep them submerged.
Drain and replace EVERY day for 9 – 12 days, or until they pass the taste test.
Rinse in clean water – no salt.
Brining solution I use is 4L water, 1.5 cups plain cooking salt, 2 cups white wine vinegar. Boil and cool. Put olives into sterilised jar with lids. I add bay leaves, peppercorns, a sprig of rosemary and a couple of crushed garlic cloves at this stage. Pour brine to just cover, then slowly add olive oil (not an expensive one) to completely cover the olives; this is vital – it’s an air seal. Lid on and tightened, then somewhere coolish and darkish for about four weeks, although we usually can’t wait that long.
Check your email, MemoryFault.
Could be worse. Could call you a Kiwi.
And one more thing.
I own my own words, and MV owns his, and we have agreed to disagree on some things.
He thinks we have time, where I’m of the view that without weapons, it’s already too late, but that doesn’t mean I don’t listen to him and all who have an opinion, except the bleeding obvious, like Monty or Sniffy.
For whatever reason, I find this really obnoxious.
Citbank offer it as a service when you call them. “Do you mind if we use voice print to identify you?”
Thanks Bruce.
What’s the issue with iodized salt?
Sinc’s posted Notabrain’s playing card at the top of the Fred?
It doesn’t take much of a “crisis” to flush out the Totalitarians of the blog.
The chief tykes were quoting EU “horror” statistics early on, I note.
Like CAGW, never get a good “crisis” go to waste.
Let the next generation carry the burden for your hypocrisy.
Tis why the Kiwis love us so much.
Oh noes my super!
Seeing as most here are allegedly retirees who’ve presumably cashed in their super or converted it to an income stream claiming ‘they’ are gonna take it away must be striking a lot of chords.
And if course if ‘they’ do confiscate all the money currently invested in super funds they will have to pay billions more in pensions.
Smart!
Probably a Toll steerer. A straw man and Toll get off as well.
We love you long time.
The risk is that if they round off the number to the nearest ten thousand, people will think they’re making it up.
You’re welcome.
Apparently it discolours them badly … haven’t tried it myself but that’s what I read.
No you weren’t at least when others have they didn’t BS about why.
Except numbers
Gee, I wonder why St Jacinda the Equestrian gets such good media coverage??
New Zealand to give $50m to help ailing media groups during Covid-19 crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/23/new-zealand-to-give-50m-to-help-ailing-media-groups-during-covid-19-crisis
Every media business in New Zealand has taken up the government’s wage subsidy program, which covers a portion of salaries for a 12-week period for workers in struggling industries.
However, the media industry became the third sector after primary health and aviation to receive specific support after a government announcement on Thursday.
“This support reflects the essential role media play at this time in delivering access to reliable and up to date news coverage and keeping New Zealanders connected while in lockdown,” communications minister Kris Faafoi said.
“There is evidence New Zealanders are turning to trusted news sources in record numbers at this time so it is critical the media is supported to keep doing the great job they have been doing.”
Faafoi said he chose proposals that “get support out the door as fast as possible”.
Roughly half of the funding ($21.1m) will go to television and radio broadcasters to cut transmission fees for the next six months.
Contribution costs to government-funded pool “NZ on Air” have also been slashed, while government will also spend up on subscriptions to publications for the 2020/21 financial year in advance.
Faafoi has also set up a $11.1 m fund for specific targeted assistance.
I see the eggtroll is back with the usual nonsensical cryptic abuse.
Sure you aren’t a mate of Grigs using the ‘tyke’ perjorative?
Your anti Catholic bigotry is showing under your skirt again.
Someone putting “inappropriate” thought bubbles on Her Maj. From WIP. 🙂
https://imgur.com/4KnH7m4
Been soaking the little blighters for five days changing water twice a day.
Still bitter as.
OK.
I think I have the accident spot roughly tagged.
There is no entrance ramp upstream of there for some distance as far as I can tell.
In any case, he rolls along in the emergency lane and just ploughs into a group of cars with lights flashing?
Well, not really.
He could have jumped the railing and walked up the embankment to perfect safety.
A bit of hair-splitting. Much as I am no fan of Fatty, I took that to mean “a short amount of time after the prang.
When the dust settles Dick Pussy won’t be charged with very much at all. Charges will probably be heard in the Magistrates so the question of jury influence really doesn’t come into it. Calling his little photo gallery stunt a “low act” is probably not really defamation.
Again, much as I can’t stand Fatty, I see this as less a calculated attempt to influence a court and more as simply a bit of anger spilling over.
The biggest problem for Pussy is that he will probably lose his broker’s licence on character grounds and may have difficulty farting in Viktorianistan without Plod being all over him.
And I don’t see that being orchestrated by Fatty. Right or wrong, the rank and file will be all over him, all of their own accord.
No wonder Greece is so short of water.
Bruce in WA:
Do they have those little pink bits in the middle?
No, it was Trump who did that.
No other leader in the free world saw the need to do a bit of snake oil salesmanship.
The man is as insecure as buggery.
“Think of the oldies.”
3 hail Mary’s.
Christianity’s fear of death clouding their judgement?
The Chunks can now collect – on the decimated p1ssweak West, such as Victoriastan.
I think I’ll get an Ozito while their still cheap, and a Haval H9 4WD.
Well, well … colour me surprised!
Dick Pussy is a smart guy, he wouldn’t destroy his career by posting accident pics under his own name without a very good motivation.
He’s the only living witness to what went down during those fifty minutes at the roadside.
Publicly identifying himself before the cops could get hold of him may have been self protective.
Winston Smith
#3425505, posted on April 23, 2020 at 4:23 pm
Bruce in WA:
BTW, if anyone in Perth wants some free kalamata olives, I’ve got a tree full of the things — more than I can possibly use. I’ll even lend you a ladder …
LOL Winston,
Infidel Tiger King:
I thought I must have missed something and gotten stories crossed. It seems a bit odd doesn’t it?
What’s the bet Notalooker is 20 stone with the head of a bulldog?
China coronavirus cases might have been four times official figure, says study
No you stupid fvcking brain dead dense cretin YOU will have to billions more in pensions. You and your children and your children’s children’s children.
Governments (“they”) don’t HAVE any money to pay anybody anything. Everything they “give” away, they must take in the form of taxes and charges, or borrow and lumber future generations with the debt. Plus interest.
Are you using saltwater, Arky? Ordinary water won’t do it. As the days pass, the water should get a darker red colour each day as you drain it off, indicating that the salt is leaching the oleuropein. The Italians like a strong saline solution (“as salty as the Mediterranean Sea”) and then when bottling a very saline solution, strong enough to actually float a raw egg (still in its shell, of course). We find that just a little too salty.
However, when they’re ready to eat, they can be put into freshwater for 24 hours to just reduce the saltiness a little. It’s all up to your taste.
Can the wang ignore yet another post showing how full of shit his claims are.
Im sure it can
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32074550?dopt=Abstract
Abstract
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) virus is spreading rapidly, and scientists are endeavoring to discover drugs for its efficacious treatment in China. Chloroquine phosphate, an old drug for treatment of malaria, is shown to have apparent efficacy and acceptable safety against COVID-19 associated pneumonia in multicenter clinical trials conducted in China. The drug is recommended to be included in the next version of the Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Pneumonia Caused by COVID-19 issued by the National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China for treatment of COVID-19 infection in larger populations in the future.
Now it will either fuck off for a couple of hours to pretend it didnt see it again, or it will try a “nah but” distraction squirrel.
Low energy
Crayon toothed
Short bus passenger.
Believe me.
Christians are not afraid of death.
Lol.
The silent generation are wonderful and we love them and they love us.
They don’t like boomers either.
They’re on our side.
Probably because they’ve spent twenty years imprisoned in aged care prisons by the same people.
The old plodder plays the victim card, quelle surprise.
Google translation; “I’ve moved the goalposts* on my fear mongering (as usual) – do keep up!”
*As my mate Dover is apt to do.
Hey, I’ve separated each line of next for walls of text, narcissist style.
As its only the low rent comments section of a personal blog.
Being preserved in the National Archives.
Early 21st Century Christian hypocrisy on display, almost inseparable from the CAGW religion.
I am not sure what the raid on his house will do.
Even if they find a shoe-box full of speed, so what?
Yes, he could be done for possession of a prohibited substance, yada, yada, but that doesn’t necessarily tie that to the accident.
His big problems will be his logbook and/or his blood and urine samples and/or his phone records.
Even if they all come through clear he is likely to be done for something on the spectrum of four counts of:-
– careless driving causing death;
– dangerous driving causing death;
– culpable driving
I think people make too much of the cars stopped in the emergency lane. Anyone who has travelled in Melbourne freeways knows that you can round a sweeping bend and inexplicably find four lanes stopped dead 200 metres in front of you. If you are looking at your phone to check your next delivery you will go straight over them in the running lanes too.
“Think of the oldies” must be the same as the abortion issue to the tyke herd’s ant brains.
“Zatara
#3425366, posted on April 23, 2020 at 2:49 pm
Perhaps you should have read the disclaimer in the intro
Your point being?
A successful clinical test was done on a treatment for a newly emergent disease.
Now go find one that says it is wrong.”
Here’s a recent one:
https://eu.jsonline.com/story/news/2020/04/21/more-deaths-no-benefit-malaria-drug-va-virus-study/2997197001/
Suspect the truck driver has been in the country a couple of months and completed Toll’s Introduction to Truck Driving at a Victoriastan TAFE and being signed off by VicPol. That has not worked out so well for them.
Top Ender is it true you guys are allowed to attend Dawn service?
Something about boomers trying to get rid of other generations when they percieve them as a problem. Their lives are characterized by abolishing unborn babies, old people and now imprisoning children and young and middle aged people.
Weird.
If you are looking at your phone to check your next delivery you will go straight over them in the running lanes too.
A common enough sight, alas, on all our roads. Passenger cars too. Makes me wonder that there aren’t more of these accidents.
A terse comment on the Open Fred that doesn’t take 5 paragraphs to explain itself and involve anecdotes from the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker?
4/10.
Bar Beach Swimmer:
Just off the top of my head, get someone to buy the leetle girls bread at a good price, she’ll run home to mum with the money, operative wanders off, Hellfire enters stage right.
how often do you talk to your cuban handlers?
Early speculation on Catallaxy was pretty close.
The Porsche driver was from the Horn of The Dark Continent? Dick Pussy is close enough!
Truckie sporting headgear? Exactimundo!
The SP gave his bike’s dashcam footage of a tip truck moron who overtook him on double lines and blasted his horn while he was out riding his bike on a country road. I know MAMILs are not everyone’s cup of tea but this truck driving idiot’s front wheel was actually an inch from the Prince’s shoulder when he blasted the air horn. Slightest wobble from the Prince and we would have been planning a funeral the week of Mother’s Day last year. Despite clear vision of the number plate, the trucking company and the driver straddling the front wheel of the bike while screaming abuse, the cops have done absolutely nothing except ring the company “but no one answers”.
VicPol and it’s team of screeching Road Safety Commissioners cannot be serious about reducing the road toll to zero when they are given the opportunity to go after the morons responsible and they they do absolutely zip about it. Perhaps this terrible event will wake them up but I doubt it.
The chicken man is a local driver.
He is not taking speed to stay awake.
One eighth of fuck all drivers interstate or otherwise take drugs to stay awake.
He is your typical round town clown.
A local driver.
Does a shift and goes home.
Would shit himself if he went further than Geelong, most likely.
The chicken guy is up sh1t creek I suspect.
The was a case in WA of a woman who hit a stationary supermarket delivery truck, delivery driver lost both his legs, and got off. Buggered if I know how?
You never know.
The roads are full of them – Cop tards need to learn to stay out of the breakdown lane.
I did ask before, what is the legal position of the National Crockery Cabinet?
Constitutionally?
It seemed to just spring up like a penis banner, from nowhere.
You know you are only imprisoned in your home in your own mind, don’t you.
Some of you need to get out of the house, seriously.
Just get out and go for a drive or something.
Hahahaha!!!
Chicken man is Mohinder Singh Bajwa.
Probably a Toll steerer. A straw man and Toll get off as well.
I am not sure what the raid on his house will do
Can the cops raid your place if you’ve been in an accident?
Doesn’t there need to be something along the lines of what the yanks call probable cause?
twostix
#3425530, posted on April 23, 2020 at 4:37 pm
Boomer bashing aside, be careful not to assist the Arky* team panic merchants.
Will other States come out of this fake crisis better than Victorian retardistan?
*Michael the Teacher, or whatever he calls himself these days.
Mate, he has made a bit of moolah, but I wouldn’t be bracketing him with Einstein.
It sounds like he has progressively been going off the rails, getting in progressively shit-fights over piddling amounts of money and perceived slights.
It screams to me of a coke-head who has graduated to ice and has a yuuuge dose of paranoia.
How would taking post prang pics of the carnage provide any evidence of “what went on during those fifty minutes”.
FFS, this wasn’t a back lane in St Kilda. It was a four lane freeway with a constant stream of traffic.
Legally, probably not a lot is going to happen to him but, career wise, he is fucked.
Even if APRA don’t pull his licence, the mortgage guys at the big banks will already be drawing a red line through Switch Now Home Loans.
So, as for not blowing up his career, that was probably already gone once his court dates in Collingwood came up.
Arky:
Worse than Hitler.
(Actually, I doubt anyone has captured and tested our bat population, even though they aren’t supposed to carry this virus. But how about the Hendra and Lyssa Viruses?)
how often do you talk to your cuban handlers?
Or your Viet wife?
My current work is an hour away, nice drive.
chalenging horsey face for woke leadership
Nicola Sturgeon ‘cries at night’ with worry as coronavirus takes toll on her mental health
The University of Queensland is lining up to get it’s arse handed to it via Tony Morris (who defended Peter Ridd). This time it is about persecuting a student who has been critical of China:
and
Still, what does UQ care? It’s only public money they will be spending hounding this guy, just like JCU did.
there are no “breakdown lanes “in shitholeistan
They would need a warrant, yes.
Which they would have got pretty easily.
Forget that they were coppers, when four people die in any incident, it would be prudent to turn over the houses of anyone directly involved.
I am pretty sure they went through Garglearse and his family’s houses after the Bourke St fiasco.
Arky, my dad is in his mid eighties. He was a little kid when the War started. My understanding of him is of someone who has always been a rational thinker and who is logical, intelligent and thoroughly capable of anything, whether mechanical or theoretical. He was a successful businessman and is entirely self-funded in retirement. He has many social connections and up until this time, he has enjoyed his retirement. And yet yesterday after I sent him Justinian the Great’s post he said to me that he’s afraid that if we re-open society, many more people could die!
This despite me pointing out that where he lives where I live, not to mention the many other cities and towns across Australia, have had so few cases, that continuing this strategy is over-kill. His response to me was that he ‘remembers the war’ and he doesn’t want to see more people dying!
I responded that if we continue down this path, if we continued to live like this, then we would never, ever drive a car again, or be a passenger in a car, or go anywhere because someone could die. That if this continues, we would be living, for all intents and purposes, in the dark ages. I also said that that he has always told me that when your time’s up, it’s up! But it didn’t alter his point of view.
I never realised that the war had really affected him to the extent that those early anxieties seem to have returned. He seems to be putting all his faith in the government, despite his usual contempt for that behemoth. And I wonder, despite the totally different catalyst for our current predicament, whether because this was the default position of the populace during the War and to which he has returned, like him, because of fear, there has been a “general” turning to having government determine everything. If this is so and this mindset continues, I think we’re f**ked.
Thanks Bruce, the Sicilian Prince has just bought in another large box of olives. I have a question…do you put the ripe purple olives in with green ones or do they have to be separate. Family lore disagrees on this point.
From your link –
So it’s “recommended”, “apparently” and “will be included in guidelines”.
Wow!
Didn’t Fatty 5D* claim “Chloroquine, or hydroxychloroquine, this is a common malaria drug. It’s also a drug used for strong arthritis … It’s been around for a long time, so we know if things don’t go as planned it’s not going to kill anybody … It’s shown very, very encouraging early results, and we’re going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately” a month ago?
What progress has been made with it in the last month? Trump was talking “immediately”.
The only way of making the drug available “almost immediately” was to acquire stocks previously designated to patients who needed it to maintain a reasonable quality of life. Ask anyone with Lupus trying to do without it.
So the snake oil salesman stuffs up the lives of thousands of patients with Lupus and arthritis to big note himself.
And I make no “claims”.
I’m simply posting the state of play at the moment.
*Trump was deferred from service in Vietnam 5 times and has a weight problem.
While your point is fair, LL, he has form and with the law in mind, shouldn’t get away with it.
Winston
Sorry, mate — that whooshing sound you hear is that going straight over my head.
It doesn’t exist. Constitutionally. But then neither does the Prime Minister.
We’ve had them before. Twice before. WWI and WWII.
CDC’s failed coronavirus tests were tainted with coronavirus, feds confirm
A federal investigation found CDC researchers not following protocol.
Check it out.
Indian truck drivers will have headphones in, swerve all over the road, keep their trucks and themselves dirty, have no clue about actual driving because Toll does it in house, which is really basic, and that Volvo he was driving is completely automatic, so you need the skill level of a knat to drive it.
Yet the weight is still there.
The government decided middle aged white men brought up in the industry should FOAD, those that knew what they were doing and didn’t need to look constantly at a GPS, and had started on small trucks and worked their way up and replace them with towel heads.
The police were instrumental in harassing us out of our trucks, so spare me if I am saddened by the loss of life but not surprised one bit.
Was the white plain wrapper SUV at the back of the stationary car?
How was it illuminated from the back?
Sometimes they just have lights inside pointing forward.
Anyway, whatever doesn’t matter to Mr Singh, his life is over.
I’m no expert on this Megan, believe me. I’ve done it both ways now (phrasing!) — separated and unseparated. To be honest, the variation in colour looks quite good on a serving plate, but that’s just me.
The Toll steerer, desperate for a job with little experience and probably reverted to Indian driving habits in a panic. They pass on any side of the road at will all the time.
The companies are to blame and the buck stops with the major supermarkets who have squeezed all the margins out of the suppliers and force them into hiring the cheap and keen to drive.
Your generation belongs to a select indulged group, since WW2, who have never known existential threat.
His generation does.
You should pay attention to him.
He is much wiser than you.
One of the blog blowhards is now an expert on investment, automotive, virology…
We’re all ears.
Probably not.
But even without drugs, alcohol, log book irregularities, phone records which show he had been texting, he is fucked unless he can show major mechanical failure.
Careless driving causing death x 4 is the minimum he can expect.
..
Righto.
That’s the problem then.
Neither do you.
Weren’t you the existential threat to the Vietcong?
By establishing that he was at the scene and publicly identifying the fact.
Perhaps it was drug fueled paranoia, perhaps not.
And the turbinators are the world’s worst tailgaters.
I know it shits people behind me in the right lane but if I pass a turban I give myself a good 200 metres before I pull to the left.
Exactly.
He’s fucked.
Sect 117?
From the smh:
Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Nick Coatsworth said the suppression strategy was working and that it would be a “magnificent outcome” if there was complete eradication of COVID-19 in parts of the country
I am without speech.
What would the world be like without weasel wedger 1735099
I ended up just driving to the local toll depot to find out why a parcel was sitting there for 10 days… total fucking chaos.
Ahhh.
That’s how you set Egg off.
OK.
Every boomer EXCEPT Egg.
Happy now?
Fuckwit.
Please always do this, no matter race of truck driver.
Companies have been likened to organisms – having a lifecycle, including death, viz: Kodak et al
Is the “novel” coronavirus the plague for many Western companies?
Humans copping the transition to a “New Economy”.
The Chunks to cash in on Virgin Australia?
If you wish to self report your location to Health Authorities and what your doing and who your talking to they all have email addresses.
https://www.health.gov.au/about-us/contact-us/local-state-and-territory-health-departments
https://www.health.gov.au/about-us/contact-us
There are lanes other than the right hand lane?
The Chunks to cash in on Virgin Australia?
How?
The Dick Pussy Clusterfuck is a good reason to abolish “anti-hoon” laws.
That is what kept the police there for so long.
Lets rewind the tape.
Post me one trial – just one – where it has been shown to be effective.
You have been shown several.
The one I linked has the words
Chloroquine phosphate, an old drug for treatment of malaria, is shown to have apparent efficacy and acceptable safety against COVID-19 associated pneumonia in multicenter clinical trials conducted in China.
The strawman of rhetorical garbage you posted means nothing.
And your random highlighting of the words is pure kiddies stuff.
Does or does not that report indicate a clinical trial has taken place?
My last motorbike was a kitted out GSX 750. Riding that was a daily existential threat and I loved every kilo of it. 🏍
Morrison needs to be clear to the public who is running the show.
Bruce, I could use some of your olives!
PM sent.
YAY!
All tykes are not equal.
All boomers are not equal.
Totalitarian, otherwise.
The Chunks will come out on top over this “pandemic” over the soft West.
Hail the Swedes.
Disagree?
*Trump was deferred from service in Vietnam 5 times and has a weight problem.
Perseveration relapse, becoming more frequent.
Sad case.
No
Howard Hill
#3425563, posted on April 23, 2020 at 4:54 pm
CDC’s failed coronavirus tests were tainted with coronavirus, feds confirm
A federal investigation found CDC researchers not following protocol.
Shorter pelican: It’s all Trump’s fault, if only he had gone to Vietnam!
The Medics.
Quarantine/schmarantine!
Zippy @ 5.02:
I ended up just driving to the local toll depot to find out why a parcel was sitting there for 10 days… total fucking chaos.
Likewise package from Adelaide to country NSW. Delivered to AusPost 3 April in Adelaide, got to Sydney yesterday. Could walk there and pick it up faster. Yep, this COVID-19 must be causing all the Post trucks off the road cause infection etc. Did not know postage had to self isolate.
FMD
Egg.
You get offended at a comment thrown out in good humour meant to spark a bit of banter.
Then you dredge back through time to try to find unrelated shit to throw.
Just scroll dude.
Didn’t know Browning made peelers.
These CMO’s are getting out of hand.
The UK one says says distancing due to coronavirus will ‘last for a year’ to prevent second wave.
The UK one says says distancing due to coronavirus will ‘last for a year’ to prevent second wave
The dreaded second wave.
We need to see a first wave before worry about the second one.
Winston, thanks for filling in the climax, the others can watch it if they want to know how the film ended.
The CMOs have disobedience in their own ranks, their own “plague ship” behaviour worse than the general public.
Do the stuffed shirt clowns think they have any cred with Joe Public?
Which is precisely what you have done in your post.
Post these “multicenter clinical trials conducted in China” of which you speak……
A Chinaman in Africa.
I know this restaurant and it’s owner well. You think mainland Chinese in Australia are rude fucks? You’ve seen nothing.
Huh?
No.
s319 or s329 of the Vic Crimes Act I think.
There’s none so blind as those who will not see.
Arky
#3425597, posted on April 23, 2020 at 5:12 pm
You went after Beaugy and myself when we told you to calm down your raging weeks ago.
I aim to drag out the insane predictions when this calms down, as commenters’ credibility is in the toilet over this.
TDS makes men blind.
I don’t need a double-blind study to reach that conclusion.
‘Tis plain as the nose on my face!
And I have a big nose.
Megan,
I did the beans – beautiful!
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Everything I predicted to happen, has happened.
Your too fucking useless and lazy to repost anything.
I’ll do it for you.
Buy it from the Administrators.
Thanks Bruce! Off to buy the Bunning’s bucket.