COVID-19 & public health

Another revolutionary thing AI is enabling is the next generation of Covid vaccines. New pan-coronavirus vaccines target multiple sections of the virus that don't change over time, so that the vaccine will recognise the…

This was a day and a half ago. So I’m no longer infectious. Many workplaces let you come back to work while your RAT is still positive. Madness. I’m still on Metformin for another week. Because Covid is still inside me,…

For those interested in the detailed science, this recent preprint talks about how damage to your immune T-cells is a likely cause of the post-Covid infections that have been plaguing communities - people being…

From my friend, the Covid researcher and leading clinician. “People cannot fathom the magnitude of cell turnover during a vicious viral illness. Consuming calories for replication, murdering your cells, whilst cleaning…

Even while I was still infectious with Covid, it was beginning to impact my body in a range of ways. It triggered an excruciatingly painful elbow bursitis, infection creates massive inflammation in the body. Infection…

I think we might be surprised how many Australians would happily sell the country for cash even at the lower end of that Trumpian scale. Huge numbers of people are more or less living in the US already, because they…

This one is a real test case for what I’ve posted before, that if you want to live by the actual realities of life, you’re going to piss off just about everybody. Is this annual fundraiser a good idea? Like most modern…

Back to work today for me, after three weeks of not much of a holiday thanks to Covid. I see the socials have been active, accusing Council of selling buildings it doesn’t even own to ’Muslims’, to create a mosque.…

Somebody at work today asked why, if I’ve now had Covid, I just don’t get rid of the mask? The sort of question I’ve had for years. What’s revealed by these questions is that peoples’ assessment of what they should do…

I’ve never had a fly or maggot infestation in any place that I’ve lived. I wonder if this is down to the more recent trend of no fly screens in new homes, because they come into conflict with trending style choices like…

Many evoke the civil rights reforms of the 1960s as supposed evidence that activism and people-led change are both possible and define democracy. You can see with Trump’s rapid reversal of those reforms, which in…

The 'balance' people think needs to be made between disease control and their social life? We learned how to control disease to GIVE us social lives. It doubled our life expectancy. You don't control a disease by…

Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, has died of prostate cancer. Adams’ last years saw him disappear down the loon rabbit holes of social media, going all-in for Trump, and even using ivermectin to try to cure his cancer.…

"You've had Covid now, why are you still wearing a mask?" (losing count of that one) Compare with: "You've had a car accident now, whey are you still wearing a seatbelt?" The only part of the human brain now in…

What Metformin does for Covid it also does for flu. It does much more besides, they’re only beginning to figure out what, including various anti-ageing impacts. You’re very unlikely to learn this from your GP. Many…

Another piece of shared wisdom from my Covid researcher/doctor friend. Put this in the context of most being lucky to get 3 DAYS off when they have Covid, and you can see the crisis underway. People are doing the…

The instability creates a breeding ground for the generation and spread of novel pathogens. The pathogens then in turn create greater instability, as humans struggle to cope with them. Why the status quo moved to…

If you think Trump is damaging America, have a look. Multi-generational, irreversible damage. And nothing is stopping, like us they’re still racking up the infections, each of which does more serious damage. At a…

SAT scores are used in the US mostly to select people for college admisison. They’ve been in free fall since the pandemic began (circled in red). I don’t know about your experience, but in workplaces I feel a real…

One of the benefits of AI is that it cuts through BS quickly. I was discussing my recent Covid infection with it, now a month ago. When i said I was back at work, the AI said ‘oh, already? After such a serious illness?’…

Covid was just the start. ‘Living with’ infections. They’ve moved on to all the others now, diseases that have killed millions and which were controlled through long battles over generations will now be allowed to roam…

The realities of Covid. I had what would have been described as a fairly 'mild' case, but the real story of all Covid is mostly unseen. I lost 7kg in 3 weeks. With a full appetite (unchanged), eating my usual things,…

The Abilene Paradox is when a group makes a decision that nobody individually in the group actually thinks is a good idea. It happens when each individual goes along with a decision because they think it’s what…

This is the experience of so many people now. There’s a great silence about how sick people are, to admit to it would be to admit we know we’re full of shit. For a couple of years we pretended these endless waves of…

I’m interested in how many people put on weight after they’ve had Covid. That’s not happened to me (yet) but research suggests it’s very common. Likely because Covid, like most infection, causes inflammation, and…

Somebody said to me they hadn’t noticed any change to people’s health because of Covid. You won’t see what you don’t want to see.

Increasingly I’m seeing people suffering ongoing, relentless sickness because of Covid start to blame the vaccines. Given they were sold a fairy tale that the pandemic is over, it’s not surprising. But not getting…

When the pre-eminent scientific journal in the world says hang on, AI easily already passes all of the tests for intelligence we devised years ago, and MUCH more, but humans keep shifting the bar higher to try to deny…

The Holy Grail of medical science is how to treat inflammation. Most diseases that harm or kill us have a link to inflammation. Heart diseases, cancers, neurological diseases etc. We know how to suppress inflammation,…

The British Medical Journal. Covid is not really a respiratory disease, breathing is just how it gets into your body. Covid is a vascular disease, it attacks blood vessels. You have blood vessels everywhere. When you…

The damage the bullshit of 'living with Covid' did, turning entire nations into anti-vax havens. This is social collapse, just one more part of it.…

The only public or even private buildings where this would be allowed. Also the breeding ground for most disease in the community. If schools had the same basic HVAC as all other major public and private buildings,…

Brain damage is common with all Covid infections, no matter how mild. It’s also linked to the development of serious neurodegenerative disease like Parkinsons and Alzheimers. It doesn’t wait until you’re old for this to…

I used to fear the mumps as a kid. Never had them thankfully, thanks to vaccines. History is going in reverse, progress that took generations being unwound in the blink of an eye. Social media is a large cause, people…

This is the great hope. Nasal vaccines, to nip respiratory pathogens in the bud before they even reach the lungs and rest of the body. If this one works, it could protect you from a large number of respiratory viruses…

Because we make the disastrous mistake of thinking democracy is ‘the people’ individually reasoning out situations, we also assume the answer is to just get rid of ‘misinformation’, and everything will be fixed. I post…

Most GPs would maybe suggest a bit of Panadol for Covid, and that's about it. After my Covid infection, my Covid specialist friend ordered a big array of tests, to see if there'd been any flow-on impact to my organs or…

It’s easy to see this as just an isolated issue. But it means something much wider. It means public health itself, which covers a whole range of diseases, has been broken by a social media culture that prioritises only…

In many parts of Asia various measures to ration fuel have already begun. That’s because Asia is mostly still run by grown-ups, also why they took Covid much more seriously. Nothing in the West yet because the kidults…

In Asia some countries have already started 4-day weeks and widespread work from home for professional jobs, to ration fuel. Unlike under Covid, where we decided to open up everything again and just all get infected…

Do you think kidult life could sustain prolonged emergency action? We may be about to find out what nations of teenagers of all ages do when everything stops working. I’m not confident, if Covid is a guide. We were and…

The disruption to global energy supply is an existential threat, particularly to Western nations, who are energy pigs. And unsurprisingly, what's their level of concern or action? Virtually zero. The kidult 'just…

This is the one that really kicks Kidult culture in the gonads. Denying recreational travel. That’s what broke the Covid defence too. Kidults see it as an existential right and necessity, to burn tonnes of jet fuel to…

From my senior physician friend, about the Gliptins (‘weight loss’ drugs, like Ozempic and Mounjaro). He believes they’re now the only emerging hope for the hundreds of millions of people with Long Covid too. The…

Here’s another window into kidult culture. Which is social media culture, we live inside the platforms now, they replaced public life. The pandemic is not over. The definition of a pandemic hasn’t changed, it’s defined…

Times are tough and are likely going to get very nasty. Possibly a recession. All of this was avoidable, but humans refused to give up fighting for social status, to follow what knowledge told us needed doing. And so,…

Here’s more of the bigger picture of my Covid posts. The fact most of us catch Covid and recover means NOTHING, in terms of its long-term impacts. Those impacts are now flooding in. HIV for example, as I’ve posted here…

You don’t have to be very old to remember when Australia took pride in eliminating disease. Now gone in social media kidult society, where we celebrate ‘living with infections’. Because otherwise we can’t go out to…

Interesting that it doesn't say here that Valentine chose Voluntary Assisted Dying to end his life. Oesophageal cancer is another one to watch, if you've had Covid. Reflux is one of the major effects of Covid infection.…

The news celebrated Australia finding another 100 million litres of diesel yesterday. It didn’t say that’s enough only for one DAY of normal demand. There’s no resolution in Iran. Supplies are almost gone. This is Covid…

We’re not ‘living with’ Covid. It’s continuing to destroy our health. Long Covid is now the most common chronic disease suffered by children, surpassing asthma. And we allowed this and still do nothing for what reason?…

I asked my friend who is a Covid physician of international renown how much he’s able to help people who come to him with Covid issues. (He’s overrun with patients, it’s out of control.) He said “at best I can return…

Fuel should have been rationed in Australia starting weeks ago. Much of the population acting like toddler pork chops during Covid makes all politicians too terrified to do anything. Global supplies are non-existent.…

If you thought Covid was disruptive, buckle up.

Dolly did a long selfie video to explain why she’s disappeared from performing. Her immune system stopped working. You can fool yourself Covid is a nothing burger for a while. Dolly is a master of putting a happy face…

Hantavirus has a high mortality rate (25%), and normally doesn't transmit between people. It's likely airborne, but it appears nothing is being done on the ship that reflects that, because the whole Covid debacle means…

If this does develop into an epidemic or pandemic, how will you feel about wearing a mask again? Mortality rate of this virus is 35-50%. There is no cure or vaccine.

There’s ongoing complacency, bought by draining of reserves. The really intense pain is likely still coming. And the ‘supply chain’ shock, as with Covid, could continue for years.

People think I’m delusional by still going on about Covid. Because they’re still trusting that the world they grew up in, where public institutions advised the expert course of action, is the world we live in now. They…

Parkinson’s Disease is approaching epidemic levels. One of the less known things about Covid (SARS-Cov-2) infection is that it’s a potent accelerant for Parkinson’s. The virus attacks the cells that produce dopamine,…

The number one rule for a long, healthy life? Avoid infections. All infections, no matter how ‘mild’ idiots say they are. Most people who have ever lived died of an infection of some kind, before they were 15 years of…

I'd qualify this. We're ALL 'idiots', outside the areas we actually know something about. What social media did was let everybody's opinion on things they know nothing about suddenly have real power. That's literally…

I fully expect the morally righteous army of social media zombies to deny use on themselves of miraculous new drugs developed using AI, should they need them. Though that ship has sailed, alas. It was largely AI that…

Australia has up to 2 million more dogs than it has children. As a culture, and like most other nations on Earth, we’re dying out. Our birth rates are at terminally low levels. Cost is often given as a reason for this.…

It became very widespread to say ‘living with the virus’. Which was a phrase invented by a politician, not a scientist. It was bullshit. And this is where it leads. Every person who gets sick now, listen to them, will…

When i say we’re living a genuine revolution in medicine right now, it’s hard to convey just how enormous that shift is. This cardiologist yesterday responding to the news of the new anti-cholesterol drug was forced to…

Cancer vaccines currently under trial. Hugely exciting times. Mostly mRNA vaccines. A wonderful technology, when combined with AI it makes vaccine development orders of magnitude faster and more targeted. The mRNA/AI…

We’re one or two generations removed from people remembering or knowing about infection as the great killer of humans. ‘Living with’ infection is now the thing. All infections, Covid was just the catalyst to accelerate…

This potential universal cancer vaccine would be extraordinary. A vaccine to treat ALL cancers, including solid tumours. Potentially removing the need for radiotherapy, chemotherapy and surgery entirely. If you have any…

There is no public backlash against AI. Just as there is none against windmills, and solar farms, and EVs and vaccines. ‘The public’ is not a thing, thinking and acting. Activists enlist members of the public to their…

Hmm, sorry if this posts twice, it seems to have disappeared. This is what one of the senior staff at Exxon said, this week. Exxon is one of the biggest global oil companies. The cupboard is bare, we’ve run the reserves…

Melanoma was like pancreatic cancer, almost an instant death sentence, particularly when advanced. It’s now not only survivable, it’s almost curable. Once a new drug is found to be effective (often using AI to…

A graph that's a window into status, the core of all human life. Real wages only began to rise after the apocalyptic first half of the 20th century, when millions of ordinary workers were killed, meaning those left had…

Two things to see here I think, one obvious, the other not. The obvious - China targets poverty specifically, and has made spectacular progress, unprecedented in history. The US like the rest of the West uses the poor…

I paid for my Shingrix shots myself a couple of years ago (I’m not 65 yet). One of the most important investments you could ever make. Kids vaccinated against chickenpox will never need this when they’re older. They’ll…

Since the 1990s we’ve lived the disruption of social media to our lives. It’s been so destructive, we’re stripping away centuries of human progress in the space of a few decades. I encourage you to view the current…

The great lie of the Covid pandemic was that public health action against the virus was both unpopular, and damaging, to people and the ‘economy’. In reality millions were lifted out of poverty for the first time in…

Live with infections early in life and they’ll make your later life miserable. If you live that long, or can remember it. Get the shingles vaccine.

A pandemic of intelligence. We live in remarkable times, hidden from view by the daily dose of social media slop.

We’ve accepted dirty air our whole lives, in a way we’d absolutely refuse to accept dirty water. Now venture capital, including the maligned AI companies, has put forward $500 million to help fix this obvious threat,…

The status quo thought it got away with pretending we can 'live with' pandemics. The pandemic said fuck you. And here we are.

Traditional media is now caught up in the snowballing viral pearl-clutching over AI. This story of course framed as dreadful AI leading people astray. But where are these people being led astray? On social media. By…

I do realise it's a lost cause talking about Covid. It no longer 'trends' in kidult/social media culture, therefore it doesn't exist. I'm still avoiding it like nothing has changed. You can see here medical researchers…

To continue one of today’s themes, on GLP-1 drugs. I asked my friend, one of the leading international specialists treating people with ongoing (often appalling) issues from Covid infections, about use of GLP-1 drugs to…

The thing that saddens me the most, as I approach retirement, is seeing the probably unfixable damage social media culture has done to public health. I grew up in a world where widespread public health was still new,…

You can watch the battle between social media and AI every day. Humans are just the foot soldiers in the battle. For example, here. The government is doing public health work, notifying Australians over 50 of steps they…

Gen X is realising that the boomer model, where retirement is a permanent travelling gap year, flush with cash and free of most responsibilities, is not going to be afforded to anybody else. The countercultural…

Astroturfers (people who create fake ‘grassroots community’ movements) also create ‘turnkey’ action kits, which they distribute to communities to use, to create the impression the community has objections or support.…

Imagine being the Panthers, who have to play Canterbury this week. Pretty much the entire Canterbury team has Covid, and many will still be infectious in the game. With finals looming. What happens when public health…

How do people not notice these waves-upon-waves of protesting outrage? The pattern that dominates our social media culture? No 'community says no' to anything. The community is not a person, with points of view and…

Everywhere is getting more angry and violent. Schools are horrendous. See the enormous jump in incidents since Covid 'lockdowns'. Lockdowns are often blamed for this, but it's what people did during lockdowns that's the…

17 million Americans now have Long Covid. That's seen as a vast under-estimate of actual sufferers, driven (as here) by people and their doctors having zero clue that Covid is the cause of their often horrendous health…

Beginning another year of work today. As colleagues collapse with increasing chronic disease around me, and ask why I still take Covid precautions like vaccination and masking. Because rich cultures are cultures of…

I can’t decide if it’s more crazy that people believe you can live with a pandemic, or that climate change isn’t an emergency.

This is the current Holy Grail for Covid, a nasal (mucosal) vaccine. The vaccines we have target the lower respiratory system, they don’t prevent the virus entering our noses in the first place. It’s much more difficult…

Harvard University’s warning to all of us about brain damage from Covid.

Living with Covid comes with a horrendous cost. Because it’s the most ridiculous idea humanity has ever had.

Only catastrophes change societies. Look at how China boomed because of the pandemic, its current accounts surging with revenue as it sold goods to the rest of the world. The pandemic exposed that only societies that…

I’m the only person at work still wearing a mask, and probably the only person among my immediate friends who still does as well. Even before Covid, mask-wearing was common in Asia. They were hit by the original SARS…

This is the disgrace of Australia’s approach to Covid. Anybody below 17 can’t even get a vaccine. Why is that? For one reason. Your elected politicians decided the best way out of the pandemic was to let children get…

Imagine if this was the road toll, or drownings, or food poisonings. Hundreds dead every week, from preventable causes. There’d be an outcry. Then ask yourself why you’re happy for these deaths to be Covid deaths, and…

Most have swallowed the PR that there’s nothing that could be done about Covid, that we just have to ‘live with’ it, ‘like the flu’. (We don’t live with the flu, we spend billions controlling it.) Because of such…

I mean, this should scare people. Danielle is a neuroscientist. Covid attacks the neurons in the brain that regulate dopamine. Dopamine issues are behind conditions like dementia and Parkinson’s Disease. Danielle…

The brain damage Covid causes, even in the young and healthy? Have a look at the blue bars.

I still do everything I can to protect my family and myself from Covid. I refuse to take part in the craziness of trying to beat a pandemic by infecting our way out of it. By basing what I do on ‘what everybody else is…

Something happened overnight that shows the hijacking of America by social media. In one of his last acts as President, Joe Biden pardoned Anthony Fauci, the leading public health figure in America. Fauci has done…

82 people have died of Covid in aged care in Australia, in January. They all caught it from us. The same number who died in the Granville Train Disaster. How are our ‘principles’ going?

Humanity’s greatest ever achievement was doubling its life expectancy in the 20th century, through public health measures. Trump is going to war on that achievement. The impact will be catastrophic. People defend him…

Trump and others hate what they call the ‘Deep State’. Sounds scary! All it means is the professional civil servants that actually run countries, who annoy popularly-elected dickheads who can barely tie their own…

An international pandemic expert put this together, for those who talk about the pandemic in the past tense. We’re still ‘during’ Covid, it was never over. The greatest mass delusion possibly in human history.

I have a couple of ex-good friends, who spend quite a lot of time on social media trying to convince everybody that vaccines are bad for them. We no longer talk. Get every vaccine you qualify for, for every disease. The…

When covid began, catching it gave you about 80% immunity from the disease, after one year. That immunity is now only 5% after 1 year. I know hardly anyone getting vaccinated now, against Covid. idiot politicians told…

For the rest of us to live with Covid, healthcare workers have to die from it. It reminds me of the line from Gandhi’s family, that it cost them a fortune to keep him in poverty. The people continuously getting Covid…

To put the public health clusterfuck we’re currently living through into perspective, more than 4 times as many people died of Covid in Australia in 2022 alone, than have died from HIV since the 1970s. As many people…

The genius of Covid is to give people a ‘mild’ illness, so they think it’s ’just a cold’. That mildness is the virus bypassing your immune system, to gain easy entry to your organs and blood vessels. The immune response…

Isn’t social media doing tremendous work? First, live with a pandemic! Now, live with ciggas! Wrap it all in some lame-brained conspiracy bullshit and people lap it up.

Smart lady. Guess what killed her? Covid.

The public have been told that Covid has become ‘endemic’. It’s a lie, it will never be an endemic virus. Endemic means it’s always there, but at very low levels, with occasional small outbreaks. Covid is and always…

Grok is a new AI platform. It sees what Covid is and does. Social media calls it a cold.

This is why no matter how many times you catch Covid, you won’t become immune to it. Covid creates no lasting immunity. Ro is a measure of how infectious a disease is, a Ro of 18 means one person can infect 18 others.…

The survey of Germans which last week showed that no Germans would ever buy a Tesla again, now shows that nearly 70% WOULD buy a Tesla. Nearly half a million respondents now. The anti-Tesla mob hysteria will pass. Just…

I get some snide remarks at work about still masking. Often from people coughing between their chortling. I see firsthand their health falling off a cliff, a day at a time, as their immune system gradually shuts down.…

Sickness in NHS staff, UK. The blue arrow marks the point where the world decided to ‘live with’ Covid. Meanwhile millions in the UK now have Long Covid, adding further stress to a broken health system, with an ageing…

Given that access to quality medical care is increasingly near impossible to get, and that even health staff are caught up in delusional fantasies perpetrated by social media like anti-vax, and ‘living with’ pandemics,…

Measles outbreaks in Western Australia and Victoria. Tthe world’s most contagious disease. The cause is 100% people using social media to run their lives, with Vitamin A and other ‘natural’ bullshit, instead of a…

The piece Waleed Aly wrote about justice 6 years ago is still so important. Do people notice the increasing, even violent righteousness that is dominating how we respond to things now? The Tesla attacks are a great…

Two friends of friends in their late-30s/early 40s had heart attacks last year. One had two, in one year. Previously perfectly healthy with no heart problems. Doctors baffled! There’s no mystery, as Peter says, an…

Let me ‘obsessively’ (i.e not just talk about myself or my holidays) try to help save peoples’ lives, again. Let these stats sink in. Stop catching Covid people, if you want a long life. Stop making health decisions…

Get every vaccine you qualify for, for every disease. Including the annual flu shot. Nearly all serious disease has an infectious origin, and any vaccination alerts the immune system, and offers cross-protection against…

‘Living with’ Covid is like living with a leak in your roof. For a while you can pretend nothing is wrong. Then it destroys your house.

Wonderful footage from the 1960s of construction by the then Department of Main Roads (the DMR) of part of the Sydney-Newcastle expressway. Lots of familiar bits of road even today. I love that post-war public optimism,…

Flu kills between 6-50,000 Americans every year. Covid is no longer trending, which in our new social media lives means it no longer exists. Covid doesn’t have any social media accounts.

For about a century feminism fought to define women independently of their relationship with men. Then men invented the transgender movement, used social media to make it go viral, and here we are, with massive protests…

Ruh roh Scoob, another mystery! Darren very likely has POTS, an extremely common side-effect of Covid. Gigs are a great place to go to catch Covid, for performers and crowd. We would rather infect all of the few…

The most common reason I see for whether to mask or not is ‘what is everybody else doing?’ I’m doing what Covid researchers are doing.

I encourage you to read at least the 10-point summary here, the expert consensus. It’s a far better guide than ‘what everybody else is doing’. Social media society has replaced expertise with fashion, what’s ‘trending’.…

In countries not living on and run by social media, people still control infectious disease. Including Covid.

Covid didn’t end. We’re just ignoring it, as kidults we got bored with it disrupting our ‘fun’, so we decided to let it maim and kill millions instead. Nothing exists in social media society unless it trends. Not much…

There are still people who think we overdid it for Covid (people who don’t understand exponential growth and pandemics). If a pandemic influenza emerges, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Killing machines, mortality rates…

If you give enough anti-vaxers keyboards, eventually they accidentally type the definition of vaccination.

Air purifiers are relatively cheap, off-the-shelf devices that should be in every hospital ward and school classroom. I've had one at my desk at work for over 4 years. It will protect you against all airborne disease,…

William Mulready's The Seven Ages of Man, depicting Shakespeare's 'All the world's a stage', from As You Like it. The idea that humans go through seven life stages. It's this idea of stages that has now collapsed, into…

We think we're living with Covid only because we're ignoring it. It won't let up, it will trash your immune system and fuck over your vascular system. Just like HIV did, it took 8-10 years to turn into AIDS, was 'just a…

The tax cuts Trump is gutting US public healthcare to fund. Using Scott Morrison's favourite line for tax cuts, 'it's your money!' And it is, but it's not going to you, just to Trump's level of society. The legislation…

When I say adult life has been completely replaced with adolescent life, politics is a good example. We look at politics the same way we watch a State of Origin game. Red v Blue, even the colours are the same (we use…

Nobody paid to run the country will ever tell you, just a heads-up that Covid numbers are on the rise again, a new variant. It’s not a good idea to catch Covid, ever.

Few will join the dots here. You won’t see what you don’t want to see. Top performers also tend to have elaborate anti-Covid measures, but they don’t give a shit about the same for fans. Just happy to vacuum up their…

5000 Australians died of Covid last year. More than two years after we celebrated Covid being ‘over’. That’s more than 5 times as many die in a bad flu year. If you didn’t die but had Covid, you helped Covid reach those…

Look at the red circle. The national strategy for Covid was to protect the ‘vulnerable’, so the rest of us could go back to our meaningless adolescent lives of recreational travel, gigs and dining out. That’s quarter of…

The comments on this post show the terminal damage social media has done to public health.

I shared this before. Humans copy each other, to attain status in groups. This also means it’s easy for the tiniest handful of bad faith actors to create havoc. For example, installation of wind and solar farms has been…

I plan to avoid this coming variant of Covid as I’ve avoided all the other variants of Covid. People lining up for a fresh dose can let me know how ‘razor blade throat’ feels, sounds intriguing. Do you reckon people…

I spoke with Hayley (the reporter) about this last year. My mum went to hospital for heart and lung issues and caught Covid there. No precautions were taken. Politicians direct health departments to minimise Covid…

Worth reading this short thread, about ‘living with’ Covid. And the conclusion, which is also my experience, masking.

Look at that huge surge in productivity that came when the pandemic forced employers to allow staff to work from home. One of the justifications for ending 'lockdowns' was the belief it was bad for business. It was the…

In New South Wales, in the past week there was an increase of 29.2 per cent in COVID-19 notifications, an increase of 25.9 per cent in influenza notifications, and an increase of 9.7 per cent in RSV notifications.

I’m sure Australians will respond with the time-honoured public health strategies of more gigs, more flights overseas, and sending kids to school sick and coming to work sick to cough all over everybody else, because…

Finally what the scientific research has been saying for years on Covid, and which I share here often, is making its way into the mainstream reporting. Compare this with the delusional ‘living with Covid’: “COVID-19…

How many more years of the ‘living with Covid’ charade do you reckon we can keep up? Rather than do basic disease control, which we do for EVERY other disease, and have done for decades. Covid is the social media…

Most chronic disease, like cancers, heart and brain disease, are being revealed as ultimately caused by infection. The fact we can survive an infection in the short-term has led us to think of infection as a nothing…

The same people who cheer on McCartney and Springsteen doing stadium gigs in 2025 would have laughed at the ridiculous idea of Louis Armstrong or Count Basie being invited to play at Woodstock. They wouldn’t have been…

Anybody who knows even the barest history of feminism should be aghast that we’ve arrived at a point where no definition of a ‘woman’ is even allowed to exist. Women have been defined out of existence. The stupidities…

Imagine being puzzled as to why. The *exact* years of the pandemic.

Muscle pain is the most common ongoing symptom of Covid infection. Covid is a vascular disease and for a while they thought it was forming micro-clots in organs and muscles. But there’s some evidence now that it’s…

Raina Macintyre is a global expert on infectious disease and public health. She’s also at my old stomping ground, UNSW, which is really kicking some goals. In this book she compares Covid-19 to syphilis, which has been…

Apparently this is a famous singer. I don’t think most know that the idea that we could infect our way out of a pandemic didn’t come from doctors or scientists, it came from politicians, using the work of an American…

‘Urging’ will never overpower the most powerful force in the universe. Peer pressure, the need to do what everybody else is doing, and not stand out. Especially when your adult culture is really just an extension of…

This is what people are not understanding about Covid. Every dot on that graph is you catching Covid once. Every time you do that, it may seem like a 'mild' disease, like a cold. But your chances of getting a permanent…

Last week 34 people died of Covid in aged care, in Australia. Tens of thousands now have, in the past 5 years. Nobody cares. If it had been a bus carrying the national soccer and cricket teams, or rock bands on tour,…

DIY is a passion of our age. And another window into the underlying culture. The greatest threat to all of our lives is the collapse of trust in society. The loss of humility towards the expertise of others. The…

This seems a sensible article. Except more than anything it shows the collapse of public health. The idea of public health is to prevent disease *arriving* at your home in the first place. To control diseases in public…

A mum I know was despairing this week that her kids are sick again, for the third time this year. ‘They just seem to catch everything now, and it doesn’t go away.’ That’s Covid at work. It suppresses (technically…

Honestly, it sounds uncaring, but I’m over the critical problems facing us as a community being reduced to the ‘anxiety’ people feel about them. More ‘feels’. This is a total absence of resilience, snowflake culture.…

An Australian family pays 2% of its annual income to fund Medicare. Right now the same average family is also forking out 4-6% of its annual income, in private health insurance. Do we not see how insane this is? They…

Remember this guy? Kenneth Colley. He’s just died. He broke his arm. How did that kill him, you may think? It didn’t. He went to hospital to get his broken arm treated. He caught Covid in hospital. The Covid killed him.…

All humans are highly suggestible, particularly kids. If you tell them always their mental health is under threat, they will become people whose mental health is under threat. If instead you fill their lives with…

The health of just about every person I know not taking precautions against Covid is in decline. A progressive decline, people not understanding that what they’re experiencing is damage to their immune and vascular…

I often bizarrely get asked if I’m a ‘germaphobe’ because I still mask against Covid. It baffles people, everybody else has stopped wearing masks! Which shows, again, kidult society, where what adults do is just ‘what…

I know many have long ago dismissed me as mad with daily attention to Covid. I wanted to share the science behind the fantasy we’re living. This is a short excerpt from the Mayo Clinic, one of the top research hospitals…

The 40th anniversary of Live Aid is everywhere online at the moment. Live Aid, where the Western world looked at the catastrophe of human starvation, and did what? It put on a gig. That’s what gig culture does to try to…

‘Systemic infection.’ Gig culture is taking on Covid, and losing.

While most line up for repeated infections for the fool’s gold of hybrid immunity (an impossibility for Covid), give me this. And Australian too. Let’s hope clinical testing shows the same results. Those convinced Covid…

2023. And 2025. Covid is happy to do you slowly.

Sudden death of an ex-student this week, early-40s, with lung cancer, barely a week after diagnosis apparently. No symptoms. Appeared otherwise fully healthy. Covid is a potent trigger of cancer of the lung. These are…

Rousseau said a society has all of its habits at once. When we destroyed public health by ‘living with’ Covid, we destroyed all of it. Vax rates down for every disease now, and millions convinced they can infect their…

There was not and will never be a ‘Concert for Covid’. Think about that. Up to 36 million people are thought to have died, so far, from Covid. That’s up to twice as many as died in World War 1. Why won’t there be a…

I encourage everybody to read these findings. You don’t want Covid, and you certainly don’t want to keep getting it over and over. Long Covid is not just having a mild form of ongoing Covid for a while. It means things…

China is planning to send astronauts to the moon by 2030. Meanwhile in the West, which pioneered lunar flights, people live inside social media bubbles where we never even went to the moon, and where we live with…

Human life expectancy doubled in the last century. Most of that was due to the use of vaccines. Now kidult culture has turned vaccination into just one more team sport for morons on social media. The comments on this…

“…in both unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals irrespective of the severity of Covid-19.” If it doesn’t kill you straight away, it’ll eat your brain and other organs. The only cure for Covid is not catching it.

Taken from a Facebook group for doctors. Please try to avoid catching Covid, you won’t know that it stays inside you after you get ‘better’ and is constantly damaging you, until it’s too late.

Your daily dose of joys from living with Covid. Today, thyroid cancer and pulmonary fibrosis.

A conference of international experts on the long-term impacts of Covid. These are the people who know Covid better than anybody. Tell me what you notice.

Teens are bypassing their kidult anti-vax parents, and getting jabs themselves. A friend had not one vaccination as a baby, their mother doesn’t believe in vaccination. So they went out and got the lot themselves, at…

I am aware that no amount of horrible facts about Covid will shift attitudes or behaviours. Information doesn’t run societies, status does. The overwhelming reason people think and do the things they do is because other…

We stopped fighting a pandemic because it got in the way of our social lives. Many restrospectives are being written now about how this pause to our social lives apparently damaged us in terrible ways. (This is classic…

“It's like watching two sides debate the dangers of tobacco while everyone smokes cigarettes.” People should be being vaccinated for Covid twice per year. Instead the vast majority of Australians had 2 vaccinations…

Get every vaccine you qualify for, even if you have to pay for it. If you have friends or family who tell you to use 'natural' medicine instead, tell them you'll bring flowers when you visit their vitamin--soaked…

This is how Covid wins. By us no longer doing any meaningful testing, people can be out there completely symptom-free, infecting thousands of other people. I’ve highlighted in yellow the key part - a ‘mild’ illness…

Remember the fairy tale that us all getting Covid over and over would make us immune to it? Over a million people every DAY are currently getting Covid in the US. Meanwhile their idiot Trump-appointed head of health had…

If you can convince your GP to give you a supply of metformin to use when you or your family catch Covid, it may save you years of chronic illness. Good luck with it, most GPs I know spend more time selecting their next…

Anybody dealing with the public now is feeling this every day. They’re under assault. As the article says, it got a lot worse after the lockdowns. Often this is given as a reason we shouldn’t have locked down, but then…

The still surviving belief that fat causes heart disease is behind the enormous surge in sales of air fryers. But after decades of drug and surgical progress, heart disease and stroke are still the biggest killers. It’s…

An elderly family friend went to hospital to have surgery for lung cancer. Caught Covid there, and the hospital’s response? Sent them home to deal with it themselves. LUNG CANCER. When mum caught Covid in hospital, the…

The world is going nowhere in the fight against climate change. This is like an enormous asteroid heading for Earth, as in the movie Armageddon, while we all choose to ignore it and go on holidays. Millions who failed…

I’m sure the rest of us are fitter and stronger than Usain, with all of our own ‘natural’ Covid infections giving our immune systems a healthy workout.

For the very many out there, whose families, friends and selves are constantly sick now. Covid has created dysfunctional immune systems, leaving people wide open to disease and unable to resolve that disease. SARS-CoV-2…

Lots of talk recently about boosting productivity in Australia. Here’s a major productivity-killer nobody talks about. Sickness in the workplace. Already before Covid colds and flu cost businesses $7 billion/year.…

“Aren’t you scared you’re going to get REALLY sick when you stop wearing a mask?” I hear that all the time. People genuinely believe that getting infected with diseases is keeping them healthier. Just think about that,…

If you had to guess, without Googling or asking AI, what has killed the overwhelming majority of humans who have ever lived, what would you say? (Smarty pants public health people like Dorothy can ssshh.)

David is one of Australia’s leading specialists in the treatment of Covid. What he sees in his rooms and at the hospitals every day horrifies and scares him. Much of it going undiagnosed because GPs don’t even…

Gig culture (adults being adolescents forever) is still fighting public health. And losing.

Covid attacks CD8 T cells in the immune system. These are the cells that usually fight cancer. We declared the war won against Covid when it was only just beginning. And we're infecting all the kids, over and over.…

I don’t think our global Covid strategy was widely understood. Let me spell it out in a few words. “Infect all the kids, so they can build up immunity and it won’t spread into the working community.” No conspiracies…

I’m the only person I know who still regularly masks. My kids are some of the only people their age who regularly mask. Why do we do it? Because nothing actually changed, the pandemic never ended. You can see here…

This is the UK. In each case A, B and C were the possible trajectories for these diseases. C is the trajectory that actually happened, beginning in 2022. Most chronic disease is caused by infection, including cancers.…

Part 2, the UK. What happens when you let entire populations, including children, catch pandemic viruses, over and over. C is the trajectory that happened, beginning in 2022.

In England, 10 months of relatively low Covid levels led many to believe Covid was finally ‘just like the flu’. Covid is not and will never be anything like the flu. We won‘t get ‘hybrid immunity’ to it, so that it…

What’s happening with Covid right now in the UK is so important to help people understand the mess we’re in. That 10 months of relatively low Covid low levels wasn’t interrupted by a new Covid variant. There is no new…

A measure of just how stupid public life now is, is that we now see the great tragedy of Covid as the ‘lockdowns’ that stopped us going to gigs, restaurants and pubs, on OS trips and children going to school. Over 20…

We’re down the rabbit hole, people. The destruction of public health by ‘living with’ Covid is now spreading to all other infectious disease, because the same social behaviours have been destroyed. A reminder that…

In the UK, the extreme levels of sacrifice the community had to make for WW2 lasted *15 years*. Rationing didn’t stop until 1954. That’s adult life, identifying a critical threat and acting accordingly, including making…

‘Freedom Day’ was the ridiculous declaration of victory over Covid. Reality wasn’t fooled.

Can you guess what’s happening to the hearts of young people aged between 18-45, leading to such a rise in heart attacks? Dating from ‘freedom’ from protections against catching Covid?

The Omicron variant ended any hope of Covid infection creating immunity. That was years ago already.

‘Building up immunity’ with lots of healthy, ‘natural’ infections. Like the good old days. I think I’d like to repeat every day that most people who have ever lived have died of an infection of some kind. With anti-vax…

The control of infections and infectious disease is THE most important event in all human civilisation. And it happened only in the most recent history, in many of our lifetimes. The people you see and know who now…

My GP was agreeable to me having a stock of these on hand, should I catch Covid. Metformin seems to significantly reduce viral load (i.e. how much Covid reproduces inside you) if taken as soon as possible after…

The damage to the immune system caused by Covid that I often post about is sometimes lymphocytopenia. Damage to your immune T cells and B cells. Patients with lymphocytopenia experience recurrent infections or develop…

Some angered by the suggestion Covid is extremely bad for them say ‘but my doctor says it’s fine’. Doctors are human and subject to the same social dynamics as the rest of us. It will take millions of deaths for the…

For nearly all of history, you or I as ordinary people would have been peasants. More than 90% of societies always were peasants. So what changed that? The only thing that changes anything. Catastrophe. The Black Death…

Tom Hanks, October 2025. Not buying the Covid is over bullshit.

Anti-renewables people dishonestly blame higher electricity prices on renewables. The real cause is the use of gas to generate electricity, with the failure of coal-fired plants. Gas is hugely expensive. As batteries…

Long Covid cost Germany over $50 billion last year alone. It’s cost them over $220 billion since Covid began. We’re not living with Covid, like every other pandemic virus it’s destroying our societies, now from the…

AI is immune to political propaganda. People need to realise that what was done for Covid was not only historically unprecedented. It was criminal. Never before in history had public health advocated to address a novel…

The reason Western countries no longer have children is simple. They don’t like them. They will howl bloody murder at being told that. The truth hurts. This (official NHS) advice for example to deliberately now infect…

These are of course known as miracle weight loss drugs. The GLP-1 drugs. But they’re showing signs of doing far more, in areas that medicine has been historically powerless. Chronic disease, like ME/CFS, mast cell…

‘Richo’ declared the Covid pandemic a nothing burger in the same year it began, 2020. Millions died, and are still dying. He’s just died after several weeks of horrible suffering with influenza and pneumonia. From an…

Translation: Covid fucked up the immune system, dramatically accelerating the development of HPV-related cancer, even without Covid being found in cervical tissue (it was attacking the immune system, stopping the body…

Last year this same virus, EBV, was found to be the cause of multiple sclerosis. Now it’s thought to cause lupus too. We give it a cutesy name, the ‘kissing’ virus i.e. glandular fever, to normalise everybody catching…

Somebody measured CO2 concentration at a gig. The reading for healthy fresh air is 450-500. Ever noticed rock stars have done diddly squat against Covid, even though causes are their usual bread and butter? No benefit…

Two short videos out of the UK to share. The first, a breakfast TV host telling viewers and colleagues that he’s just had Covid. Took 2 days off. Now back at the desk, spreading it to co-hosts and crew, chuckling, while…

And video 2 out of the UK. You can play make-believe and ignore serious threats to your life, so you can go to gigs and restaurants and pubs, and on OS holidays. And then reality will bitch slap you. Work won’t care, if…

The greatest con of the past 5 years is that ‘lockdowns’ damaged us. Lockdowns freed vast numbers of Australians from poverty, for the first time in their lives. They forced much more workplace flexibility, which…

The big plus of demolishing public health practice that’s 150 years old in favour of dining out, gigs and overseas travel. Diseases that used to be seasonal are now yours to enjoy all year round.

“We have damaged an entire generation. The future costs of this are astronomical.” Senior Covid doctor friend of mine, in conversation

‘Living with’ Covid made us treat infections almost as a laugh. Any fool who says ‘spicy cough’ to me risks a spicy fat lip. The control of infection doubled our life expectancy, we’re too pig ignorant now to even know…

Public health is toast in a culture of ‘living your best life’ i.e. adolescent life. Replaced by ‘cool’ i.e. with what’s trending. Surely people see this, how every facet of public life now is just a series of…

The global Covid strategy was based on nothing more than a wish for the pandemic to be over. So we just defined it as over. Like defining yourself as rich, even though you have no money.

We knew what Covid does to children 5 years ago already. We did nothing, in Australia they’re not even allowed to be vaccinated against it. I can’t get a single person to be interested or care about it, they’re all too…

The Press has never been free. What we call media was invented by elite members of societies, barons, as part of the furthering of their own aims. It only began to appear free when multiple barons established opposing…

Having my annual Covid shot today. In plenty of time for Christmas infection parties. When was the last time you got a booster?

I paid for my own shingles vaccine doses (Shingrix) a couple of years ago, because I’m not yet old enough to qualify for the subsidised shots. I get every vaccine I qualify for, because I strongly believe infection is…

It *was* a ‘Herculean effort’. With Covid, the kidults missed their gigs and restaurants and OS trips after about 3 months, and we had to abandon all public health because parents were sick of having to share the XBox…

Whole nations with damaged immune systems. Norovirus also up 35% in the UK right now. Hospital chiefs say hospitals ‘engulfed’ by winter viruses. Here in Australia flu season (a 'winter virus’) was still going in…

One of the profound changes those who lived through the 1970s into the present day will have noticed, is the collapse of community service organisations. Lions, Rotary, Apex. It was organisations like this, and…

Covid infection can lead to significant increased risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. Taking low-dose aspirin appears to significantly reduce that risk, by over 50%. The two drugs that seem most powerful in reducing…

Work Christmas party today. Hundreds packed into an inside space. I’ll be the only one there in a mask, which many will find weird. Because we now live in a culture where what you think and how you act is shaped…

One of the bullshittings of the Covid pandemic was the explanation for why people started getting sick with everything, after the pandemic was apparently over. They’re still getting horribly sick with things they’ve…

Because nobody gives two fucks, just a reminder Christmas is one of the times of greatest risk to you and your loved ones, from Covid. Because we shut down public health, allowing lethal pathogens to circulate freely in…

My Christmas present arrived spot on 25 December. That’s the Christmas break ruined. Probably caught it at the work Christmas party, which was a barely ventilated room packed full of hundreds of people. Knew I shouldn’t…

In my recovery I’m thinking again about my social media use, from 2026. I’m tired of debates and arguments over basic things with friends and family. The societies we grew up in had institutionalised expertise that took…

I share this not as medical advice, though it was medical advice to me, from senior Covid specialists and researchers. If you go to your GP with Covid, you’ll probably get told to take some Panadol, drink plenty of…

A perfect example of how ‘influencers’ are destroying centuries of progress. People listen to idiocy like this and believe it. In the 1970s-80s before widespread use of the measles vaccine, measles was the single…

Another kidult. Masking to protect his baby from a novel pandemic virus got in the way of a good pic for the socials.

Being in bed sick means I may post a bit more often, apologies 🙂 What this means is the longer you’re positive with Covid, the greater the chance you’ll develop Long Covid. Because nobody much tests any more, they…

A different way to see life. We privilege working life, because economies are all about work. Childhood we see as preparation for work, and old age we see as ‘retirement’, again from work. Without getting all New Age…

What I’m trying to avoid, right now. It’s the long-term damage from Covid infection that is being missed. People ending up infected with a huge range of other things, their immune system is compromised by the Covid…

This person has a Masters in Public Health. I’m sharing it to show again that what we did with Covid, letting all kids catch it over and over without allowing them to even be vaccinated, was a deliberate strategy. To…

Her son’s health has been destroyed. Blames the vaccines. Claims to be a doctor. I’ve highlighted the elephant standing in the middle of her living room. Also a nice little learner for those who think catching Covid…

A shift in how they treat acute Covid is a shift we're seeing in other parts of medicine too. Rather than just trying to attack and remove the infecting pathogen, which is diabolically hard once it's inside you, to…

Try this. "We can't get rid of potholes, so we'll have to learn to live with them." Crazy, hey? And yet millions swallow this bullshit as some sort of common sense, for Covid.

Probably the most important work on Covid I've seen in a long time. Because it goes right to the heart of the fantasy that we're 'living with' it. David Cutler is an economist at Harvard, who's estimated what Long Covid…

People tell me they love travel with a passion. I'm not sure which bits they mean. It certainly can't be this bit. Maybe it's when you get on the plane with everybody re-breathing the same air and using the same toilets…

Australian governments are heading down this same UK path. Huge absences due to infectious illness caused by mass Covid infection being described as an attendance problem instead, as wagging. With ads like these…

Covid is a Biosafety Level 3 (BSL3) pathogen. At the top you can see how scientists work with BSL3 pathogens. At the bottom, how the rest of us do. If you want a long life, it’s time to say enough.

I plead with people to watch this from the Victorian Department of Health. Every COVID infection, no matter how mild it seems, can cause Long Covid. And the more infections you have, the more likely you are to get it.…

Here's a vital scientific reason why what we're doing with Covid won't work, can never work, and will maim and kill lots of people, forever, unless we change course. Our strategy is called 'hybrid immunity', meaning…

Colleague at work is now nearly deaf, due to Long Covid. Everywhere you have a blood vessel, this bastard virus can get you.

A personal post, a bit long, but a rare one about me, the person. I know many people who avoid the news, feeling that the world is too depressing and they don’t see a way out of the numerous problems societies are…

We need to join the dots here. All of these illnesses that we thought were things of the past are now back, and the reason is very simple. The ‘living with the virus’ we introduced for Covid was actually a destruction…

Personally I think we need to see more of this. The ‘sovereign citizens’ and other loons who bog down basic services with their ridiculous conspiracies and funded slogans in areas like renewables, Covid and basic town…

“All of this is why governments must invest in long-term strategies for managing COVID into the future, experts say — particularly by introducing standards for indoor air quality. But until then, they say, Australians…

The ‘live with the virus’ slogan has driven a huge escalation in anti-vax beliefs and behaviour. We’re told that vaccinations will protect us from Covid, but nobody is getting them. And they’re also stopping their…

New York has declared social media a public health hazard. Which it is. It’s also a hazard to every other part of society, generating continuous tidal waves of bullshit to obstruct the most basic essential services. It…

When politicians refuse to act on emergencies like climate change and Covid, the risk doesn’t go away. It gets privatised, individuals have to deal with it themselves. Insurance is the way they try to do it, insurance…

Playing with Covid worked out well for Travis Head. If he’d had a muscle strain, we’d have said he was playing with an injury. But Covid, the third leading cause of death in Australia? Not mentioned.

Politicians told us the pandemic would be over when the vaccines arrived. That was at the red arrow. The vaccines are great (anti-vaxers are insane). But alone they’re not even close to being enough to end this pandemic.

I still get people telling me ‘we need to learn to live with this virus’. What they mean is we need to constantly lie about being sick, so that we can fit in with the peer pressure that says the pandemic is over. I see…

The mRNA technology that anti-vax loons, amplified through social media, made people fear, may within 10 years provide treatments or even cures for some of our most difficult diseases.…

Those who say it’s too hard to fight Covid, usually meaning it interrupts their travel and eating out and gigs, should have a look at how they used to avoid kids catching TB in the Netherlands. In the middle of winter.

The cervical cancer HPV vaccine is so good that data suggest cervical cancer may cease to exist, within our lifetimes.

Because suppression of information on Covid is deliberate and widespread, and even many GPs are woefully uninformed about it, here's a tip. If you get Covid, AVOID EXERCISE for at least 6-8 weeks. Exercise is a real…

Another Covid tip. If you get Covid and want to reduce your risk of Long Covid, talk to your GP about getting some Metformin, quickly (within the first 72 hours of falling ill). It's originally a diabetes drug, but has…

Following up on my earlier post, probably the single worst thing you can do when infected with Covid is exercise. Australian cricketers play at an elite high exertion level, with full-blown Covid. It's medical insanity.…

What could be behind this surge (black line on the graph) in childhood pneumonia? (Hint: we're seeing the same surge in every country that decided to 'live with' Covid.) We're still not even vaccinating our youngest…

If you want to filter the air, at home or at work, a great idea even without a pandemic (particularly if you live in a city, or somewhere that uses wood fires for heating), these IKEA Starkvind purifiers are pretty…

I hear this all the time, that ‘lockdowns’ stopped children getting necessary infections, and now their immune systems are missing immunity, which is why they’re getting sick. It’s scientific nonsense, completely untrue.

I had a long chat today with one of Australia’s leading Covid specialists. He says things are much, much worse than even I share here. He sees even very young people with terrible ongoing health problems. And people who…

Lots of sick Covid people today. Start of school has taken what was already a large outbreak and pushed it even further through the community. I'm genuinely curious when people think this nonsense will end, catching a…

Meanwhile, as Covid damages everybody’s immune systems, other pathogens keep moving in to share the feast.

Scabies alerts now in schools (thanks Dan). Let's add to the smorgasbord of infectious joys. Big jump in scabies, likely because the neutrophils that your body needs to stop spread are damaged by Covid.

Australia's Covid strategy is called 'hybrid immunity'. Where immunity (supposedly) comes from a combination of infections and vaccinations. Except nobody is getting the vaccinations. So it's really a 'couldn't give a…

I encourage everybody to pressure leadership of their local schools to do this course. https://www.covidsafetyforschools.org/

Want to see how our clown car approach to Covid has now fucked over all public health? Florida is having a measles outbreak. It's allowing parents to decide whether to send kids to school with measles. If that doesn't…

How have older workers responded to Covid? Mostly by retiring early. Who would blame them, given workplaces are doing nothing to protect anybody. In clear breach of WHS law.

If you want to understand why nobody is getting Covid vaccines, look no further than highly paid idiots behind microphones. This is an outrageous breach of media standards.

180 people have died of Covid in aged care in 2024 so far. It’s February. Why doesn’t this matter to people? Too much Tay-Tay? Getting on the beers? Cruises? OS trips? All of those are more important? Where do people…

At this point it’s difficult to find any infectious disease that isn’t feasting on us. This is the collapse of public health.

When you go to gigs, don’t be fooled into thinking the band/act is sharing the audience’s joy at completely ignoring Covid. Caesar’s Palace spent over $450,000 on air purification systems for Adele’s shows, to try to…

The joys that come your way when you fuck your immune system by letting Covid play in it are legion. A new disaster every single day.…

The article was about why Swift isn’t doing meet and greets with fans on this tour. She doesn’t want to catch Covid.

Fantastic piece from serious public health professionals. Ignore all the rubbish you hear from hand-picked celebrity experts on TV, chosen if they match the government intention to do nothing. Of course as always I…

One of the reasons I never pursued music as a career is that the industry is so depressingly stupid. Part 2 to my Adele post the other day. Covid got her.

Because I know everybody loves Covid stories, have a look at the surveillance/sentinel testing for Covid in NSW, between 2023 and 2024. The pandemic is getting worse, at the same time as most people assumed it ended 2…

We can pretend all we like Covid is over. Reality decides reality, not us. I think it’s only people who don’t work in essential services who can maintain the illusion that things are going OK.

About 7400 Australians died because of Covid in 2023. That’s 20 a day. But sorry, I forgot we’ve all moved on. Except for the 7400.

I know people are over Covid. But they’ve been sold a lie, that getting the vaccination alone will end the pandemic. Vaccines are brilliant and absolutely necessary. But they *have* to be accompanied by control of the…

I shared how bad ocean temperatures were, in 2023 (yellow line). And then 2024 arrived (black line). This is the greatest threat to humanity in its entire existence. And yet we’re doing as good as nothing. We stopped…

Raiding super to pay for houses is probably the stupidest political idea out there right now. And that's a tough field. The raids on super during the pandemic were a disaster too. I don't think it's well understood why…

I think this shows how offensive 'just like the flu' is, for Covid.

Current car sales figures. EV sales are up over 70% since 2023. The ICE sales here are the filling of back-orders, delays still from the pandemic. ICE sales are flat. Tesla had no backlog, its percentages are all new…

Here’s something less well known about the measles vaccine, that makes it even more of a good idea. When they started vaccinating kids for measles, child mortality dropped significantly. But it wasn’t just because kids…

Nice graphic showing risk of Covid infection based on how much ventilation (measured by CO2 levels) you have and what type of mask you use (or no mask). Have put a red square where I've been for the past 4-5 years,…

Paul Alexander died yesterday, age 78. He contracted polio at age 6, in 1952. He’s spent much of his life in an iron lung. He died of Covid. I don’t have words for my disgust that hardly a person I know would do a thing…

30% of people die. Note the link to Covid infection.

It’s taken several years to move away from the bullshit of lockdowns causing this surge in other diseases. To identify the main culprit, Covid, which compromises your immune system.

This poor kid wasn't vaccinated against Covid, because his parents worried he'd get myocarditis from the vaccine. He got that and a lot more besides, from Covid.…

Termites solved the problem of how to heat or cool your home, while at the same time keeping it full of fresh air. (Important in Covid times.) Air constantly flows through a termitarium wall, heating/cooling as it does,…

Only 3 vaccines provide lifelong protection, measles, rubella and yellow fever. They’re all produced from live virus, that is then modified (attenuated) to prevent it causing serious illness in you. I mention this…

As a part 2 to my other post about vaccination, have a look how far down the list the Covid vaccines are. Not because they’re bad vaccines, but because Covid is a bastard to control. If you’re not getting boosted at…

Here’s how to end Covid. Ventilate schools. Schools are the breeding ground for community spread, because the entire community is mixed there, in its kids, who then take it home. You can see it in the prevalence data…

If I said to you all of the Covid that still circulates in the community has its origins in one place, where would you guess that might be? A hint in the graph. We could fix Covid quickly, cheaply and with minimal…

Most large public and private buildings have full HVAC systems. Not just for heating and cooling, but to also supply continuous fresh air. The one glaring exception? Schools. This is our kids, how is this justifiable?…

I have multiple friends struggling with bizarre health symptoms which their GPs have no idea about. Many GPs have no understanding of the sequelae of Covid infection, at all. Many seem to delight in telling their…

A friend's daughter, in Year 11, had a catastrophic stroke 2 weeks ago. 3 brain bleeds. Is not expected to walk or talk again. How many Year 11 kids had strokes when you were at school? I'm guessing zero? She's had…

So many problems we face are just artefacts of social media. Like the current ‘youth crime waves’, seen across many countries. Imitative rivalry, driven by social media. Our refusal to act against Covid, or to vote Yes?…

This graph should make us all very scared. The idea of 'living with' Covid did this, and it's driven ALL vaccinations down, for all diseases. Public health is dead, the thing that doubled our life expectancy in the past…

There were 8400 excess deaths in Australia 2023. Meaning 8400 more people died than was expected from the historical average. Over 6000 were caused by Covid. The other 2400 were likely caused by disruption caused by…

Keep an eye out for news about the bird flu outbreaks in the US. Now in cattle and cats, and also humans. It’s when viruses cross into humans from animals and then jump from human to human that they can become…

Had Whooping Cough only a few years ago, when NSW had a surge. Was vaccinated, but it wanes. As the article says, we’ve now seen big increases in measles, syphilis, gout, leprosy, malaria, RSV and whooping cough.…

An example of the huge distance between our politics and reality. 'Out of an abundance of caution' he's isolating. The Deputy Prime Minister. Here in NSW, if you DON'T isolate, you're breaking the law, the NSW Public…

The current data for how immune from Covid you are, by getting infected with Covid. For the current JN.1 variant. Effectiveness is against being reinfected. So for 3-6 months, about 80% effective at blocking another…

One of the most fascinating things to observe is what a nation chooses to mourn. The excess deaths Covid caused in 2023 alone was greater than the number of Australians lost at Gallipoli. Not even mentioned. Let alone…

Some very important research was published this month to assess whether 'hybrid immunity', the combination of infection + vaccination we're using for Covid, works. It doesn't work. It not only doesn't work, it makes…

I suspect many have not heard of the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD). In October 2020 a group of ‘scientists’ signed a short statement suggesting a way out of the Covid pandemic. The Covid ‘strategy’ we’re following…

Winter exercise options that don’t involve gulping in Covid-infested air in a gym. Nice windows, these.

This is a trend gaining real speed. Child-free spaces, on holidays, in restaurants etc. In societies that already have plummeting birth rates. The focus is recreational lifestyles, free of the ‘interference’ of…

At work a few weeks back, a young woman appeared at the counter. She said the community needed to know a message from John Campbell about Vitamin D, and what could Council do to get the message out? Campbell is a Covid…

The destructive, lethal power of social media. Over 200,000 Americans died in 2021-22, because they weren’t vaccinated against Covid.

My family are about the only people we know now who still mask regularly. But we’re also free of colds and flu too, never been healthier. And in terms of relative numbers of people masking, 60% of the world lives in…

One of the early pandemic arguments was that ‘lockdowns’ would cause an increase in domestic violence. Because women would be locked up with their abusing parters. It turns out the reverse was true. Domestic violence…

Meanwhile in the Land of the Free (Market), attempts to track the rapidly accelerating outbreaks of potentially pandemic flu amongst cattle have come up against the usual social media hurdles.

How social media is distorting and destroying society. 28 women have died from intimate partner violence this year. We got this ‘crisis’ action this week, nearly a billion dollars. I shared earlier in the week that this…

A window into the damage caused by social media to our societies. Mum is being treated for hospital-acquired Covid, in hospital. Yesterday a neighbour visited. Mum rang me afterwards, very upset. The neighbour had told…

In the next 14 years the number of people aged 85 and over in Australia will double, from about half a million now, to nearly 1.2 million. The boomer demographic blip working its way through the population age profile.…

I shudder watching pregnant women at work walking amongst people coughing, almost certainly with Covid, with no masks or other protections. Or them bringing in their newborns for dozens to breathe all over.

Pre-1950, fresh air in schools was prioritised in many places, to prevent disease. Look at those windows. Now the air in schools is filthy. Unflued gas heaters, windows closed year-round, a Covid and flu and RSV soup.…

I’m hearing from a lot of people getting Covid right now, the next wave is on. These waves won’t end, unless we end them. Smallpox created continuous epidemic waves of infection for several hundred years.

Really nasty people have deliberately confused the public by mixing together two fundamentally different things. What’s called the ‘hygiene hypothesis’, where it is genuinely good for babies and children to get into the…

In politics a libertarian is somebody who thinks regulation and government oppress peoples’ freedom. It’s a dominant force in politics now. For example Trump is a libertarian. Opposition to Covid action is libertarian,…

I’ve been talking about Covid for the entire pandemic. Here’s a good example of why. I posted that mum was in hospital, for serious heart and lung issues. About 10 days later she was due to be released, but had a bad…

If I felt that the people who ask me why I still wear a mask could actually read a graph, I might share this one with them. The relative risk of neurodegenerative (A) and cerebrovascular (B) disease, after being…

It's more than 2 years since we were told Covid was over. Have people figured out yet that we were lied to?

‘Living with Covid’. You may think, hang on, that’s whooping cough. That’s what Covid does to your immune system. Turns it off to let other infectious diseases in. It’s why everybody is now so sick, with everything.

Dick was a Professor of Infectious Disease and Chief of two Canadian hospital systems. I thought of his advice while scrolling through photos on social media of people happily spreading Covid. Living their best (short)…

The blue and green line is what we're told Covid is. But Covid is the RED line. Those epidemic waves will go on indefinitely, unless we slow the virus down. Smallpox infected and killed for centuries, in epidemic waves.…

Somebody asked me the other day how long I was going to keep wearing a mask. I asked them how many times they were willing to get Covid. Another asked me if I was damaging my immune system by not allowing myself to be…

To give a flavour of the dumb times we live in. In the UK they’ve had a blood infection scandal, where in the 1980s and 90s unscreened blood was used, resulting in tens of thousands of people catching diseases like…

SO many people are sick right now. I’ve heard from so many schools in particular who are struggling to even function. The things is, there’s a pretty simple way to make this a lot better. Put 2 or 3 purifiers in each…

Rock stars are so full of shit. Remember how in the 1960s they were ushering in a new world? Horseshit. Those same 60s stars are now some of the richest people on the planet, with about a dozen houses each and private…

The best current estimate is that nearly HALF of the country have had Covid this year. Are people sick of the fairy tale of ‘living with Covid’ yet? Notice this continuous infection isn’t stopping Covid, or turning it…

Have a look from 9:30, when the NZ Education Minister is asked about teachers getting continuously sick now from Covid, and their very high risk of Long Covid. The government’s solution? More sick leave for teachers,…

Every generation learns painful lessons, that the passage of time then makes later generations forget. Again, we once knew that the way to fight infectious disease in societies was to ventilate schools. In fact kids…

Children whose mothers had Covid while pregnant have up to 10 times higher neuro-developmental delays than other children. Just another joy of living with Covid that isn't immediately apparent, when it doesn't kill you…

A Judas Goat. Trained to lead other animals (sheep, cattle) to slaughter. The goat is spared, to continue the work. There are also Judas Cows. All social animals, including humans, follow leaders. Right now we have…

Newer RATs test for flu at the same time. Overseas they even have RATs that test for RSV as well, on the same test. I find people aren’t testing for Covid now because they don’t want to know if they have it. It would…

Here's a new word for a Western world operating at peak stupidity. 'Un-retiring'. I can't imagine massive demand from retired teachers to enter the shitshow of Covid-infested schools, particularly as they're in…

I think the pandemic has been 'over' more than 9 times now.

Surely the club should just let everybody else get Covid too, and players play with it? Aren’t we all ‘living with’ Covid?

One of my favourite things in the whole world is workplaces full of smug 'living with Covid' zombies, who are always sick, while the handful who take it seriously and take precautions cover all of their work.

When a nation's public health departments are replaced with kidults whining about their missed dining out, gig and travel opportunities.

We've tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas. The fact this hasn't happened before in our lifetimes makes the cause obvious. But you're not allowed to say it. It's Covid. Either people with it, or people with damaged…

Just another moron rock star. This interview was from 2021. Covid karma caught up with him. He’s just had 2 forced weeks of rest following collapse from ‘physical exhaustion’. He joked he’d been ‘hanging upside down’.…

The spread of potentially pandemic H5N1 continues at alarming pace. Now it’s in rodents, which is seriously bad news. Pandemic flus kill up to 50% of people infected with them, if they take off. I’m sure we’ll respond…

"Lynn Parramore: A recent Gallup poll says that 59% of Americans believe the pandemic is over. What’s the actual situation? Phillip Alvelda: By no means is it over. It is a continuing pandemic that most nations are not…

The RATs circled in blue tested mucus blown from the nose into a tissue. The RAT in the middle tested the same person the standard way, by swabbing nose and mouth. Most workplaces have reverted to absolutely hopeless…

Linda Ronstadt, performing in her younger days. Linda’s just had Covid. It damaged her brain so badly she was unable to speak.

We’re gradually reaching the use by date of ‘living with Covid’. When even rock stars and their special protections aren’t enough to keep a person safe. Jon Bon Jovi had Long Covid too, he hasn’t been on a stage in a…

Alan is Trauma Director at Nepean Hospital, works at Royal Hobart and is also a clinical Associate Professor at USyd. Knows his shit. At a time the population is ageing rapidly and needs exponentially increasing amounts…

"So, if we were to eliminate the diphtheria, pertussis, mumps, measles, and polio vaccines, normalize the spread of all these viruses, use a year in which mortality was high for our analysis, and adjust for population,…

I know many people allowing themselves to get repeated Covid infections, thinking they’re getting more immune with each infection. They’ve been lied to, and it will shorten their lives. If you don’t control infections…

All of the variants of Covid to date. Still growing fast.

We haven’t been to trivia nights in over 4 years. This nonsense yesterday made me think about it. The reason we stopped going to trivia was simple, it’s not Covid-safe. Objectively, scientifically, you should not catch…

There’s an avalanche of disease out there. And now no antibiotics or other medications available to treat it. Sick and carer’s leave is up 60% across the community. 60%!! Can people not see the complete madness this is?…

Satoshi is a friend. An emergency doctor working in Sydney hospitals. He’s a great example of how increasingly it’s those who take Covid seriously (including by masking) who are carrying the burden of those who don’t.…

Work colleague who sits about a metre away from me was home sick with Covid this week. The boss came in and said ‘they have the spicy cough’. This idiot, childish phrase is offensive. Minimising the seriousness of…

Who remembers themselves and friends getting pneumonia at all, as kids? Let alone twice in 8 weeks? This is Covid at work. Trashing kids’ immune systems.

HIV is an initial infection or infections that seem like a cold or mild flu. Followed 8-10 years later by total system collapse and death. We have no idea of the 8-10 year outlook for Covid. We do know people are…

At the end of 2021 we reached a fork in the road. At that fork people could choose between what politicians said about Covid, and what scientists said. Overwhelmingly people went with the politicians (!). Karma has…

If you have Covid and go into public in NSW without taking precautions, you can be jailed for 6 months. If some clown turns up at your workplace or home saying they have Covid, unmasked, I'd remind them of this.

The game of make-believe we’re playing with Covid. Reality isn’t fooled. Vedder blamed the crowd, no self-awareness at all that everybody in that crowd is also at risk, because of his band’s show.

Portugal is one of the most vaccinated countries in the world, for Covid. More than Australia. Vaccination alone is not enough. And infecting everybody is not creating immunity.

17 years ago today, dad died. That's him on the left. From the generation whose young lives were taken by war. Never spoke of it. Part of that huge wave of European migration post-WW2 that transformed Australia, with…

Heads up. While you're busy not sheltering from the threat, worth pondering why these threats keep happening.…

In Ireland, hospitals are awash with Covid. You'd think as healthcare facilities that would mean everybody would at least mask up? Hilarious! Instead patients are given a BROCHURE explaining what they can do to try to…

Remember how if we all kept getting Covid, we'd become immune? Yeh, science says nah. Covid right now more than twice as bad as the same time last year. I feel like people should be seriously pissed off when they…

David is one of Australia's leading Long Covid specialists. He said this morning that people are being re-infected with the current variants as quickly as every 3-8 weeks. One of those who have to deal with the disaster…

A UK conservative politician described the loss as ‘devastating’. This is the party that presided over the death of over 230,000 Brits, from Covid, and have never once said sorry or been held to account in any way. But…

You’re 1700% more likely to have a heart attack in the week after a respiratory infection, than at any other time. No infection is good for you, most don’t build your immunity, and even those that do create long-term…

Between May and November 2021, the world named 13 variants of Covid. You may remember some of those names, like ‘Delta’. Then, because this highlighted that the virus was evolving i.e. it was out of control, when we got…

Latest estimates say about 50% of the world population will have Long Covid, by August 2025.

The number 1 place most people catch Covid (or any respiratory disease) is at home. And they catch it there mostly from their kids, who pick it up at school. I had to consider the best way to protect the family in…

More than 170,000 influenza cases have been confirmed so far in 2024, with 29% of them in children under 9 years of age. Infections in 2024 are already 27% higher than the first 6 months of 2023. It's several years…

Just a public health tip (because public health officials now only ever say 'live with it'.) Cryptosporidiosis isn't killed by hand sanitiser. Soap and water will kill it though. How's 'living with the virus' going for…

Some help with the translation. ‘Even though the pandemic may be behind us, there’s still a raging pandemic’.

We started ‘living with Covid’ at the end of 2021. We said we’d ‘protect the vulnerable’, so it would be fine. That’s when aged care homes became slaughterhouses. Nobody gives a shit.

Flu and other viruses getting more ‘potent’. Actually peoples’ immune systems have been damaged by Covid, which has let these other diseases have a field day. I’m seeing people at work with horrendous chronic…

An American friend works in the biotech industry. His son just got a ‘mild’ Covid infection. He now has parosmia. Parosmia is a condition where your brain distorts what you smell, in this case his son smells an…

UK teachers have been in the Covid firing line longer than Australian teachers. But Australian teachers will catch up. It's disgusting how we treat teachers and kids.…

Covid is a 'seasonal' virus, people trained in social media science say. Yes, you now get it in every season.

I know at least 3 people exhibiting symptoms of MCAS. All of them have had Covid. MCAS is quite common after Covid infection. It can be torture to live with. It has no cure. Many GPs won't recognise it nor link it to…

Another ex-pollie going to a plum job in the resources sector. The conflict of interest sticks out, to use a phrase of my grandfather's, like a pair of donkey's balls. Perrottet was one of the main drivers of 'living…

Scans of an 18-year-old woman who developed psychotic episodes after Covid infection. You can see the enormous inflammation of the brain on the right, well after she ‘recovered’ from Covid.

One Australian athlete at the Games already down with Covid. And it's 2 days before anything starts.

More Mast Cell Activation fun, a very common condition after you've had Covid. One of the people at work is ready to claw their eyes out with a fork, they're so irritated by MCAS. They look even worse than the person in…

Such a fundamentally decent man, with a tragic adult life. (He also lost one of the two surviving sons, to brain cancer.) Disgusted me that him being old was seen as being more of a problem than somebody being a…

Long Covid is badly named. It suggests most people get ‘Short Covid’, and some unlucky ones then get some irritating persistent ‘long’ symptoms. In reality Covid goes to war against your body, even in mild cases. Our…

A while back I posted here how I get every single vaccination I qualify for. For any disease. This is why.

As somebody who works in governance, the greatest danger by far to human life is what is sometimes called populism. Governing only by what is popular. It sounds harmless, even democratic. Try raising your kids or…

Condoms offered to athletes at the Olympics. Meanwhile the water polo team is almost entirely infected with Covid and played regardless, breathing all over their opponents. One prominent British athlete who openly has…

If you’re a cyclist, you may notice that the pandemic didn’t end. Factories in South East Asia have been shut down to prevent spread.

Do you think all of the armchair epidemiologists who advised us that we ‘need to learn to live with Covid’ told olympic athletes that it would mean wasting 4 years of training?

Chatted to a senior Long Covid researcher today. Direct quote: “We’re all shitting ourselves.”

Bling is back. Katie Ledecky has POTS. (Has had it for years.) Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. Meaning a fast heart rate, dizziness and fatigue when going from lying to standing. Often a chronic after-effect…

The UK led the global charge to ‘hybrid immunity’, with Covid, arguing that letting everybody get infected over and over would gradually build up population immunity. Immunity to common sense, maybe.

The smoke-filled room experiment I think is one all people should know. Because this is the principle that runs all of our lives. Have a watch, it’s short. We think that the peer pressure of school is left behind in…

"It's probably the worst week of my life in terms of how my body is, and that's no exaggeration," he said. "Everything's come at once. Since COVID, it's just every day waking up with a different thing. The medical…

People think Covid is over because they’re lied to. Every day. Data is suppressed, no testing is done, nobody tracks the avalanche of pneumonias and whooping coughs and flus back to trashed immune systems, caused by…

My mate Satoshi, doing rounds in Sydney amidst the Covid wreckage of peoples' bodies. People don't change behaviour until it's much too late to save themselves. Then they launch a GoFundMe.

One of the main architects of mass death from Covid in Australia. You can see his libertarian bullshit here, about freedom and vaccines. You know what was mandated for all Australians, because of people like him?…

Some US States now making the wearing of a mask for protection illegal. That's how far the lunatics running our asylums are going now to enforce 'living with' Covid.

Eric is one of the most respected medical voices in the US. Here he states the obvious, which people still refuse to hear. We’re into the 5th year of the pandemic, and doing nothing at all to control it. And people…

Freddie Mercury was an Asian rock star. His family was from India. In a lot of photos this isn't obvious, but in others it's unmissable. Part of his genius was to hide both his sexuality and his ethnicity, in an Anglo…

Ryan is a professor of evolutionary biology. I think these are interesting for people to see, because he’s addressing two pieces of propaganda in this pandemic. One that just letting ourselves become infected over and…

What happens when you exert yourself with Covid. Your GP may not tell you, but if you have Covid, avoid all heavy exercise for at least 6-8 weeks. As for doing the heavy exercise WITH Covid? Insanity. This is quite…

Parents doing this. Kids as products to be sold. I’m well aware that pretty much everything I post to social media isn’t the sort of thing people log on to see. Imagine turning your own life into a product. Even those…

Harry is a cardiovascular surgeon, David is one of Australia’s Covid experts. This is what happens when you exercise with or soon after Covid. That’s ventricular tachycardia. Only a pacemaker will save him.

I guess I can safely say that I’m clearly not sharing this denial. I get more or less zero traction with just about every person I work with and know, in trying to warn that the pandemic never ended, and never got less…

I'm not sure how well known it is that when you get an infectious disease, the symptoms you feel aren't caused by the disease. They're caused by your own immue system. The celebration that people have of getting a…

This is what monkeypox (now called mpox) looks like. The new strain in Africa has been declared a global health emergency. Fatality rate much higher than Covid, as an example (and Covid is our 3rd leading cause of…

A good word to get to know. Right now we're in a syndemic of Covid, bird flu and monkeypox. This is what 'living with' infectious disease means. Dying.

I think the term 'Long Covid' is far too timid. It basically means 'Covid trashing your entire body, until you die an early death.' Your chances of getting Long Covid increase hugely with each new infection.…

Covid numbers on the rise again, after only a short dip. Many are the same people infected in June-July, being reinfected.

Ask your GP to prescribe Metformin if you have Covid. Many will resist it, because they’re lazy and do no professional reading. It’s about the only thing that works against Covid, and creates an enormous 41% reduction…

Covid is evolving to defeat everything our immune systems and vaccines throw at it. Any pathogen you don't make any attempt to control will do that. We're lemmings walking off a cliff. (And it's not a FLiRT variant, for…

Another leading US doctor, showing how Australia went from leading the world in public health, to being its arse-end, in under 2 years. We're doing NOTHING for Covid in Australia, sickening the entire population for the…

Another mystery Scoob! Also don’t get too excited by the ‘here’s why’ in the headline. The article comes up with no why, because the ‘experts’ they talk to don’t know their arses from their elbows. Covid is why.

The origins of local government are fascinating. it wasn’t invented as some way to give local people a voice, or any of that other democracy claptrap. It was mostly invented to control disease. It’s a public health…

"...long COVID symptoms in children are tangible, pervasive, wide ranging." We're really fucking up the kids. All so we can go to gigs and fly to Bali. This will play out over decades, a completely avoidable catastrophe.

If you've had Covid, you can play symptom bingo. Red is prevalence of symptoms after 6 months, yellow is 1 year, blue 2 years.

I watched (livestream) the meet the candidates session at the RSL club this week, for the local elections. Many repeated the line often that there needs to be more ‘consultation’ with the community. The thing as a…

One for the ‘Covid is over’ people. Testing is back. Covid will not be over until we stop it spreading. Until we control it. Like we do all other serious infectious diseases.

As a culture we decided going to gigs was more important than public health. Karma is arriving quickly now.

Adult life has the same structure (now) as teenage school life. We’re all looking for status, in a group of some kind. To be recognised, accepted, and admired. Tell somebody their favourite band sucks and watch how much…

The most common health advice for people is to exercise, eat well, don’t smoke or drink. But check this. Research shows that people at the lowest rungs of an organisation, with the lowest status, are 4 times more likely…

When you break public health, every pathogen comes for the party.

Public health often uses the same idea of ‘the public’ as shorthand for ‘everybody’. But societies don’t work like that. They run on social status. A tiny handful of people drive behaviours. Take alcohol as an example.…

What isn’t seen is that by ‘living with’ Covid, we opened the door to everything. Public health was set up about 150 years ago to make us explicitly NOT live with pathogens. Now they’ve all arrived for the party. This…

This may be peak stupid of living with Covid. HOSPITALS now calling an ambulance, to save patients.

This is the UK. The same thing is now happening here. The same people who forced kids to be infected repeatedly in schools with a lethal virus that trashes their immune systems, are now getting punitive when those kids…

David is one of Australia's leading Long Covid experts. As he says, there are no treatments. Symptomatic relief at best. I'm sorry to those who desperately want to believe the pandemic is over. It just isn't, and…

The crazy thing is, beating Covid is actually quite simple. Covid isn't everywhere, all the time. It spreads from small hubs, where it breeds. Mostly schools. You can see it in the data. Infections take off every time…

My living with Covid story for the day is that every single person in my office at work is now home sick. Except me.

New Disco Clubs, where women in their 40s and 50s get to pretend they’re 18 again for a few hours. Of course that’s the culture now, 18 forever. But there’s also an interesting Covid angle here. Why do some people go to…

This is from 2021. Brian had a stroke last week. Stroke is a common side effect of Covid infection. Nobody will join the dots for many stroke victims.

Victorian data for percentage of people whose hospitalisation for Covid was caused by the patient catching Covid IN hospital. NSW is I think even worse. A national disgrace.

Lots of pilots have had Covid, including those flying you on holidays. The military actually measure the impact of Covid infections, on their pilots. It's very, very bad numbers.…

In the absence of catastrophes, like natural disasters or wars, human societies just battle each other for status, in status hierarchies. Like we do at school. Only catastrophes force societies to stop doing that, and…

Right now Covid, influenza and RSV are at low levels in New South Wales. Hooray. Whooping cough continues to spiral out of control. 

Some basic science from Anthony Fauci. Why 'living with' Covid was always a lie.

Human groups and whole societies will not make important changes until total disasters force those changes. Without those disasters (wars, pandemics, natural disasters), humans only ever do one thing. They fight for…

I advise all my friends to not exercise for 6-8 weeks after they have Covid, or any serious illness. It can lead to hypoperfusion, the starving of your muscles and organs of oxygen and nutrients. This can lead to organ…

Another mystery, Scoob! (Post-infection asthma is a very common Covid side-effect.) I'm lucky to be friends with one of the world's leading Covid doctors, treating the Covid zombies who walk in his door every day, of…

The study was of healthy people who had a mild Covid infection.

I know Colin, and the course he's created for school leaders is superb. I also know Hayley Gleeson, the journalist, one of the few who sees the complete insanity of what's happening with Covid in our communities. I…

Living with Covid. DIY health care coming, start reading up on MCAS and endotheliitis.

The new obesitry drugs are tapping into something deep about the way our bodies work that nobody fully understands yet. New benefits are being found regularly (they also fight Parkinsons and Alzheimers Disease).…

I've posted about Metformin here before. It's the only really effective drug against Covid. An old drug used mostly for diabetes, and super cheap. Your GP likely won't even be aware what it does against Covid, but you…

Many believe that by catching Covid repeatedly, they’re building up immunity to it. On top of that nobody is getting vaccinated. This research shows conclusively that there is no lasting immunity to Covid. Not from…

Do you know people younger than 50 suddenly developing cardiovascular pathologies, like strokes and heart problems? You’re going to see a lot more of that. We’re in tragic denial. What is not understood by the public is…

The heart is just the start of the Covid damage. Endothelial damage is an organ destroyer.

Covid levels currently reasonably low in Australia. That’s about to change, with yet another variant created by uncontrolled spread of this virus. Infection can’t stop infection.

As people queue up to be infected with the next Covid variant here, XEC. You can lead a horse to water...

One interesting thing to consider when buying a car (which should be an EV of course), is insurance. Teslas for example are expensive to insure. But it’s not an EV thing, becaue BYDs cost about half as much to insure.…

We’re absolutely determined to pretend Covid is the flu. Even down to when we’re allowed to have vaccinations for Covid (annually), like we do for flu. Covid is not flu. In no way does it even resemble flu. It doesn’t…

If you know somebody whose personality changed significantly after Covid infection, particularly towards dark thoughts and depression, the most likely cause is dopamine senescence. There are neurons in the brain that…

Why is everybody so sick, all of the time now? Covid damages the immune system, leaving it wide open to other infections. Here are the increased risks currently known. There will be others. 1.40X means 1.4 times more…

A 'mild' Covid infection can take 4 years off the natural life of your kidneys. Living (much shorter lives) with Covid.

If you've been getting strange illnesses or just not feeling well, take your pick from this smorgasbord of Long Covid symptoms. Notice how they get worse with repeated infections.

An estimated 3 billion people had Covid in the past year, who don’t know it. This isn’t Covid being ‘mild’. It’s Covid being immune-evasive. Sneaking its way in.

A study in Spain found that 56% of men who had Covid had erectile dysfunction, 12 months later. It's a vascular disease, it will attack blood vessels wherever you have them.

This shows the percentage who get RE-infected every year, with Covid. Makes a laughing stock of the idea of 'hybrid immunity' governments are selling i.e. that everybody catching it is making us all more immune to it.

Freddie Mercury recording in 1982, in Munich. I was living in Germany that year, and saw him live with Queen only a few months after this shot was taken. Sharing it here for a different reason though, it was on the tour…

This bullshit review was always going to be a whitewash. The Brit’s review interrogated everybody from politicians down, grilled them. Ours was like free fellatio for all the main players. The headline is an example of…

Freddie Mercury decided to live with the threat of HIV, for a while. He thought he needed to ‘live his life’. The parallels I see with the widespread attitude towards Covid now fill me with despair. Most people probably…

The pandemic made many people rediscover the most important place on Earth again. Their own home. For many that will lead to lasting change, society is only just beginning to figure this out. The obsession to be always…

And still climbing. That’s because there is no “since the pandemic.” We’re still in the pandemic.

This is why so many people are getting so sick and so often now. By allowing ourselves to be repeatedly infected with Covid we’re doing the exact opposite to what we think we’re doing. We’re not building immunity, we’re…

In Australia there have been 4056 Covid deaths this year to August. 851 for flu and 380 for respiratory syncytial virus. You could say 'yes but they were mostly old'. They caught it from people who were young and…

A Covid morning. Phillip worked at NASA and MIT, and is now a venture capital guy working in biosecurity. Or just ignore and get on with 'living your best life' i.e. being a teenager forever.

I shared how VW is in desperate trouble. Nissan now too. Toyota has had 8-9 months of declining sales. They all knew the shift to EVs was coming, and did next to nothing. So they’re now probably toast. Like the people…

Today's trivia. What might be causing this? (Hint: it's Covid.) https://newshub.medianet.com.au/2024/11/whooping-cough-outbreak-worst-on-record/75567/

So many people I talk to about Covid look at me like I'm unhinged, like 'isn't that over?' Yeh, nah. For the second year in a row, our life expectancy has gone backwards. From the public health point of view, this is as…

If you know doctors who treat Long Covid, you will hear the most horrific, tragic stories. Your chances of having Long Covid increase enormously with every infection.

We're particularly casual about infecting children with Covid. And it's now playing out. In Finland death rates for those between 5 and 9 are up 250%. Deaths of babies 0-4 are up 38%. Australia refuses to even vaccinate…

A work colleague went to Coldplay. Came home with Covid. No better living your best life than paying hundreds to fuck your vascular system. Great soundtrack to reduced life expectancy though.

I know just about everybody I know (and don't know) will maintain a silence on Covid. They all want to believe good times are back, time to move on, 'you gotta live your life' etc. All that greeting card, live as a…

There’s a potential influenza pandemic brewing in the US. It’s doing next to nothing about it, and under Trump will do even less. Pandemic influenzas generally kill 40-50% of people who get infected, of whatever age or…

Dr Phillip Alvelda (senior research scientist in biotech, used to work for NASA) talking about the mass delusional tragedy that Covid now is, a friend's daughter and her insurance company, Kaiser as an example:…

I have 2 hybrids. Brilliant cars. But when you own one, you quickly crave full electric. The petrol component just feels like a noisy dead weight. Ask an F1 engine designer (also hybrids), and they’ll say the same…

At the current rate of infection, the entire US population will have Long Covid inside 4 years. Australia is infecting even faster (we don’t vaccinate kids). 8% of that entire population will never be able to work…

One to keep in the back pocket in case you need it, while we keep infecting the kids so we can go to gigs and Bali. How proud are we to be one of the only developed countries on Earth that doesn't even vaccinate kids,…

The next Covid wave is coming, timed to coincide with Christmas. Give the gift of lethal and debilitating infection, has a ring to it. All those Christmas parties, the virus will be rubbing its hands.

People have been encouraged to believe nothing can be done to prevent Covid, so we all just need to 'live with' (i.e. catch it) now. That's just political bullshit. For every pandemic in history, you know who ended the…

I’ve seen people bring newborns to a workplace with people there infected with Covid. Public health is dead, we have the foot on the accelerator rushing back to the Middle Ages. No doubt the same people will tell you…

Updated Covid vaccine available from 9 December. In time for Christmas, which is good. Just about everybody should have had 5 or 6 Covid shots already. I doubt many have had more than 2. Using infection instead of…

I found this story powerfully symptomatic of the times we’re now living in. The total collapse of a ‘public’ anything. People stripping power cables from streets, to sell the copper. Just outrageous, like living in…

With the insane nonsense of living with a pandemic we’ve encouraged the total collapse in control of infectious disease more generally. The single and only reason our life expectancies are now over 80 rather than 40 is…

The impression given by Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan is that it’s nuclear vs renewables. Actually it’s nothing like that at all. He doesn’t even deny renewables will generate by far the most electricity into the future,…

I got my Covid booster yesterday. I was the only person in the pharmacy, they almost seemed surprised when I asked for it. A younger person at work was also surprised, and told me vaccination should be entirely a matter…

Basic literacy and numeracy would help our public life be less stupid. One in three against something means the overwhelming majority were for it. One in six anti-vaxxers means over 80% of people supported vaccination.

One of the explanations given for why so many people seem so much more sick now, and more often, is that lockdowns caused ‘immunity debt’ i.e. people weren’t getting infected with diseases as much, so their immunity had…

The battle between gig culture and Covid can only have one winner. Ariana Grande has cancelled all her touring for 2025. (She contracted Covid filming Wicked.) Maria Carey has just had to cancel some of her Christmas…

I wish I got more pleasure watching the reality of Covid come to fruition. Watch this, only very short.

In August, 100 notable ‘creatives’ (writers, musicians etc.) boarded a ship in the Arctic circle, for a 15-day cruising adventure through the Arctic waters. Over 50% of them contracted Covid, on the trip. Some are now…

If you wonder why we ended up 'living with' a pandemic, when you read Scott Morrison's true passions, it'll become clear to you why he wasn't focused for one second on the basics of running a country. Like disease…

Just look at these numbers, from Australian actuaries. A public health disaster. Ask anybody in the street, and you’d think life was back to normal.

Second family Christmas ruined by Covid now. Thankfully not here in this household, but the extended family celebrations now wrecked. I wonder how many more years of this stupidity people will tolerate. I’m not sensing…

This person has Covid. But we’re supposed to pretend it’s over. So now they can’t even understand how sick they are, because it’s not allowed.

The maths of stupidity. The Granville train disaster killed 83 people. It’s still commemorated. Tens of thousands of people have died (and are still dying) of Covid in Australia. Our attitude to that? It’s ‘just a…

This is the cultural shift that’s almost impossible to talk about without people of that age taking great offence. (People identify themselves individually with demographic groups, but these are cultural rather than…

Why do I persist with attention to Covid? This graph helps explain why. What’s not widely known is that we had a global pandemic through most of the 20th century. Heart disease. Some really bad science made us think…

Jessica Wildfire, writing about ‘The Kraken’, XBB1.5, the latest worrying Covid variant.

File this one away so that when XBB1.5 (‘The Kraken’) eventually filters through the multiple layers of meaningless rubbish on the daily news, it won’t be unexpected. A variant now smashing the US and elsewhere, and is…

Strep and meningococcal. As overseas. Peoples’ immune systems shot by Covid.

One of the less known impacts of Covid infection is aging. It causes cells to age much more quickly. Laura Miers had a mild case of Covid, before developing Long Covid. She’s now had to change her identity picture in…

Work colleague has tonsillitis. Australia desperately short of antibiotics to treat it (she had Covid last year). Global shortages, driven by infecting the whole world like it was a fun thing to do. No end to the…

We got the whole family vaccinated for flu last year. Nobody caught Covid until Kell right at the end of the year. Given flu shots are also showing strong impact against heart diseases as well, I can’t think of a better…

Life in permanent high school, Part 347. Rock star dies: “Vale rock star, such a tragic loss.” 77 people die in a week from Covid: “Here’s a pic of us all at the beach!”

NSW desperately needs a change in March. This man is the main driver in the collapse of Australia’s public health defence against Covid as well.

Tonsillitis and conjunctivitis doing the rounds at work. Jeff Beck died of meningitis. Damaged immune systems is a possible or even likely factor. I feel like we’re about to pay for all of the Covid infection we allowed…

I’m thinking of setting up a separate group focused just on Covid information and updates. I get the feeling it’s not something most of my friends on FB enjoy discussing, so this way they could avoid it. Would be…

Covid, using Freddie as a guide. Freddie in 1984, and in 1991, immediately before his death. Medical experts suggest Freddie probably caught HIV in 1982, which corresponds also with a flu-like illness he had in that…

6 times. One to ponder for those who believe catching Covid to stop catching Covid is a good idea. Catching Covid gives you no meaningful immunity. It’s a virus that attacks the immune system.

If you work in any of these jobs (you can add cafes, supermarkets, child care centres and funeral homes to the list, they’re under (o) in the regulations), then if you catch Covid, under NSW law you are automatically…

More Australians died of Covid in 2022 than died in the Spanish Flu Pandemic here in 1918-19. The Spanish Flu was the worst pandemic since The Black Plague. Back to work today. Will be the only person in a mask again.…

I look at the holiday photos and social events people post to FB, where nobody is taking any precautions against Covid infection. And two things jump out at me. 1) So many seem to think only of risk to themselves, and…

I turn 55 this year. About a decade ago I remember a flurry of colleagues retiring at 55, with gold-plated super schemes. The schemes where you retired at 55 at your final salary, for life. Those schemes were quickly…

Pieter is one of Australia’s most elite doctors. Even other doctors speak in hushed tones about him. He doesn’t often offer a view, so when he does, it’s worth listening to. This one is such an important point. The spin…

Name something these 3 have in common: 1. The Davos World Economic Forum, in Switzerland 2. NSW parliament in Sydney 3. Parliament at Westminster in the UK. Anybody? Each has spent millions making the buildings safe…

In Australia, somebody is dying of Covid every 27 minutes.

Skipped the ’watch with free Covid’ sessions at the cinema and finally saw this yesterday. Great fun movie, amazing flight scenes. A few things: 1) the mission at the centre of the movie is a copy of the destruction of…

The German Health Minister one of the few honest politicians left in the world. Saying what I’ve been sharing here for a while, that Covid infection is possibly leading to incurable long-term damage to the immune…

Satoshi is a doctor friend from Sydney. On the frontline of treating Covid patients, for the whole pandemic. We need to listen to people like him.

Excess mortality is the number of deaths above the usual average in a given year. For the first two years of the pandemic, ours actually went negative i.e. we were healthier than we’d ever been. Now it’s 15% higher than…

Monbiot has had Covid 3 times. Every time, he caught it from a school, via one of his children. Schools are back next week, and guess what government has done to make them safer for Covid? The same thing it did last…

Social media is destroying societies. It sounds a big claim, but only a handful of years ago Trump used it to mobilise an insurrection on the Capitol, in the world’s most famous democracy. But social media’s damage goes…

Greg is one of Australia’s leading paediatricians. The same thing we’ve already seen happening in the US and UK with strep (children have died), now happening here. Covid did this, kids’ immune systems damaged, they’re…

A big study of over 640,000 people who had Covid. Showing the risk of developing autoimmune diseases as a result. The IRR column is the one to look at, I’ve converted to % risk below. So: - 43% greater risk of…

Having forced the public to buy their own tests, in a pandemic (!), governments now have a huge stockpile of RATs about to expire. I run out of words for the contempt I feel for the elected halfwits that run our…

For the third year in a row, the leading cause of death of police officers in the US? Covid.

Three catastrophes paradoxically gave us the peaceful and prosperous lives we’re used to. If you study history you’ll see that the era post-WW2 is unprecedented in human history, for its prosperity and peace. But why…

Covid spreads to these busloads who die every week, via our work and social lives. Our social life enables these deaths. I'm yet to see more than a handful of people who give the tiniest fuck. Apparently being at home…

My suggestion is we infect the few teachers remaining multiple times every year with Covid, that should help.

As night follows day, up the next wave we go. You’ll have heard people say Covid will become ‘endemic’. Covid is an epidemic disease, infecting in repeated waves. It will never become endemic (a flat line rather than…

What a load of steaming bull turds. The fantasy that all we need is a 'market', consumer choice, to drive prices down. That rubbish is what has been driving prices UP, for years. I've used all of the energy comparison…

I see quite a few people refer to John Campbell’s videos on YouTube when minimising the dangers of Covid. Campbell is an ex-nurse. If you look at Campbell’s bank balance, you can see what’s really going on. Like all the…

Come and work in childcare. We’ll pay you less than a kid working at Maccas, let you get Covid 4 times a year, and throw in some other bonus viruses if you sign up now. People do know society is falling apart right in…

The disaster that people won’t speak about. Look at the collapse in student attendance in schools, driven by mass infection and illness from Covid. Only 42% of Australian kids were at school for more than 90% of the…

Nearly 3 times as many Australians died from Covid in 2022, as died at Gallipoli.

There have been over 1000 people in hospital with Covid in Australia every day since December 27, 2021. Health care workers are probably nodding. We're using them as slaves to (we think) keep an economy running. An…

A variation on people not following speed limits, is people speeding up when overtaking lanes start, to stop people passing them. Just incredibly stupid and annoying behaviour. And HUGE numbers of people do it, despite…

It took decades for public health to make inroads against smoking. Big Tobacco has now reversed a lot of those gains in only a handful of years, with vaping. At epidemic levels in the young, exactly the demographic they…

Here’s a tip. Not catching Covid gives even better protection.

Paul Keating introduced mainstream super to Australia, because he saw it as a way to transform who holds wealth in our society, towards working people. So far it’s working. Super is the greatest financial nest egg we…

The theories I agree with, that suggest most of our chronic diseases are actually caused by infections, continue to grow in strength. Be vaccinated for everything you qualify for a vaccine for. Including an annual flu…

Getting my 5th Covid shot tomorrow. Was amazed that some people haven’t even had a 3rd. If you’re unsure, this graph may help.

Where the idiot UK government goes, we follow. They’re desperately short of workers there, first due to the stupidity of Brexit, and then Covid. The idiots assumed older workers had just retired, and had slogans ready…

Maybe we could all give up Covid for Lent?

45 dead from Covid this week in NSW. Two were under 9 years of age. *crickets*

The longer term chronic impacts of Covid are well underway. We can’t positive think our way out of them, or define them away. The definition of a pandemic is based on number of infections, not severe disease or…

Lovely exponential curve. Not even the pandemic slowed the momentum much. You can be on the wrong side of this history, it'll just mean costing you a lot of money and pride. And think about the benefits: - no more…

Interested what people make of Nick Coatsworth and Greg Dore’s views here. They’re views I’ve heard a lot in this pandemic.

More power to the actuaries, who yesterday called BS on our euphoric ‘post-Covid’ 2022, the year of mass slaughter in Australia. We’re sleepwalking into an abyss.

There’s a genuine risk of stagflation this year. Like the worst of all possible worlds. High prices, high unemployment, nobody buys anything. It happened in the 1970s, when Big Oil formed a cartel to drive oil prices…

For Covid, we’re all that happy chicken.

The story of our increased life expectancy in modern times that isn't told as often. Nearly all of it is stopping children dying. If you got to adulthood in the past, you lived to almost the same old age as we do today.…

Ed Sheeran, Harry Styles and Mardi Gras. I still won’t do social events because the pandemic isn’t over. It not only isn’t over, it’s killing 20,000 people a year in Australia. More than 2500 dead in 2023 already. The…

One of my interests well before Covid too, people probably remember. Clean air, which would also fix Covid. One of the greatest sources of this pollution in NSW, alongside cars and trucks? It’s in the article - wood…

Trivia for those who still want to avoid Covid infection (aka people who want to live a long life). Air quality readings in take away shops with big extractor fans are often excellent. Any virus floating around in the…

I read things like this, and then look around me at how people are living as if nothing is happening, as disasters that could wipe out our entire civilisation carry on, with nothing being done. Covid the same. 20,000…

With the colder months approaching, indoor air quality often collapses to pretty dire levels. It’s one of the main reasons we get more colds and flus in winter, and it’s very dangerous for Covid. A not very well known…

This is American data. You can see that nearly half of the people surveyed even today are not comfortable with public events, because of the risk of Covid. The idea the majority of people wanted ‘freedom’ back and were…

Older houses often had unflued gas or coal fires, and without these vents people would potentially die from the exhaust gases. I’ve had a few air con specialists tell me to seal these up, because they ‘lose heat’. But…

Was in a building where most people have been living the ‘Covid is over’ stuff for over a year, happy and chirpy as if life is back to good ol’ normal. Then a member of the public entered the building, wearing a mask,…

Multiple families I know struggling with multiple infections. Conjuncitivitis and tonsillitis common. Hand, foot and mouth disease too. And others. Many when I talk to them repeat the slogans politicians created to deal…

"Why are you still wearing that mask?" Because I don't want to have to inject insulin every day? Does that work for you?…

Those who confidently say ‘Covid is over’ will be delighted we’re now getting 5 waves a year.

Covid has been over for well over a year now. Somebody better tell it. Hospitalisations up 35% in the past 3 weeks. If you're wondering why NSW Health can't get staff, here's one of the elephants in the room.

I continue to share Covid things because nothing has changed, including the fantasy that it’s over. This research was for healthy people under 40, not people in aged care homes. Covid is a vascular disease, not a lung…

Nurses don’t think the pandemic is over. They take the brunt of the lives we choose to live, ignoring Covid. Like teachers, leaving in droves, with nobody to replace them. I saw a great rallying cry at one of the UK…

I posted before how the epidemic of heart disease in the 20th century is likely to have been caused by earlier infections, not diet. The Spanish Flu one likely culprit. Research now showing Parkinson’s Disease may be…

I shared recently how Multiple Sclerosis is now known to be caused by long-term (chronic) infection with Epstein Barr virus, the virus that causes glandular fever. Now they’ve discovered the chronic infection that…

Everybody I talk to who works in an essential industry says the situation is dire. Nobody can get staff, experienced staff they have are walking out the door, either fed up with the work or going somewhere else for a…

Having crippled our Covid response, the morons on social media are back to attacking meteorologists, about climate change. Social media was invented by Americans to implement their political views of how societies work,…

Two things weren’t common before the 20th century, and that tells us that we’ve probably been looking at them the wrong way. Those two things are heart disease, and obesity. Both rare before last century. We even link…

Gee you know I’m sure Covid was over. I remember schools closing all the time because of infectious disease as a kid and as a teacher. Pig’s arse. Only 20 years ago there would have been calls to jail people responsible…

The big con is that we stopped lockdowns. We did nothing of the sort. We privatised them. We went from locking down the virus to stop it spreading, to letting it spread and getting the infected to lock themselves down…

This is the stuff I’m really struggling with. Social events, workplaces, restaurants, pubs - you name it. All with no Covid protections. I can’t live a life pretending the pandemic is over, and we can all just go back…

As always I share Covid things not to be a scaremonger or because I'm obsessed, but because you will rarely see any of it, anywhere else. Politicians have deliberately suppressed the information. I also only share from…

The reason given for not vaccinating young kids in Australia is that Covid is mostly mild in them. Two things to say about that. Firstly the *acute* infection with Covid may be mild, as it is for many adults i.e. the…

If you have Covid and knowingly mix in public with others without taking precautions, you’re committing a crime under the NSW Public Heath Act. Punishable with a large fine, and 6 months in prison. (Covid is a category…

Reports of Australia entering its 5th Covid wave. Lots of infection out there, be careful. Also, counting is an early childhood skill not mastered by some journalists.

I often post about how most of our chronic diseases (cancer, heart disease, MS etc.) are probably caused by chronic infections i.e. getting infected in younger life and the pathogen then living in your body for years,…

Enormous numbers of Australians are hugely under-vaccinated for Covid. Here’s how dangerous that is. The latest boosters, which are shot 4 or 5 for the smart ones still bothering to get them, have an effectiveness of…

This graph is so interesting, you can read so much of our current lives in it. Notice how older Australians (the red circle) share an information space (mostly TV) that creates for them a feeling of Australia as a…

At the moment it’s thought between 10-20% of people who get Covid will also get Long Covid. Or in simpler words, will end up with chronic disease, potentially lethal, or potentially lifelong if it doesn’t kill you.…

The overwhelming majority of anti-vaccine and anti-Covid-action propaganda has been traced back to only 12 people posting to social media. 12, creating a worldwide public health disaster. You'd hope people who swallow…

A bit of trivia to add to this quote. Most say Covid is mild in children. In the US nearly 2000 children have died. More than 14,000 have been hospitalised. 245,000 children have lost one or both parents, to Covid.…

Any of the passengers in this car could have said ‘whoa, slow down’. They didn’t because they didn’t want to look like killjoys. And so now they’re dead. This is exactly the psychology that is preventing people doing…

My workplace has been near-empty for weeks. People so, so sick. With Covid, and secondary infections, often caused by Covid (but nobody tells them that). There’s another big surge in Covid cases in Australia right now,…

A study has found significant brain inflammation is common a year after even mild Covid infection. I post a lot about the longer-term chronic impact of infections. Polio had it too, as you can see. MS is glandular…

These are some of the symptoms of lymphophenia, a disorder where your blood doesn’t have enough white blood cells to fight off infections. Sometimes seen with diseases that attack the immune system, like diabetes, and…

Hands up if you knew another 64 died from Covid this week, in NSW? SIXTY-FOUR PEOPLE. Over 2600 dead this year in Australia. It’s like Monopoly money, nobody cares.

Despite the language used, Covid doesn’t infect in ‘waves’. It’s not like Russia and Ukraine, marshalling troops for the next surge. Humans spread Covid. We are the waves. Waves go down when we take precautions, and go…

This is a quick Twitter thread, out of the UK. It will give you an insight into the breathtaking deception going on, with Covid. The outright lying to the public, and massive suppression of data, and the public also…

Extra Covid stories from me right now, because there’s another surge in cases, brought about by another surge of couldn’t give a fuck by just about everybody. I’m not sure if 1 in 20 brings people comfort, if they…

A quick Covid guide. 'Mild, like a cold or flu' - moron. 'We have to live with it' - moron. 'Getting it will build your immunity' - moron. 'We'll reach herd immunity' - moron. 'Your immune system gets stronger with…

Consultant cardiologist and Long Covid researcher.

Remember Tupperware parties? The brilliant idea that to break down resistance to people buying things, the smartest way is to get your own friends to flog them to you. This is the secret to understanding all society and…

From the Orange paper. A pharmacist saying lockdowns made us more vulnerable to diseases, because we weren't getting sick as much. (Technically called the 'immunity debt' hypothesis.) The thing is, it's scientific…

Death certificates are often signed by junior doctors. They're under extreme political pressure to continue to deny the reality of Covid, and suppress statistics about it.

Some may have seen in the news yesterday that Covid is now known to fuse and therefore destroy brain cells. Here it is captured in video. By all means keep believing the people who tell you it's a mild sniffle. Their…

Today's Covid update that governments don't want you to see. 81 dead in NSW this week. 64 last week. A whole large hospital full of sick Covid patients. If it was me, I'd put a mask on. But you may like your brain cells…

The speed of development of the Covid vaccines was one of the greatest scientific achievements of all time. Normally it takes 10 years to develop any successful vaccine. They did it in 1. How? They used AI. AI is…

A senior doctor friend tells me some major hospitals are currently nearly at code black i.e. not functioning. The whole thing is a farce, but again, nobody cares or does anything. 10 people die in a bus crash and we do…

TB now too. People sick with everything, because their immune systems are under assault from Covid infections. Covid damages the immune system. They 'recover' from Covid and then every other bacterium and virus piles…

T.Ryan Gregory is one of the strongest international scientific voices speaking out at the public health disaster we’re still inside. Read this long list of lies that he debunks, that are in common use in Australia too.…

Graham is a consultant radiologist. Please avoid being infected by Covid. The acute ‘I’m sick’ phase is possibly a doorway to a lifetime of chronic disease. A much shorter lifetime.

Take that, Robbie, said Covid. (See what I did there?) Long Covid is a stupid term. Everybody who gets Covid will possibly have it in their bodies, for life. Like those who get chickenpox. What it does there we're…

One of the reasons I went with a battery for us is this. I'm not confident the deadlines are going to be met, and if they're not, the whole electricity system in Australia is in serious trouble. 2-3 decades of total…

Have a look at the public health messaging they have in NZ. Our governments here in Australia won’t allow these facts to be publicised.

More for the fans of the private sector. Also the thinking that's driving our Covid (non)-response. This CEO (Stockton Rush) is on the missing sub, experiencing the joys of the absence of 'red tape' as he runs out of…

This is from the official news for GPs. I don't make this stuff up. Warnings of a 'pandemic of cardiovascular disease', caused by Covid infection. Just as Spanish Flu likely caused the pandemic of heart disease we had…

I haven’t been to a conference in years, and don’t remember learning anything at any of them. Apparently this mass dancing thing is now common. Like being in pre school again. The icing on the cake with this one? It’s a…

Latest estimate of people with Long Covid globally. 400 million.

The economic cost of Long Covid in the US is now at $3.7 trillion. Nearly 20% of total GDP.

10-14 year olds now. Note 'excess deaths', many won't have Covid written on their death certificates, because nobody will have traced the link. But excess deaths shows the link. Covid causes many other conditions that…

New weapons against Covid are coming, like inhaled vaccines up to 5 times more powerful than the injected ones. These vaccines also target your upper respiratory tract, to help prevent transmission of the disease. The…

Wilcannia is a famous outback town. Like all outback towns, the history is one of expansion of some empire. Nearly always mining (Broken Hill, Lightning Ridge, White Cliffs) or agriculture (Bourke, Wilcannia to some…

Banning mobile phones in schools is a great idea. Though the real problem is the social media apps on the phones, not the phones. And to take it a step further, the disruption those apps cause to education (huge) is…

Leading the world. Have been for years. About the only smart thing Australia has done in the past 30 years. (I’m actually all ears if you can think of anything else.) That and control Covid, but we stopped doing that.

Flu has killed two children in Australia this month, and is rampant in children in particular. Likely children with immune damage from Covid infection. And now see the UK, just another of a long list of pathogens…

This is so interesting. Where vaccination rates are high, for any disease, deaths from malignant cancer are lower. Cancer is (I’m sure, based on research underway globally for a while) heavily caused by infections. As…

The bottom placenta in the image is profoundly damaged, and is from a woman who had Covid-19 during pregnancy. Covid is a vascular disease, it can attack blood vessels, everywhere.

A tutor at a uni openly admitted yesterday that he had Covid, while sitting in a tutorial room full of students. Wearing a mask, but removing it regularly. I think it’s worth pointing out to people that if you have…

You don’t have to like cricket to find the Ashes interesting, for what it reveals about modern life in the UK. Like Brexit and Covid, the Brits are Trumpian now, making up their own realities, despite the fact none of…

That some NRL players wear headgear interests me. Not sure if they think it protects them from the brain damage many players are now experiencing (it doesn’t), but even if so it shows real grit to go against the crowd…

Claims we’re ‘living with Covid’ are all bullshit. Good example here of the music industry. Lots happens behind the scenes to try to keep shows on the road. Often it fails, and even where tours go ahead most lose big…

Both climate change and Covid smashed this mass event. We carry on as if life is normal. In reality it’s falling apart, I don’t know a single important industry that’s not in serious trouble.

“But I am just not getting better.” Covid after-effects, immune system damaged, can’t fight off disease. A bit like HIV. You don’t have a head cold for weeks. This is what we’re seeing everywhere who chose to ‘live with…

You really should watch this. The outrageous story (that some of us have lived firsthand) of the privatisation of the pubic service, through outsourcing to the big 4 consulting firms. More than 15,000 public servants…

Nothing cuts through the bullshit of peoples' opinions faster than insurance (a big part of my current job). For example, you can believe climate change isn't a human-induced disaster, or that you can 'live with Covid'.…

I’ve been called a ‘germaphobe’ a few times in recent weeks. Because I still wear a mask. I couldn’t care less, the people who said it are like most people in this pandemic, dumb as a box of hammers. Covid isn’t ‘germs’…

One of the most disturbing examples of the collapse of public health in Australia is seeing pregnant young women taking no Covid precautions at all. No masks, no avoiding large indoor crowds etc. I think most are…

Over 3,300 people died because of Covid in the first 4 months of this year, in Australia. That rate of death is still climbing, and is projected to be even higher in the next quarter. Thousands upon thousands of deaths.…

Imaging from autopsies, showing Covid had taken up residence in the bone marrow of peoples’ skulls, and in the meninges. That’s what it does, your ‘mild’ illness is just the on-ramp. It uses your blood vessels and…

“Deaths among young Americans documented in employee life insurance claims should alone set off alarms. Among working people 35 to 44 years old, a stunning 34% more died than expected in the last quarter of 2022, with…

Most of the early settlers to Australia were from the UK. So here’s a mystery. The famous Australian accent doesn’t sound like *any* of the UK accents. Not even blended in some way. Know what it sounds just like?…

Vaccinations were the reason people seemed happy to throw all Covid caution to the wind. You need a Covid vaccination every 6 months to maintain any meaningful immunity. Even amongst oldest Australians, we can’t get 50%…

(Covid causes erectile dysfunction. It attacks blood vessels.)

It’s about respect. There should be no debates on topics like climate change, or Covid. There are thousands of people highly trained to know what to do, for both. They can’t do it, because of millions obstructing their…

I’d be genuinely curious to know how many times people have had Covid. (That they know of anyway.)

I share all of this data because governments don't want people to talk about it. It's not a conspiracy, we've been lied to, blatantly and repeatedly. 'We have to learn to live with this virus' was an election slogan…

The new Health Minister defends this by saying 'we've got to learn to live with Covid and return to normal.' You hear that a lot, it's a slogan, completely free of any actual information. In reality what's 'normal' for…

In your own words, what does ‘we have to learn to live with Covid, to get back to normal’ mean?

When the pandemic hit, for whatever reason people and builders decided to build more houses than they had in more than a decade. The industry tried to respond, but is geared to do a certain number of new builds per…

When bullshit hits the brick wall of reality. Any public person who's advocated letting kids catch Covid should make sure they have some money put aside for legal representation.

If ‘just like the flu’ pressed your buttons, for Covid, here’s the rules for flu and schools, in NSW. None of this is being done for Covid, a much more dangerous disease. I know this likely bores and annoys people who…

Billie has Long Covid.

Anna is a Bathurst girl. Covid damages the immune system, which then makes people, including kids, much more vulnerable to other infections like strep. There’s been a big surge of dangerous strep infections in kids…

When Covid comes to call, and you don't realise because everybody told you it's over.

Social media decouples people so completely from reality that they do things like storm the parliament, and then wonder why they get 22 years in jail. Just wait until the people who let a pandemic rip end up on trial.…

Again I post this stuff because our Covid strategy is to ignore all of it. But only children think disasters stop when you ignore them.

Somebody asked me the other day how many varieties of Covid we now have. The last public mention of variants by politicians was really Omicron, last year. As you can see, Covid has been having a field day since.…

One of the most interesting theories is that the Spanish Flu pandemic caused the 20th century epidemic of heart disease. The flu virus took up residence in peoples' bodies after they thought that pandemic was over, and…

I have friends who are actuaries. Actuaries are an excellent BS detector, because they calculate risks and those calculations are tied to peoples’ money. So no matter how much spin and propaganda is out there, reality…

And people still think Covid is like a cold. That line hasn't stopped heading up.

Last Covid for the day.

In simple terms, catching Covid is likely just the on-ramp for the virus to take up residence in your body. It may persist there for the rest of your life, causing potentially crippling and even fatal disease.…

4 Corners on Qantas. Plane toilets not being cleaned with disinfectant. Staff handling wet tissues, used masks and soiled nappies with their bare hands. Tray tables cleaned with the same wet cloth, with no disinfectant.…

Listeria is mostly mild, often asymptomatic. It tends to kill only ‘the vulnerable’, and can even be cured by antibiotics if diagnosed. And yet it’s an excellent measure of how corrupted our Covid response is, because…

Deborah summarising here Professor Brendan Crabb's assessment of the current Covid situation. Brendan is one of Australia's leading infectious disease experts, and an acquaintance of mine (one of the people I get Covid…

You may have seen in the news the disaster varroa mite is for our beekeepers. The story they don't tell is why the eradication effort failed. Because beekeepers themselves decided to apply the approach we're using with…

Populism is the political system we now live under. It’s not Labor, Liberal, National or Green. It’s not Left or Right. It’s much simpler than that. It’s a politics that says what is most popular, is right. It replaces…

What’s less known about populism (believing that only what is popular is right and real) is that fascism is just a form of populism. Fascism is what you get if you let populism run. Hitler and Mussolini for example…

The insurance industry invented fire brigades. It was in their obvious interest to try to protect the property they insure. It's the place I always go to to strip away the bullshit political spin around a topic. With…

None of this happened before social media. Laurence Fox here, famous Brit actor whose wife Billie Piper dumped him for being an unhinged loon. Social media got to him, as it gets to millions of others. I have close…

From a story today about schools being closed if they’re in a bushfire risk situation. I want somebody to explain what this parent means by ‘but at what cost?’ That if it means keeping them home for the day, let them…

For those seduced by the slogan that Covid 'only kills old people'. Most diseases only kill old people.

Clive Ellis in this video is the reason everybody should ignore the conspiracy loons, on everything. His second bout of Covid, his first gave him no meaningful immunity. You can’t infect your way out of a pandemic.

If you think Covid is over, ask your insurance company if they agree. Insurers ignore political spin.

The interesting question here is, what are they going to make people 'aware' of? 'Hey people, lots of you are having heart attacks, please stop'? I'm betting it won't be 'Covid, even mild cases, and even if you're…

These are the stories that haven’t been allowed to be told for more than 3 years. I’m sure you can see why, if you watch it. The most powerful 20 minutes of anything I’ve watched in a long time, none of that confected,…

The same society that kills tens of thousands of people a year with Covid, because otherwise it would be too disruptive to our lifestyles.

How did we think linking together all of the world's most stupid people into a political force, through social media, was going to end well? The danger is that it has power, Trump's mob for example organised through…

Bathurst’s bats. This will happen more all the time now, as we trash the rest of the landscape and plants and animals come looking for somewhere to survive. I came up with a concept of ‘reality-based politics’, which…

People patient and smart enough to continue avoiding Covid will be rewarded with new tools that are coming quickly. Nasal vaccines, that will give (long-lasting) immunity not just to severe disease, but to catching…

Pandemics aren't the normal, where big things only come from the actions of millions of individuals. In a pandemic individuals can shape the fate of millions. Every person you see wearing a mask has likely saved…

Here's a story of the pandemic that is never told. How we jumped straight from government action, to 'personal responsibility'. Leaving business completely off the hook. We've had WHS laws for a century that they should…

You won’t convince most No voters to change their minds, because they’re not using their minds. As with EVs, climate change, renewables, Covid and everything else, they’re cheering on their ‘team’. It’s team sports,…

Arijit is a friend, a research scientist. Reality doesn’t give a shit about your feelings. About whether you’re ‘over’ Covid, bored with it.

My politics? Get rid of all elections, all referendums. All political team sports (parties). There are very simple, clear things that need doing to fix our worst problems, none of which need a popularity-based mechanism…

New study which examined the impact of Covid infection on the brains of dogs, extrapolated to humans.

The problem is easy to see, and nobody wants to admit it. Social media is a disaster for societies, a 24/7 assault on the trust that holds them together. It makes all views equivalent, the most pig-ignorant, bigoted…

New nasty wave of Covid brewing. A little true story to motivate you to not catch it. "A nurse said Long Covid made her so forgetful she thought she had early-onset Alzheimer's. She would get in the car and forget where…

From today officially suppressing all meaningful information about Covid. Trying to make the problem go away by pretending it no longer exists.

I wonder if young people today aren’t really into band/live music culture as much, and this is the pandemic accelerating a trend that was already happening. Nothing anchors people permanently in adolescence more than…

Nurses and teachers are being screwed so we get to continue meaningless recreational lifestyles, while somebody minds the kids, and looks after us when we get Covid for the 15th time.

This could fundamentally change the cruise industry. As in destroy it. And not a bad thing either.…

When Australia led the world in defeating HIV in the 1980s it was largely due to a brilliant health minister, Neal Blewett. If you’re wondering why we’re doing nothing at all about Covid, here’s our current health…

Covid is evolving 2.5 times faster than flu, the previous world champion at evolving to avoid our immunity. Because we're not stopping its spread, it's having an evolutionary field day. That 'mild' nonsense people say?…

Another surge of Covid about. Take care. It’s not good for you.

Another surge. Remember when they said Covid would become ‘endemic’? It will never become endemic, it’s an epidemic virus. It could keep infecting in waves for centuries, unless we stop it. I still mask, pretty much…

New Covid after-effects today, a work colleague. Allergic reactions in the face, itchy, red and hives. Like Woogie in There's Something About Mary. Likely Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, a nasty immune impact after Covid…

Emerging symptoms in kids for latest versions of Covid.

We’ve been ‘living with’ pathogens ever since we invented antibiotics and vaccines. Before that we avoided them at all costs. That living with was always a mistake that was going to catch up with us. They’re living…

Friend at work was onto Day 2 yesterday of very nasty immune issues, eyes puffed up like they’d done 12 rounds of boxing. Some of the hives on the face now suppressed with double-dosings of antihistamines. Is assuming…

Trump asked his experts if swishing disinfectant through the lungs would fix Covid. Our homegrown elected halfwits told us a year ago there’d be no more waves of infection (in the year since we’ve doubled the number of…

Now is the time to act if you don't want Covid for Christmas. I'm not holding my breath that most will.…

‘Just like the flu’, the slogan about Covid. Australia has had 2 bad flu years in the past decade. Right now Australia is killing more people every *quarter* with Covid than die in a bad flu year. 40 years of bad flu…

We're not living with Covid. We're pretending it went away. That pretending is killing record numbers of people, and leaving millions of others potentially with lifelong chronic illness. Slogans are not science.

Huge decision here. A mother suffering from Type 1 diabetes was told by her local school principal that she wasn't allowed to have her child learn from home to prevent her catching COVID from the school. The Department…

'Living with the virus'. Just not as long. We're trashing a century of public health achievement. But at least we can go to gigs and fly to Bali. Welcome to Teenage World.

Let me know if you see anybody suggest ‘living with’ tuberculosis. You won’t. Covid is much more dangerous than TB. You won’t find another disease anywhere that we’re asked to ‘live with’. Humans have never, not once in…

🙄 The gastro is likely also Covid. ‘Hundreds’ infected.

Aged care Covid cases in Australia, yellow is aged care staff, red is residents. Left picture is 3 months ago, right is now.

One of the finest modern examples of adults now being lifelong teenagers is them thinking that “I’m over the pandemic” is the same thing as ”the pandemic is over”.

We're infecting everybody. Let that sink in, the social implications of that if Covid ends up having catastrophic longer-term health outcomes, like HIV/AIDS. We didn't let the entire population get HIV, our society…

How do you 'live with' a 'brutal Covid bomb'? Are we done with this dumb yet? I know, too many gigs, trips and restaurants to do. What's the morality of killing people so your recreational lifestyle isn't interrupted?

Our grandparents could (and did) often die from something as simple as a scratch. We think those times are over. But we’re deluding ourselves, vastly overusing antibiotics and loading far too much weight onto vaccines,…

A daily vaccination against social media slogans. This one for the claims that solar panels and windmills produce as much if not more waste than fossil fuels.

A concerning explosion in ‘mystery’ pneumonia in China, targeting teachers and students most for now. Not fully responsive to usual treatments. As always, I think the mystery is an easy one to solve, immune system…

Been saying this here for the entire pandemic.

If people only understood how many pies Covid has its fingers in.

Probably quite a lot of people aren’t aware of the difference between public health and medicine. Public health isn’t doctors or nurses, or rather it’s very specific types of doctors, who work on the health of the…

What the deliberate destruction of Covid testing does. The yellow line is test results. The blue is Covid found in wastewater samples at sewage treatment plants.

A mapping of Covid variants. When you allow a pathogen free rein to infect people at will, it will keep evolving. We’re not throwing any resistance at it, so it’s doing whatever it likes. At this rate of evolution it’s…

People are getting sick much more now with a whole variety of things because Covid is damaging their immune systems. If you’re lining up to get multiple Covid infections because you don’t want to miss holidays or gigs…

Some say that you need to ‘balance’ things like climate change or Covid, against ‘the economy’. It’s a myth, have a look here. The Panama Canal is drying out, due to climate change. Huge parts of the world ‘economy’ are…

Got my Covid booster. The government hasn't ordered enough but I guess they're factoring in that many haven't bothered in a while. Here's a sweetener.

See the purple light at the back of the room here? That's germicidal UV light, used to sterilise the air. It would likely be invisible to people there, but the digital camera picked it up. Lots is done to protect…

Germany’s health minister really tries. Germany is facing its greatest wave of the pandemic so far, making a nonsense of the idea that Covid is over. And he points out at that people shouldn’t be catching Covid over and…

In this last week leading up to Christmas, where people will want to be socialising heavily, a quick story about the current Covid variant. One of Sydney’s elite schools, which has invested in clean air technology and…

Covid is a vascular disease. Not like colds, or flu. It will go wherever you have blood vessels. And once it arrives, if you can pardon the technical French phrase, it will fuck you over.…

Queensland's Chief Health Officer (CHO) was a political appointment, to replace their previous CHO, who often told embarrassing truths about Covid. (They made her Governor to shut her up.) Have a look how it's going.…

Whooping cough, Denmark. A combination of immune system damage from Covid infection, and anti-vax loons getting real traction in society now, via social media.

You may have seen John Campbell online during the pandemic, with lots of videos encouraging people to be less concerned about Covid. Now accountability is coming for him, and he’s running away. Social media influencers…

Covid prevalence is about the same in Australia as in the US. So this US guide is probably pretty accurate for here too. Every Covid infection can be the one that sets you up for years of chronic illness. There are no…

Wanted to share this about HIV, because this is the huge risk we’re taking with Covid. On the left, the ‘primary infection’ (both graphs) is the point you catch the disease. Like when you get Covid right now. But the…

JN.1 is the current variant of concern for Covid circulating in the community. XBB1.5 is the new vaccine (I got mine before Christmas). Here’s the data on protection. I’ve circled the following scenarios in red: -…

A prominent Australian Senator calls Nick Coatsworth the ‘Fabio of Australian medicine’. This is the Dr Nick who said Covid isn’t airborne, and that it’s fine to infect kids. He’s become quite the weathervane of idiot…

Health staff being forced back to work to stop the hospital system collapsing should make us all extremely angry. Especially when accompanied with day after day of bullshit vomiting out of the mouths of politicians…

Westfield Parramatta during Delta lockdown. Westfield Parramatta today. Let virus spread = no Economy. There is no such thing as an Economy.

Basic science lacking in the Covid news. Like ‘living with the virus’, Covid becoming ‘endemic’. Covid is an epidemic disease, it will never become endemic. Like smallpox. For centuries smallpox followed the same…

Unless we stop it spreading, this can continue for centuries. Forget hospitalisations, ICU, the Economy, all of that. A pandemic is defined by how many people get INFECTED. Nothing else. That’s what we have to stop.…

Hospitalisations and ICU growing exponentially. Now nearly 200 more people into hospital each day. Oz politicians following the UK spin path, already saying ‘it’s not ICU, it’s how many on ventilators’. And then ‘some…

So you struggle to get a PCR test. And now if you want a RAT, you’ll be up for $10-$12 a pop. Which means for most working families, you won’t bother. At least NSW said it would provide these for free, let’s see how…

Sorry, yes it’s Covid again. So many dimensions to the dangerous nonsense out there. It’s better to think of Covid like asbestos. You don’t fully recover from each infection, each one does more damage to your body.…

Next Covid prediction. Rapid antigen tests will be free nationwide within a week.

In today’s Covid news, in response to the exponentially growing hospitalisations for Covid, the PM wants National Cabinet to…redefine hospitalisations for Covid. As always, not fixing any problems, just creating spin to…

How epidemic diseases trick us. It’s all in the downwards part of the waves. The red arrows. This current Omicron outbreak for example will likely end in about 2-4 weeks. Will it end because Covid is beaten, the…

Hot tip. Don’t vote for the party who opened up the country to mass infection, but didn’t order any tests. Just as they didn’t order vaccines. Just as they don’t do anything except rort grants to win elections.…

Who knew going out to get Covid would be so unpopular.

Paul McDermott (the comedian, ex-DAAS, Good News Week etc.) contracted Covid just before Christmas. He’s double-vaxxed. His story is worth reading (extract below). “On Christmas Eve I posted my PCR test results showing…

Thanks to Nancy for sharing. This is what’s happening in supermarkets, staff off sick with Covid. When will the farce of ‘living with Covid’ end? Why do we meekly accept such rubbish? Imagine if we had tuberculosis…

Sometimes I think it’s complete ignorance of infectious disease history that explains what’s going on right now. Take polio, as an example. Many I ask aren’t even aware that for the majority of people who caught polio,…

Bathurst Coles, yesterday. Nobody is ‘panic buying’. The staff who make the goods, distribute them and put them on shelves - all of those industries are struggling with mass Covid infection.

A pandemic is defined by number of infections. ‘Living with’ Covid means the infections never end, and the pandemic doesn’t either.

That’s 2 from 2 in the prediction game. (He’s still being a cheapskate with this announcement, just staggering that he won’t demand ineligible businesses repay $40 billion of JobKeeper payments they stole, but still…

Mike Ryan, one of the WHO’s most senior public health experts, on what we’ve done wrong in this pandemic. Really worth a minute of your time. Particularly on the last sentence, notice how our leaders have the whole time…

The NSW Government has an excellent Critical Intelligence Unit, which releases some of the most useful Covid stats. It’s where you can see how the trickery is done in trying to suppress hospital numbers, for starters,…

In talking to people, the thing I find that is creating the greatest risk to us all is the old favourite - ‘live with the virus’. A political slogan, that millions repeat with no thought at all. Politicians have…

Up to half of truck delivery drivers for supermarkets are sick with Covid. The PM’s response: “We need truck drivers to keep on trucking”. While sick, presumably. We’re well beyond farce.

The previously healthy, double-vaxxed 20 year old who died of Covid today got surprisingly little attention.

Many have asked about terms - endemic, pandemic, epidemic etc. The picture describes it well. Covid is an epidemic disease, and because it’s spreading across the whole world, it’s now a pandemic (pan - international).…

NSW Government having a Crisis Cabinet meeting this morning, to discuss significant new restrictions. How many times do we have to go through this same charade, with every wave, before people realise if you open up…

Why I suggest thinking of Covid as being like asbestos, not like flu. It does lasting, chronic damage. This is even for people who have such a mild case that they don’t even know they have it.

James is a smart operator, a very nice guy who also works inside the NSW Government. Has been in the press recently about his own experience with Covid. Nails it here, we’re back in 2020, except this time we’re paying…

Average flu year NSW: 2000 in hospital. Covid: 20,000 in hospital. ‘Just like the flu’.

Let’s be smarter than this constant bullshit, hey? About this being about ‘panic buying’. It’s not. It’s about thousands of workers being infected with Covid. The politicians would like nothing more than for us to start…

From NSW Health yesterday. Three things: 1) those beds are required for everybody who is sick enough to require hospitalisation, and 2) ICU capacity in NSW is 1000 beds, but again that’s for all conditions. 300-500…

The ‘Economy’ is the worst it’s been for the entire pandemic. Lockdowns would be less damaging. (There is no Economy, just more proof.) Here’s the thing. ‘Living with the virus’ isn’t the opposite of ‘eliminating the…

Kerry Chant explained the ban on dancing yesterday. When you dance, you mix with people from multiple social networks at once, rather than only with the friends and family you see every day. So it allows the virus to…

Excellent question that very few are asking. You can’t just keep giving booster shots. Ultimately you have to stop the spread of the virus. That’s what ‘elimination’ means. That’s why the smart people who deal with…

The politics of language. ‘Living with’ natural disasters. Take floods. We live with floods, in that we know they will sometimes happen. We DON’T live with them WHILE THEY ARE HAPPENING. We live with floods, but we…

Smartest pandemic people in the country. We’re in a crisis, and nobody is listening.

Might need to contextualise these. John Snow was the father of epidemiology i.e. the study of disease patterns and causes, in public health. Most famously he discovered that cholera was being spread by dirty water in…

Australia letting Covid rip for the Economy.

Christmas 2021. When the people of Australia, tired from fighting Covid for 2 years, were thanked by their governments by infecting them with it.

There are so many ways to end this pandemic. We’re doing none of them.

School has been back in the UK for about 2 weeks. 315,000 children already in isolation for Covid. Wake up Australia.

National Cabinet today decided the best approach is to return to the 19th century. - no isolation period at all now for key workers - ‘key workers’ is now just about everybody - Chief Medical Officer of Australia says…

When you read these, I’m sure some think ‘ok, more than 63,000 infected yesterday, but that will speed up the end of the pandemic’. It won’t, it won’t stop them getting re-infected, again and again. Pointless infection…

There were 54 Covid deaths in NSW and Victoria today. Those people contracted Covid around the last week of December, leading into Christmas. There were around 8000 cases per day in the 2 States, at that time. There are…

NSW Health confirmed today that you can be re-infected with Covid after only 4 weeks. Infecting the whole country won’t end the pandemic.

I wanted to talk about 2 things we’re told not to talk about, but I think we must. Politics and religion. My views on them, so people have a reference point. Politics first. My personal political leanings are to…

Please everybody. Read this. Throw away every other source of information and advice you may be using to understand this pandemic, and read this.

If you want a flavour of just what low-life bastards the NSW Government are, this is one of many, many stories I’ve heard about parents trying to buy air purifiers for their kids’ schools, to protect them from Covid.…

Think it’s worth saying again that Covid and climate change are the same issue. Clean air. All known life in the entire universe is in that thin blue line. You can’t see the Economy from space.

Novak was strategy, people. To distract us all from the total chaotic disaster of our Covid response. Worked exactly as planned.

Political slogans about living with the virus have people now actively going out to try to catch it. We may have reached peak stupid. But I’m not calling it, we may find even more stupid things to do yet. This won’t…

Look at the wording, straight out of the 'Stop the Boats' playbook, trying to weaponise the Novak saga into a border control issue, for the election, and a 'don't look at the Covid shitshow' distraction. Laughably,…

I walked some of the streets of Bathurst in my lunch break today. Pubs, restaurants, cafes - many deserted. Not a soul inside. Very few shoppers about either, eerily quiet. Infection has destroyed the ‘Economy’. Today…

Parents to supervise classrooms with mass staff infections. (Let’s see how many volunteer to do that.) Kids to be swabbed twice a week. Come on people, let’s be grown ups. Just as you wouldn’t send kids to school in a…

Think about the logic of this. A test paid for by government is not ‘free’ - it’s OUR money, buying a test for us. What we’ve ended up with instead is us paying twice - once in taxes, and then out of our own wallets at…

The Australian virologist Ian Mackay produced the 'Swiss Cheese Model' of Covid control, an excellent tool to understand why vaccines alone aren't enough. They're just one slice of the cheese.

This false choice the Premier offers, between what we're doing right now (nothing) and a 'lockdown', is one I hear parroted by his supporters too. There are about 500 things we could do without needing a lockdown (see…

From the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Definitely not bedwetters. Letting case numbers explode much worse for the Economy than lockdowns. And takes much longer to recover too.

Kerry Chant: - we don't know when the peak might be - schools will drive case numbers - current vaccines won't make the pandemic end, and - NSW should expect a year of continuing epidemic waves.

Omicron is ‘mild’ Covid. Apparently. So tired of the endless, relentless, gaslighting bullshit.

Returning to this, over 100,000 people caught Covid in NSW between Christmas and New Year. It takes about 3 weeks for cases to start translating into deaths. That’s what that explosive growth in deaths line now is. That…

Remember when politicians pretended schools had to be open in a pandemic, because of childrens’ education and mental health? They don’t even pretend that’s the reason now. The PM, yesterday. In the meantime,…

So many Covid updates. Now the NSW Government wants to waive RSAs for bar staff in pubs. Because the interruption to the free flow of booze is obviously a State emergency. (P.S. guess who's a big donor to political…

I suggest replacing National Cabinet with kids, and getting the politicians to drive the forklifts. Pandemic over.

Like all service professions, teaching is treated like dirt. Nobody, not ONCE, has asked teachers about Covid in schools. Just as they don’t ask nurses about Covid in hospitals. Instead we have opinionated…

In other Covid news, the 4th booster dose data in Israel shows it to have been a failure. We got nothin’. And people think it’s all over.

TMZ reporting MeatLoaf died of Covid. And this was his support for the Clapton/Van Morrison Covid minimiser song. He was also reported in the past year saying masks are oppression. Your beliefs can kill you.

Over 40 people at my workplace have Covid. Meantime I have some friends who have been allowed to work from home for the past 2 years, or who are retired, telling me the whole thing is not as bad as is made out. I’m sure…

Watched a bit of BBL last night, and struggled to see a single person in the stands. BBL crowds have been staggeringly low this year, as few as 480 people. I don’t think it’s the format, which people still like (though…

Virologists like Teng say this so that people understand Covid won’t just go away because we ignore it. Even though the measles vaccine gives near sterilising immunity, and catching it does for years too, we’re still…

Drove past the Lithgow drive-through Covid testing at the Showground yesterday. Not one person there. Use it, don’t spend your own money on RAT tests that aren’t as good. We don’t want government to have an excuse to…

Diseases that were endemic in Australia 100 years ago. Malaria Tuberculosis Rubella Diphtheria Polio Measles None are endemic now. Societies don’t live with nasty pathogens. They get rid of them. We can do it now with…

In populist democracy, numbers = power. In Western democracies, numbers = boomers. Boomers are about to face widespread infection in their own demographic, for the first time in this pandemic. Let’s see how that plays…

The great public health story of the 20th century was the huge reduction in child mortality. The great 21st century public health story is ‘let’s send kids back to school not even fully vaccinated, in the middle of a…

Do we all think 'we're all going to get TB or HIV eventually'? No? So don't do it for Covid. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/16/no-intention-of-getting-infected-understanding-omicrons-severity

The 3rd vaccine shot is your best protection right now against dying from Covid. Don't delay it even a single day.

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In the UK, 400,000 kids are off school, infected with Covid. Some are being infected multiple times. What do we think will happen here next week?

There was a pile-on last year when the Queensland Premier said 80 people could die of Covid, per day. 'Alarmism', 'doomsayer', etc. Guess how many are dying of Covid per day in Australia, right now?

A week ago the NSW Government quietly signed an exemption to Public Health Orders to exempt employers from reporting Covid acquired in the workplace to SafeWork Australia. Now they only need to if an employee is…

In August last year, Australians were surveyed as to how many deaths per year would be acceptable, from ‘living with Covid’. 86% said less than 1000. 61% said less than 100. Living with Covid in 2022 killed over 1000…

The 3rd vaccine shot. Get it, ASAP. This is the data from the UK, well ahead of us with Omicron. I've highlighted in yellow the effectiveness of 2 doses of vaccine, against hospitalisation and death, for Omicron. Those…

A tip for those who have to share homes with people who have Covid. In the rooms where they spend their time (their bedroom, bathroom etc.), put an ordinary fan in the window, blowing outwards. That will creative a…

98 Australians died of Covid yesterday. They were living with the virus. Until they weren’t.

705 people have died of Covid in NSW in January 2022. That’s more than died in the whole of 2021. It’s 23 times the road toll in that time.

BA.2 is a new variety of Omicron. It has arrived in Australia but is still at small numbers. Remember the Premier has asked us to ‘push through’ Omicron. That’s BA.1 Omicron. BA.2 is waiting. (P.S. Denmark has the same…

The most democratic, free way out of the pandemic is rules. Mandates. Public health orders. All the stuff the nongs who marched on Canberra yesterday hate, for example, and our politicians campaign against. Rules apply…

I refuse to pay for Covid tests. Not content with letting the virus rip, government then forces people to pay for their own tests. Even in AGED CARE HOMES. You can't make this stuff up.

Good guide here on testing, in case you're confused as to when to get a test, which test to use etc. As I posted previously, I refuse to pay for Covid tests, and you should as well. You can probably put 2 and 2 together…

We think the Spanish Flu ended in 1919. But it didn't. People just got sick of fighting it and reporting it in 1919. The 1920 variant was even more lethal, because of that collective giving up. This same thing then…

How’s everybody’s kids loving swabbing their noses twice a week and waiting to see if they’ve been infected, and have brought it home too? Fixed the ‘mental health’ issues of them doing a bit of online learning? Get…

Remember people using delays to elective surgery as an argument against lockdowns? Those same people strangely quiet when letting Covid rip does the same thing. Letting it rip IS ‘lockdown’. A privatised one, where you…

“But we’re living – and dying – with COVID, because … well, because the only alternative is more home schooling, lockdowns and closed borders, isn’t it? No, it’s not.”

At least 90 million people have been infected with Covid in the past 10 weeks, worldwide. That's more than were infected in the whole of 2020. Over 50,000 people are dying every week. In other news, Greg Hunt said on…

Week 1 of school, 400 staff out because of Covid, South Australia. Leaders have encouraged us to think this is just a hard period that we need to get through, and then it’ll be behind us. But catching Covid doesn’t stop…

Using maths to do politics. 0.1% is 1 in 1000 people. Starts to look a bit less rosy when you rephrase it that way? That’s over 25,000 Covid deaths every year (flu kills 1000 in a bad flu year.) To put this in…

"The people who have been saying “this isn’t over” have been ignored at almost every step of this pandemic, and they have also been right every time."

A negative RAT test does NOT mean you don't have Covid. If you have symptoms, or a family member with Covid, you have to isolate.

The Granville train disaster was called ‘the disaster that changed Australia’. 83 people died. This is where I challenge us to think. We’re having 7 Granvilles EVERY WEEK, with Covid. What is wrong with us? If a train…

We’re at the 50th anniversary of what some call neoliberal and libertarian ideas. Basically ideas that say government is the problem, get it out of peoples’ lives and life and prosperity will flourish. Reality tells us…

It should strike us as strange that the only thing children are apparently resilient to in this pandemic, is infection itself. Everything else, like missing school and public health measures to prevent infection, will…

I see many tired of Covid measures, and saying we should just ‘go back to normal’. Nothing in these numbers is normal, and they’re getting worse every day. We need to grow up.

A senior member of the federal government described free Covid testing as 'largesse' this morning.

"And perhaps that's what our leaders and academic economists lost sight of. It wasn't the lockdowns at the root of the economic catastrophe that has befallen us in the past two years. It was a highly contagious virus."

Read this in the context of people being encouraged to think catching Covid will end the pandemic. You should be doing every single thing you can, to avoid being infected. It's not a cold. It's not flu (you should avoid…

The NSW Premier has said today he doesn't think they'll bother with school RATs after the first 4 weeks of school. This was their plan all along. Do some symbolic testing when kids went back, to give the appearance of…

P.S. on tests. I'm not sure the people of NSW have realised yet that when the government ends free school Covid testing, NOBODY NOT ON A COMMONWEALTH CONCESSION CARD IN NSW WILL QUALIFY FOR A FREE COVID TEST. In the…

Indulge me here, a crystal ball looking deeper into 2022. Right now of course governments and probably most people are convinced the pandemic is as good as over, we're 'living with the virus' and life will return to…

It should shame us that the 'let's kill as few people as possible' NZ approach to Covid is considered unusual.

The UK is about to lift all Covid measures, even not requiring people with Covid to isolate. They can go to school, work, shops, restaurants etc. Hooray, you may say. The death rate in the UK for Covid is a steady 200…

The biggest cause of death in Australia is now Covid. And you won't know that if you listen to politicians or the news.

Are people still being notified by their school when there's a positive Covid case in their child's class?

This guy was vaccinated 3 times, hospitalised with initial Covid, then sent home, then pulmonary embolus, then bowel ischaemia (dead gut) due to a blood clot in the belly. "Just like the flu," hey?

Two sayings we need to understand I think. 1) ‘Covid is just like the flu’. 2) ‘More people die with Covid, than die of Covid’. Both things Covid minimisers or deniers say every day. Both dangerous rubbish, and here’s…

I keep posting about Covid, because there’s a total vacuum of actual information out there. Deaths first today. 1077 Australians have died of COVID in the last 15 days. That’s more than the 2020 road toll (1095), and…

And this is why the pandemic never ends. We celebrate the wrong things. We celebrate the removal of our protections against Covid, rather than the elimination of infections. Eliminating infections ends the pandemic.…

To go back to the numbers. You’re now more likely to die of Covid, than of any other cause. And this is *with* vaccinations. There isn’t a single condition underneath it on the list that we’re not moving Heaven and…

Ask yourself what masks are an 'impediment' to. To Covid, yes. But that's not what Domicron and Ben are talking about.

Go the nurses! Somebody calling this government out for the disgusting lies around Covid.

‘We’re tired of the pandemic, let’s just say it’s over’ is the standard script worldwide now. Another reminder that it’s already killed more people than World War 1, and deaths are still climbing. And that returning to…

Well the nurses don’t seem to buy ‘living with the virus’. How do people who believe that slogan explain how anybody with a vulnerability (about half the population) will function with Covid always circulating? Lock…

“I regret going out when Omicron was running rampant”. I wish that was a more common view. On schools and Covid, the NSW Government published infection numbers at the end of week 1 of term. Since then - nothing. This is…

Andy Slavitt was the former head of the US Medicare system, and an adviser to the US President on Covid. This is him being interviewed about projections for long-term living with Covid. (For comparison, on average…

Victoria had 10,000 Covid cases in schools in the past week. NSW refuses to publish the data.

Yesterday details finally leaked out about Covid infections in (public) schools in NSW. (We don’t have private school numbers.) It isn’t pretty. Over 20,000 students tested positive in the first 2 weeks of term. Over…

The Chinese are smart. Always criticised for human rights abuses, they've now started responding with "why do Western countries allow millions of their own citizens to die from Covid?"

"Randwick Council announced on Wednesday night that Malabar, Maroubra, Coogee, Clovelly and La Perouse beaches would also be closed for 24 hours while council lifeguards looked for any further sightings of sharks." One…

Summary of today's NSW press conference. Premier: "the pandemic is over". Kerry Chant: "no, it's not." Brad Hazzard: "Dr Chant is taking a well-deserved holiday".…

So the NSW Government ensures there's no official data on Covid in schools. But social media usually knows. Claims of more than 100 infected kids at Bathurst High School right now. Plus staff.

From social media. The last source of Covid information in NSW. "I’m in Bathurst my daughter goes to Scots All Saints and the boarding house is riddled (with Covid). Same as the boy’s Catholic boarding school Stannies.…

What the graphs mean is simple. Infection with Omicron doesn’t give you immunity. A lot of people say ‘we’ll all get it eventually, let’s just get it over with’. But it won’t work, because you can re-catch it again…

Omicron is the most transmissible virus known in our history. A sub-variant of Omicron, BA.2, is now exploding worldwide. It’s thought to be 30-40% more transmissible again, than BA.1 (our current sub-variant). And…

For those keen to protect themselves and the ones they love from Covid. This is a risk guide produced by the University of California, which I think is excellent, to help people assess risk for themselves. Specifically,…

There’s a wonderful theory in here, that I think is spot-on. We turned the pandemic into a 3-act film, because our perception of reality is based on the structure of films. Even the Covid protestors just copy films, as…

It’s very dark when I get up for work now, and it’s still summer. Because of daylight saving, shifting that hour of daylight to the evening instead. People know how much I hate Daylight Saving. The pandemic has…

It should be a matter of deep shame to all Australians that we’re one of the only developed countries in the world where millions of people have to pay for their own pandemic testing. Not even the libertarians in the UK…

I don't know how many people read these things. I strongly urge you to. "This is an epic public health disaster in the making."…

At over 200 deaths per day, about 70,000 per year, and tens of thousands of infections per day. People are now completely ‘free’ again. Free to live with the virus. This is the insanity of where that idiot idea leads.…

It’s still a perfect analogy. We find ways to keep the measures in place that save lives, while letting life move on. The same applies to Covid, the measures that bring cases and deaths down need to stay in place or be…

The guidelines for chickenpox are significantly more stringent than those for Covid. About 6 people die of chickenpox every year in Australia. Over 2000 people have died of Covid in the past 7 weeks. Come on 'live with…

Vladimir Putin renames Ukraine ‘Covid’. The West immediately gives up and lives with his invasion.

I plan to retire at 60. Not to stop working, I’ll probably work more after retirement than before. But work that I choose myself. I’m not happy with the world my kids are growing up with, it seems increasingly…

Everything seems to be becoming a ‘mental health’ issue. Much of what we call that is really people being treated like battery hens by the politics of the Economy. The neoliberals already medicalised a pandemic so they…

Where might all of those 0-19 year olds be catching Covid? It can't be at school, the politicians say it's not spreading there. Must be a helluva lot of kids wagging. Better get the masks off all of them, nothing to see…

Now that masks are gone too, I think it’s worth looking at the data when assessing risk. Here’s Lithgow. The green line is the average of cases. It’s not going down, in fact it’s going up. And this is based on the…

Have a look at these 3 slides. Why isn’t this reported or widely known? Because - then people might question if we’re actually getting back to ‘normal’. Or they may not, they may just shrug and go to restaurants, pubs…

Covid almost completely absent from the news now. Failed leaders like Johnson and Morrison seeing a war as a platform to rescue their own careers. More than 9000 people are still dying of Covid every day around the…

Over 106,000 children have been infected with Covid in the past 30 days in NSW. The government says it's going well.

The PM has Covid. These pictures were taken on Sunday. All of these people are now at risk. Wear a mask. Like the old guy the PM was shaking hands with. Think of others instead of just yourself.

Half an hour, so many probably won't have time. But a really superb summary by one of the leading experts in the world (who luckily for us currently works in Australia), of what we now know about Covid. Hugely…

A person has died of Covid on average every 30 minutes in Australia, in 2022. And we're saying it's over.

I should apologise to my friends in advance that I won’t be taking part in ‘normal’ social life until Covid is at some sort of manageable level in the community. I’m not being part of the political attempt to wish Covid…

This prompted me to come back from my FB holiday a little early. Look at what's happening in Lithgow. And remember this is only those who get tested, many aren't bothering. This is a disease OUT OF CONTROL. Has been for…

A superb piece from the British journalist Ed Yong. Why are we tolerating so many Covid deaths? His article brilliantly explains why. Mostly because the history of disease shows time and again that once the privileged…

I won't only talk about Covid, but it's kinda the issue threatening us all. 20-30,000 cases per day projected for NSW within weeks. The NSW Government response? Nothing. They say it's our fault, the community, we've…

Wear a mask. Avoid crowds, especially indoors. Or just ignore all of that and get Covid, it’s very on-trend.

40% of people who leave isolation for Covid are still positive/infectious after 9-10 days. (NSW releases them after 7.) Basically they should never have removed the requirement to get a negative test before returning…

2989 teachers in Victoria have contracted Covid in Term 1, so far. School casual budgets are exhausted, and teachers are running out of sick leave. More than 3 terms still to go in 2022. In other news, now you won’t…

They say the quiet bits out loud now. Not even a pretence of doing public health work. Get back to work, the lot of you, even if you’re infected. The life of battery chickens.

On Sundays I often remember the ‘day of rest’ idea we got from religion. It was against God’s will to work on the Sabbath. The Sabbath was actually a weekly ‘lockdown’. It bemuses me to watch those who hopped on the…

To give another sense of just how much the ‘live with the virus’ people renormalise the absurd. In the US, every day for the past 6 months, on average about the same number of people have died of Covid, as died in…

I can’t think of a better test of a person’s moral character, than whether they support the deliberate mass infection of children. Don’t sit there saying nothing, tacitly allowing it because it lets you have your normal…

Because we follow the UK in our Covid response, have a look at what comes next for schools here. Anything to force schools to stay open, to keep the ‘live with the virus’ rubbish alive.

You’ll hear people say that kids aren’t getting Covid at school, they’re getting it in the community. Have a look at the actual science. On the left, infections in schools (blue line) with no masks. On the right,…

"“The so-called shadow lockdown was very powerful, we believe, in constraining the omicron wave in January on top of the holiday period...if that had been in March, it could have been a lot worse.” Professor Jodie…

50% or more of parents are not vaccinating their kids against Covid. The same parents who are happy for them to be infected at school. The same parents who ARE vaccinated, themselves. So they’re not anti-vaxers. What’s…

The people who argued here last year and the year before that Covid wouldn't be a problem in schools are now deafening in their silence. Cowards, immoral bastards. What's the government's plan here? You can guess, the…

Get in quick, plenty of Covid to go around.

I ponder how many times people will have to catch Covid in quick succession for the tidal wave of dumb to subside.

The only difference between a whole State in isolation because they're sick, and a lockdown, is that the former makes everybody sick.

Somebody forgot to send the ‘Covid is mild’ memo to Hong Kong.

Check out the chuckle near the start when he talks about how QR codes became just a con job, to dupe people into going out again. And how sending kids to school had nothing to do with education or children at all, it…

Had a discussion yesterday about the Rockley Pub, now featuring a restaurant run by Matt Moran. My issue with some of these developments is that it’s partly a process of gentrification. Taking facilities in a poorer…

Covid update. A quick rule-of-thumb, take whatever the government says, and believe the opposite.…

An important thing to look out for when you’re doing RATs. As our immunity grows through vaccination and infection, we’re starting to get Covid symptoms much earlier than we did before. Previously people often had Covid…

Delicious watching the windbags of the past 2 years trying to explain how kids actually did better during lockdown.

You really don’t want to be on only 2 doses of vaccine right now. This is vaccine effectiveness against hospitalisation. ChadOx1-S = AstraZeneca BNT162b = Pfizer mRNA-1273 = Moderna

Data from the US says not even 3 doses is going to be enough. The government, as always, saying nothing, with the Australian winter bearing down on us. 83% effective up to 2 months, down to only 31% effective after 5…

Those who get ‘mild’ Covid have a 40% higher chance of developing Type 2 diabetes within a year.

Another from the Roy Morgan report. Australians hate their governments in good times, and love them in a crisis. Look at that astronomical jump in love for national lockdowns in 2020. (The 2008 jump was Kevin Rudd’s…

How are peoples’ schools and workplaces going with Covid infections? Social media should be telling this story every day. It’s not being reported elsewhere.

'No underlying health conditions'. I'm sure people are sick of Covid posts. I'm sick of people pretending it's all over. If you think this is an outlier, well over 100 kids have already died of Covid in the UK. More…

Have been following this technology for a few years. I think it might change the world. It could mean no more colds, flus, or Covid.…

Try buying a car right now, supply can be months away. Sometimes several years. Just one of many things in the ‘Economy’ grinding to a halt. The fact things are functioning at all globally is largely down to China’s…

I remember when we looked on in horror at the US and their Covid disaster. Good times.

I put this in the category of stuff you REALLY need to know. Something that isn't said in public discussion, that I've seen, is that for a long list of workers (below), if you catch Covid-19 it is PRESUMED in law that…

Over 150 kids a week are being hospitalised for Covid in NSW.

Ian is one of our top virologists. Getting Covid doesn’t ‘get it over with’. I have friends already who have the ‘brain fog’, which is actual brain damage. The cardiovascular damage is just as serious. Even mild cases…

The UK, always our future. Send the kids to school with Covid. In the past you wouldn't get this advice even for a cold.

The UK removed all Covid restrictions and free testing this week. Like all idiot 'live with the virus' attempts, it's been a disaster.

58 people died of Covid last week in NSW. 33 have died already this week.

Katherine Wu deserves a journalism award at the end of this pandemic. If it ends. Why relying solely upon vaccines will never work. Ever.…

Wonderful insight into China here. I particularly like the second Tweet, about how the Chinese are always focused on the longer term, on improving life across generations. In the West our retired people are the richest…

Covid isn’t a respiratory virus, it’s a vascular disease. The real sleeper is blood donations.

What those who have been determined to portray Covid as a ‘sniffle’ have done to millions of human beings kicks you right in the guts when you read this. Notice we never hear the details of individuals who die of Covid?…

Watch this. (As context, 74 people have died so far this week of Covid, in NSW.) ‘Towards Zero’ road safety campaigns have been in place for years. Hugely expensive and complex, and with strategies that stretch out for…

Anybody remember the CWA tea rooms ever being closed for flu? Covid is not flu. Nothing like it. We can only ‘live with’ pathogens that are under control. Covid remains out of control.

Medical researchers are increasingly seeing Covid as a long-term chronic health problem, with your infection only the first, acute phase. Similar to HIV and AIDS. People could live quite a few years with HIV, sometimes…

It's believed Ryan had Covid in February. And of course there was Shane Warne. This is the mess we're now in, we may never know how many of these are directly linked to Covid infection. But Covid is well known to cause…

In news from Dumbsville, by the end of the week close contacts of Covid cases won’t need to isolate. The official body says the things below should be implemented at the same time - let’s see how many actually happen.…

There are so many aspects to assessing Covid risk. (The government considers almost none of them.) I'm 54 this year, so this shapes my own assessment. Vaccine-boosted people ages 50 to 64 are more than 10 times more…

10% of new Covid cases in the world every day are now in Australia. Australia has 0.3% of the world population.

Covid is now the 3rd largest mass casualty event in Australia, in history. Only Spanish Flu and Scarlett Fever have killed more, and the widespread massacres of Aboriginal Australians. Covid of course is still killing,…

Please don't be surprised that the politicians who told us to live with Covid, also hold these views. Society is returning to feudal times. Peasants were allowed to get the Black Death, and die. There were always more…

72 people dead from Covid so far this week, in NSW. Do we care? Do we act? Do we say anything?

Have to wonder if the feds are regretting trash-talking Victoria throughout the pandemic. And Queensland. And WA. Anywhere there was a Labor government.

Babies needing liver transplants now. The common factor identified? All had been infected with Covid in the months prior to their hepatitis. Minimisers desperately trying to say that adenovirus is to blame here, a…

"More than half of Aussies who took out a new home loan with one of the major banks lied about their circumstances on the advice of their banker to make sure their loan was approved, shocking new research has revealed."…

I strongly encourage anybody who has contracted Covid in some way via a school, including your kids being infected, to register your interest with this class action. Won't cost you a cent, the litigation firm does all…

How the vaccines are now doing stopping you getting Covid. ChAdOx1-S is AstraZeneca. BNT162b2 is Pfizer. mRNA1273 is Moderna. In a nutshell, they're not really stopping infection at all, after 20 weeks, even with 3…

Covid is just the shorts before the movie. It gets a lot worse from here. By the way, this isn't 'negativity', it's reality. 'Positivity' is people running away from reality and living in a fantasy. But I think there's…

Nearly 6 million Australians have been infected with Covid since Christmas. On purpose. Remember that in times to come.

If a giraffe walked down the main street of your town, what would be the reaction? Yes, amazement. This isn’t giraffe habitat. And yet Covid is everywhere, globally. Covid is an organism, like a giraffe. The only way it…

77 dead from Covid in NSW this week. A day to go. Remind me what’s ‘normal’ here?

A person is dying of Covid in Australia about every 30 minutes.

It’s not surprising that a culture which thinks changing clocks gives you extra sunshine, also thinks the best way to end a pandemic is to pretend it’s not happening.

Just one more catastrophe to add to the avoidable disasters confronting us. Because we were too lazy to think, and ridiculed the people who did. Covid is the same. Did you know it’s now the #2 cause of death in…

Good on Michael for peeling away the happy clappy Covid is over bullshit. Wait until young kids start needing liver transplants here, or die from Covid-hepatitis, as is happening overseas now. Will we still put…

I was listening to Peter Doherty on the way home today. The Australian Nobel Prize winner in immunology. He was a bit lost for words at what Australia is doing with Covid, more than 5000 dead since Christmas, nearly 6…

This unbiased media thing the Murdochistas always talk about is 'do as I say, not as I do', obviously. I'm yet to meet anybody who spews rubbish on Covid, the Economy or just about anything else who isn't just quoting…

23 dead from Covid in NSW today. Is this OK? Anybody? Is silence 'shit, we may have this wrong'?

56 Covid deaths in Oz today. 96 over the past 2 days. But we can all have fun again. Except those 96 people and their families.

Maybe it’s an optical illusion, but ‘taking personal responsibility’ for Covid, the government’s Covid strategy, sure looks the same as ‘doing nothing at all about Covid’.

On personal responsibility, what's that in your life, for Covid? What do you do?

At least 11,000 people in NSW have now caught Covid more than once. Catching it doesn't make it go away.

Worldwide children are experiencing a surge in hepatitis cases, some needing liver transplants, and some dying. It’s extraordinary watching the frantic attempt by Covid minimisers to deny Covid is responsible. The…

The great con of conservative pay-media is that it has no viewers. SKY call itself the ‘voice of the people’. Barely 40,000 people watch it. The let it rip Covid crowd always talk about ‘this is what the people wanted’,…

The big still to be told story of Covid will be Long Covid. Tens of millions with ongoing chronic illness, possibly for the rest of their lives.

Who remembers the Banking Royal Commission? The government doesn’t. The banks certainly don’t. They spent the pandemic gouging the public to new levels of greed. I’m sorry if you’re carrying large debt right now. Very,…

A not atypical CO2 reading on a plane before it takes off. Less than 800ppm is considered OK ventilation, less than 600 excellent, outside air is just over 400. You won’t get me in a plane until the pandemic is over.

Today's Covid update is brought to you by yesterday's Covid update. And the day before. Etc.

Maybe we shouldn't be letting kids catch Covid, hey. What do we hear from Australian leaders and most Australians? Nothing. Sending them all to school to get infected. Photos of what you did on holiday or the weekend…

51 people died of Covid in Australia yesterday. 57,637 (that we know of) were infected. Can somebody help me - 'living with Covid'. Is that the rampant growth in infections, or deaths? Or both?

One of the election slogans is ‘the quiet Australians’. Vote for the quietest Australians. The 7513 dead from Covid, with a couple of hundred more each week. They’re very quiet. As are we, about them.

The internal polling is telling ScoMo he's facing an apocalypse. And just for the record, right now is the WORST the pandemic has been. It's not over, I'm so over people acting as if it's over.

The US has had 100,000 new Covid cases per day, for the past 3 days. They clocked a million dead this week. In the past we might have gasped at this. But yesterday Australia, with less than 10% of the population of the…

"As one of the countries with the worst transmission rates of COVID-19 in the world, we urgently need a change of mindset to one where reducing the number of cases matters. We must reduce transmission rates, and to do…

I thoroughly research everything I post. There’s a reason some experts now call Covid ‘airborne AIDS’. A public health catastrophe, we’re only seeing the tip of the iceberg.

Vote for a change to this disaster. I can guarantee you a vote for the LNP is a vote for a continued criminal refusal to do the basic public health work we’ve been doing for 150 years. The second they said a pandemic…

Watch the UK, we follow their Covid ‘strategy’ (i.e. do nothing). Covid is like HIV, Long Covid is like AIDS. The AIDS part of Covid is ramping up now. Like AIDS it will carry on for generations.

The UK has been deliberately infecting its people for most of the pandemic. The live with the virus folk would have us believe this should mean they now have a lovely ‘wall of immunity’, to get back to normal life. How…

The AIDS part of Covid biting. Still not seeing much evidence most people realise the magnitude of the disaster they're living inside.

Average Covid deaths per day in Australia is now 42. For any flu season this would be considered a national emergency. And: - notice the trend, the number is still climbing - it's 5 months of relentless death, with no…

20% of Australians surveyed said they’ve gone to work while knowingly infected with Covid. Don’t blame them, they have to eat. Blame idiot governments who let Covid rip.

The phone of a nurse working at one Melbourne hospital. If you’re out socialising like there’s no tomorrow, taking no Covid precautions, you and our governments are the reason nurses and others are drowning in sick…

Thanks to Julia for finding this one. This morning's press conference, with the PM. Claiming all the Covid deaths in Australia are people 'with Covid', rather than them dying from Covid. That's a disgusting lie. Covid…

For those who opted for the horse wormer instead of a vaccine.

Monkeypox (love the name, though it doesn’t come from monkeys) outbreak now, and a puzzling one. Nobody knows where it’s coming from. Notice not one person is suggesting we ‘live with’ monkeypox, they’re shutting it…

People who’ve had Covid may have damaged immune systems, their T cells compromised. (What HIV does to you, that causes AIDS.) So instead of getting immunity, as the politicians say, their immune system becomes…

And on monkeypox (just love saying it), it’s popping up super fast worldwide now. Smallpox vaccination provides some protection against it, but we haven’t used those vaccines for over 40 years. And we never used them…

Those complacently allowing themselves to catch Covid should remember, it took HIV 8-10 YEARS to turn into AIDS in people, after their infection.

Scientists are now almost certain multiple sclerosis, a terrible and often fatal disease, is caused by earlier infection with glandular fever. Mononucleosis. Many of us have had it. It can take years to turn into MS,…

You get those moments when you enjoy being older. Like when your mother tells you you've had a smallpox vaccination, unlike most in Australia. With monkeypox around, that's nice to have.

Before there was a vaccine for chickenpox, people were encouraged to 'live with' it, even holding parties to get all their kids infected. Now every person who has had chickenpox (myself included) is at risk of…

Covid damages the immune system. A friend's experience in the past few months. - his entire family caught Covid - his entire family caught influenza - his entire family caught whooping cough. All in the space of only…

A large chickenpox outbreak in the Netherlands seems almost certainly to have actually been monkeypox. I’m sure our Premier will keep the schools open anyway, so coffee shops and gyms don’t go broke. Because that’s what…

How did we become so dumb? When did it happen? Is it Covid brain injury?

Very glad to have mine vaccinated this year. Let's hope the vaccine matches the circulating strain. "At least 10 per cent of children admitted to hospital with flu will be so sick that they need intensive care," NSW…

Listening to an ex-head of the Commonwealth Department of Health on the way home, absolutely scathing about the outgoing government’s ’Covid denialism’. Almost nothing is being done, and infections and deaths are at…

Jon is a Canadian author who writes frequently about the pandemic. Here I think he nails the ‘happy-busy-good’ idiocy that is the attitude we’re all supposed to adopt while we become repeatedly infected, like cattle in…

Working from home and learning from home are now (apparently) bad. But DIY healthcare from home, with a potentially fatal disease, is good. This is Australia, 2022. Where public health is run by the business community.

Your age is only superficially how you look on the outside. Really it’s about your cells. A recent study of the effect on cells of people who had been infected by Covid found the ageing of those cells as shown in the…

Another ‘told you so’ story. The anti-lockdown, Dictator Dan etc. rubbish was a tiny minority of whingers.

Jon again, talking about our moral collapse, with Covid. About the widespread collapse of common decency. For all of us, not just politicians.

Millions of COVID-19 patients may have an undiagnosed, potentially fatal acute kidney disease, according to a new study. University of Queensland researchers say one in five virus patients admitted to hospital and two…

Smell really happens in the brain. The brain is just one organ Covid attacks. We’re starting to see that now in a widespread way.

On Tik Tok people are saying that petrol now has no smell. A technological wonder! That loss of smell is brain damage caused by Covid infection. Wear a mask.

Everybody is being urged to get the whole family vaccinated against flu (a very good idea). Meanwhile, childhood vaccinations against Covid stalled months ago with fewer than 50% of kids vaccinated. When the NSW…

We all know about SIDS, with babies. Probably less known is SADS, with adults. And I’m guessing what’s going on here isn’t baffling at all. Our good friend Covid, that we invited to live with us.

Life is (literally) a big high school. The pandemic proves it. Many prefer illness and dying, to being unpopular.

8 months into 'living with Covid', hundreds still dying every week. 21 just today, in NSW. How many more months of this do people need to call BS? Do they know that NSW Health has asked for compulsory indoor masks and…

The pollies announced they were shifting away from reporting deaths from Covid, to report 'excess deaths' instead. Excess deaths are deaths above the normal number of deaths expected in a given time period. It was a…

Another in my series of 'Covid is destroying society, and people are somehow not even noticing'.

I fear everybody might come first. But here goes. Justin had a ‘mild’ case of Covid in February. Now this. Who can join the dots?

And yet…still nothing changes. No comment and certainly no action from government. Deliberate suppression of any mention of Covid at all, every day. Meantime the public takes little to no responsibility at all either,…

My kids are resilient, I’m proud of that. None of the drama queen anxiety at every tiny hurdle in life’s journey, that is popular now. But even they’re getting tired of having limited social options with the ongoing…

Feb 2022: Justin and Hailey Bieber contract COVID March 2022: Hailey has stroke at age 25 June 2022: Justin has Ramsay Hunt Syndrome at age 28

I’d genuinely welcome anybody explaining how 2022 isn’t the greatest disaster in our history. ‘Living with’ Covid is not making it go away, it’s what caused this. Those average deaths and infections don’t budge, every…

If you're worth $250 million and can't 'live with' Covid, where does that leave the rest of us? I think we know.

What the pretty pictures mean is: 1) people infected with Omicron get reinfected with Omicron, it doesn't make them immune 2) even with vaccination, infection 'dampens' the immune system i.e. stops it responding to the…

If the species survives Covid (an open question), what's left will likely be incinerated.

BA.4 and BA.5 hitting NSW, there on the right. Covid's latest trick is called 'imprinting'. Meaning if you get infected with an earlier variant of Covid, it imprints on your immune system. Which sounds great, except it…

Again a shame that those here from the past 2 years advocating getting kids back to school no matter the Covid risk have now gone quiet. People forgot that we didn’t allow kids at school for much less serious diseases.…

I discovered in the pandemic that quite a few of my friends have political beliefs straight out of the libertarian ‘freedom’ politics of the US and UK. I also discovered quite a few have been investing in…

Joyce is also one of the main border-busters with Covid, which has killed over 7000 Australians since Christmas. Has earned himself over $100m gutting Qantas, which was once the envy of world airlines. You’d be brave to…

The BA.5 strain of Covid is exploding in NSW. Please pay attention to this, what happens when people get even ‘mildly’ infected. This is why I post the comparisons to HIV, they’re very close. We may be years off seeing…

Over 1300 people have died of Covid in Australia since the election. In 4 weeks.

I know, more Covid. But people are not being told these things. I've been saying for 2 years we must eliminate this virus circulating in our community. Do not believe people who say it can't be done, they're…

Somebody laughed at me yesterday for wearing a mask. Those who have had Covid and now feel protected, firstly reinfections are now common. And latest research: "Compared to those with first infection, those with…

Listen to this drivel, she knew it was a lie. Kerry Chant's body language tells us exactly how much horseshit was spewed out at Gladys' daily press conferences. I didn’t see anybody angry about this at the time, as I…

Today Australia passed an average of 50 Covid deaths per day. And still climbing. Anybody home?

This shows how many people are being reinfected with Covid, in the UK. So they've had Covid before, this is their 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc. infection. Huge skewing to children, because we're sending them to school with almost…

It seems to me the common story people in Australia would tell about the pandemic is ‘we locked down for 2 years, then we opened up to live with the virus’. The ABS is here to help. If you look at all of the lockdowns…

Most of the core work local governments do had its origins in public health. Providing clean water, removing sewage, collecting and disposing of garbage, approving buildings, administering local parks and sporting…

See that bit at the bottom, about zero melanoma deaths? 4 people die daily of melanoma in Australia, and zero is our goal. Zero is also our target for road deaths. 50 die daily of Covid, and our goal is to ignore it…

Ah Peter Collignon, one of the previous government's go-to experts on Covid. You can see why.

A pandemic caused by obscene amounts of travel has now crippled the travel industry. Colour me astonished. The themes I post about often inter-relate, I was very popular posting for years about how our travel culture…

Because our Covid strategy (do nothing) has copied the UK for some time, an update on how it’s going there. This is what epidemic diseases will do forever unless you stop them, cycle up and down in waves of illness and…

105 Covid deaths in NSW this week, a day to go. Australia should hit 10,000 deaths for the pandemic, next week. For the ‘just like the flu’ folk, that’s about two decades of flu deaths. In 2 years.

There have been: - 5160 known cases of Covid in Lithgow. - the real number would be at least twice that - more than 115 of them have been this week.

This is a longitudinal (over time) study of UK people who have been infected with SARS2 (Covid). Their brains were scanned before and after infections. These are predominantly ‘mild’ (non-hospitalised) infections. What…

Posted here before a similar reduction in heart disease risk, with flu vaccination. Most of our chronic diseases may turn out to be caused by infectious disease. DIseases like cancer, heart disease, multiple sclerosis…

AIDS is a 3-Act play, normally over 10-12 years. We’re in Act 1 of Covid.

Anything you might have heard or believed about catching Covid to 'get it over with', forget and ignore immediately. Getting infected won't make you immune, some overseas are on their 4th and 5th infections, in 2 years.…

As people now start to become re-infected with Covid, be aware that the new strains, BA.4 and BA.5, appear to be both much more dangerous (doctors I know reporting intubations firing up again), and also as contagious as…

I’ll use Lithgow as an example. The idea that Covid will become ‘endemic’. The term was first used to describe out of control disease in poor countries, that we couldn’t be bothered helping. Just as we often say crime…

54 people have died of flu in Australia, in 2022. 7135 people have died of Covid. 'Just like the flu.'

Look at what the pandemic did to Australian population growth. No immigration. Some might cheer that on, but it's worth remembering our own population is ageing very badly, and without immigration there's nobody to do a…

Thanks @[1112555254:2048:Dan]. Read this people, we’re following the UK Covid strategy (do nothing) to the letter. In the UK they’re seeing how that ends, and it’s a disaster of unprecedented proportions.

I see the toxic positivity online, can feel the desperation behind it, people trying to pretend everything is fine and normal when in fact the whole place is falling apart. As if posting happy things will make the bad…

Act 2. https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/06/over-half-of-people-with-long-covid-for-two-years-are-declared-unfit-to-work/

Don’t you love NSW Government spin, ‘temporarily non-operational’. Meaning ‘the State is so infested with Covid we can’t operate.’ You have virtually zero protection from these new strains if you’ve been infected…

Remember the people who said kids needed to get back in school during a pandemic for their 'mental health'? Reckon they ever went to school?

The UK projected to have up to 60,000 Monkeypox cases per day, by end of the year. Nothing being done, as with Covid.

For those comfortable with the political line that vaccination was all we needed to do for Covid, here’s the reality. The vaccines were based on a strain of the virus that is 2 years’ old (and now extinct, the original…

Knock me over with a feather. Covid has been ‘hitting tens of thousands of Australians’ every day since Christmas time, this is not a new situation. Some leaders and health experts need to prepare for possible future…

When politicians ‘opened up’ to Covid, vaccinations stopped. Stone dead. And less than half of us went to get a free flu shot since then. And now stories like this. People are not seeing the bigger picture here I don’t…

We may be about to have two pandemics operating at the same time. Covid and monkeypox. I know people desperately want to believe Covid is over, but that’s political spin. If you think several hundred people dying every…

Last Covid post for the day, but maybe the most important. Right now we’re actually living multiple pandemics, at the same time. Not Covid, but Covids, plural. Two key points: 1) the time between new variants is…

All these kids are clinically vulnerable to Covid, having diabetes. Not one mask in sight. With the Health Minister, no less.

Look at the explosion of death from late-2021. That’s when we said we’d ‘live with the virus’ (you can’t make this stuff up). Also note that bottom axis is the baseline, so while it looks like nobody is dying…

Last week a group of people at work were having a little private chuckle at me still wearing a mask. They're now all at home in bed with Covid. Workplaces are being decimated right now, literally dropping like flies.…

I constantly hear from friends and work colleagues who’ve had Covid that ‘at least they got it out of the way’. This myth will kill people. Some of them now being infected for the second and third times, looking much…

This tracks the increase in cases across the 70 top LGAs. Have a look at number 1, Lithgow people, I’ve added a blue arrow. To explain the graphic, the percentages show you the percentage change in cases in the past 14…

"The Queensland government is warning of an escalation in the number of health and hospital staff unable to work due to COVID in the midst of the state's growing COVID-19 wave." Look at their response. Same as ours.…

I encourage everybody to read this one. The reason I post so much about Covid is that I study the pandemic (for work but also for myself), and what's happening is not what people are being told. This is a potential…

Multiple people have said to me that there wouldn't be backing for stronger Covid measures, because the experience of too many has been 'mild'. A few things I'd say about that: 1) most obviously, as I've posted about…

If you’re hoping catching Covid will ‘get it over with’, bad news. You’ll be lucky to get 4 weeks of immunity. I’ve seen some reinfections reported within 18 days. Remembering also each infection potentially does…

Do you really want to be a person in history who thought ‘living with’ a pandemic was a good idea? It will go down as possibly the greatest act of collective stupidity of all time. And it’s all very deliberately…

Taronga at Dubbo is nothing like I remember it as a kid. Has come on astonishingly, a really beautiful zoo. They even use some of the techniques of the old English landscape gardeners, to give the illusion there’s no…

This is the basic science people are not being told. A vaccine is not a drug, you don’t take it and then you’re ‘fixed’. A vaccine tweaks the ecological balance of an ecosystem of microbes, temporarily in one direction.…

I promised to talk about chickens. This isn’t a chicken doing the splits, it’s a chicken with Marek’s DIsease. A type of herpes virus. It’s deadly to pretty much any chicken who catches it. I’m telling this story…

Yesterday the new PM said Covid from this point on is a matter of ‘personal responsibility’. ScoMo-lite. Treating a pandemic with personal responsibility is like telling people to build their own roads. It’s a…

The equivalent of ‘vaccines will end the pandemic’, for floods, is ‘levees and higher dam walls will stop floods’. They won’t, look at Lismore. Its flood levees are nearly 11 metres high. It makes no difference for a…

The true 'bludgers' in Australia are the entitled, lazy business community. Many having done almost nothing themselves to fight Covid in this pandemic except rort JobKeeper, they now say they 'can't retreat'. Retreat…

Booked in for my 4th vaccine shot this afternoon. If you're over 30, just do it. The government and business will do not one other thing to protect you, it's up to you now.

Every grinning ‘wheeee the pandemic is over’ photo I see on social media, with people ‘living their good life’, makes me feel more like the situation is beyond hopeless.

The Victorian Chief Health Officer told the Victorian government to mandate masks in places like childcare and shops. The Victorian government said no. Why? They're 'empowering' people to do it themselves. They actually…

I'm curious how many are aware of the difference between public health and medicine? They're different fields, staffed by different people, but so often I see people assume medical doctors and hospitals are responsible…

FINALLY journalists are seeing it, but way too late. Infecting an entire population and hoping you have enough hospital beds is not a public health strategy, it’s a public disease strategy. I still don’t think people…

Australia’s Covid deaths include 632 people aged 20 to 59, and 18 children and adolescents.

For those struggling with understanding that Covid isn't a health problem (though it's that too). It's smashing the economy as fast as it's maiming and killing people. 776,000 Australians worked fewer hours in June due…

Engineers save many more lives than doctors or medicine do. So many more that they're not even in the same ballpark. Not to have a go at medicine, but to refocus attention on what it is that is the biggest contribution…

National Cabinet will discuss whether to keep emergency payments for casual workers with Covid. A quiz, will they: A. keep the disaster payments, or B. ‘fix’ it by letting people who are sick with Covid go to work,…

The 2 ways we’re told to stop people getting sick right now is for the government to spend billions more, or for us to take ‘personal responsibility’ for Covid. Anybody notice the enormous elephant in the room here, the…

Australia currently averaging over 54 Covid deaths per day. And as you can see, it’s still going up, we’ve been slaughtering since well before Christmas. Some say Australians won’t tolerate actions like masks again. But…

The comfort many take from catching Covid, multiple times, is that they believe the idea that it will create ‘herd immunity’. Which they see as the same as ‘endemic’. So many people will catch it and become immune that…

It might dawn on the ‘society is an Economy’ people at some point that you can’t live with a pandemic. Might.

Earlier in the year the let it rip Queensland Chief Health Officer assured Australia that mass infections were creating a 'wall of immunity', which would lead to Covid fading away. Nick Coatsworth said the same. How…

Listened to a Sydney nurse describe the total exhaustion at work, and how it's not eased up all year, despite talk of 'waves'. Many leaving the profession. And as you can see from the Great Leader, it's all going to get…

This is how we're 'fixing' Covid. By just not talking about it.

If you work in any of these jobs or industries, under workers’ compensation law in NSW you don’t have to prove you caught Covid at work. Your employer has to prove you didn‘t.

8-9 months of prolonged slaughter, and climbing even faster now again. None of this is making Covid go away. When do people and politicians say 'hey, we have this wrong, we've stuffed up'?

The Project talking about a huge list of drugs now unavailable because of the pandemic wrecking supply chains. A diabetes patient going without his drugs entirely, they’re not available. Society is falling apart. This…

It’s nearly always the same people trying to make out Covid isn’t a problem, that have regaled us about how climate change isn’t a problem either, for years. It’s time to have zero tolerance for dumb. Dumb kills.

A description of one of hundreds of millions who will suffer the long-term chronic effects of Covid infection. We’re doing this deliberately, celebrating ‘living with’ it. We’ll wake up with the biggest ‘wtf were we…

The National Health Service in the UK has already collapsed. 332,000 people there have been waiting more than a year for treatment. Not coincidentally, over 300,000 people now have long-term chronic illness from Covid…

No pandemic in the history of the world wads stopped by people becoming infected. Not one. Also, ‘endemic’ is just a technical word meaning ‘a disease out of control’.

It amazes me that people believe the story that goes: ‘Australia was locked down for 2 years, and now it’s opening up’. Australia has been open for most of the pandemic, and NOW it’s shutting down, with infection. Also,…

BA.5 is one of the variants now hitting us here. Look at what it did in Japan, a nation much more committed to public health than us.

Politicians will have fun persuading people to ignore this pandemic, with pus-filled lesions on their faces and genitals. Takes some doing, to have 2 pandemics running in parallel.

506 people have died of Covid in the past week, in Australia. This is what 500 people looks like.

Those who think Covid isn’t an intrinsically political thing can explain these photos, I’m sure. Social behaviour is led, and you can see very clearly here who led Australians to ignore basics like masking.

Covid change in the past 2 weeks, by local government area. Have highlighted Bathurst for reference. Percentage is percentage change in the past 2 weeks. The “1 in” figure on the right is what proportion of the LGA…

I wish we’d fix one pandemic before the next starts.

In the past 2 days, more than 3 times as many people were infected with Covid in Australia as were infected in all of 2020. About 120 of these people will die.

Astonishingly, pretending the pandemic is over isn’t working.

Bypass what politicians, media outlets and friends are telling you about Covid, and go straight to the expertise, like Professor Chris Goodnow. For those who won’t read it, his main points. It’s vastly more serious than…

A second booster reduces your chance of dying of Covid by 75% or more, if you’re 50+. I know some who haven’t even had the 3rd shot, let alone the 4th. Because the previous government told them 2 shots was ‘fully…

Between 180,000 and 200,000 health care workers are thought to have died in this pandemic, treating others. This is what happens when you make your Covid strategy about number of hospital beds, instead of number of…

Anybody fighting to avoid infection by Covid, an organ-eating bat virus, isn’t ‘anxious’. They’re smart. Those who line up to be repeatedly infected by it while babbling slogans like ‘live with the virus’, or ‘you have…

With Covid, you're infectious for up to 2 weeks. (Why them letting you go back to work after 7 days is a joke.) Monkeypox is infectious for 4-10 weeks. Buckle up.…

This is 'excess deaths' i.e. deaths above and beyond what we'd expect if we didn't have a pandemic. Notice for 2020 and most of 2021 we were healthier than we've ever been. Negative excess deaths i.e. thousands lived…

Kids don’t catch Covid at school, how often did we hear that.

After the world wars we could point to the removal of genocidal dictators as a meaning for all the death and suffering. I’m finding it harder to think of a way the more than 10,000 families who’ve lost loved ones to…

This is an excellent short piece on Covid testing, what you need to know. I’ve lost count of the number of people who do a quick RAT, get a negative and say “I don’t have Covid”. Doesn’t mean that at all.

Memory loss after Covid in technical terms is called 'brain damage'. Living with the virus.

I've been very critical of people for not being more angry about the Covid situation. But really it's a complete absence of leadership. People no more understand how to beat a pandemic than they know how to fly an A380.…

More Covid data out of the US. I am interested US friends that difficulty walking or climbing stairs was on a healthy steep decline, until Covid. But you may not remember that, based on the blue line.

Why I compared Covid to HIV/AIDS, not an analogy. Both diseases attack T cells, the core of your immune system. Ask any GP how much illness they're seeing right now, researchers are thinking Covid infections are wiping…

This is such a brilliant article about how the UK is literally falling apart. All because of simple political beliefs of the ruling party that are just empirically wrong. The same beliefs the ex-government here had and…

Did you know that, well before the pandemic (2015), about 1 in 7 Australian girls aged 12-17 had contemplated suicide, and about 1 in 20 had actually tried to kill themselves? What did the people now making lots of…

547 people were killed by Covid this week, in Australia. Nearly 160,000 were infected.

In the US, parents of pre-schoolers having a working bee to make Corsi-Rosenthal boxes to protect their kids from Covid. Corsi, an engineer and Rosenthal, a producer of air conditioning filters, designed these as a very…

Also a 2-year study reported today that psychotic episodes, seizures and dementia created by Covid infection aren’t fading over time.

Anti-vax roid rage. This anti-vaxer apparently stopped a car carrying a doctor who administered Covid vaccines, and this is what he did. The bodybuilding community is a hotbed of ‘natural health’ numpties (this guy is…

Riddle me this. One death due to some dipshit killing a child with a high-powered penis compensation device, may prompt a change in law (and that may be a good thing). But we’re mowing down a few hundred a week with…

The people who say Covid is a matter of ‘personal responsibility’ know they’re lying.

The greatest epidemic of all time is likely the heart disease epidemic of the 20th century. Took off early in the century, peaked about the 1960s, and in decline ever since. The usual explanation for this is we ate bad…

@[531582806:2048:Lauren] https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20220824/long-covid-mimics-other-post-viral-conditions

Today Australia reaches 10 million Covid infections (officially known, in reality there may be at least twice that number). Nearly all of those have happened in the past 8 months. More than 13,000 Australians have died…

I like sharing the personal stories about Covid that are suppressed by politicians.

This research is now well known. And still National Cabinet today will (almost certainly) do what it always does, reduce protections against Covid even further. Shifting isolation from 7 days to 5. Most people will be…

Australian taxpayers gave Qantas over $2.5 billion during Covid lockdowns. Qantas used the money to sack thousands of staff. Meantime the CEO bought an enormous mansion on Sydney Harbour, and still pockets annual…

Yes, everybody is tired of Covid. They’ve ‘moved on’ (i.e. got bored and ignored it). Think of it this way. When was the last time we, as a society, chose to deliberately INCREASE the amount of death in the community? I…

When governments genuinely want individuals to manage things, like their choice of bank or energy retailer, they give them online tools with lots of information to help them compare the best deals. With Covid they…

In the pandemic Australia has sacked over 40,000 of the smart people who do this sort of work. Meantime TAFE will again be free, to fund the desperate shortage of tradies, a shortage that’s mostly an already bloated…

I've seen more than one doctor suggest Covid may have brought her life to a faster end. Her health has been in rapid decline since she had Covid.

On the after-effects of Covid, as the article says, the deaths months after infection aren't being counted as caused by Covid. The staggering stat for me is that death rates for those of working age, 18-64, are up 40%…

“For now, though, even vaccinated, boosted, and previously infected people aren’t immune to Long COVID. Any infection could lead to lingering complications, which underscores the importance of limiting exposure to the…

Covid is a disaster. But it’s only the support act. Terrible, terrible things, that we’re ignoring. Ignoring them won’t make them go away.

Here's a way to think about Queens and Kings, in the time of Covid and climate change. The Queen reigned for 70 years, and we know almost nothing about her, as a person. Nothing about her personal opinions or beliefs.…

The deadliest month of the pandemic to date in Australia was the one just past, August. About 2000 people died, 500 per week. You wouldn't know it. And that's the plan. During this same month National Cabinet voted to…

More than a third of working age people in the UK now have long-term illness due to Covid. I sit here every day speechless that people watch their own societies crumble and burn around them, and say nothing. But in…

Covid sickness in workplaces is costing Australia over $800 million per day.

Pretending Covid is over may dramatically shorten your lifespan. Vaccinated or not.

A friend (not pictured) had shingles which infected her scalp and eye. I think it's worth remembering that the more accurate name for shingles should be 'living with chickenpox'. It's the result of chickenpox infection…

Because the NSW Government is more likely to open a casino than give you Covid information, here are the two key documents if you have Covid or somebody close to you does. Some of this information may save your life. If…

A land tax of only 0.1% would wipe out the $500 billion debt we incurred fighting Covid. Who resists it? The people who own most land. Who owns most land? The wealthy. Who are the wealthy? Overwhelmingly the boomers…

I’ve posted a lot about ongoing damage to the immune system from Covid infection, from reading the research papers and talking to the scientists doing that research. It’s now entering mainstream stories, like this one.…

Karen is an actuary, looking at Covid data from Singapore in this case. Like I post about, the 'acute' infection phase - when you 'have Covid' - is rarely what's dangerous. Just as when you're first infected with HIV,…

Australia’s oldest man, who exercised every day and lived without smoking, drinking or gambling, has died at the age of 110, after contracting Covid-19. I'm sure the government would either say he should have been…

This has been one of my pandemic projects, though it started well before the pandemic. Electrifying the household. It’s nearly 100% done. Solar panels will go up before Christmas. Ditched gas space heating over 5 years…

We always follow the UK. They’ve announced the end of the pandemic about 7 times. Australia has just been saying the same. How many cycles of this bullshit are we up for?

Politicians say ‘people are tired of Covid’. It’s not clear why, hardly anybody I know is doing anything about it at all. People are maybe tired of it still being here, but that’s because governments and businesses are…

225,000 people have died of Covid in the US this year alone. Pretending the pandemic is over will do that.

Thanks to Ed for this. The oceans are masking just how bad global warming is. They’ve absorbed over 90% of the extra heat we’ve produced by burning astronomical amounts of carbon-based fuels. The amount of heat they’ve…

Very few people I know still wear masks or pay any attention to Covid, amazingly putting their health, that of their families and friends in the hands of politicians, who they wouldn’t trust normally to buy them a bag…

What is peoples' answer to this? Lots of talk always about the 'vulnerable' to Covid (really all of us, but let's run with it to indulge the stupidity). How are 'the vulnerable' (hundreds and hundreds of thousands of…

Because governments now suppress this information to once per week, here's this week, in NSW. 69 people died last week, if you missed that one. 82 this week. Worse than last week. On the same day the NSW Premier will…

The UK removed Covid isolation rules. Which is what we're about to do here, it seems. We know it doesn't work and that it kills and maims lots of people. But we'll do it anyway, because dumb is what we do now, for…

National Cabinet did it today. People with Covid are now free to walk among us, whenever they like. Cabinet justified it by saying we have to stop treating Covid differently to other infectious diseases. But now we…

Like our idiot National Cabinet, President Biden declared Covid over this month. As many people are dying every WEEK from Covid in the US as died in the 9/11 attacks.

Brendan is one of the leading pandemic authorities in the world. We need to listen a lot more to people like him. He’s 100% right that ‘Australians think it’s over’. And they think it’s over mostly because the previous…

Finally free of Tony Abbott’s string and tin can internet. Fibre to the home is glorious. Thanks to cable guru Russell Commins! I made no comments about Daylight Saving this year, because Covid came along and showed DST…

It’s almost impossible to believe, but this blindness is what our own National Cabinet CHOSE to introduce here this week too. One of the revelations in this pandemic for me is how fully grown adults think an existential…

A critically important thing to remember after this week’s National Cabinet meeting is that we didn’t stop isolation of Covid cases. We stopped public health orders doing that. It’s still the legal responsibility of…

PASC = Post-acute sequelae of Covid-19 i.e. effects of Covid after infection. Red is inflammation. The control is somebody without Covid. Combined PET-MRI scan.

In today’s let’s pretend Covid is over news, the US is projecting a minimum of 100 million infections over its autumn and winter. Meanwhile Germany is bringing masks back.

A new type of Covid denialism is large numbers of people wandering around in workplaces with coughs and sneezes saying 'it's just a cold'. They have no proof of that, it's completely made up. But it gives them an excuse…

How much longer can this bullshit go on? Where we pretend we’re living with a pandemic? Like saying we’re going to stop putting out bushfires, and tell flooded people to get swimming lessons.

The real reason most people won’t wear masks or take Covid precautions is that the majority of people are followers, they follow others in deciding what to do. If mask wearing becomes optional (as it is now), they won’t…

This is the Covid story we’re all about to live. All existing vaccines lose effectiveness within 5 months. This isn’t unusual, your annual flu shot is the same, we’re saved by flu disappearing over Spring and Summer,…

There are already nearly 60,000 people in NSW with Long Covid. Waiting lists to see medical expertise about it are already over a year long. And you should know, there is no real medical expertise on what to do about…

Because government dumped responsibility for Covid on you and me, as 'personal responsibility', this will help you assess risk for hospitalisation and death. Note it doesn't assess any of the dangers of long-term…

An Australian ICU nurse was so angry at the minimising Covid crap in her local newspaper, she posted a powerful counter to it. I’ve included it all here, it’s a quick and enlightening (I hope for some) read. We should…

This is Covid, there's no way half the school has seasonal flu at the same time. It's not even winter there. All of the lies and stupidity are exhausting.

Society is falling apart, and it's like we're just hoping it will fix itself. But it keeps getting worse, not better. The way we did things pre-Covid is not coming back, no matter how much we pretend.

Every time I walk through the car park of doctor surgeries past the expensive European cars, I'm reminded that they're public servants and are not held to account like any other public servant. The scale of the rorting…

If you didn’t see this last night, I highly recommend you watch it on iView. Griffith in NSW is collapsing. And everywhere else will follow. What Covid did is expose a dark secret. Slavery never ended, we just called it…

I see quite a few pregnant women unmasked, and worry about their health and their baby's. One I know lost her baby, and blames the vaccines. I suspect she'd had Covid herself. This is the consequence of pretending a…

Notice politicians saying our only Covid threat is new variants? You'll never exhaust the way these bastards are lying to make us pretend it's all over. Have a look at the variant mapping. They just stopped naming the…

As a counterweight to the standard ‘here we all are ignoring Covid’ FB fare. In 2 parts. Part 1.

Kids who have had Covid are up to 77% more likely to develop diabetes. How is this not the headline every day of the week? Remembering we’re infecting ALL kids, deliberately, because we believe the spin it’s ‘just a…

Have posted before about the possible similarity of action of HIV and Covid. The virus lives in your body after you test negative, probably for years or even for life. As with HIV, where the initial infection was often…

These are neutralisation assays, tests done to show how our antibodies (the main part of our immune systems that fight infection) respond to different viruses. These are people who have had 3 doses of vaccine, and a…

You can't make this stuff up. Now if you get Covid on a cruise, staff or passenger, they lock you in your cabin for 5 days, while the cruise continues, including with guests disembarking in all destinations, carrying…

"Furthermore, the data showed the increase was most significant among individuals ages 25-44, who are not usually considered at high risk for heart attack."…

There's an assumption that if we just let COVID run, it will become mild over time, like a cold. Here's why that's insanity. Malaria has been infecting humans for over 50,000 years. It's as lethal now as it was 50,000…

I do realise most people won’t change their behaviour, because they think nobody else will either, so it’s like school, peer pressure will win. Without change being led, nothing will change. Yaneer is an international…

SARS-Cov2 (Covid) is only allowed to be studied in a Class 3 Biosafety facility. It's a Class 3 Biohazard, like bubonic plague, and anthrax. Kids are allowed to breathe it in all day at school, unprotected. And you too…

I don’t know if many even read the Covid stuff I post, but I do it anyway in the hope it saves even one life. I’ve never seen stronger proof that we never leave high school than this pandemic. Hardly anybody does or…

Reference to AIDS again here. Immune system damage from 'mild' Covid, possibly irreparable.

There are more people hospitalised for Covid in the US than there are known Covid cases. (They don't test. Like us now.)

Myxomatosis in rabbits is another warning about Covid. When it was first introduced here it killed just about every rabbit it infected. Then it seemed to become more mild, and people assumed rabbits had developed…

Here in the West we create cartoon-like caricatures of China. For example we say their Covid policy is a fantasy. But that fantasy is all that’s keeping any of our lives going. China is the world’s factory, one of the…

About half-a-dozen people I know this week have experienced severe medical episodes, life-threatening. All were healthy beforehand and had no prior conditions. All have had Covid. In all cases doctors have no idea what…

Out of interest I rang the local Mitsubishi dealer to ask what the waiting time is now on the Outlander hybrid. 13 to 14 months. The reason for this (which the salesperson didn't tell me, but I already knew) is…

One to ponder as you pack into pubs, gigs, restaurants and planes. This is the urgent research underway to understand similarities between HIV and Covid. All of the experience of Covid to date is in that 0-6 week mark,…

In the US and Europe they’ve been infecting kids with Covid longer than us. You can see what it does to immune systems, leaving people wide-open to other infections. This is what AIDS does - Acquired Immune Deficiency…

The International Energy Agency projects net income for oil and gas producers will double in 2022 to US$4 trillion. Always follow the money. That’s the 4 trillion reasons to electrify everything. They use their spare…

The engineering behind restoring the gas supply (a story that is amazing) reminds me again how much most of what we call modern life is nearly entirely down to engineers. It’s not democracy that created the modern…

This research taking us further towards the functional equivalence of Covid and HIV/AIDS. It shows that Covid infects (and kills) T cells, which is what HIV does, that then leads to AIDS. It can take several years for…

Letting Covid run our societies turned out to be a very bad, probably fatal idea, for the 'economy'. Which, as I say a lot, doesn't even exist. It's just people. If you make them sick, the economy stops.

Naughty Victoria kept publishing its Covid data every day, after National Cabinet said they wouldn't do it any more. You can see why they didn't want us to see any more data. Put a mask on.

Another way to look at Australia’s problems, through the lens of engineering. The largest countries in the world graduate more engineers every year than Australia graduates students in ALL fields. Yes they’re much…

Covid cases up 45% in NSW this week. Testing of course way down after the government stopped requiring it, so that’s cases up 45% even with reduced testing. The test positivity rate is a measure of how many positives…

This is what we're going to see in increasing numbers. Young healthy person gets Covid, and their immune system gets wiped clean, leaving them wide open to every other infection. Have posted as well about how research…

Have we crossed a threshold of stupid yet that might prompt any interest at all about this ongoing pandemic disaster? I have multiple friends happily signing up for cruises and posting about them.

When we watch period dramas, I’m guessing most of us identify ourselves with the main characters, because that’s how the shows are written. But in historical terms, we’re actually the servants in these shows. It’s 2022…

Went out for dinner for Alice’s 12th birthday yesterday. I had to sneak this snap, they hate photos. Was lovely. They asked if we wanted to sit inside, which everybody else in the restaurant had chosen to do. In the…

Riddle me this. If you don’t have movement and gathering restrictions (‘lockdowns’), everybody gets infected. If they get infected, Perrotwit says ‘stay home’. Which is where you’d be if he locked us down. Notice you…

What struck me again in the middle of the Bathurst floods yesterday is how destructive ‘the economy’ is. A sensible society would have looked at that river yesterday and said ‘I think people should take a day off, this…

If you see Peter Collignon on the TV, telling everybody to keep calm and get infected, just be aware of his track record. Like all the Covid minimisers. (Incidentally they often sell him as a 'pandemic expert'. He…

Being in the middle of the flood activity, I can tell you who’s fixing it. Engineers. I can tell you who isn’t - politicians. We have this bizarre idea that politicians ‘run’ towns, States and countries. They don’t,…

Covid cases up another 60% in NSW this week (more than 20,000). Hospital admissions up another 35%. Another 24 dead.

We’re told that getting Covid repeatedly will give us ‘hybrid immunity’. It’s just another political lie. Have a look at what repeated infections does.

38 Australians died on MH17. 39 people died of Covid in NSW, just last week.

COP 27 mostly failed, for the same reason it always fails. The $2.8 billion profit per day fossil fuel industry knee-capped it. The only win was emergency funding for the most vulnerable nations. But nobody committed to…

As Dr Tyler Black always says, a specialist in child psychology and trauma, easily the best way to protect a child's mental health in this pandemic is to stop people getting Covid. All the other bullshit about them…

'Balancing' Covid action against the economy. Hey presto, the economy tanks. Almost like it doesn't exist, and is just the people. Who are now too sick to work. Not rocket science.

There's an election in Victoria this weekend. It will have zero impact on Covid, where all sides agree to just keep infecting and killing thousands, and calling it 'going back to normal'. You can't vote your way out of…

Today the 16,000th Australian died of Covid. Nearly all of them died after we said Covid was 'over'.

This is test results for one patient. Multiple distinct infections. Immune system damage, preventing the body fighting the infections off. Covid did this, it attacks the immune system. Covid minimisers will try to tell…

Come on people, when will we call BS on the whole living with the virus idea? 40 countries considering this because they can't get pilots, they're all either sick, or retired when the industry was smashed by Covid.

Queensland is looking to reframe 'Long Covid' as 'Your Recovery from Covid'. That's the world we live in, where brains and actual meaningful action are replaced by endless spin, while doing nothing.

Opinion on the radio this afternoon that China has to let Covid spread. Like they have to face the inevitable. China builds pretty much everything we use, supplies a huge majority of the raw materials for everything…

To give an indication of the catastrophe uncontrolled spread of Covid could be in China, firstly for the Chinese, the health and hospital system isn’t great, and they have millions upon millions of old people. They’re…

This is quite seriously all the ‘economy’ is. A magic trick for grown ups, to protect the status quo by shrouding it in economic mumbo jumbo. Notice everything that might upset the status quo, like paying people more or…

So true, nobody cares. But they’re being led to not care. 95% of people just do what everybody else does. We see that at school, and it continues into adult life. If the 5% don’t lead us to fight climate change and…

I want to use aged care as an example of how political slogans actually kill people. Was having a conversation with a healthcare worker (HCW) who works in aged care. We all know Covid has gone on a killing spree in aged…

At least 32 people were infected with Covid by a jogger running through a park, unmasked.

High-level cardiologist pleading with people to avoid Covid, and explaining why. Fantastic explanation also of current thinking on Long Covid. 148 million people with that condition now. Have a listen, it may save your…

I suspect many people believe vaccination protects them from getting Covid. I’ve circled in red the effectiveness of the vaccines in stopping transmission, after 6 months, which is about the last time most Australians…

"Schools and daycares are sending letters home to parents talking about this "immunity debt.” They’re saying that healthy children are getting sicker, even dying, because they weren't exposed to enough germs over the…

National Cabinet said 2022 would be the year Covid ends. Instead teachers are 'crawling to the finish line', infected repeatedly. Kids too, though they're likely at school sneezing and coughing over everybody else.

The Novavax Covid vaccine was slow to arrive in Australia, but it seems to outperform all of the other vaccines by a long margin. I posted this week how the efficacy of the AZ and Pfizer/Moderna vaccines, which most of…

National emergency in the US with children succumbing to a whole range of different infections, because Covid has damaged their immune systems. We are deliberately infecting our children with this virus. And I don't see…

Covid cases up 20% again in NSW this week. (Of course most people aren't testing now, so it's oodles more than that.) Hospitalisations up 12%. The 'short and sharp peak' National Cabinet offered us as a fairy tale for a…

Now UK kids, immune systems shot by repeated Covid infection, are dying of Strep A. ‘It is what it is’, I hear a lot. No, it’s a disaster with clear solutions developed over centuries. We’re just not doing them.

The price we’ll continue to pay for living in fantasy land. Idiot in chief also has Covid again. The second time.

So many people I know now are getting 'mystery' infections. Often the mystery is not the infection itself, which might be chicken pox or glandular fever, but more that they're getting them with no obvious cause. The…

“COVID is deranging the immune system,” said John Wherry, director of the Penn Medicine Immune Health Institute… “Some patients, from their very first visit, seem to have an immune system in hyperdrive.”

Many think peer pressure somehow ends when we leave school. That’s not true, in fact it’s the main way all of life works, even more so with adults. The primary driver of what people do, is what everybody else does. The…

Both influenza and Covid have an ‘i’ in them. There the similarity ends.

Amazing numbers of Australians haven’t vaccinated their kids against Covid. Politicians told them the disease is ‘mild’ in children. I’m glad my kids are in the right-hand far column, and not the left.

This is Australia. Right now. Not a good time to be old. But if it helps, if we keep letting Covid spread at will, none of the rest of us will live to old age anyway.

Between 1 in 50 and 1 in 25 Australians currently have Covid. With Christmas gatherings approaching.

40% increase in cardiovascular deaths in men aged 25-54 in the US, since the pandemic began. Not old, not ‘underlying conditions’, not ‘vulnerable’. Young men. ‘Living with the virus’, until they suddenly weren’t. Covid…

First day of homegrown power. It feels amazingly liberating, and fascinating too. Every news story about surging power prices makes us change the channel now. I’d do this 5 times over rather than spend the money on some…

The NSW Government reported this week that the Covid wave has peaked, because hospital numbers have levelled off. Hospital admissions for Covid are up 11% this week. It's one more lie to add to the collection. I'm…

The Centre for Disease Control (CDC) in the US predicting up to 150,000 Covid deaths there before March 2023. That's the equivalent of 50 9/11 attacks.

Some research shows that people who use a saline nasal spray have up to an 8-fold lower risk of hospitalisation, with Covid. The Covid vaccines don’t target the mucosal areas in the head, where you breathe Covid in, and…

The sleeper story of the soccer world cup is the beauty pageant for camels being held alongside, at the same time. 30,000 camels entered. A bit amusing, but there’s a very serious danger here. Camels carry and transmit…

A friend who’s a public health professional, who lost his own daughter to Covid, compiled this chart to show how every time we remove protections, people get sick and die. Our politicians call those protections…

The other day somebody asked me how Covid was going, and added ‘mostly old people, right?’ (Like that makes it OK.) No, not mostly old people.

My workplace has a big Christmas party this afternoon. Covid is rife in the building this week, but the party will go ahead. Who knows how many will then take Covid home for Christmas. I won’t be going. For my own…

We’re trying to infect our way out of a pandemic. Like saying you can overcome domestic violence by letting people beat up their partner repeatedly, until they become immune to it. It’s literally that stupid. Protect…

Merry Christmas everyone. Ours is a pretty restricted affair, with Covid joining us. How the year was always going to end, I guess, with few doing anything to stop it. 2023 could be the year we try a lot harder. I doubt…

There’s a storm brewing in Covid vaccine science, and it’s a biggie. One of the key weapons your immune system has against pathogens is immunoglobulin, or Ig for short. Also called antibodies. They’re proteins which…

If you’ve had Covid and are having memory problems, you’re far from alone. Another recent story I heard was a guy who’d had Covid, driving to work at 8pm thinking it was 8am. And a woman getting lost driving her kids to…

Because politicians are doing everything they can to suppress information and data about Covid, I post updates on local cases occasionally, so people can see what’s really happening. Lithgow Hospital again restricting…

“We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology.” Carl Sagan (Exhibit A - electric cars, and Covid.)

If you know governance and politics, this has been evident since the beginning of the pandemic. NSW’s strategy is not based on public health advice, it’s based on trying to keep the economy open. That approach has…

This is the sort of expertise that governments have refused to use in the pandemic, preferring to medicalise it. Meaning preferring to allow people to become infected, and then shoving them in hospital. The health…

Follow up to my post a few days ago, wondering if the lack of stories about victims of Covid is political strategy to prevent peoples’ anger at the public health fuck-up in many counties. That’s exactly what’s going on,…

There are times I can see why fraudsters make so much money. People are extraordinarily gullible. For example, did anybody notice in this mask decision, that not one workplace is covered by it? That not one employer…

The Brits going where not even the Americans will go. They may still destroy the vaccines for everybody by doing this. What happens when you vote for people who think we live in an Economy and not a society.

NSW pandemic strategy. Covid hide-and-seek.

Zoë is an international expert on Covid in schools. Remember ‘schools are safe’? Only where there’s no community transmission of the virus. If there is, they act as superspreading sites. In the UK the government is…

Makes me so angry. Have been trying for nearly a year to get the message across that NSW is following the approach of the US and UK, both complete catastrophes. And I think if you surveyed NSW people they’d…

A reminder that NSW is using the UK strategy, for Covid.

The UK is in terrible trouble. This 6-week lockdown will barely scratch their horrendous numbers. Vaccines will take at least all of 2021 to roll out, maybe well into 2022. A pandemic is a marathon, this is where you…

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. This inflatable character was used by emergency department staff in a US hospital to provide Christmas cheer. Unfortunately the staff member who wore the inflatable…

I’d recommend everybody read this short piece from Raina Macintyre about how public health action was fatally sabotaged in this pandemic. Worldwide. A vast range of expertise was needed, politicians and their backers…

If you’re thinking ‘the vaccines will fix all this in 2021’, take a breath. The US and UK may be destroying the vaccines right in front of our eyes, by using them completely differently to how they’re designed. This may…

I think we need wide education in political language, the Greeks called it ‘rhetoric’, it was a cornerstone of their education. For example yesterday the acting Premier was asked about risks to regional NSW from Sydney…

I’m seeing this a lot in the pandemic. Cafes and restaurants packed with boomers, bars and pubs and mass parties packed with millennials. Boomers possibly wanting to deny that they’re old (as usual) and at risk,…

During the pandemic, Australians still fly overseas in the tens of thousands, and then sit at the other end and moan about not being able to come back immediately. Travel was the petrol that started this pandemic, and…

At least the US parliament was open. Do Australians remember that our own PM closed parliament completely for much of 2020, and a hand-picked committee of gas industry cronies decided Australia’s post-Covid future? The…

From Paul Bieniasz, a virologist. Worth a read, it’s only a page. How using a vaccine as a magic bullet in a pandemic could mean the vaccines end up worthless. Broken record I know, but when you turn your society into…

“...to be perfectly frank at the moment I really want the community focused on achieving no community transmission," Dr Chant said. Meanwhile the Treasurer opines about masks, an area in which he has zero expertise.…

One of the debating tricks the Economy people have used in the pandemic is to say we need to ease up our fight against Covid, because other basic health issues like cancer are being neglected. As it turns out, if you…

The debates about lockdown or not to lockdown. Firstly, there is no such thing as ‘lockdown’, it’s not a public health concept. And notice that when somewhere won’t use strong restrictions, like NSW, that only works if…

The ABS measures the stringency of each State’s public health response, and the corresponding economic performance, across the whole pandemic. With the exception of Victoria because of its super spreader outbreak, NSW…

Crush and kill. If your kids get nits, you don’t ‘live with’ the nits. You kill them. It’s staggering to me that NSW, the most closed State with the worst economic numbers and the only State with circulating virus, is…

People understand that our climate change policy is purely about keeping the Coalition from breaking. If they take that same perspective to NSW for Covid now, they’ll see the same thing. NSW’s Covid strategy is designed…

Short piece from the Lancet today which every person in NSW could learn something from. Confirming again that when you get a rise in Covid infections, you must smash them immediately. Not ‘live with’ them. And that…

The seduction of numbers. The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have higher efficacy numbers of more than 90%. But those numbers are based on laboratory-based trials, not on real-world conditions of vaccination. This is where…

One of the first rules of political strategy is, if you want to do something unpopular, do something else that looks unrelated, but will achieve the same thing. The federal LNP despise superannuation, just as they do…

George has just had a bad case of Covid himself, which his daughter brought home from primary school. George looks for a pandemic plan, but Economy governments never had one. Ask somebody to show you Australia’s…

Once again the men in the NSW Cabinet on the take from big industries like tourism, gambling, booze and real estate, are desperate to smash the public health restrictions open. Restrictions should be under the control…

I’d always had a feeling that underneath this guy’s humour was something nasty. The pandemic has flushed it out.…

Everyone except NSW seems consistent to me, they have zero Covid. Most of them for months and months. Like NZ. As always, just waiting for NSW to stop playing chicken with the virus.

“Anyone concerned about the economy should be pleading for fast, powerful lockdowns, not demanding a return to business-as-usual.” Yep, but some just won’t learn.

Did you know the trials on the vaccines didn’t meaningfully test for either reduction in serious disease, or immunity? They may do both of those things, but it’s likely an enormous amount of guesswork and prayer is…

"...as long as the state premiers continue to ignore the idiots in the federal Coalition and the Murdoch media and lock down as needed...It turns out that stopping the disease from spreading is the only thing that…

Some very smart people jumped on the anti-lockdown wagon last year. I thought they might have done a bit of checking and found out there is no such thing as a 'lockdown' in public health, it's a political term invented…

Is it me, or does work feel very different because of the pandemic? Like the pointlessness of a lot of it has become more obvious?

Gladys on radio this morning saying why can't Premiers let there be 130-180 cases per day, before closing borders? Like Covid accumulates in small, manageable amounts. How is it that while every other Premier drives…

Populism is when slogans beat reality. The 'adversity' Gladys faced was being found out for blatant and proven corruption, which she was apparently forgiven for because a dastardly man broke her heart. Then she ran the…

Vaccines won't end this, your strategy will determine your long-term success. Even in the medium term NSW hasn't been as successful as any other State. The only strategy that works is Zero Covid. (NSW is emulating the…

Re-posting this because the news is full of stories of Australians stranded overseas. Sure some of these people have legitimate reasons for being OS in the middle of a pandemic. But look at the numbers - they tried to…

Try as they might, the NSW Government cannot get higher testing numbers in W and SW Sydney. (Note this is actually a daily testing figure of only about 11,000, 6,000 are carried forward from yesterday.) There are all…

Greg is another leading Australian public health expert. You won’t get ScoMo or Gladys to this day to admit they were wrong about eliminating Covid. They told us all it was impossible. They said that because they didn’t…

Christian Drosten is Germany’s leading pandemic adviser. Governments who started the pandemic saying ‘only a vaccine can end it’ (a lie), will now also vandalise the vaccine rollouts. Already happening in the UK. You…

Most of the ‘developed’ world has completely screwed up this pandemic. Now faced with both horrendous virus numbers and deaths, and economic catastrophe. And repeatedly trying to fix it by ‘opening up’ what they call…

Some historical perspective on what true emergencies do to business. In WW2, conservatively over 650,000 small businesses were destroyed in the US, because of the war. There was no alternative, the fight was the…

Superb work from the ABC here, the entire pandemic in Australia in words and graphs. You can see very clearly here that Victoria’s big outbreak was due to spread into the areas where essential workers live. The people…

In Manaus, the family of anybody arriving at hospital with Covid is given an oxygen tank and told to go and find some way to fill it, or their family member won’t be treated. Of course there is no way for them to fill…

Countries screaming for more vaccine. It doesn’t exist, there’s not enough. It could take years to vaccinate everybody. Which brings us back to the basic point nobody wants to face up to - ‘normal life’ will not return…

The Economy is ordinary commercial transactions, stripped of decent wages and working conditions for workers. The modern ‘lean supply chain’ business. That disrupts basic social conditions of life and work, which in…

If true, that’s our vaccination here in Oz hit for six. This is the vaccine we’re mostly planning to use.

Boomers are already some of the most non-compliant with public health measures. They may soon become Covid missiles, with their early vaccinations.

Hmm, not sure the UK is a country. Boris talking today about people in the ‘front line’ of the pandemic, health care workers. It’s a revealing and common metaphor. Pandemics happen in clusters, not lines. It matters,…

For those who think NSW is doing the best Covid job, because (it says) it's protecting its economy as well as fighting the virus, more disappointment I'm afraid. Still running almost dead-last economically. There's no…

Over half of Australians currently saying they won’t get a vaccination when it becomes available. Trump should move here and run for PM, he’d probably win.

https://www.croakey.org/the-hijacking-of-public-health-and-the-price-paid-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/

My greatest pleasure. The need to be always doing something seems a disease to me. Like being permanently ungrounded. We’re human beings, not human doings. Just being, the essential life skill. Like big cats sitting…

The government vaccination ad campaign seems badly conceived. Featuring prominent talking heads who are just the sorts of people anti-vaxxers don't like. At the same time members of the same government fill the airwaves…

I think it's important to remember that our PM told us all last year that Covid couldn't be eliminated. Our Premier still says it, still trots out the 'live with the virus' nonsense, said it just this morning, again.…

Good on the doctors for seeing that our PM and Premier are focused on the economy (which doesn’t exist), more than they are on beating the virus. There have been 2 ‘roadmaps’ out of the pandemic now, from National…

The super casual approach many Australians are taking to Covid is disturbing. People happily organising and attending social gatherings with little protection, just because the government says it’s ok. The UK government…

Australia’s 2 greatest enemies in this pandemic are the federal LNP and NSW government. Both have spent the whole pandemic trying to force Australia to use the UK approach to the virus. Both have taken credit for…

The pandemic is taking its toll.

850 medical staff have died of Covid in the UK. Over 52,000 of them are currently on sick leave, with Covid. Hospitals are full of young people dying. Often whole families are dead. We’re not safe from this happening…

The national strategy for Covid *is* elimination. Agreed by National Cabinet in July 2020. Do people need any clearer proof that NSW (this is the Deputy Premier) isn't following it?

The ad has 'crossed a line', the government says. Heh, this from the people who used a pandemic to smash working conditions and wages, give tens of billions in tax cuts to the wealthy, and free access to the Treasury to…

The rest of the developed world is trying to use vaccines to escape this pandemic quickly. They won't succeed. A disgraceful collapse of international public health processes, driven by fools who think we live in…

Still think this will be the big shitfight. Politicians have been keen to tell people vaccines will end the pandemic. That’s very unlikely, all the same social distancing and masks etc. will need to continue. Rich…

Several people I know have said they won’t be getting a vaccination any time soon, because they’re worried the vaccines haven’t been tested enough. To them I offer one of the hundreds of thousands of ‘tests’ that the…

Australia's greatest Covid risk is hotel quarantine. To say it again, who is responsible for quarantine in Australia? The federal government. Why are States doing it, through hotels? Because ScoMo is too lazy to do it.…

Liberal Party logo on this announcement? Insiders say an early election is planned, capitalising on the pandemic. Just as they used the pandemic to run toxic policies through. They disgust me. (Incidentally there’s been…

Economics looks dry and boring, because it's designed to, to make you not pay attention. Look at this train wreck coming, hidden in a graph. At the moment that big dip down to about -15 is the government spending to…

The reason the PM is reluctant to act against the likes of Craig Kelly is that he hoovers up all the Trumpians here in Australia, to vote for the LNP. That vote is significant, otherwise the PM would just cut him loose.…

The mythology of ‘children aren’t impacted by Covid’ is joining the long list of anti-lockdowner myths in the rubbish bin.

See how desperate the LNP are to destroy super? First they let you raid it in the pandemic, rather than them give you money. Then they suggested first homebuyers use it to buy a house. Now they’re gradually replacing…

I'm close to just whacking people who go on about kids missing education in the pandemic. As if they actually give a shit about that, they never did before, when schools were looking after the kids and student results…

Israel has by far the most aggressive and progressed vaccination program underway for Covid. It’s also in a national lockdown. People willing to accept yet that a pandemic is a war? Many never saw what the danger was in…

Sometimes the dots all join. The appalling response of the majority of the developed world to the pandemic, millions using it as a platform for individual grievance, is matched exactly by how people post to social…

Margaret and Derek Firth were married for 70 years. They died together in hospital. Fuck Covid.

Brendan Murphy, main adviser to government at the start of the pandemic, in March 2020. The Brits started the pandemic saying they’d just let everybody get infected with a lethal virus, to make them immune. They were an…

The Victorian lockdown will be the main virus story today. But the fact NSW is currently looking for 7000 people who travelled to Victoria is just another reminder how mobile our society now is, and the dangers of that…

Notice the pile-on on Victoria in this pandemic, orchestrated by the PM and his ministers? He’s a marketing man, a genius at misdirection. He does it to distract people from noticing that quarantine is his…

Very soon you'll be given vouchers to use in restaurants, cafes etc. The government will tell you it's about stimulus for a damaged dining and entertainment industry. It's nothing of the sort - they could give…

Australians returning from overseas in the pandemic. A clear public sense that NSW is doing the ‘heavy lifting’, taking more than its share of the arrivals. But the data tells a different story. Very little difference…

Somebody used Duplo to explain the various outcomes from using vaccines.

When we’re not in a pandemic, libertarians will tell you society doesn’t even exist, there are only individuals. In a pandemic, they will tell you your ‘freedom’ is being destroyed because of lack of access to society…

This is interesting. Not ‘here I am on my last holiday’ interesting, but nevertheless. This is data for the whole world. Nobody’s quite sure why this is happening. It’s not the vaccines. They suspect it’s countries…

Hands up if your risk management idea for children in this pandemic has been ‘they don’t get it, they’re at no risk’. Very powerful, venal people who wanted parents at work to keep their businesses running, wanted you…

Who else has been stung by huge 'gap' payments for health care? Medicare is creaking, and unfortunately this is deliberate, a death by a thousand cuts and cost-shifting to private individuals. Again, the LNP, who…

Why doctors aren’t the best guides to a pandemic.

Vaccine efficacy is badly explained to the public I think. For example, if a vaccine has a 95% efficacy, I think many (including me) assumed that meant about 5% of people would still get symptomatic Covid disease.…

England lifting its lockdown. Step one? Get the kids back out in the front line of the pandemic. The joy of living in an ageing society.

Australians have amassed over $200 billion in savings during the pandemic. Global warming gases have plummeted. Crime has collapsed. Cities have their cleanest air in decades. Hundreds of thousands were lifted out of…

Beautiful graph, showing that the pandemic allowed hundreds of thousands of Australians to move out of poverty for the first time. About to be reversed, because the government and the many who support them think if you…

I don’t think we pay attention. At the beginning of the vaccine rollout in the UK, like the rest of the world decision-making was based on risk. Old people get the vaccine first, because they’re at highest risk. we…

The data I shared which showed NSW, despite its rhetoric, actually has the *most* restrictive Covid measures of all the States, is also matched by global data. The countries that made the greatest noise about 'opening…

Johnson & Johnson published the efficacy data for their vaccine. Looks like just the one Johnson to me.

Who missed this today? Why do you imagine Gladys wants to stop telling us how many Covid cases there are per day? And 'just like the flu'? Let's throw in some 5G Bill Gates conspiracies and herd immunity while we're at…

This is Australia, people. PAY ATTENTION. Serious suggestions from NSW to suppress Covid case numbers, to facilitate border openings.

“Nature creates viruses. But people and politics create pandemics. And pandemics create new politics.”

This million owe their ongoing suffering to the anti-lockdown loons. I hope they volunteer to help care for these people.

Listening to conservative politicians speak with 'great concern' about children losing education in the pandemic is vomit-inducing. Like they care about children's education, they never have, they spend non-pandemic…

One for all those gung-ho to send kids and other younger people out to catch the virus, because they're 'low risk'.…

So fed up with this government. If the tourism industry and airlines are struggling, print some money and give it to them. Don’t encourage millions of Australians back into circulation with a pandemic still active, I…

There are around 278 Republicans in the US government. All of them voted for $1.9 trillion dollars in tax cuts to the wealthy under Trump. All of them just voted against $1.9 trillion in relief payments to working…

Can anybody remember *one* nice thing NSW has said about any other State, in this pandemic? States with both better economic and pandemic numbers than NSW (same thing), constantly criticised and lectured by Gladys and…

The #ReclaimTheseStreets vigil in the UK right now another example of how what looks like opposing sides in public debates are actually the same side. Stupidly risky to gather in these numbers in a pandemic, but woke…

If you're concerned about vaccines and blood clots, I seriously wouldn't be. Gideon explains it well. https://www.sciencealert.com/a-scientist-explains-why-you-don-t-need-to-panic-about-the-astrazeneca-rollout-pause

The US and UK, and also Europe, leading figures in fucking up the pandemic response worldwide, gobbling up vaccines as fast as they can be made, for their own people. Now it's running out, what a surprise. They thought…

Corporate welfare is excused because it 'creates jobs'. Hilarious. I think Alan Joyce agreed to some reduction in his $24 million package during the pandemic. He'll have made it all back and more in share price rises.…

In the Gods Must Be Crazy, we chuckle because a remote tribe attributes magical properties to a Coke bottle. But we do *exactly* the same thing with money. Money can be printed in any amount and given to people, and it…

There are currently over 1.3 million doses of Covid vaccines in the country, even with supply problems from overseas. Fewer than 200,000 of these have been used. Time to hand this all over to the States and away from…

Don't listen to people who say the Economy has suffered under this pandemic. It's been tremendous for the people who say that, look at the money pouring in. They say it to provide cover for their even further strip…

Sigh. Europe decided to 'live with the virus', to save the 'Economy'. The virus said thank you very much, and the economies went nowhere. In one German kindergarten every single child tested positive for Covid.

There's a clear community sense that it's been a very bad few years. Long and crippling drought, catastrophic bushfires, pandemic, and now floods. These are easy dots to join, it's all the same cause. Climate change.

The international community understands better than we do what genius the Australian and NZ response to Covid is. That genius was our institutions, not our governments. Expertise. Under assault in the rest of the world,…

Remember Gladys' rorting of local government grants? Then her rorting of bushfire relief grants? Total of about $500 million. Now there's Dine and Discover, another rort scheme, dressed up as Covid relief this time.…

The 'free market' shows industry super funds are light years ahead of the others, as public health and public education also are. They're non-profit, none of your money gets creamed off to pay shareholders and manager…

This to me shows the really perverse way so many people talk about 'freedom', particularly the anti-lockdown loons. They describe freedom as individual freedom, but they want to use this freedom to do things that are…

After royally stuffing up the entire pandemic, the UK government has been trumpeting how it ‘leads the world’ with its wonderful vaccination effort. Actually all it’s doing is hogging all the vaccine for itself, ditto…

The Easter long weekend coming. A time to worship our true God, travel, by sitting in traffic jams for 2 days. Surprised the anti-lockdown crowd aren’t demonstrating, people being forced to stay away from work for days.

Did you know 99.9% of businesses in the US are small businesses? 94% in Australia. The ones mostly hammered by COVID, because small businesses nearly all fail inside 5 years even without a pandemic. This is why the…

More small business. Towns often struggle now to fill main street shops. Most of peoples' needs are met by much larger businesses, online too. In the past the small businesses in a main street were the hub of shopping…

An early John Howard. One of Howard's sneaky ideas was to drive wages down and smash unions, via vast numbers of migrant workers on slave wages. (The pandemic showed this very clearly, when suddenly these slaves were no…

Australia's vaccine rollout, said to be 'glacially' slow. Actually when you do the numbers we're rolling out as fast if not even faster than the UK and US did in their early stages, considered world leaders. Look at the…

Add ‘lockdowns’ to the right.

ScoMo wanted to run the vaccine program as a lead-in to an early election, riding triumphantly to victory. Of course he completely stuffed it up. His only interest in the entire pandemic is how he can use it for his own…

Despite outrage in the recent protests, voting intentions for women have barely shifted. Despite demonstrated complete incompetence throughout the pandemic, ScoMo continues to lead in the polls, strongly. The only thing…

Worried about the Covid vaccine and blood clots? If it helps, you're 2-3 times more likely to die having your tonsils out.

NSW will need to vaccinate at least 250,000 people *per week* to meet the October timeline for people to get even one dose. 60,000 per week at this hub will be added to jabs at GPs, pharmacies etc. A long way short of…

The US projecting a surplus of up to 600 million vaccine doses in the second half of 2021. New Zealand just announced Pfizer vaccine for its entire population. Time for ScoMo to get on the blower.…

In 2020 international air travel was smashed by Covid (it's said). Only 1.8 billion passengers. That's the same number who flew in 2004. What seemed like a shut down only returned us to what was normal just over 15…

There's a lot of vaccine triumphalism in the US and UK right now, drunk on their speed of rolling out the shots. Both nations unwilling to do basic public health work, to eliminate the virus. Despite the media stories…

Please read this fabulous very short essay and let me know what you think? About how most of our work is non-essential bullshit, how there was nothing 'normal' about life pre-pandemic, and how the 'Economy' is the way…

This is our second YEAR of pandemic. Imagine a leader saying in the middle of a bushfire crisis, 'we need to learn to live with these bushfires, we're not going to try to put them out.' It'd be the end of their career,…

Very difficult to talk about vaccines without triggering the anti-vaxxers or New Age wellness "just strengthen your immune system" fruit loops. But I'm wavering on this AZ vaccine, for a variety of reasons. A longish…

All through the pandemic people have whinged about National Cabinet arguing and fighting, saying 'can't they all work together'. We find disagreement and argument distasteful. But notice what it produced - one of the…

Yes, all true, ScoMo is useless. But let's flip this. Australia already defeated Covid. The worldwide chest beating about speed of vaccination now is driven by the framework of the idiot countries who *didn't* control…

Have been driving a lot more during the pandemic. Nobody follows speed limits, almost without exception. We have average speed cameras in place for trucks, turn them on for cars. Our hyper-individualism doesn't even see…

The flipside way of looking at how the vaccine 'risk' is being (badly) described. Your chances of winning the lottery are described as about 1 in 50 million. Or 0.000002%. However that's not true. Your chances of…

Chile an advanced showing of what happens when you think vaccines will end the pandemic. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56731801

This makes about as much sense as saying that if 5 out of every million people play croquet, the rest of us have a 0.0005% chance of playing croquet. Actually the vast majority of us have a zero chance of playing,…

Brits outraged by this, football about the only thing a post-Thatcher Britain is united on. I wonder if they see the parallels, with themselves and the US creating a Covid Super League, hoovering up most of the world's…

To be blunt about the vaccines, and risk. - right now governments and experts alike are saying the risks are tiny. This is true, for nearly all of us (in fact the risks are zero for most). - but it's absolutely not true…

Makes me almost physically ill listening to Australians planning their next OS holidays. Reminder: a pandemic isn't a minor inconvenience to your recreational lifestyle. It's an international tsunami of death.

Who remembers the strawberries and sewing needles incident? Notice how tonnes of strawberries were destroyed, because of the risk some may contain needles. It's a good example of how (I think) risk is being…

This is the case for most schools. With peanuts, we don't add up the number of kids who have a reaction, divide that by the total number of kids and say that tiny number is each kid's risk. That would be nonsense, most…

ATAGI is the official scientific body that provides the vaccine advice to government. They've come out to make exactly the points I've been making in recent days, about the illegitimate use of risk in describing any…

The Premier on radio this morning, saying there's no need to report daily Covid case numbers, hospitalisations is enough. That we should be prepared to let the Covid flow through the community, as we open up, safe with…

In countries who thought the 'Economy' was real, deaths are mounting so fast that you see drivel like this, 'the vaccine is less risky than Covid!' So now the public is forced into a fake double-bind, choosing between 2…

This one looks a bit dry, but is important. Indications are immunity created by vaccines might last a year. That would mean the massive rollouts in places like the US and UK, that are attracting admiration, will…

A shout-out to the people who told me last year that India was showing the way to deal with the pandemic, through herd immunity i.e. just letting people get infected.

Straya worships tradies. Tradies are in my family. But there's a reason you can mostly DIY your own plumbing, carpentry, painting etc., but that you can't DIY your own MRI, or commercial airliner, mobile phone or hip…

Good old NSW, second last still on 'economic' performance, lagging well behind those dreadful lockdown States. It's almost like eliminating the virus fixes your Economy, hey, and 'living with the virus' screws it.

But you have just a tiny risk of dying from a blood clot! Doesn't seem to be working as a public health message, go figure. Going to need to offer over-50s Pfizer at a minimum, we've bought enough of it. Won't get them…

As a kid I still remember shops being closed both Saturday afternoons and Sundays. You needed to get cash out on a Friday to get you through the weekend. Partly this was the religious Sabbath still shaping society,…

See, 'in a million' kinda works, until what you're doing involves millions of people. Then you should really say "19 of you are going to die". (In fact it's now 32 dead, in the UK.) With vaccines available that don't…

A year ago debates abounded about 'living with the virus' (technically virus 'mitigation'), and eliminating it. Fans of the Economy argued then, and still do now, to live with the virus. They said the virus couldn't be…

Nails it, in every detail. NSW is the triumph of spin over substance that dominates federal government too.…

I want to challenge the idea that Australia is falling behind the rest of the world by being slow to vaccinate. Let's remember, there is effectively no Covid in Australia. We're not behind the rest of the world, we've…

Hey look, the pandemic is over! The UK and US full of this tripe now. Having sacrificed hundreds of thousands of lives to economic interests, they then hoovered up most of the world's vaccine supply, and are now saying…

From today (actually I think from 17 May in NSW) people aged 50+ can get an AZ jab. Lots of expertise in the news this morning telling everybody this is a 'safe' vaccine, and that the 'benefits outweigh the risks'. Now…

Pandemics reboot societies. Look at this, the 'Economy' going gangbusters, despite lockdowns and vast amounts of government spending. Exactly as predicted, do all the things the Economy loons say not to do, and the…

The pandemic is a long way from over. No country can vaccinate their way out of it, despite what politicians are telling you. The virus will continue to mutate to try to outsmart the vaccines, if it's allowed to keep…

Science, the journal, saying what I've been saying: "Even a long wait for an alternative may be worth it if infections are low. In Norway, the risk of dying from TTS for women age 45 to 49 is equivalent to the risk of…

Gladys - "our response will be proportionate". Please just for once people unpack the weaponised spin. What she means by this is 'we will avoid lockdown at all costs'. As if lockdown was the evil here, not the virus.…

Here's some numbers to contextualise what I say about the AZ vaccine. Currently it causes about 2 clots for every 100,000 people vaccinated. That sounds tiny, right? About 16 million Australians are scheduled to get…

Here's a story the pandemic has allowed to be told in big, bold letters. Much of our comfortable lifestyles is created by slavery. Migrant workers. They staff our basic industries, for slave wages and conditions. Right…

This is how Gladys works. Declares she's against lockdowns, then asks the public to do it for her. That way she can say she doesn't do lockdowns, while she actually does lockdowns. And seriously, what does 'strongly…

Was in a webinar with John Skerritt this week, head of the TGA, the body that approves vaccines in Oz. A nice guy. This quote from him though shows the danger of medicalising a pandemic. "By being vaccinated, we're not…

Another angle on our travel obsession. It's an enormous drain on our country's wealth. People take money that could be spent here and spend it overseas instead. Another thing the pandemic has brought to light, suddenly…

Life returning to 'normal' a.k.a. people depressed in meaningless jobs, in debt to the eyeballs. Living for the next trip, to suck the life out of some place with actual culture, to compensate for what we don't have at…

Common sense prevails. High efficacy, safe vaccines for Australians of all ages. Well done.

Mouse plagues are caused by the destruction of diverse ecosystems in favour of monoculture agricultural crops. This destroys most species, leaving the field wide open for single species to dominate, who no longer have…

The same people who urged us to 'live with the virus' all last year, are seeing another opportunity to spread stupidity. I'll leave it to Professor Raina Macintyre to clear up: "But COVID-19 isn’t a chronic disease that…

The latest craziness from the US. People 'identifying as' vaccinated, to bypass vaccination and mask rules. I guess once you start down the rabbit hole of identifying yourself as something you're not, this is where it…

Grey bits are confirmed deaths from Covid. Red is estimated, taking into account under-reporting. Around 10 million dead. And climbing worse than ever. Worth remembering when opening up borders to recreational travel…

You can't 'learn to live with the virus'. It needs to learn to live with us. Using strong restrictions, and vaccines.

Wisdom of the crowd. It's an actual, studied thing. In the right circumstances, a crowd is smarter than anybody in it. It's not what we usually call 'democracy'. In this case, the overwhelming crowd favourite is also…

This is obviously the sort of thing that made the government suck more money out of universities, and give it to rent-seeking parasites as tax cuts.…

Roughly 15% of the population is over 6 feet tall. Does this mean your chance of being 6 feet tall is 15%? No, you're the height you are. And there endeth the musings about the crazy dishonesty of AZ vaccine risk maths…

Nearly a third of Australians say they won't get vaccinated. That's a disaster. Looking at the stats, offering older age groups a different vaccine would help a lot.

The government I suspect recognising that unless they do offer the highest efficacy and safest vaccines to all, the rollout will fail. And the crowd may again be wise here.…

Did you know that if you have a cold, you can't catch SARS-Cov2 (Covid)? The rhinovirus kicks Covid's butt. A good example of how microbes live in communities, just like we do.

Look at this, the US will likely need to start its mass vaccinations all over again, as early as September. The UK will be the same. Microbes evolve to fight back. Why you need to control the spread of the virus, as…

The call to 'open up' during the pandemic is just the grown up version of 'are we there yet?'

The curious, topsy-turvy world of pandemics. In health, public health professionals deal with population-level strategy. GPs/physicians deal with the health of individuals. This is from the GPs, but is a statement of…

Last year I argued with people here about Covid and school safety. I feel vindicated that the year since has proved Covid spreads in schools as easily if not more easily than everywhere else, that children are infected…

The rolling contempt for children and teachers. In no country that I'm aware of have teachers been considered 'front-line workers', for vaccinations. It's inexcusable.…

Boris leads a party that killed over 120,000 in the UK. Why did they do it? Journalists have now unearthed this quote from him, at the start of the pandemic: "If I was 80 I wouldn't care, I'd be more worried about the…

I'm not seeing hysteria in NZ about how fast they're vaccinating. They made a deliberate decision to give everybody in the country the safest possible vaccine. It probably slowed their rollout, but lives of the public…

I'm sure I bored people last year talking continuously about how the 'Economy' was the cause of the pandemic and the greatest obstacle to ending it. Now Boris Johnson' closest adviser confirms that it was exactly what…

Racism, paternalism, pandemics. With an Ebola outbreak (for example), rich countries rush to lock those countries down to prevent the Ebola getting to us. Notice how with Covid, the exact opposite was done? Rich…

Rich countries are like cars who refuse to slow down for roadwork. Movement is their pathological obsession. For the whole of the pandemic they've tried to run 'normal life' alongside a pandemic. Now they're doing it…

Channel 9 trying to do a good thing, and in the process probably damaging public health work even further. Much of what they promise vaccination will do here, like get us flying again, may not actually be true. The US…

One simple (and non-political) way to understand why Melbourne has needed to lock-down more than Sydney in the pandemic, is to look at how much movement occurs in each city. A city with more movement, means more people…

Deepti is a UK pandemic expert. A few of her superb Tweets, this is exactly the danger I believe we're not seeing. If you vaccinate AND let the virus continue to circulate, it's like pouring petrol on a fire. But…

This from the TGA today, our main regulator for medicines. Stay with me, I know it might seem dry... "With the ongoing risk of COVID outbreaks in Australia and the potential for severe long-term effects or fatal…

Remember how lockdowns were going to destroy the Economy? Yeh, nah. Also, this link. Stopping the country has made it better, in almost every way. But we want the old 'normal' back. Bizarre.…

Have done a lot of risk management in my work. Here's another example of what to me is quite outrageous dishonesty in the vaccine debate. Just about every expert, doctor and politician is telling people every day that…

For more than a year we've had to listen to how smart NSW's approach to the pandemic has been, avoiding 'lockdown', to minimise disruption to the Economy. The actual costs show that to be nothing more than political…

Hmm, it seems people are soon going to have to choose between the mental health destruction of children not going to school (seriously, I can barely type that without laughing), or them getting Covid.

Got my first Astra dose yesterday. Listening to whining UK tourists on TV right now, saying 'what was the point of getting vaccinated if we can't travel?' The fault of idiot politicians promising people that vaccination…

The pandemic is nearly over! Say the US and UK, look at them there, in their imperial blue-green, gobbling up all of the world vaccine supply, and desperate to get back in jet planes, to spread the virus even further. A…

What's happening in the UK, in a great animation. Still slow to learn that defeating a pandemic is primarily about stopping people getting infected, by restricting their social and 'economic' activity. Hoping vaccines…

Hygiene theatre. Most of the Covid practices that have got the highest emphasis in the pandemic, like washing hands and staying 1.5 m apart, are next to useless at stopping the spread of Covid. This hugely expensive…

I'm seeing the same Economy-driven nonsense in other natural events now, not just the pandemic. For example yesterday, this was the travel advisory for the highway. I was on that road yesterday morning, there's no way…

A question. Would you willingly allow children to become infected with Covid? The UK is doing it. On one day alone over 136,000 students were absent, due to Covid infections in themselves or in people they mix with.…

Risk management concepts. On the left, risk based on likelihood of an event only. The 'odds' of it happening. On the right, risk with likelihood + impact. A good word here, as the 'impact' will be a splatter on the…

If I can ask, what decision have my fellow over-50s made re AZ vaccination, in Oz? Noting that I had my first dose this week.

After more than a year, people still not getting it. Elimination *is* still having a 'few cases' of Covid in the community. It's not eradication. What these economic thinkers mean is open right up, and contact trace…

There's no question the great political experiment of the past 50 or more years, is libertarianism. The idea that governments get in the way, and we need to do everything to 'free' individuals from them. All the…

Here's an example of how this pandemic is actually a battle against libertarianism, not a virus. Headline from the UK today. 'Freedom', as if sheltering from a lethal virus is some sort of authoritarian oppression.…

I've held off commenting on the updated AZ vaccine advice. Obviously it makes me angry, that I missed a Pfizer dose by not waiting 2 more weeks, I thought they wouldn't budge. I told you so seems childish, but far out…

When we reach the point in Australia (and we will) when public voices call for us to infect children with Covid, so older folk can go on OS holidays with open borders, remember research like this. Showing that people…

Why vaccines aren't a fast-track back to 'normal' life.

How do you have a lockdown without having a lockdown? By asking the public to do it for you. Smoke and mirrors.

Can anybody explain what possible purpose the words 'strongly encouraged' have in a public health notice?

The Delta variant of Covid, infecting cells. The cells look like balloons. This is because there's so much virus replicating inside them that the spike proteins on their surface 'melt' the cells.

The problem with the idea of herd immunity is, humans don't live in herds. The herd regularly jumps on a plane and escapes the paddock. This pandemic will just keep rolling along, killing as it goes, until humans learn…

National Cabinet to meet today to discuss vaccine hesitancy. Ideas come full circle, remember the #metoo discussion about consent? Does anybody remember a suggestion that somebody hesitant to have sex with somebody…

Serious question. Should violent criminals be allowed to work in schools? I'm sure we'd all say no. And yet we're fine with Covid circulating in schools. Please help me understand the difference.

Gotta fight stupid wherever you see it. Australia and NZ *ARE* living with Covid. That's what all of our public health measures are for. Unsurprisingly one of the Bibles of the Economy crowd arguing to...well, it's not…

If you want to let swindlers and charlatans screw up your life with their Economy-speak, don't read this. https://theconversation.com/please-no-more-questions-about-how-we-are-going-to-pay-off-the-covid-debt-158056

Imagining the NSW spin doctors having long, late nights, trying to find a way to rationalise locking down Sydney after spending a year vomiting nonsense about NSW not needing to do that sort of thing. Why you should…

When you can't even stop your Cabinet getting Covid. Lunacy in real-time.

The government public messaging seems to have missed this, so for information. If you've been in Greater Sydney (includes the Blue Mountains), or the Central Coast, Shellharbour or Wollongong since 10 June, you MUST…

So far contact tracing and vaccines have been tried as silver-bullet fixes for the pandemic. Neither will end it, it's like hoping a bunch of flowers will paper over a dysfunctional relationship. A pandemic is a complex…

900 people exposed to Covid at a Sydney hairdresser. You people with hair disgust me.

It's not a cat, but stick with me. This idea of a 'proportionate' approach to the pandemic. A grown-up colouring game, one LGA at a time. NSW refuses to 'lock down' a whole area when there's a major outbreak. But all…

Remember the 'R number' from earlier in the pandemic"? An R less than 1 means a pandemic is under control. This is Sydney's R number for the past 5 days. I think many whose idea of thinking through the pandemic has been…

The NSW Government Covid strategy has arrived at its inevitable destination. A pandemic is a marathon, not a sprint. You sometimes win at gambling, in the short-term. You never do in the longer term. No amount of puff…

Politicians who believe we live in economies, not societies, adore transport projects. Do we stop and ask why? Transport is displacement, and displacement is dispossession. Taking goods and people from where they live,…

Travel started the pandemic, and is determined to keep it going, while whining about not being allowed to do more travel.

Choose your sides people. I watch the UK news every day, today’s bulletin is a story about how 250,000 school children have had to isolate at home because ‘only 9000’ of them were actually infected with Covid. Only! In…

Some fantastic work being done by data people in this pandemic. This site (think it's also available as a mobile app) will tell you where the nearest Covid cases are, and what the current restrictions are.…

ScoMo pulled a real swifty yesterday, announcing younger people can get the AZ vaccine after talking to their doctor. Turns out he hadn't consulted anybody. Medical experts furious. Will probably get a boost in…

Schools are by far the greatest drivers of social mixing. Look at the mobility plummet when schools are closed. Remember how many demand schools be open in a pandemic, when virus is in circulation. I call those people…

Gladys has tried this one too. Conservative governments the world over are deeply in-bred. When the pandemic is going badly, they suggest we stop releasing the data. Trump did this, he also did it with election results.…

Have been lucky to be able to discuss this pandemic with Brendan many times. His thinking is always spot-on. You cannot live with this virus, the next time somebody near you suggests we should, hit them across the face…

My dad died 14 years ago, on this day. I post that not to get any sort of well-wishes, please don't, but because I think about him every day. His hands are typing this message, mine are almost an exact copy of his. It…

As a kid, my dentist had a sign in his office that said 'teeth don't fall out - gums drop them'. It's stuck with me, the wisdom in that. The pandemic similar. Viruses don't spread, people spread them. When we talk about…

Fascinating that we smashed flu last year - you can see its death spiral at the start of the big national lockdown in Feb-March 2020 - but that it continues to be flatlined into 2021. It's just non-existent. Despite NSW…

Sums up the entire pandemic, and why it's still going. My point for 18 months.

Have posted about this before I think, but it's becoming more topical every day. Do people support the idea of vaccinating adults, and then letting kids get infected with Covid, as a way out of the pandemic? Because…

"We now know that the idea circulating early in the pandemic that kids are extremely unlikely to transmit the virus was more wishful thinking than good science." Some of us knew that last year. And it's not just…

“The key point here is not to think about the economic costs over a period of a couple of weeks, large as they are, but rather to consider the costs over a period of months if community transmission continues.”…

A cynic would say that was always the intention anyway. A non-cynic would say, how incompetent does the NSW government have to be, for people to stop voting for them? Maybe Covid slaughtering a few members of people's…

Hopefully Gladys rules out letting Covid rip today. Some in her Cabinet are desperate to, and have been the whole pandemic. A reminder to people what happened in India when the Delta variant was allowed to run free. NSW…

How quickly the worm turns. I mean, plenty of average punters think Gladys is doing a great job, absent any evidence. But when even the brown shirts over at SKY turn on you, you're really in trouble.…

I believe it's Proverbs 16:18. Pride comes before a fall. Unfortunately the fall in this case is millions of peoples' lives at stake. Well done you if you did no homework on the pandemic and just repeated the slogans…

Being rid of Covid is quite simple. The world could do it in a few weeks. Beating people who don't want to beat Covid is the challenge.

Look at that blue line. The childish rubbish about 'Dictator Dan' last year - people need to be deeply ashamed. He was doing the superb job that needed doing, and which NSW has now finally realised, 18 months into this…

Yup. Has been happening for about a year. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/get-ready-for-a-shift-in-the-covid-blame-game

I liked this. There's also a serious point to it. Modern conservatives like to say that the government gets in peoples' way, restricts their freedom. But the government IS the people. Who else would it be? When the…

I think the people who live in fear of lockdowns have never had a loan with compounding interest.

I study political strategy. It used to be part of every child's education, in Ancient Greece. I think we're suffering from the loss of that. Right now, for example, you'll see daily pile-ons at people not following…

Who remembers this? I think we need to strongly oppose the idiot idea that our 'mental health' isn't up to a fight in this pandemic. Politicians use a behaviour model that says we're all fragile egos, individuals curled…

ScoMo made 55 phone calls to help get the OECD job for Mathias Cormann. He couldn't make one phone call to the head of Pfizer to get us vaccines. Don't blame me, I didn't vote for the fatuous God-bothering windbag.

For more than 18 months the NSW Government has lied, just as Boris lied in the UK, about ‘following the health advice’. As the article says, “There has been…no admission that its business-influenced approach to the…

This one flew under the radar this week. A proposed traffic light system for NSW schools and Covid. Follow the logic of this one and it's clear again the government plans to allow children to be infected. The amber…

The accurate and sensible headline here would be “Businesses Struggle with Outbreak of COVID.” Notice that time and again conservatives try to frame public health measures as the problem, not the virus.

You'll never guess, it wasn't Scott's fault. Nothing ever is. It was the 'medical advice'. You know, that medical advice he and Gladys always say they're 'following'.…

Political strategy 101. Thanks to Matt Lucas for his brilliant impersonation. Boris appears a bumbling fool. He's sharp as a tack. The NSW Government is copying him. Pretend to be doing public health work, but twist the…

To me the most brilliant graph of the pandemic. Countries who ‘lock down’, who refuse to ‘live with the virus’, get to actually live normal lives, with very few people harmed. Countries who try to live with the virus…

The fact below may help some decide on whether or not to be vaccinated. You will get COVID if you don’t.

Melbourne lockdown. When supermarkets finally fix their supply chains, the panic buying turns out to have been an optical illusion. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6ZS2I-VgAApAxE?format=jpg&name=large

All on board fully vaccinated, 2 doses. 'Vaccines are our only way out of this pandemic'. Don't buy a used car off people who say that.

You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to see who is writing the NSW Government pandemic strategy.

A photographer from regional Victoria. Her anger is at a public health measure, designed to save thousands of lives. That isn’t even mentioned. Her collapse in income is her only focus. No doubt that’s extremely…

It's only people with comfortable homes who complain about lockdowns.

Do people remember Trump trashing Fauci in the US during the early days of the pandemic? Morrison continually does the same with ATAGI. Do we notice? Do we care about what this means?…

Another major industry doing its bit to undermine basic public health measures. Alan Joyce was back at it again yesterday too. Gerry Harvey is a regular. There is no society for these people, just an Economy. The…

Here's a way I think to understand what our future will look like, after we're vaccinated. If a child or an adult turns up to school or work with whooping cough, do we say "come in, we're all vaccinated here!". Nope.…

Really interesting article about how the development of universal schooling led to the emergence of a separate culture for children, that then went on to change adult culture. The growing adolescence of adult life.…

Would you rather ‘die in battle’ with Covid, as Joe says? Because he shares the same political beliefs as the government. You can’t fight a pandemic virus with political beliefs. The virus has no political beliefs, it…

Out of control, has been for weeks. The government refusing to do anything more, growing and spreading every day. Yesterday trying to steal vaccines from other States, who rightly told Gladys to piss off and do her job.…

Olympics observation 2. The face masks the US team are wearing look like egg cartons, and were probably built by NASA and cost a few thousand dollars each, for one-off use. Olympics observation 3. The medal winners…

Victoria is lifting their lockdown today, after only 2 weeks, job done. We have the NSW Government. 5 weeks in and getting worse every day. If you think this is because 'people aren't following the rules', remember your…

If you know anybody who feels we need to 'learn to live with Covid', some sobering findings out of the UK. People who have been infected with Covid (remembering this includes many who are vaccinated, the vaccines don't…

Speechless. Just despicable. Rather than introduce properly strong restrictions, the NSW Government strategy will be to encourage thousands of under-40s to get a vaccine they shouldn’t be having. The bitter, disgusting…

The lockdown in Orange, Blayney and Cabonne lifted overnight. Went for a week. The news said the focus will now be on peoples’ ‘mental health’ during the lockdown. I’m sorry, but if a week-long stay-at-home impacts our…

The tabloid theatre (like toilet paper selling out) which political libertarianism generates. Everything is about the individual. At a time of collective emergency, the pile-on starts, on ‘naughty’ transgressors. No…

Contact tracing has become contact chasing. Just as vaccines won’t end the pandemic, contact tracing was never going to have a hope. More spin we just swallowed in our lazy way, to save us thinking for ourselves.

Great piece from a public health professional about what our lives with Covid may look like into the future. The 'burden of disease' point is critical. Politicians and business people are desperate for people to believe…

Testing the public messaging. Who hears in the public announcements and discussions that the Covid strategy is to get as many people vaccinated as possible, so that the virus might still be there but we won’t get very…

National Cabinet’s new 4-stage plan (this is their third if you’re not keeping count, the first 2 failed miserably) to ‘re-open’ relies upon % of people getting vaccinated. It doesn’t include children, it’s a joke. It…

If only people took a pandemic as seriously as they take kicking a ball around a field. A society of adolescents, again. (By the way women had more cases in the earlier stages of this graph, because women in the UK get…

This dam in the UK was failing, they evacuated the entire nearby town while it was fixed. Nobody suggested ‘living with’ the leaking dam, it was clear the dam failing would have flooded the town. Now ask why the same…

When I see anti-vaxxers and anti-lockdown people on Twitter, I sometimes look at their profile and history of Tweeting, to get a sense of the person. This isn’t an unusual flavour of what you find.

Get vaccinated, people. Not because it will end the pandemic (it won’t), but because you need to protect yourself. The politicians in NSW and Canberra won’t. The targets way too low (actually only about 56% of the…

https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2021/28/sydney-avoids-4000-cases-but-lockdown-must-be-broadened/

Nothing but data today on Covid, to show the critical danger to all NSW people right now. This one shows contact tracing being smashed. Those poor bastards working 24 hours a day, and not even close to keeping up. I…

Deepti is one of the best. Well worth a few minutes of your time, if you really want to understand this pandemic. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/08/02/gurd-a02.html

Looking behind the total daily case numbers for Sydney, which have been hovering around 200 for several days. That gives comfort to some, because it seems like it's under control. The thing with exponential growth is,…

Part 2 of previous post. The 'but' is looking at cases outside the locked down areas. They have exponential growth, where virus leaked from SW Sydney. And it's doubling fast, every 5.4 days. This pattern will continue…

This is malaria. It’s estimated it may have killed half the people who have ever lived. 50 billion people. It’s an endemic disease in many countries. They ‘live with’ it. Exactly what people want to do with Covid. The…

Just prepare for disappointment. The 70-80% target from National Cabinet won’t remove ‘lockdowns’. Nor will vaccination end the pandemic. The pandemic will be over when Covid is eliminated from circulation. There is no…

Covid is flatlining in the UK, and nobody is really sure why. It’s not vaccines, though they’re likely a major contributor. Not enough people are vaccinated there to explain the dramatic drop in cases. It could be…

Memories of 2020, when some people here on FB were insisting that schools were magically Covid-free zones. My experience is people just go quiet when their stupid assertions turn out to be stupid. Or they block you.…

You can’t run away from the pandemic, much as I’m sure it bores a lot of people. Ignore it and it will come for you, and your family. I persist with it because there is nothing else that is really important right now…

Twice in Australian history, the ‘reserve powers’ have been used to remove a sitting government. Once in 1932, when the NSW Governor removed Premier Jack Lang (picture). And once in 1975, when the Governor-General…

I wonder how many of the anti-vaccine folk will buckle once supply is available. Some libertarian fruit loops I know are still sticking to their guns, even calling Covid a ‘sniffle’. Covid will come for them, and I…

Greg is a smart chap. The people who say we need to ‘live with Covid’ haven’t realised yet that what’s happening in NSW right now is what that looks like.

This doesn't appear to be only targeted at current hotspots, I can't see any geographical references where NSW Health and the federal Department of Health have been posting it. If you want proof of the ineptitude of the…

The pandemic is a tale of 2 ‘economies’. It’s been a great thing for many screwed by the traditional Economy, what we call ‘normal’ life. That’s because normal life was totally dysfunctional and was designed mostly to…

Lost his entire family inside one week. Is it registering for people the catastrophe we’re in the middle of? Why don’t people talk about it? Are we using bullshit ‘positivity’ to try to avoid facing up to grown up…

The pandemic has never been a medical or even biological event. It’s a political event. It was caused by and is being prolonged by pathological individualism - libertarianism. The NSW Government are libertarians.…

This lawyer in the UK was a big supporter of ‘natural immunity’, thought Covid was just like a cold or flu and his immune system would be all he’d need to beat it. And that the vaccines were more dangerous than Covid.…

This is Australia's number 1 public health expert.

NSW is about where the red arrow is. The Premier lies and says 'at least we don't have exponential growth'. Infections have been growing exponentially for the whole outbreak. Here's an indication of how terrible things…

You don’t have to pay any attention to my advice. But it’s this. Assume the State is already in total lockdown. The government refuses to do it, but Covid is everywhere and spreading fast. Do the lockdown yourselves.…

The pandemic will be a trilogy (I’m quite serious). Year 1 - epidemiologists (epis) take on the Empire (Economy), and win. Year 2 - the Empire strikes back, using vaccines to restore the Economy to prime position. Year…

Yaneer Bar-Yam is an Israeli complex systems specialist who studies pandemics. On the right here is the strategy every part of Australia apart from NSW is using. (He thinks Australia is amazing.) On the left in red is…

Before we all get swept away in the latest tide of spin, NSW is not in total lockdown. The NSW Government has just extended the Sydney measures to the entire State. But…the Sydney measures aren’t working. They restrict…

NSW was the test of the idea that we can try to live our normal lives - what we stupidly call ‘the Economy’ - alongside a pandemic virus. Are the true economic believers convinced yet? How many more people and…

The Covid tour of NSW arrives in Bathurst, and adds new shows in Orange. A footlong of saving the Economy, with Covid special sauce. Imagine leaving a massive bushfire to burn for 2 months, unchecked. This is much, much…

Very interesting graph showing projected impact of vaccination on the NSW outbreak. The different colour shadings are the different restrictions introduced over time. Note that the assumption here is heroic - that…

"For Covid-19, the aeroplane was the mosquito." Professor Heidi Drummer, on what caused this pandemic. Travel.

There’s some brilliant data work going on every day with the pandemic. Take this graph. It shows that the ‘stronger’ restrictions inside the most heavily impacted Sydney LGAs are doing - nothing. They’re more spin. Case…

Slogans like ‘live with the virus’ got NSW into the mess it’s in. And unsurprisingly, more slogans are now keeping it there. Like ‘just stay home’, and ‘follow the rules’. Avoid everything a politician says in this…

Again, avoid anything politicians say in a pandemic. Listen to people on the front-line, like this doctor. The so many people taking comfort from the daily weaponised spin from the NSW Government aren’t aware yet of the…

This is Mkayla Robinson from Mississippi. Her first day of year 8, and her brother's first day of Kindergarten. She died 8 days later of Covid. Never, ever believe politicians who say it's safe for kids to go to school…

Yes. But watch, we can find $150 billion for tax cuts for the wealthy, but there won't be $50 million to give classrooms clean and safe air.…

This will take 1 minute and 11 seconds of your time. Please watch it. 'Zero Covid' does NOT mean 'no cases of Covid'. Despite what our idiot Premier and PM would have you believe. Today our Premier said she wasn't going…

Covid case in Bathurst.

NSW well on track to be in lockdown until at least Christmas. The 70-80% vaccination promise? Bullshit, ignore it. It’s only 40% of the population. Why I’d put some money on them infecting kids, Gladys won’t want to…

825 cases today. There will be 3000-4000 per day within weeks. 10,000 (per day) by the end of September. The Premier doing her daily meaningless bullshitting, saying ‘once we get to 70-80% vaccination, we can live life…

Some more compliance porn for our populist tabloid minds yesterday, with the protests. Minds that, rather than understand, want to blame. The group in NSW who cares the least about the spread of infection right now…

4000 children now have Covid in NSW. 1500 of them are under 9. Expect those numbers to explode, when the NSW Government re-opens schools without vaccinating children first.

"Gladys has so spectacularly muffed the pandemic, and ICAC is bearing down on her still, so it is little wonder there is talk of a spill...Yet the Premier of NSW has been enormously popular. Berejiklian has the uncanny…

Magicians work by diverting your attention. Like 'there's no exponential Covid growth in NSW'. Numbers have doubled in the past week, from 415 to 830. Exponential growth, with a doubling rate now of only 7-8 days. It's…

We'll get another "70 and 80% freedom" day from the Premier today. Reality is going to bite really hard in NSW, brutally and lethally hard.…

Israel showing that the idea that we can all get vaccinated, and then infected at will because the vaccines will protect us, is bollocks.

70% of Oz adults vaxxed = 11 million Australians unvaxxed (6.2 million adults, 4.8 million children). 80% of Oz adults vaxxed = 9 million Australians unvaxxed (4.2 million adults, 4.8 million kids). All of those…

If you got the AZ vaccine, a reason to feel superior to all those Pfizer people 😉 It seems to last longer. On the flip side, vaccine efficacy is fading pretty quickly, within 8 months. Those who put all their eggs in…

Every day the NSW Premier and PM suggest to us that 70% and 80% vaccination will mean much of our freedom will return. It’s a lie, every single day. This is 30 seconds from the head of the Institute who did the report…

She lied. She's good at that. We'll likely hit 1000 cases in a day tomorrow. She's still doing nothing more to get case numbers down. Thinks vaccines will do it. They won't, far too slow. She's ignoring the national…

How much better will you sleep knowing that the PM has ignored expert advice to end the pandemic, and is quoting Batman movies instead?

Steve Duckett once ran the national health department. He knows his shit. "Governments cannot keep making unrealistic promises about easing restrictions at 70% and 80% adult vaccination, a plan that relied on optimistic…

I have to follow every millimetre of the pandemic for work, will keep sharing things you don’t see in the news. Contact tracing now. Currently the contact tracers are over 5200 cases behind. In other words, contact…

I suspect tomorrow National Cabinet will be forced to include children in its vaccination targets. (That they weren’t there already - I mean, what can you say?) Tomorrow the NSW Premier announces her plans to get kids…

I don't make this stuff up. Have a look. Even at Gladys' beloved 80% of adults vaccinated, we're looking at 40,000 new infections PER DAY.…

Reality biting, fingers crossed. Kids to be vaccinated and more caution around the magical 70-80% drivel, at National Cabinet today. The PM will have to be dragged kicking and screaming, like every point in the pandemic…

Here’s a new Gladys neat trick. She’s said many times what matters isn’t how many people get infected, it’s how many end up in hospital. Look how many she’s hiding from that statistic by having people treated at home,…

My grandmother died this month. My last remaining grandparent. Nanna. Because of Covid she got no funeral, though at some point we’ll get together and commemorate her. That’s her on the left, holding either me or Mike…

People of Australia, the rubber has hit the road. The massive national question right now is, will we open up the country and allow millions of children and adults to become infected with Covid? Or will we wait a few…

This incorporates vaccinations into projections. I think the reduction in transmission used in this model (80% for a double-vaccinated person) is way too optimistic. But it gives a way of looking at possible futures.…

The most stupid time possible to move number 30 up on this list is in the middle of a pandemic. But many are doing it 🙈

Wil take less than 5 minutes of your time to listen to Allan Saul, a true expert, give a fantastic summary of what you need to know right now about the NSW Covid situation.

"For all the NSW government’s attempts in the 11am media conference to sell a positive vaccination story and downplay the soaring COVID cases, the numbers and the reports from the front line have crushed the spin."

Not even his ivermectin saved him. I have friends with similar beliefs, the pandemic flushed them out. Ended up blocking some and alienating others. I won't tolerate this sort of lethal bullshit in my life, sorry.…

"No, we're not opening up at magic numbers." https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2021/08/31/vaccination-code-yellow-pascoe/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Morning%20News%20-%2020210831

The ‘National Plan’ to exit the pandemic. It’s nothing of the sort, it’s a re-election plan for the PM. Look at what it does. It makes meaningless claims about the vaccination rollout being as good as over when 80% of…

Ian is a top virologist. Notice vaccines are only one slice of the cheese. Politicians who tell you we can vaccinate our way out of a pandemic are lying. Simple as that.

"Cases are rising, dangerously so, in New South Wales but, despite the protestations of its Premier to the contrary, it is because of the slow response and very loose lockdown enabling the virus to continue to spread.…

Data from Israel, where even booster shots (3rd vaccine doses) are now starting to fail after 6 months.

NSW now moving to the 'heroes' phase. Standard libertarian government strategy. Do nothing to prevent the disaster - whether it's bushfires, or a pandemic - so that the last line of defence, emergency services workers,…

Just realised I forgot the link! https://theconversation.com/introducing-ozsage-a-source-of-practical-expert-advice-for-how-to-reopen-australia-from-covid-safely-166943

A very short explanation of what ‘live with the virus’ actually means. It absolutely doesn’t mean everybody get vaccinated, and then we’re safe and we can let the virus do what it likes. We need Covid to become like…

There’s a lot of public discussion about the Doherty Report. Here’s the crux of it, outcomes for different levels of vaccination (adults only). The first 6 months after ‘opening up’. Worth noting: - even at the 80%…

Writers are often our most entertainingly insightful gifts. John Birmingham wins the internet today firstly for ‘Morrjiklian homunculus’, and then for nailing the exact politics in play right now, around children and…

When they announce that people who have died of Covid had ‘underlying health conditions’, it’s worth remembering nearly half of all Australians have those.

How disgusting is it that at the exact time NSW is expected to have the most people in hospital and dying of Covid, this Premier is planning to open up bars and restaurants for vaccinated residents of suburbs like…

This vaccination rollout will be a brilliant test of the Australia we live in, compared to the one we maybe think we live in. Right now about 5 million Australians are saying they won't get a vaccine. Compare to our…

This story today, announced at the daily Gladys at 11am. Analysis commissioned by the NSW Government, to determine safety of sending kids back to school. They did a similar analysis last year after national lockdown.…

Probably the best word to sum up the whole pandemic.

A bit long, but some ideas aren’t sound bites. I know the world seems crazy to many people. I think the cause is something hidden in plain sight. For generations now, we’ve allowed adolescents to grow up in a separate,…

The government released a ‘roadmap’ out of the pandemic yesterday. The metaphor tells you everything. Nobody uses roadmaps any more, we all use GPS. Real-time data adjusted to constantly changing conditions. Somebody…

The NSW Premier just announced she will no longer be giving daily press conferences. NSW Health staff will do them instead. She announced this immediately after saying the next few weeks will be the worst for Covid…

Did people read this one? If you follow every tiny detail of the pandemic, as I have to for work, it’s things already known. But for many you can read here how NSW has just barefaced lied for months. It isn’t following…

Schools are safe. Pigs arse. What sort of leaders send unvaccinated kids back to school in a pandemic?

We need to get the kids back in school, so that all of our pointless ‘hobby farm’ small businesses, 75% of which were going to fail in 5 years anyway without the pandemic, can get back to work.

Covid will in no way be 'like the flu'. Flu is an endemic disease, Covid is not. Also the 'peak' of cases and hospitalisations - there is no one peak. The peak shifts every time you change conditions.

Such a crucial point. Those ‘live with the virus’ people who want you to believe vaccines will turn Covid into something ‘just like the flu’ (by which they mean a mild flu season) are lying. Or stupid. Or both.

At 80% of adults vaccinated, 40,000 Australians per day are still estimated to become infected with Covid. Many of those will be children. How about we be a bit patient and vaccinate 80% of the WHOLE population first,…

Something that’s become clear in this pandemic is how invisible basic public health work, which goes on every day of every year, is to much of the community. Take the idea again, that it doesn’t matter how many people…

Why aren’t we as a society insisting upon vaccinating kids against Covid before sending them back to school? Here’s a historical comparison. Whooping cough, pertussis. Before vaccines, about 50-120 deaths per year. I’ve…

I'm not sure people have fully imagined yet the chaos we'll see when the vaccinated half of the State is asked to enforce vaccine passports for the other half.

This is a growing pattern in Western democracies. Gated communities. Where the well-off shield themselves from crime and poverty. From the rest of society. Billionaires have bought entire islands and built bunkers to…

People have probably heard a lot about the Doherty modelling in the news, the guide governments are using for the 70% and 80% re-openings. Wanted to share some of it because I’m not sure how many people have actually…

When waiting in line at a local vaccination clinic the other week, it was clear the number 1 factor people seem to use for choosing a mask is appearance. Most of the masks I saw were pretty useless, even if they looked…

Know when kids in science at school say 'how am I going to use this in later life'? We have a new answer. You may not have a later life, if you don't shut up and learn.…

I think Australia is sleepwalking into something it just isn't seeing. Right now it thinks the opening up plans of 70 and 80-% are great, because they think it'll be just more of what they have right now, with extra…

100,000 children infected in just one week in England. The government there not even bothering to isolate infected people in schools, it all got too hard. If you don't think NSW could end up like this, you're not paying…

Here’s one for the people who can’t process an issue without a detour through their favourite political team. Lots to see here about NSW ‘success’ with vaccination.

The NSW Premier and our PM both tell us that the reason 2021 is different is because ‘Delta is like nothing we have seen before’. More lies, more spin. We’ve beaten far more infectious diseases than Delta. The only…

An aspect of the months between now and Christmas many aren’t aware of, is that the National Covid plan, modelled by Doherty and driven by the PM, involves the mass infection of children. This is quite deliberate, as it…

Data from the US is now suggesting vaccination plus infection with the Delta strain is equivalent to being unvaccinated, against the Alpha strain from last year. In other words, we’re heading back to square one. What…

Cut and run before the Covid Roadmap carnage begins.

The gushing about Gladys. This is the woman who, when asked yesterday about whether children will die of Covid under her Covid strategy, said ‘regrettably yes’.

We have a PM rushing to an election by destroying 2 years of hard Covid work. And a NSW Premier who gets wide applause for leading a government with such entrenched corruption that ICAC wouldn’t have know where to…

Going to re-post this from Dr Ellie Murray, one Tweet per comment on my own post. That way hopefully people can read the whole thing just by looking through the comments. If you want to know how the pandemic ends, read…

One of the leading contenders for Gladys’ job. A key member of the NSW Crisis Cabinet that determined NSW’s Covid strategy.

OzSAGE, a collection of some of Australia’s top experts across a range of fields, has released a guide for sending kids back to school, during Covid. A great read for all. I think this is a line in the sand issue for…

Please sign, so that 'open a window' isn't the only public health measure used to protect young children. https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/la/Pages/ePetition-details.aspx?q=rpEwNg2UB9+LpW1NhPZzdA==

Read this article (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/2/2055693/-COVID-19-must-be-eliminated-not-endemic-if-America-is-going-to-survive) about ’living with Covid’, and contrast it with what our PM said this week…

The clearest statement of Australia’s national covid plan that I’ve seen. I’m not joking.

Fat, rich, whiney countries are opening up their countries to infect millions of people, many of them children. To save businesses, 75% of which were going to fail inside 3 years anyway, without the pandemic. India,…

Have watched a lot of scandi noir in lockdowns, love it. Bloodlands is Irish noir, with James Nesbitt, one of my favourite actors. I love a show with a twist, that upends everything you thought was happening. This one…

Australia lies with its vaccine data, only reporting over-16s. This is the real NSW data. 0+ is the whole State, not just those aged 16 and over. At our re-opening day next Monday, only just over half of the State will…

I know I post Covid things into the void. More than 800 children have been hospitalised in NSW for Covid since this outbreak began. And this is before restrictions are lifted. 5% of child Covid cases are ending up in…

Rotary gives more money to the World Health Organisation than most countries. Australia well down the list. Another reason why pandemics happen and take ages to make go away. The graph tells the story.

This is why NSW and Victoria lost control of Covid in 2021, but not in 2020. Wasn’t anything to do with the Delta variant. The federal government gutted income support to workers and businesses, forcing people to go to…

Talking about vaccines for younger kids. Professor Cheng, co-chair of ATAGI, the group that will rule on safety: “When we are thinking about 80-year-olds, where the danger of COVID is really obvious, [about] a third of…

Something to remember if you support the ‘live with the virus’ idea. We’re all going to catch Covid at some point, vaccinated or not. Covid is a vascular disease, not a respiratory disease. It can attack any of your…

Paul Toole on TV just now, saying they can’t delay re-opening because people have all had an opportunity to be vaccinated. I’m genuinely curious if people actually understand this. Once we hit 60%, things open. All 25…

Feedback suggests some people like a different perspective on the pandemic, beyond the endless repetition of meaningless political slogans like 'live with the virus'. So I'll keep at it. Today - hospitalisations. "It's…

The subtleties of spin. Now we have 'Freedom Day', the health data released daily has been butchered. Case numbers pushed down the graphic, vaccinations now top place. No details of which LHDs the cases are in, no…

Worth remembering that what we have 'freed' today is Covid. Like the freedom to take off your seatbelt on a freeway.

Nothing like a big, cold beer to wash that Covid down. (The Premier here breaching the Public Health Orders by standing while drinking, but hey, get that beer in ya.)

Well now, the zoomed-out version shows 5 lots of fines for Revenue NSW, score. It is good to see normal service returning in NSW, where the blokes are at the pub, the ladies homeschooling, the alcohol and gambling and…

The new Premier said these words yesterday. Orwell used to say that politics is all about language. Look at that word - 'alongside'. What does it mean? The problem is, Covid doesn't live alongside us. It lives INSIDE…

The UK is 'living with Covid' (we're copying them). 1.1 million of them now have long Covid. Over 400,000 of those have had it more than a year. Another 1500 added every week. The impact on the brain for those with long…

This is what both frustrates me and gives me hope. Numbers are how many days until each age group reaches the vaccination threshold (70, 80, 90%). I've circled NSW in red for the 90% threshold, you can see by about…

The R number. Mentioned a lot in the pandemic, basically a measure of how much a virus spreads between people. There are two Rs - R0, and Re. R0 is how many people each person would infect if there was nothing to…

The same NCIRS who advised governments that kids are damaged more by missing school than they are by Covid, have endorsed the ‘No Jab No Play, No Jab No Pay’ scheme for years. Nearly all of the diseases in that scheme…

The health system, like most systems, is run at about 60-70% full capacity, to allow for the peaks and troughs that happen each year. Right now, globally, politicians are trying to run health systems at 100+% capacity,…

Was chatting to one of Australia’s leading virologists yesterday, about how he sees Covid panning out in the years ahead, with the ‘living with Covid’ idea. For comparison, in a bad flu year in Australia, we get about…

Not just ignoring the health advice now, also ignoring the National Plan and Doherty modelling. Our very own God-bothering Trumpie. (Just for the slow people at the back, the vaccines don't stop people carrying or…

“The latest figures, published yesterday, show the UK's daily coronavirus cases have reached their highest level since July, with 45,066 new infections recorded…scientific advisers and ministers are now beginning to…

The people who argued black and blue here last year that 'kids don't get Covid' have now modified that to 'it doesn't matter if they get Covid'. Usually people without young kids. They learned a different set of morals…

From the UK. A present for Paul 'masks are ludicrous for school children' Toole, Deputy Premier. Also for the 'kids don't transmit Covid' folks from last year, here on FB.

More life as a high school. Melbourne re-opens. It’s curious that the narrative around lockdowns has been that people are healthiest and happiest when they can mix socially. That without it, they become lonely and…

Assumption School in Bathurst already closed because of Covid. Only years 1 and 2 there. It took only 4 days. If the idiot NSW Government follows its idiot overlords in the UK, the next stage will be to just keep…

The 'living with the virus' slogan. Anybody uttering it needs to explain exactly what they mean. Here's an example - whooping cough. Pertussis. We 'live with' it. There's a vaccine. Between 2008 and 2012 we had a…

67 schools have been closed since the beginning of Term 4 in NSW, because of Covid. Most kids not back yet.

Reckon they were discussing the best public health strategy to end the pandemic? Me either.

“Singapore had previously announced in June it would be abandoning its zero-Covid strategy in favor of a new plan to live with the virus. The shift was possible thanks to the country's high vaccination rates, which are…

Covid school closures, Victoria, Term 4. Most kids not back at school yet.

Eglinton now. Schools only really opening again today, and here we are already. Put masks on the kids if we’re so desperate to open schools to get back in restaurants, pubs and planes. Only 7 weeks of school left, what…

The Deputy Premier referred to use of masks in schools as 'ludicrous'. This is the official CDC advice, in the US, just so you get a sense of the calibre of the NSW Government: "Due to the circulating and highly…

Politicians have now forced children back into schools, mid-pandemic, with little or no protection, because of apparent concern for their education. The same politicians who presided over this educational performance…

Those who doubt school re-openings are nothing about education - this is a federal minister, speaking on Sunday. Disgusts me that there isn’t public outcry about the deliberate infection of children with Covid. Not a…

CDC, Centre for Disease Control in the US, their main regulatory body. Compare and contrast with our 'masks are ludicrous in schools' Deputy Premier. Yesterday most Covid cases in NSW were in the regions. When asked…

Everything about this plan is laughable. Even the title, 'The Australian Way'. Just another book of meaningless political slogans to get him through the election. The man is vacuous, completely devoid of any vision or…

Imagine a road safety strategy that said 'we're getting thousands of crashes a week, but very few people need to go to hospital.' Substitute 'Covid cases' for 'crashes', and you have our national Covid strategy.

58% of Americans opposed going to the moon, when Kennedy announced it. ‘Moonshot’ became a term to mean pushing for a massive collective achievement. Kennedy succeeded. Compare and contrast this with the pandemic, where…

NSW has a zero road deaths road safety strategy. Quoting from it: “The NSW road toll isn't simply a number. It is people. Sadly, it's closer to home than you think. It's people like you. Grandparents, mothers, fathers,…

NSW vaccinations have stalled in almost the worst place (not that you would know that, the public stories are all just about getting back on planes). In the 20-29 year olds, the group that also spreads the virus the…

The fracturing of shared beliefs that has crippled action on both climate change and the pandemic. This *is* at the same time the ‘plurality of belief’ that we say is the strength of our democratic countries. How do you…

It’s looking increasingly like the Covid vaccines may need to be 3-dose vaccines. Not a booster so much as a 3-dose primary course. So far in Oz even boosters are just voluntary. We should be using vaccines to drive…

A pandemic is caused by economics, not by a virus. Most of the countries who could easily afford to smash Covid earlier on, simply refused to do it. Now that their lack of action has spread it to the whole world,…

Not just allowing children to become infected with Covid. Now legislatively mandating it. Choose your side people, history will be a harsh judge. If you think infecting children with a novel multi-system virus is a good…

Covid cases are beginning to climb again in NSW. You can see here where it's mostly happening - in kids, in schools. On the 'herd immunity' front, people need to know that infection with Covid confers relatively little…

Over and over and over the stupidity goes. I've marked in red on the graph the date the newspaper headline was published. Will we reach a point where people understand that the only way to live with Covid, is to kill…

Covid can enter the brain directly, through your nose. Vaccination won’t stop it.

Kit is a smart person. A mathematical biologist in the UK deeply involved in the pandemic.

Covid has killed about 20 million people. More than World War 1. In war, if you get a new, decisive weapon, what do you do with it? You use it, to try to win. We got our new, decisive weapon against Covid - vaccines.…

Daily Covid stat. Red line is average road toll in NSW. All the other lines are Covid deaths currently in NSW (see the key top left). 'Living with Covid'. In a bad flu season we might lose 600 people. Covid at least…

Before the 20th century, overwhelmingly the greatest fatalities in war came from infectious disease, not the fighting. The US Civil War, for example, where about 700,000 people died. Two-thirds of those died of…

You can look at this two ways. Regulators being cautious, as they're supposed to be. Or key members of these expert groups being culture warring, political operatives who have spent weeks attacking any sort of…

The coming possible tidal wave of compensation claims against employers by employees who catch Covid at work (projected over $600 million in NSW alone). It’s not just health that Covid impacts. Flu already costs…

I sometimes think New Zealand is the only place left on Earth that hasn't gone batshit crazy. What they're arguing for in this article was common wisdom less than 30 years ago. I don't think we see just how much our…

"More than 270 NSW schools and 300 childcare centres have closed due to COVID-19 cases in the past month...". The same people who say kids wearing masks will damage them psychologically and socially, are now saying the…

The pandemic isn’t over, just because you’re over it.

I know pandemic stuff bores some people. There's a fair amount of hopium around, that hoping it's over will make it over. But there are critical ideas that aren't making it into the public conversations. Take 'endemic'.…

Unprepared to do the basic grown-up work of stopping a virus spreading, Austria will instead lock up the unvaccinated. The hilarious irony of this pandemic is that it’s the same whinging libertarians going on about…

The UK government has now deliberately infected: - nearly half of its babies under 1 - nearly 60% of its toddlers aged 1-4 - 81% of UK children aged 5-14. Meantime they and politically conservative medical professionals…

Once we infect the world's kids with Covid, let's get them back down the mines.

Today’s news from Covid land. The ‘booster’ shots are really the 3rd dose in a 3-dose schedule. They work like gangbusters, whether you had AZ or Pfizer, they’ll supercharge you to the same level. If you’re wondering…

There will be no endemic Covid, despite what politicians and (alarmingly) some experts might tell you. It's an epidemic disease. Trying to live with it is like inviting Covid to be your flatmate, and then discovering…

As Alan says, 'can-do capitalism' can't do wages. Covid has brought to light the slavery that underpins most of our lives.…

50 million people are infected with Covid, every 90 days.

I think you should get your 3rd Covid vaccine dose the first day you’re eligible. Numbers are off the charts, sustained fantastic protection. 2 doses will not be enough, don’t wait for politicians to realise that.

The UK was one of the pioneers of ‘living with Covid’. How it’s going…

The same libertarian ideas that call it a 'pandemic of the unvaccinated' are responsible for the unvaccinated being unvaccinated.

Why masks matter. The limo driver who leaked Delta into Australia, in NSW? (Because Gladys didn't require him to wear one.) So far, that's led to 169,000 Covid cases, more than 1000 deaths, and billions in lost economic…

NSW Covid projections through to June 2022. ct = contact tracing. You can see it’s critical this remains high (NSW is scaling it back rapidly), and that under-12s get vaccinated before the 2022 school year.

Not all Liberals are vacuous slogan machines. Well done sir. Can't see Mr Economy in NSW doing the same. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-23/tas-school-year-start-could-be-delayed-covid-vaccination/100642918

Vaccine doses are being thrown away. We could all be getting boosters right now, but the government won't allow it because of (guess): the election. For them the vaccines work fine for 6 months to do the only thing they…

This one yesterday sobering context for the joyous 'return to normal' I see in restaurants, pubs and just about everywhere else. All 13 were fully vaccinated. 11 caught Covid. Despite what politicians say, Covid is…

Singapore at 93% and Portugal at 90%, of the TOTAL population vaccinated, now having to lock down again. (Australia currently at only 77% vaxxed.) Please people, when a politician says we must 'live with Covid', they…

Latest South African variant, scaring the virology community. We thought Delta was bad (blue line). This one is mutating 4 times faster than flu (why we have a different flu shot every year - this Covid variant is…

Round of applause for whoever in the Department of Health put this tool together. It lets you track Covid restrictions across the entire country, in a few clicks, across all the different areas of life. If you're not…

Pictures tell stories. What the pandemic showed so clearly was who the really essential workers are in our socieities. Nurses, teachers, supermarket staff, sewer and water workers etc. Leading politicians are…

This new variant of Covid, in the red, is now called ‘Omicron’. Europe has closed international travel to Africa to stop it, as has the US. Australia? Nothing yet. Why? Because the government doesn’t want to upset its…

Think about this one for a moment. ‘Finally will have a Saturday off’ i.e. wage-slave to a job. To go to a freedom rally to protest protections from Covid. Full libertarian victory, even the young see going to…

Now the Australian government has caught up with the rest of the world with travel restrictions for the new Covid variant, let’s see if it will also relax its 6-month rule on 3rd vaccine doses. Politically it doesn’t…

If you examine spin even for 30 seconds, it dissolves into nonsense. This one a favourite - ‘live alongside’ Covid. Wtf does it mean? You obviously can’t live alongside it, it lives *in* people. The words are exactly…

Rupert again doing his bit to undermine all public health efforts, to keep that Economy running. Total BS, in every detail. The second this variant appeared, the spin started, to protect Christmas retail and travel,…

The Omicron Covid variant is infecting people who have had 3 doses of vaccine. The vaccines won't prevent infection. You may think, following politicians, that this doesn't matter, because the vaccines will keep you out…

Workers compensation cases for Covid, NSW. Reality is biting. Politicians win popularity with slogans like ’we have to live with this virus’. But you can’t live with Covid, and business has realised that because the…

A medical friend made a great comparison yesterday. We like to think of Covid as 'like the flu', because flu and colds are part of our normal life. But medically, infection with Covid is much more like concussion head…

What this graph shows is that some people have had Covid 3 times in 2 years. Have you ever had the flu 3 times in 2 years? Remembering also that Covid is much more dangerous to your body than flu. Have we reached a…

One of the world's leading infectious disease experts said late last week that the world may be closer to the beginning of the pandemic, than the end. You wouldn't know it, with the idiot pre-Christmas Hopium orgy, as…

So sick of the bullshit. Parliament in Canberra shuts down because of one Covid case. Primary schools in Sydney get Omicron cases, and they only send a few classes home.

The US: 305,114 Covid deaths before vaccinations. 482,581 Covid deaths since. The UK: 62,130 Covid deaths before vaccinations. 83,744 Covid deaths since. Both libertarian governments which our NSW and federal…

In today’s Covid news, data out of Israel shows that the 3rd booster vaccine dose fades in effectiveness as fast as the 2nd dose did. And this is with Delta - early signs are Omicron is 4 times as infectious. We’re…

That's going to be a lot of Mt Panorama Covid tests.

Omicron data from the rest of the world is dire. But the Dom is on top of it. We can’t fight it, because it will be too onerous for all of those small businesses selling cafe lattes and scented candles. And he’s still…

How dumb are we? How many cycles of ‘we have to live with this virus’ Groundhog Day will it take for YOU CAN’T LIVE WITH COVID to penetrate our thick skulls?

Have you noticed that almost none of the leaders who urge us all to live with Covid, ever catch Covid? No accident there, as the evil leader says in Shrek, ‘many of you will die, but that’s a sacrifice I’m happy to…

Ah, our Gladys. She heard your love Australia, she heard you say ’get a lucrative job in the private sector’. That’s what her Covid strategy was always about, keeping that private sector lucrative. She looked after…

The new Premier won’t allow NSW Health to say much in public. Doesn’t take a genius to figure that one out. So here they are, trying to tell you that Christmas parties, incuding work ones, and pubs and clubs, are giving…

Omicron doubling every 2-3 days in the UK. 1 million infections expected by Christmas. The government there in meltdown, leadership knows desperate action needed, its own backbench in revolt against it. Politicians…

Stephen Reicher is an expert on human behaviour. Watch this short (40-second) clip, where he explains how the use of the terms ’restrictions’ and ’lockdowns’, instead of words like ’support’ and ‘protection’, make…

Vaccine effectiveness against Omicron infection. 2-doses Pfizer - 30% 2-doses AZ - 0%

In today’s Covid news, why a fast-spreading but ‘mild’ version of Covid is far more lethal than a slower-spreading, more severe variant. (Note that nobody actually knows if Omicron is mild - that’s just political spin…

Today’s Covid tip. Avoid all Christmas drinks and parties, except with family. Stay clear of pubs, clubs and restaurants. Wear a mask.

In today’s Covid news, the supposedly ‘mild’ Omicron variant. Hospitalisation rates in Denmark about the same as for other variants. Overwhelmingly the Danish being infected in the early days are 20-29, which will…

Yeeeouch. Test positivty rate is a measure of how many Covid cases you're missing, in your testing. NSW is testing about 90,000 people a day at the moment, huge. And positivity is skyrocketing, meaning we're still…

This diagram is standard WHS, applied to Covid. Australia is doing 6, just. 1-5, nothing. Really highlights how populist idiot politicians have hijacked a standard public health response.

Freedom Day NSW! Get those masks off, suck up that Covid so you can share it with family over Christmas, and possibly do long-term damage to everyone's internal organs. Let's drink to the Economy - Cheers!

Again I apologise for those who find Covid discussion distasteful. Plenty of things for you to scroll past and look at instead. But think of it this way, if the government has given up keeping you healthy (which it…

One for the mathematicians. With a doubling time of 2 days (same as the rest of the world), how many Covid cases per day, by Christmas Day?

Bear with me, with Covid. Cat pictures available upon request. This is a big reason 'live with the virus/only hospitalisations matter' (a mass infection Covid strategy) can't work. Society shuts down, just as it would…

The idea we could all swim in some vast ocean of always-present Covid, protected by vaccines, is pure fantasy. Wonderland, as Adrian calls it.…

Again, this was known a long time ago. And we still decided it would be a good idea to infect millions of people in the ‘live with the virus’ homicidal fantasy. New research showing Covid may also trigger a big increase…

Over 25,000 kids were deliberately infected with Covid in the last 6 months of 2021, in NSW. Just saying. Living with the virus. It’s not the flu, not even close.

There are a lot of cloth masks out there, often quite stylish. They’re pretty hopeless though, for protection from Covid. Like wearing cling wrap instead of a condom, but actually even worse than that. The blue surgical…

If you watch daily Covid case numbers, it can be easy to miss the actual trend. When you use the moving average, it becomes clearer.

If you're not sure who to vote for at the federal election, I recommend trying to get your 3rd vaccine dose before Christmas. That should decide it for you, once you see the monumental cock-up that is. We never learn,…

Have we noticed the shift, from leaders ‘following the medical advice’, to the medical advice now having to write letters to leaders, pleading to be listened to? Does it make us all nervous? It really should, I find a…

Here's a projection of NSW cases, from one of the prominent modellers, based on current numbers. And the quote below is from Professor Adrian Esterman, a leading Australian public health person who has worked for the…

If you got AZ as your vaccine, get your booster as soon as you can. (The government doesn't give a shit, it urged all of us to get AZ, often only 3-4 weeks between doses.) These graphs show risk of severe disease and…

Why 'living with Covid' will never work. You can't live with Covid, it shuts things down whether you want it to or not.

Israel just made 4th vaccine doses compulsory for some groups. For those taking comfort in the propaganda that Covid will become ‘just like the flu’ by allowing mass and repeated infection, remind yourself the last time…

Your ideology runs really, really deep when you won't make a mask mandatory. We already do for tradies in workplaces. Covid is much more dangerous than dust. Kids have to wear hats for the sun at school.…

Nearly 3 weeks to the day. At the time I posted this, NSW was in the euphoria of 'freedom' and Christmas. The data and common sense (something the PM has none of) said way back then already what a disaster that would…

For those drunk on the hopium of ‘lots of infection will make us more immune and make the pandemic go away’, Omicron is happily reinfecting people who catch it, sometimes only weeks later. It’s so infectious it may…

What those who argue against lockdowns haven’t understood for 2 years. They’re not a choice. You do them, or people will do them for you. You can’t function as a society with masses of people infected.

A Christmas miracle. Shout out to the nurses the government is about to force to work when possibly infected by Covid. Living with the virus.

The Health Minister needs a dictionary. Everybody compulsorily catching Covid isn’t ‘health’. I didn’t vote for him. I suspect millions of lemmings still would.

From inside NSW Health. Worth a few minutes. Insight into what’s happening inside pathologies and hospital For the past few days there has been a huge amount of misinformation regarding COVID testing and as a healthcare…

By the way, had a lovely Christmas, except for part of the family suffering from Covid. So let’s talk about Covid! That thing infecting your friends and loved ones, in the pet and Christmas pictures. (It’s even…

The Centre for Disease Control (CDC) in the US, the most prestigious infectious disease institution in the world. It understands you can’t ‘live with’ Covid. The next steps in our denial of this will be governments: -…

Here you can watch the massaging of Covid data in real-time. Spot the difference between the NSW Health message on 23 December, and the one from 1 hour ago. (If it focuses attention, remember this could be you, within…

What’s the difference between the English cricket team and a Covid test? You have to wait 5 days for a result with a Covid test.

Those who say they want Covid to be ‘just like the flu’ forget that we try to get rid of flu, every year. They have this bizarre idea that we all happily live with flu, rather than do everything in our power to make it…

John is an American friend who works as a computational biologist, applied mathematician and software engineer. Here pointing out the ridiculous perversity of the idea that we’ll all stop being infected by Covid, by…

Maybe the world has run out of Covid tests because everybody is getting infected? Maybe we need to stop people getting infected with Covid? Maybe (try this one on for size) to end a pandemic, you actually have to stop…

Loving the new National Cabinet uniforms. If you missed it, today they approved that you can’t catch Covid at work. Only at home.

Governments now not even bothering to do testing. You can do it yourself. Also a brilliant way for the government to hide the true number of Covid cases, because if they’re not doing the testing, they don’t know the…

Remember ‘hospitalisations are what matter’? Predictably, now they’re trending up, suddenly that spin has gone a bit quiet. Also predictably, social media is still pretending we’re all living in 2018. As Covid inches…

Stupid beyond words. They’re doing this because NOBODY ORDERED THE TESTS. Brought to you by the same federal government who didn’t order any vaccines. Do your best to survive, it’s literally all on you now.

Living with Covid.

These always look scary. But it’s possible we misunderstand that viruses are active agents. It’s not in their best interest to wipe us out, we’re their hosts. They need us to survive. Usually pandemics arise in extreme…

Our obsession with travel enormously increases the risk of pandemics. Once a virus knows it has access to millions of fresh hosts around the world through travel, its virulence can magnify hugely, because it no longer…

Nobody really knows what this strain of Coronavirus will do, it’s wait and see. But if you end up being one of the unlucky ones who gets really sick with it down the track, here’s what I’d do. Ask for high-dose…

I plug air ionisation as a cheap and effective air purification method. With Coronavirus still menacing, there’s no reason these cheap devices couldn’t be installed in every public space quickly. I carry one of my own.

Sometimes different issues converge. For me, right now it’s coronavirus and domestic violence (DV). In the past infectious disease like TB was often treated in open-air sanitoria, see pic below. Researchers are now…

If you study the Spanish Flu of 1918, what’s interesting is that it may not have been any more deadly than a normal flu. What may have killed so many is my theme of the week - herding sick people in large numbers into…

I often talk about Australia as an ageing country. Look at this - almost twice as many 65+ (in % terms) here as in China. That's the boomers. Also I think having outdoor hospital wards for a pandemic needs to be…

The bushfires showed me two big things. That the conservative project to turn society into a collection of disconnected individuals has largely succeeded. We don’t see ‘society’ any more, our response to the bushfires…

I wonder if we see this contradiction of our culture, as one that worships the free movement of travel, for ourselves. And the locking up and restriction of movement of others who try to emulate us. Know what that…

These 3 populists all came to power by either creating pretend problems, like terrorists killing us all, or by encouraging us to approach real problems as fictions, as ‘fake news’. Now all 3 of them have real problems…

Bats carry up to 130 viruses at any one time, none of which make them sick at all. They pass them onto us, including coronavirus, and we get ‘sick’. But that’s our own body doing that. What we call flu or a cold or…

At the lower end of the projections, a quarter of a million Australians may die of coronavirus. Similarly, one projected climate model this week predicts that all of humanity could become extinct by 2050, if projections…

While on coronavirus, I hear a lot of people say “it doesn’t kill more than the flu does”. At the moment it has a mortality rate higher than the flu, but that may come down. But what people maybe forget is that 50-70%…

Panic and smugness (at the panic) are phase 1 of the pandemic. I’m waiting for phase 2, crowd funding for ‘hero’ doctors and nurses. Phase 3, people drive utes of canned food and toilet paper to victims. Um...

If you're one of the people calling people buying extra toilet paper stupid, what preparation have you done yourself for the coronavirus, except parrot ScoMo's "keep calm" line? Experts recommended people start stocking…

Toilet paper posts are like a vaccination against smart.

We turn all big issues into spectator sports. Bushfires - Greenies versus RFS heroes. And now with Covid-19: calm, reasonable people versus ‘idiots’ buying too much toilet paper. Why don’t we notice this pattern? We’re…

Not filled with confidence at our response to Covid-19 if the toilet paper experience is a trial run. Things could get a lot more disrupted than this, if people are going to hysterically find scapegoats at every break…

I think the response to the bushfires was as dysfunctional as the response to Covid-19. Bushfire relief looked like people acting nobly, and Covid-19 looks like people acting selfishly and in panic. But they’re people…

The only stupid thing in a pandemic? Blaming people for every broken routine. There could be lots. It won't be anybody's fault.

Populism to me is far and away the most dangerous virus in society, and I don’t think we see its full symptoms. From a recent post I saw on coronavirus in Oz. Populism includes ‘noble’ things like donating hundreds of…

An entire country in lockdown. And Australia stuck in an endless loop of meme and counter-meme on toilet paper. A lot of people are ‘calm’ now because the virus will likely only have a mild effect on their body. But…

Few more posts about coronavirus, it’s important. Right now the number of cases in Oz is maybe somewhere near where I’ve put the arrow on the pic. An exponential function. That means it all seems still a bit fine, we’re…

I think we should be cautious about these graphs and numbers circulating online. I have serious genius mathematician friends on FB, they’ll correct any of my thinking! Also sorry it’s hard to do this stuff in…

“What we've seen is people are cherry-picking data. So they look at the lowest possible case fatality rates and say, "Oh look, it's like seasonal flu." Or they pick, "Oh it doesn't spread so fast because of this," or…

Coronavirus should prove that the economy doesn’t exist. The economy is just people doing stuff. When they can’t do stuff, it crashes.

This pair have both been exposed to people with Covid-19. Both refused to be tested or to isolate themselves, as would be the legal requirement of any other person. People vote for these dipshits. No wonder most…

Know how when you're a dickhead, and your partner gets angry, and you tell them to 'calm down'? Like their emotion is the problem. Shoppers are being told to calm down. They look perfectly calm to me. Emotions aren't…

The Great Chinese conspiracy, they created Covid-19 to bring down the West (heard it a few places this week). Looking at the logic: 1. China creates killer virus to destroy the West. 2. China infects own citizens with…

And the reason the NRL is a financial trainwreck, not mentioned here? Enormous player salaries. Never come between an NRL player and a bucket of money. Like Aussie cricketers. Gobsmacking they want government assistance…

This is the national governance scheme for response to the pandemic. Lots of committees, lots of levels. All of this does add up to a not bad system, there’s a lot of expertise in that picture. But it’s all very boxy,…

Good on you, Norman Swan. "I have a personal view on this: there is no time to waste. Each day that goes by we're going to lose control of this. We have been too late in banning large gatherings. We have got to stop,…

Try this reality filter. These shelves are empty because the crowd already knows the future. Lockdown. The crowd knows, people really do refuse to believe that. They think the crowd is dumb. They speak of the crowd as…

Smart people kinda rock. Let's hope this pans out, unlike all the other possible cures, this one is already approved drugs so can skip those years of clinical trials. Was going to donate to this and noticed they have…

Facebook removed my post on Australian research on a Covid-19 cure as 'spam'. My apologies if you linked to it [Edit: It now seems FB has a technical problem.] In the meantime, here's another link to the research. There…

Watched ScoMo's update this morning. I'm still staggered by the Australian response, it's mirroring Europe's, and Europe has lost control (see link). You CAN'T beat an exponential curve, all this rubbish about needing…

Medicine is 5% of what beats a pandemic. A pandemic is not a medical issue to solve.

What's happening in supermarkets is mostly about logistics - supply chains. Not as much about people and their panic or selfishness. Finally some common sense on this topic. And it's not just food, most products use the…

This is the paper that some say made the colour drain from both Trump and Johnson’s faces, and made them do a super-fast U-turn on their virus strategy. If you want a deeper connection to the ideas in play here, it’s an…

Latest estimate for duration of the Covid-19 pandemic is end-2021. Unless a vaccine or cure becomes available before then.

I think John Daley nails it. https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/coronavirus-tough-choice-australia-faces-that-could-help-it-avoid-an-epidemic-yoyo/news-story/fefb6eb8a17608202d704b40bb4e2dff

Research is suggesting the people who get the worst cases of Covid-19 might get it in the guts first, not in the head and lungs. The stomach and lungs work intimately together, the microbes in the stomach are crucial to…

Happy birthday Amanda! I got you a pandemic as a present :)

I bet they'll discover that Covid-19 is actually also an airborne virus. The rate of infection seems too fast to me to be surface contact only.

I think the AHPPC updates are far and away the best insight into the Australian thinking behind the decisions the National Cabinet make. This is the 'medical advice' ScoMo and the Premiers refer to. Well worth reading…

Yep, definitely worth looking at. Hospitals are tin cans of disease. https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/21/coronavirus-plea-from-italy-treat-patients-at-home/

The exponential function in action. It took 3 months for the first 100,000 people to be infected with Covid-19. It took 12 days for the second 100,000. It's taken 4 days for the 3rd 100,000. As the WHO says, if you…

I think there’s a scale of human response to disasters, which varies with the numbers of people impacted. With a smaller group impacted but most of the rest of us are OK, like the bushfires, we get ‘everybody pulling…

If you went out and bought a stash of masks for the bushfires or now for Covid-19, how about donating them ASAP back to your local health authority? Particularly those P2 masks.

I'm not a grammar Nazi, but for all Covid-19 public spokespeople, the singular of 'premises' is 'premises'. Not 'premise'.

These are the words by which ScoMo will ultimately be judged at the end of the pandemic. If he's getting this judgement wrong, his government is toast. “We are not going to do things to a business or someone’s job and…

It's hard to feel sorry for people stuck on cruise ships right now, who went on their cruises knowing that we're in the middle of a pandemic.

Another reality filter. Our ideas about germs. The virus doesn’t actually hurt anybody, it’s how our body reacts to it that determines whether we get ‘sick’. Microbes live in communities, like us, no microbe on its own…

If you want to see just how much the conservative side of politics has been hijacked by big money, worldwide, go no further than the Republican senator in the US who suggests grandma and grandpa take COVID 19 for the…

The apocalyptic danger of populism. The Imbecile in Chief is making a disastrous dog’s breakfast of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US. And guess what? His popularity is climbing.

People here know I talk a lot about our unhealthy obsession with travel. Try this reality filter, particularly if you think it's the Chinese who did all this: - every single case of Covid-19 in Australia right now is…

I wonder if these months of children doing their learning online might change education. I was watching and helping my kids yesterday, and it was a fundamentally different experience to what school is. More personalised…

I criticise how much we travel because it reflects that we’ve lost a lot of meaningful connection to the spaces we live in. They’re all just places to ‘see’, points on a map. It’s our imperial conquering past, of…

Some of these guys will be 'reduced to' "only" $3000 a month through the pandemic. Down from $50,000 a month. Them and senior managers everywhere - come and join reality again, the weather is fine. Still waiting to hear…

The problem with using case numbers to guide our Covid-19 response is that it's like driving only looking in the rear-view mirror. It takes about 2 weeks for people to show symptoms and get tested. They show us…

I remember when Australia used to build things. Before the country was transformed into a casino, using houses as the chips. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/26/tech/dyson-ventilators-coronavirus/index.html

Bloody awesome idea, I feel for the public health people doing all that contact tracing manually. And it's open to gaps, whereas this would be fairly automated and fast.…

After the pandemic is over, we could readjust peoples’ pay based on need instead of power. Those who had to work all through it are obviously the most essential people in society and should be paid the most into the…

A disaster in the making. These handful of ships could undo all the weeks of hard slog in controlling the virus. And hard for Australia to be too precious about it either, because there are thousands of Australian…

If you're at home looking for something to do, play this game designed by one of the world's top labs, to help design a drug against Covid-19. It may lead to a drug within a month.This is serious science, crowdsourcing…

The anti-social forces in our societies are extremely clever at political strategy. No matter what major issue comes along, their think tanks quickly find ways to turn them to their advantage. For example, for over 100…

Latour brilliantly explores connections between Covid-19 and climate change, and how both result from us excluding non-humans from our definitions of society. And what that means about where we go from here.…

It's struck me that the idea of being alone and doing nothing has scared many people - there's a sort of frenzy of in-home entertainment being invented, that and increased booze, a frenzy of stimulation. It feels fake…

Ivermectin, is there anything it can't do? ;) https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/anti-parasitic-drug-kills-covid-19-in-lab-c-955457

This is a known method, and might be what we need. Amazing thinking going on, an orgy of thinking. I'd love for it to continue after the pandemic! https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00927-3

Re-watching Smokey and the Bandit (Kell's idea). Bit of fun, Jackie Gleason steals the show. The same theme runs so deep in America, over and over again. The man against the establishment. Got me looking at road…

One of Australia’s leading financial analysts, not a Leftie of any kind, has been saying for a long time that communism is the only answer for the world. I don’t think communism is necessarily the answer, but what he’s…

People laugh at this scene because nothing turns us on more than thinking groups of people are stupid. But look at this pandemic, caused mostly by? Individuals, travelling. Individuals, each making their stupid…

Have posted a few times about how it's likely not the virus that is killing the poor victims of Covid-19, but rather their over-active immune systems. Cytokine storms, as the researchers call it. And yet treatment of…

This person died 4 days ago from Covid-19. What happens when you put your faith in lunatic conspiracy theories. Who knows how many others she infected. Thanks to Alex.

At the end of this pandemic, the whole world will be in debt. So who will it owe all that money to? We might finally understand the fantasy of modern economics.

What my hands are going to look like the day the pandemic is over.

Will the anti-vaxxers refuse a Covid-19 vaccine?

There are quite a few people saying we should relax social restrictions and let 'herd immunity' (i.e 60-70% of us getting infected) do the work of a vaccine. If only life were that simple. "Until we have a vaccine,…

They did it 100 years ago. They didn't even have many communications technologies to stay in contact with one another or be entertained. They were resilient. And they went hard, and early, and in multiple layers, and…

Elimination. In as little as a month. Go hard, go early, tell vested interests in business to shut their gob. It's not rocket science. Thankfully we did a quick U-turn and followed a similar path. But we wasted weeks…

How did Australia and other countries get to the impossible point where they now have to choose between peoples' health, and their 'economies'? We got there because we started there. From day one of the pandemic leaders…

I'm watching the V8 e-series, and it's fascinating. Unable to race because of the pandemic, they're doing it virtually. They even went from an Oz track to Monza, in the space of a few minutes. Easy to chuckle at it as…

If you are somebody who believes the economy exists, a simple question. How can an economy and peoples' health end up opposed? I think what we call the economy is just a set of transactions between people. What people…

The conversation around schools and childcare coming from ScoMo is overwhelmingly about child-minding. Pandemics have this way of flushing out what people really think and feel.

Nice summary of mitigation, suppression and elimination strategies for Covid-19. Australia is actually not trying to flatten the curve right now, it's moving to suppression rather than mitigation. It still toys with the…

A wise epidemiologist asked recently why we aren't asking the humanities about the best way to deal with a pandemic. Pandemics are social phenomena, not just medical, you can't separate the two. The social challenges…

Camus' wonderful novel is the bible on pandemics. Nearly a century old now but reading it is like reading the paper here in 2020, and novelists go way beyond the medical angle to the deep human psychology. How…

Been a lot of talk of exponential curves lately. What doesn't get mentioned a lot is that this is also the reason our financial systems always crash. The interest we earn on our investments, even in basic bank accounts,…

Why is it so hard to understand that unless you eliminate the virus, and you don't have a vaccine, it will win? Why is it so hard to understand that if at the end of the 6 months ScoMo has costed his control and…

Oz numbers plummeting. Elimination has to be tried, any other option means maybe 2 years of what we have now, which will cripple society. All pandemic strategies are actually elimination strategies - you have to…

In the Covid-19 stats, the most infected group by far is women in their 20s. What's going on with the psychology there?

In the public discussions, I'm noticing confusion between two concepts of public health - elimination, and eradication. All pandemic strategies right now are elimination strategies, all that changes is how long you…

I know, more pandemic stuff (knowledge is the only thing that wins a war). A mistake I believe we make in fighting pandemics is using medicine as the main set of tools in understanding them. Ecology is a much more…

Yep. I can't think of one sensible reason not to do this. The danger in every pandemic is people wanting 'normal' life back and thinking they can just manage the virus. Like Chamberlain trying to appease Hitler. Not an…

The government is about to release an app that people will be asked to use to allow their location to be tracked, to vastly speed up contact tracing for Covid-19. Brilliant idea, phones are maybe our most powerful…

This cracked me up (thanks Alex). This is our pause to think time, in lockdown. Why does Covid-19 destroy the economy? Because we're too mobile in how we live. I say what we call the economy is actually our culture of…

How are people feeling during this time? When you read the history of previous pandemics, this is the rough succession of emotions people go through (not a joke). See if they sound familiar, social restrictions kick in…

Schools are not childcare centres. There's no doubt keeping as many kids out of them as possible will quicken elimination of Covid-19. Even the best models suggest that they contribute significantly to spreading a virus…

An experiment, psychological immunisation. Our pandemic is horrible, but read about what the people who lived during the Black Death endured. The greatest catastrophe in human history. It lasted 3 years, killed about…

I post about the pandemic a lot because to my mind, it's a true existential threat, not just to some people but to our societies as a whole. We can distract ourselves from it for a while with entertainment, but that…

People desperate for 'normal life' to return cling to the herd immunity idea like dog shit stuck on your shoe. And they don't seem to understand it. Basically they mean, this is all too hard, let people get infected,…

Virgin is just one example of something some have observed in this lockdown. How few businesses of any size had any reserves to buffer them through difficult times. Our business models are too often rape the business…

Sat through Pru Goward spouting dangerous drivel on The Project about herd immunity last night. Another conservative politician who thinks it's a way to get 'the economy' going again faster, spare me. Listen to an…

Speaking to a 20-something this week about why they weren't following the social restrictions. "My age group doesn't die of this". It all comes back to this graph. People overwhelmingly read it as individuals - what is…

For years we've had to endure zealots tell us society isn't real, only individuals are real. Free market, libertarian hocus pocus. Then suddenly, they get their wish in lockdown, because everybody is just an individual…

I wanted to put down some thoughts about joy, and how to get it (imo), at a time plenty probably aren't feeling it. Takes a minute or two to read, I know that's not popular on FB! What inspired me is the number of…

I keep coming back to one insight from Camus. Humans are not free, because there are pestilences. The thing that annoys me most is the choice we're being asked to make between 'normal life' and lockdowns. Normal life is…

Daniel Andrews was on telly this morning, speaking how a leader should. Saying schools generate significant human traffic, within them and outside them (drop offs etc.) Makes the bone obvious point that if you open…

On the one hand, you had an economist saying that the cost of lockdowns exceeds the benefits, and causes more human suffering than it relieves through loss of social life, livelihood, health etc. Valid argument. On the…

Related to my previous post, I'd be interested how people would answer this question. Is it better to not disrupt society so comprehensively, as we're doing now, and let more people die of Covid-19 to minimise the…

The economy believers are licking their lips at the thought of all this 'aggressive deregulation' and lower taxes. Business does not create jobs, people with money create jobs. The concern for peoples' 'livelihood'…

Sigh, another half-pregnant scheme. This will be like the laundry list of lockdown rules, imagine the poor schools trying to administer this farce, and teachers now being forced to teach the students in classrooms and…

Even the economists saying don't ease lockdowns. Except for this one, check her out on Q&A, feral. Who's left that's driving the 'open up' pressure? Mostly businesses losing money. Watch Gigi also get a slapdown with…

What I sense isn't sinking in yet is that our 'lifestyle' is not compatible with infectious disease. Far too much mobility and mixing of people, within and between countries. The feeling I still get is that people see…

Only 8 new cases found today, across the ENTIRE country. The theory goes that infections stop when a virus runs out of people to infect. But I reckon it's not that clean and mathematical. For example, in human wars…

Curious, based on what i hear in conversations: a) how many will refuse to download the tracing app? b) how many will refuse a vaccine if it becomes available? And why?

Have a look at this. Notice Covid-19 is attacking the rich parts of the world first. It's not hard to understand why, this pandemic wasn't caused by the Chinese. It was caused by one thing - travel. It's a travel…

I think history can teach us more than medicine can, about pandemics, because the lessons learned are forgotten. This is a headline dated November 1, 1918, in the US. The 'open up' push. Triggering the most deadly phase…

Lots of businesses experiencing supply chain issues, as people buy more of things they normally wouldn't, because of lockdowns. If it's in a supermarket, for some reason it gets called 'panic buying'. No (or very…

"Pandemics don’t change us, at least in the short term. They reveal us. We come to them as we’ve been formed over decades, and we respond accordingly." I notice ScoMo's early hints of his plans post-pandemic are…

Australia's pandemic response is being guided by a Nobel Prize winner. America's is being guided by a reality TV star suggesting we inject people with disinfectant and irradiate them with UV light. Just over 70 dead in…

"Australians and our governments have been so careful to balance the needs to get our economy back to a COVID-safe level so it can support people's incomes and we can return to higher rates of growth into the future."…

Well stone the crows, I agree with the economists. ScoMo is dangerous, from day one this belief of his has put us all in danger. This has a long way to run. "Some commentators have expressed the view that there is a…

I don't have shares in the new contact tracing app. But I wonder if people have realised that the same 'data' they worry about sharing with government, through the app (which only happens if there's an infection near…

On Health vs Economy again. 'Economy' just means the way we do things now. The obvious answer is - do them differently. We don't have to shut down society, we can reshape it to work differently. It's already happening.…

These lockdowns are crippling society, hey? https://time.com/5819507/crime-drop-coronavirus/

This is the report that will be used from today to 'prove' to people that 'schools are safe'. It's embarrassingly bad, all 4 pages of it, with 2 vague references. The data size? 18 infections in schools before the…

See how the same strategies cross the globe? Do we know anybody here who makes frequent reference to 'the science'? "The claim that government would be “led by the science” was reassuring many weeks ago, at the start of…

If stopping people from moving around cures the pandemic, what was the disease? Worth pondering I reckon. Pandemics are not medical problems to solve, medicine just helps fix the wounded.…

It seems there may be community transmission of Covid-19 in Lithgow, of unknown size (likely small, but these things can grow super fast). So - bloody stay home, if you have the choice. Tell the boyfriends and…

The main evidence we have of ancient cultures is overwhelmingly about their ways of dealing with death. Death was the centre of their cultures, it gave everything meaning. For us death has become a disaster to be…

Why do viruses arrive in a community? Why do they leave? Why do they arrive and leave often everywhere at once, and not just one place at a time? The truth is - nobody really knows. About the only agency we give a virus…

Seeing the same arguments here, that we need to 'balance' the apparently horrendous impact of lockdowns on the economy against public health. As if those economic impacts are just as bad for our health as a pandemic. As…

Covid-19 school closures around the world as of today, from UNESCO. Blue means open. 186 countries have closed all schools. About 74% of all school children in the world currently not at school.

I like the honesty right at the end here: "Reopening schools is considered key to getting the economy moving again. Without a safe place for kids, many parents would have difficulty returning to work." This is nothing…

We should thank Australian universities for this, they assembled over 100 experts from diverse fields to assess where Australia should go from here with Covid-19. You'll see they suggest either elimination (my…

I'd really encourage everybody to look at the 2 strategies National Cabinet considered for where we go from here. Snapshot in the link, full report is online. The 'Controlled Adaptation' strategy they've opted for I…

'The economy' is about 100 years old. It was invented from a single number. Today it's common to replace the idea of society with the economy. We've seen that clearly all through the pandemic, where the economy was even…

So it turns out we were never fighting this virus, we were fighting for our economy. The intention was never to stop you getting it, it was to make sure the hospitals were OK to treat you, if you got it, so our economy…

Another great investigation of why supermarket shelves emptied (hint: it wasn't 'panic buying'). It's also the same reason we had a pandemic: not a virus, but our just-in-time society. We're now trying to save the wrong…

Firtshand accounts from Bathurst and Lithgow shopping centres today. Teeming with people, little social distancing going on, whole families out shopping. Tick tick.…

Schools are safe. But parliament is closed for 5 months, for safety. Join the dots. If you want to introduce a vaccine, you test it for a year or more. But apparently a few weeks' of data is enough to say that schools…

Who remembers that this is the 3rd coronavirus epidemic in the last 20 years? SARS (2003) and MERS (2012). Both of those were far more lethal than Covid-19. Both were eliminated inside a year by old-fashioned…

Funny this, from Gladys today. They said schools are 'safe'. Funny too that they have to close entire schools if they get an infection and bring in professional cleaners for 'deep cleans', even though schools are…

Aside from the fact that it makes visible the true agenda in play here, can we stop and actually think about this? National income is dropping - yes. Why is that a disaster? Because without income we can't live?…

Jeff speaks to National Cabinet, about their 'Covid-safe economy'.

I use Jeff Goldblum's Jurassic Park character to illustrate what I see as the real dangers in our strategy to try to control the pandemic, in our 'Covid-safe economy'. It's gobsmacking vanity. Have a look at the basic…

The UK Health Minister live on UK TV right now, asked about when UK schools will reopen. Quote: "although children don't suffer from the consequences of coronavirus nearly as much as adults - there have been a small…

I sometimes almost apologise for posting every day about Covid-19. I do it because - it's the greatest issue of the past 100 years, changing every day, why wouldn't we talk about it? Kids and schools, obviously a focus…

As the article says, pay attention Australia. This may be the most important decision we make in our entire history, and I'm not sure many even know what it is. Many could live or die on the outcome, and the rest of the…

We had a postal vote to decide on gay marriage. This is a MUCH bigger issue. Why aren't Australians being asked to decide our way out of the pandemic, between the options of 'controlled adaptation' and 'elimination'? It…

ScoMo's own website, check the order of priorities. I don't make this stuff up. Hillsong, ScoMo's guide, preaches 'prosperity theology' - basically God will make you rich. There's number 1 of the priorities. From the…

See you all in Lockdown 2.

Uncomfortable truths we don't want to hear. Colds and flus are declining at the moment, while we're in partial lockdown. Rather than see infectious diseases as interruptions to normal life, we're not seeing that our…

I think it's the 'road' in road to recovery that is the wrong metaphor. When we're sick we rest or shelter, we don't drive somewhere. I don't think we're seeing the vanity and danger of trying to 'control' a pandemic,…

An indication of how 'the science' is just a political phrase designed to stop people actually looking at it, is that our PM can call powerful and effective public health measures 'hiding under the doona', and not one…

Countries in a good position like ours, losing control of the virus within days of relaxing restrictions. See the end of the article for latest modelling showing exactly the same thing - that aggressive elimination of…

And this related one for those concerned that lockdowns cause too much suffering, deaths through suicide etc. https://theconversation.com/the-calculus-of-death-shows-the-covid-lock-down-is-clearly-worth-the-cost-137716

Tut, Sweden in red. That'll upset its new fans in the Covid-denier group. https://www.endcoronavirus.org/countries?fbclid=IwAR2w5_sFJ-6UrrI5o16PCqztnMijVGzOMKhSK5PBqIrZ48lNvjPA09u9kb8

This is part of the old normal that we call 'the economy'. The push to rescue the economy is just a push to not change the (broken) old normal. The disease isn't the virus. It's the old normal. Otherwise we'll all be…

"Australia really focused on Singapore but Singapore is one of the greatest failures in the world now". Vitenam proving that if you use basic public health measures, rather than try to be half-pregnant by running your…

How's your toilet paper stash? "Prof Talley warned the Australian Government’s strategy of suppressing the virus rather than trying to eradicate it has left us in a vulnerable position."…

Right now about 50% of Australians with cold and flu symptoms aren't lining up for Covid-19 tests. On the one hand they're told not to go to work if they're sick. On the other work is 'opening up' again, so many have to…

Lots of talk about mental health and the pandemic today. I offended some people by saying that the idea we should scale back quarantine to protect peoples' mental health means we must have become a nation of snowflakes.…

I was disgusted listening to travellers saying on the radio they 'can't wait' to get back on cruise ships and planes. I wonder if we've learned a single thing.…

Free child care (not free - you pay for it through your taxes, conservatives are devious with language) isn't 'sustainable'. $150 billion in permanent tax cuts is though. Wouldn't it have been refreshing to hear him say…

I was a teacher. This rubric for the country alarms me, because I know it'd be a struggle to get a room of 20 to follow it. I don't buy this bullshit about 'restrictions' and 'lockdown' - the language is designed to…

I was amazed they decided to push on with exams, just seems another example of how schools and kids are cannon fodder in this pandemic. I say don't be fooled by the appearance of care for education in Australia -…

After this is over, people who pushed to save our economy ahead of peoples' lives should be tried and prosecuted. Simple as that, like our own Nuremberg Trials, for the pandemic. I often challenge anybody to even define…

Pre-pandemic article. Took only 5 weeks to discover that busyness was never the problem? ‘Get the kids back in school.’

Think I'm exaggerating when I say people don't give a shit about schools and kids? Gladys' daily press conference, talking about getting people off public transport and back into cars, or onto bikes, or walking. Great…

And the Telegraph is a deeply conservative newspaper. "The real Swedish coronavirus story is a story of poor preparation (along with most other countries), threat underestimation (unique for Sweden), strategic…

Here's context for my pandemic views. Look at these numbers, State-by-State. Everywhere except NSW and Vic may have already eliminated Covid-19. NSW and Vic may be damned close. You can see why the other States aren't…

Next time a politician goes on about ‘balancing economic recovery’ against keeping you free of COVID-19, remember what the science says. Both the medical and economic experts called bullshit on this from day one. It’s…

Many said this was the strategic role of the phrase ‘the science’ from the beginning of the pandemic. And here it is, exactly as predicted. Scientists as human shields for politicians. This will be exactly the line used…

“This thing is like a fire...we can’t have medium case numbers, that doesn’t work. It is either very, very little or the whole thing is on fire with coronavirus. We could easily be the UK or the US; it is the exactly…

You can see this right now. The same people who won't trust the experts on climate change, because it means interrupting 'the economy', are the same people who trust the experts on Covid-19, when they can make them say…

Aboriginals understood animals and plants and what they prefer, and would shape the landscape to appeal to the animals and plants. It was a contract, they'd provide what the animals and plants needed, and would get to…

Gladys wants the pubs and clubs open from next week (good luck getting them 'CovidSAFE' before then). Might leave it to Samuel Pepys, from a past pandemic. Thanks to Alex.

What is it that makes us so passionate about quarantine? We've been doing it for thousands of years. I think it's because moving around, whether that's travel or even 'going to' work, IS now our culture. I don't think…

Do you think we'll ever connect in our minds tens of millions of people wandering the Earth every day looking for somewhere to live, at the same time as tens of millions of others travel the same Earth sightseeing?…

Next time you hear somebody whine about the current restrictions, remember that the people who do the important work in society have been at work the whole time. No luxury of lockdown for them. So who are these whiners?…

Covid-19. Where libertarians protest not being allowed free access to the society, that they say doesn't exist.

Finally Aussie kids can go back to what they were doing before this bloody pandemic. Failing at school.

There are only 2 things a highly infectious virus can do. Either it gets suppressed so much through quarantining that it only has tiny outbreaks here and there. Or - it's completely out of control. There's no middle…

1 day in to the big re-opening, 2 schools down. I call it Covid-19 pin bowling - strike! These students need to be disciplined, for ignoring the science.

I find it's surprisingly doctors who sometimes argue that Covid-19 is being blown out of proportion as a health issue. A big drop in billable hours and therefore income for them during pandemics, that could explain it.…

Experts describe the current phase of the pandemic as the 'most dangerous' phase. My sense from the community is - yippee, this is all over. And ffs, we blame the Chinese for our economic/travel virus. The old normal…

I've noticed in this pandemic the necessary tension between medical people, and public health people. They're not the same. Medical people (doctors, nurses) will tend to be focused on the health of an individual. Public…

For those you know who still try to compare seasonal flu with Covid-19. Though it may be faster to just block them.…

The global heatmap of Covid-19. A long, hot summer for the US, tragic. You can use this map to help identify which countries are really franchises for the super wealthy.

From the news: "Accelerated reopening of the economy, earlier easing of restrictions and larger gatherings are expected to be recommended to national cabinet within two weeks, if the trend in low daily coronavirus…

NZ 7 days with zero new cases. Only 1 active case left in the country. Australia, still over 400 active cases. Look how similar our curve is to South Korea. See that little blip at the end of the Korean curve? They've…

That 'period of euphoria' is palpable here in Oz right now. Why Israel thinks it lost control? Schools. Yesterday ScoMo said: "Eradication? Elimination? These are not the goals that we have". We love pandemics so much…

If most human disease is infectious disease, even the big chronic diseases like cancer and heart disease and diabetes, you'd expect antibiotics to have an impact on some of them. And here it is. We've been living in a…

Gladys and ScoMo and friends are furiously trying to get State borders open. Have a look at the vast numbers of Australians who don't agree with them. I suspect vast numbers don't agree with a lot of the 'opening up'…

The UK. Check the banner, why 'control' of Covid-19 is laughable. Here's a tickler - the people who argue 'we can't stay locked down forever', guarantee that we will, by opening up. Proper lockdown is the shortest,…

The same people who call lockdown 'tyranny' in the US, are now imposing curfews, and attacking people who ignore curfews.

If you believe the economy exists, can you explain why it'll take 19 years to pay off a few months of lockdown?

This is bloody fantastic news. Another week of those numbers and we could even start talking about elimination, like some of the other States. Note this isn't support for a 'control' strategy - control doesn't reduce…

Who'd have thought. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-sweden-tegnell-idUSKBN23A15O

New Zealand looks set to declare total Covid elimination, on 15 June. For the people who think you have to ‘balance’ the economy and public health, note the NZers only needed 7 weeks of lockdown to achieve this.…

There's some sort of macabre irony about holding a gathering for thousands in the middle of a pandemic, under the banner of 'lives matter'. Somewhere, we swapped righteousness for intelligence.…

If you’re a shock jock you’re in a bit of a pickle today. For weeks you’ll have been saying how unnncessary all these lockdowns are. But today you’ll be itching to go after the sanctimonious protesters, for violating…

The age of crowds. Even microbes - a pandemic is a crowd of microbes. Research on crowds suggests individuals hate to touch except in relationships. Why people walking along a busy footpath do a sophisticated ‘step and…

The protests yesterday made me very angry. To gather in the tens of thousands in a pandemic - I hated it when the anti-lockdown people did it, I hated it when people went to Bondi Beach. So disgustingly self-righteous…

This is what was on the line this long weekend. These are the number of days since a last case of COVID-19 was found in NSW, in the different categories. 11 days since any examples of community transition (the biggie).…

Chlamydia pneumoniae. Likely the bugs that cause the heart disease we usually blame on fats, smoking and lack of exercise. Also looking like being a major cause of Alzheimer’s disease and arthritis. This bacterium may…

Seems J.K. agrees with Germaine. The Righteous Police are already onto her (they’re not very bright). Maybe they’ll organise another protest and kill more people with COVID-19, that should fix it.

For thousands of years, until the early 1900s, about half of all people born died before they turned 15, from infectious diseases. We think we've changed history, with vaccines and antibiotics. Both of those are…

A pandemic is a small group of microbes protesting, among the community of microbes. (Actually is.)

Over 100 healthcare workers in the UK are now dead of Covid-19. Here in Oz we still feel this is an old person's disease, and are very casual about it all. When you read the details of these people, you see the danger,…

I think the most disgusting reframing of the pandemic from the ‘open up’ crowd is the ‘you have to live your life’ bullshit. As if society has a collective case of man flu, and we all just need to grow a pair and get…

Testify! US companies (many already bankrupt pre-Covid) borrowed over $750 billion extra in the last 3 months, due to government underwriting. This is what fixing the economy means, giving our money to cowboys to pay…

Bureau of Crime Statistics: “CRIME PLUMMETS DURING COVID-19 LOCKDOWN”. So, crime plummeted. Air quality improved. People spent more time with their families than ever before. People baked and got creative in their new…

Regular sufferers of my posts will know I've been advocating these for years. Could put them on every bus, in every classroom and hospital, for bugger-all money. I carry one with me all through winter, for work or…

Prediction is a mug's game. But here's mine, for the end of the Covid-19 pandemic. We won't beat it with a vaccine or treatment. It'll just stop. Like every pandemic in history, the microbes suddenly pack up and go…

Remarkably there are still highly educated people who want to tell you that COVID-19 is not the serious problem that has been made out. Watch this. Exponential growth has a way of silencing idiots, eventually.…

Grattan did a wonderful report a few months ago on the pandemic, where it drew the (obvious) conclusion that elimination of the virus was the best strategy. Now it’s back with an updated look, including the (again,…

I see the Victorian government are sensibly recommending that Victorians don't travel interstate if they're going to be mixing with other people. This will be a test for 'open the borders' people. Why do we close…

The federal government has almost no role in management of a pandemic at all. The States do pretty much everything and have most of the authority, under constitutional law. The reason ScoMo wanted a National Cabinet was…

This is Simon Kuznets, who won a Nobel Prize in 1971 for pioneering the measurement of economic growth. He more or less invented the idea of GDP. What did he say about the economy? “The welfare of a nation can scarcely…

I wanted to repost this, because the idea of 'balancing' the economy with public health is an even deadlier virus than Covid-19. Even Chief Medical Officers parrot it now. Economists say? It's bullshit.

I’ve worked in governance for a couple of decades, a job where you try to figure out how to get large groups of people to move in one direction. My main criticism of the COVID strategy we’re following is that it’s a…

The UK is still getting about 1000 new cases of Covid a day. And it's opening right up. See the shift in responsibility for the ensuing carnage? The people are now to blame. The US, UK and Oz share political strategy,…

We hear about the dangers of exponential growth with COVID. What i don’t think is talked about is how much worse again the exponential challenge is with contact tracing. While each infected person might infect 3 or 4…

This is Sweden's case numbers. Sweden is following the same strategy as us - 'balancing the economy with health'. People say we're different because we have such low numbers. We used a lockdown to get to Sweden's…

Superb. Latour uses the analogy of The Truman Show to talk about the 'economisation of society'. Where all the relations that make up social life are corralled into a handful of 'economic' relations, using millions of…

If people spent half the time trying to understand the pandemic that they do getting outraged about toilet paper, maybe they’d notice that the ‘ridiculous’ thing is governments outsourcing their pandemic strategy to the…

Right now we could ask both NSW and Vic to lockdown again until they've eliminated Covid-19, like the rest of Oz may have achieved. We don't because the Economy Nazis say it would be the end of life as we know it.…

The whack-a-mole strategy looks great on paper. Open up the 'economy', then just whack the virus locally if it appears somewhere. But nobody knows how. It's probably impossible. The non-medical experts who know this…

For me, people stockpiling toilet paper aren't our real problem. People who believe in a pandemic strategy of millions of people carefully following a long list of complicated rules for many months, are still our…

Normally a virus doesn't spread well if it's lethal, because the person dies before they can infect many others. 'Stealth' infections like Covid-19 are super smart, they allow the person to be healthy for weeks, happily…

Check this out, another powerful plea to go for elimination, like we should have from day 1. I've lost count of the number of people who say 'but it's not possible'. Who says? Not one public health expert says it, we…

Apparently 500,000 people have cleaned out their super entirely with the allowed withdrawals for the pandemic. I can't decide if it's them or the government who are more stupid. Maybe we should entrust them both with…

Just one of the modern conservatives worldwide who franchised conservative politics to the financial sector. None of them would know what a political conservative is, historically. These are the people who can twist…

Our main reference point to the planet, an address, is defined by roads, pathways to other places. Our own ‘place’ is defined by movement to other places. We’re not grounded. Our torture in a global pandemic is to be…

On a bloody cold day, a shout out to the magnificent public health staff and police, out there every day saving lives in this pandemic while we’re comfy at home. I wish they paid you like bankers.

I think Victoria should be (but isn't) waking us up to what the AMA said a month or so ago. Without eliminating Covid-19, you either have tiny amounts of virus in the community, through heavy restrictions, or it's out…

Social distancing won't be enough. You need to eliminate community transmission of this virus. Nothing else will work.…

The panic-buying has been debunked so many times. We're drama-tarts, only maximum outrage will do. There are very few 'panic buyers'. It's every shopper buying a bit more, to avoid having to come to the shops with a…

This is a paper that may change the pandemic. A few hundred international experts pleading to change social distancing rules, because they're sure the virus is mostly transmitted through the air. (Astonishing that we…

Why is it that during an international emergency, we suddenly decide the important thing is to escalate every other cause and grievance we have, and focus on those instead? I think I know why. The pandemic needs…

Lots of heat for Dan Andrews about Victoria. But Victoria is the strategy National Cabinet chose. To quote Mary-Louise McLaws, one of Australia's leading pandemic experts: "This is to be expected when we go for…

Society had 2 choices to try to get 'normal life' back. Staying at home, away from each other. Or going back to semi-normal, with a whole range of social distancing restrictions. It's proven incapable of option 2, I see…

Remember that testing and tracing was our 'roadmap to a CovidSafe Australia'? Victoria did more of it than anybody, see the graph. It didn't help. Every country in the world who thought this was a way to be…

"The main strategy that doesn't seem to have worked is abandoning elimination of community spread (some called it eradication) and being content with suppression." "Some would argue that the pool of experts providing…

Thanks to Jason for sharing some research that provides some further clues as to why fridges might have been our enemy in the eternal war against infectious diseases. The researchers studied the mortality rate from…

Fantastic piece from Peter Hartcher today. This is the stuff I've been annoying people with for months. If you read the history of pandemics all of this was inevitable. But we don't want to hear it. He does leave out…

The danger in having doctors instead of pandemic and public health experts providing advice to Cabinet. 'Preventing community transmission' IS elimination 🤔

All living things when under threat seek shelter, if they can’t fight off the threat. If all of society had sheltered for even 6 weeks when this pandemic started, it would now be over. Why didn’t it? Because it can’t,…

Most of Australia has already achieved elimination, despite the Economy Cult (established business and their sponsored puppets in parliament) saying it couldn’t be done. They even hold economic guns to the CMO’s heads…

No links to Victoria so far, apparently. Meaning we’re seeing exactly the same thing in NSW now - failure to properly eliminate (National Cabinet decision), opening up, spreading the remaining virus around…

“Australia’s national cabinet should explicitly pursue an elimination strategy similar to that of New Zealand. The current suppression strategy carries the certainty of repeated outbreaks and lockdowns, shattering…

Ruby Princess docked on 19 March. It’s just about Australia’s entire pandemic. It kickstarted transmission in all modes, and from early May all NSW has really had is overseas (plane) arrivals driving numbers. The only…

Pffft, experts, what do they know. Gladys had the head of the Australian Hotels Association speaking at her Covid news conference today. Running a pub obviously makes you an expert in beating a pandemic.

The obvious evidence that conservative politics worldwide was simply bought out by the big end of town, is that these parties have the same 3 policies no matter what crisis or situation is in front of them. Cut taxes,…

If you're one of those who thinks the current outbreak is Victorian mismanagement, I suggest looking overseas. This virus is not 'suppressible', as experts here have said too. You can't 'open up' AND control the virus,…

Who would you rather guide us out of this crisis? A failed advertising hack (ScoMo), and a career politician who went straight from university into politics (Gladys), both desperate to protect their party donors in…

The figures over the past 100+ years. World Wars 1 & 2 were major international emergencies, like our pandemic, and governments spent HUGE amounts of money. And what followed that huge spending/debt? The 'Roaring…

What bothers me about the whole vaccine thing is that medical experts are poor guides for pandemics. We might get a vaccine that gets us through COVID-19, but there are plenty more pathogens just waiting to whack us.…

Do people think? Like the ‘mutual obligation’ idea for people who get the dole. They should work to ‘earn’ their dole. But if the government wants to give away massive tax cuts to people who already have buckets of…

If you thought I was bonkers saying we should print money to fix the economic crisis...we're already doing it. I criticise the economics of the pandemic much more than the health side, because it's limited economic…

I think masks are important. But we should be wary I think, they’re the lowest rung of the public health ladder, a last resort. People needing masks is a public health response that’s hopeless or that has lost control.…

Nobody knows why pandemics end. The explanation I haven’t seen suggested is that it’s other microbes that end them. We’re so focused on ourselves and the impact a virus has on our bodies that we forget that all microbes…

The only challenge to my mental health in this pandemic is the steady stream of economic bullshit. The economy caused the pandemic, and it's also now stopping us getting out of it. Economic ideas were weaponised by…

It’s a bit surprising that we so often hear that the only way this pandemic will end is with a vaccine. There’s not a single example in history of a pandemic ending with a vaccine. Not one. Vaccines are fantastic, don’t…

Some philosophers see pandemics as the way societies reboot. The way they turn off and then on again, when they stop working. In a pandemic everybody returns to the same level, all social distinctions and all economic…

Thanks to @[100005729913449:2048:Brett]. Why the idea of the 'economy' is stopping us from getting rid of this pandemic. Just print money.

Yes, we saw ScoMo's competence with emergencies during the bushfires *cough* Victoria is what Covid-19 does if you don't eliminate the spread of it. We can keep trying to find scapegoats for that basic fact all through…

NSW Cabinet apparently were trying to decide what number of infections in NSW would trigger more lockdowns. They apparently hit upon a figure of 250 per day, not because of any science or public health, but because they…

There were and still are people who say we should just isolate and protect our vulnerable people, and then let the virus rip. Victoria shows what BS that is. 71 nursing homes with infections now, and with the State on…

This is what an expert who has actually fought and beaten pandemics says. The history of infectious diseases is the history of governments and vested interests continually undermining basic public health work. Like the…

In the 1980s, Australia and NZ led the world in elimination of HIV. (No nonsense then of 'you can't eliminate'.) They let the pandemic experts lead, politicans got out of the way. NZ has done it again for Covid-19.…

I use social media as a gauge of public thinking. For Australia it worries me every day. Still in denial of the danger we’re in, overwhelmingly posts are still about ourselves or some form of ‘happy’ distraction from…

You can’t get a clearer picture of why ScoMo is an even more disastrous leader for Covid-19 than he was for the bushfires. In court with our own Trump-lite, Palmer, together trying to undermine basic public health…

Easy to be furious with these morons (far out, are they real lips?). But look at it this way - who is running a strategy of letting people travel all around the country while there's community transmission happening?…

We see lots of detailed plans about getting the economy moving during a pandemic. Does it register with people that there is no plan to actually beat the virus? How do we not find that outrageous? It'd be like having a…

Please think about this. Australia doesn’t have a plan to defeat Covid-19. It literally doesn’t, there is no plan. We have all the Covid Safe nonsense, which isn’t about fighting the virus but about opening businesses…

Why did we accept the idea that 'the only thing that can end this pandemic is a vaccine'? That's absolutely not true, fast and strong public health action could have stopped it before it got started. When HIV started,…

We've had anti-lockdown protests. Now anti-mask protests. Still no anti-Covid protests, unfortunately, we're 'living alongside' Covid. Must be a nice neighbour.

Australia started with a Covid strategy corresponding with the red line, and is now finally shifting to one corresponding with the green line. Economy fanboys will be delighted to see it will also save them mucho…

Diana Tamir from Harvard Uni led a study that showed that 80% of social media posts are people talking about themselves or their own lives. Even when offered money to post about something else, they reverted to talking…

Exactly the same script worldwide. Politicians outsourcing management of the pandemic to the public through long lists of complicated rules, and then lecturing the public when they don't follow them. Some sweet naive…

This time, eliminate the mongrel. What we should have done last time. Meanwhile Gladys also introducing new measures, but no leadership - just 'encouraging' us all to do it. And all via press conference, which hardly…

One of the mottos I give my kids for life is, don’t be a dumbarse. Like the people who spend the whole pandemic looking for a fresh scapegoat for the whole misery - toilet paper hoarders, the Chinese, people not…

208 people have died of Covid in Australia so far. 139 of these have been in aged care. There are a further 500+ residents of aged care in Victoria currently infected. For those who like to point fingers, responsibility…

What a difference 2 weeks makes. I hate pandemics, but I love that your opinion doesn't count in the end. Reality does.

Have been driving to work because of the pandemic. One thing I’ve noticed again is just how many people completely ignore road rules. Had a person go past me yesterday who was doing about 140 km/h. Couple of P-platers…

This is the lengths the forces of the 'Economy' go to. The US election this year will likely be decided by postal votes, with the pandemic rampant there. The Trump administration has been systematically under-funding…

All through this pandemic Australians haven't engaged in the specific details. Instead they've played tabloid games, finding new scapegoats every day. Take the ridiculous hoo-ha about what's happened in Victoria. Blamed…

So far nearly 600,000 poor Australians have completely cleaned out their super accounts under Covid, about $32 billion. This super money if left until retirement would have been worth maybe $200 billion. (JobKeeper by…

75th anniversary of Hiroshima today. There's a link to the pandemic I think, both show that what we call the 'microscopic' level of reality is the most powerful. Big things are simple and weak, small things are…

We gave out free condoms to control HIV 40 years ago. Time to hand out free masks for Covid-19. Just another example of the total absence of an actual disease strategy. But plenty of economic strategies. Those arrived…

Another expert who should be at the centre of our fight against Covid, rather than having to try to be heard around the fringes. Who knows what strategy NSW is currently following? ScoMo announced the nation would be…

And another expert. How did we let politicians run a pandemic strategy?

I think Australia has 'Americanised' significantly in the last 40 years. Take our approach to the pandemic. 40 years ago a pandemic triggered a public health response, where large teams of experts were mobilised to…

It’s in the data. This is Victoria’s rolling average community spread for the whole pandemic. The red arrow - 2 May - was the day that average started to climb above 1. The same day NSW went below 1. Also the time…

This is why 'we're following the medical advice' has been political spin all along. When your Chief Medical Officers are employed by your politicians, they're not going to contradict the boss. Kerry Chant saying as much…

A plan that turns a pandemic into a set of rules to follow and a daily blame-game is no plan. It's the absence of basic public health planning. If you're a parent or teacher and you're reduced to writing a list of rules…

This is why you don't let politicians run a pandemic strategy. In fact that flatters them - they have no strategy. Expect this distraction politics to ramp up the more the absence of strategy is translated into…

Anybody who knows anything about Australian governance (that’s unfortunately a tiny number of people) knows this is true. The federal government has virtually zero role in a pandemic. The National Cabinet is a stunt,…

A few hundred years ago humans thought the universe revolved around the Earth. Today's version of that vanity is visible in the pandemic right now. We think it'll be defeated only by a vaccine or drug. Microbes live in…

Here's the constantly updated list of 'hotspots' in NSW. It's overwhelmingly pubs, clubs and restaurants. Why are these still open in NSW? All big political donors. I'd advise everybody to avoid these 'like the plague'.…

Read this, if you want to see what putting your experts in charge of a pandemic can do. They smashed the virus out of the park. Our National Cabinet's only virus strategy is 'quick lockdown to boost the amount of PPE…

Did you do maths at school? NSW Cabinet didn’t. There are close to 10 transmission chains of Covid in NSW right now that can’t be traced. Even one of those is enough to start an explosion of cases. Exponential growth,…

Basic maths again. If you don't control community transmission, even the tiniest changes in behaviour cause an explosion of cases. Community transmission plus 'opening up' caused Victoria. NSW has opened up, and has…

We look back mystified that soldiers in the world wars were excited to be heading off to fight for a cause. But why don’t we relish a real existential challenge? Social media is swamped with happy diversion to…

Just sayin'. https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2020/covid-19-children-and-schools-overlooked-and-risk

Is anybody else sick of politicians lecturing people every day about rising infection numbers? They don't have a plan to beat the virus, and so when the virus inevitably bites back, why do ordinary people not just tell…

I haven't seen one other NSWelshperson on here flabbergasted at the Russian Roulette Gladys is playing with the lives of themselves and their families. Not one. Is Australia going to get through an entire pandemic not…

I said this from day 1 of this pandemic, and was told I hated ScoMo. Australians don’t engage with the ideas, they just line up behind their ‘side’. The ‘balance’ of the economy (feds) and health (States) was exactly…

The paradigm is shifting. Just print money. And take it away from politicians with ridiculous ideologies. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-16/economic-rebuilding-after-coronavirus-modern-monetary-theory/12563664

A guy who fights pandemics, speaking right at the start of this one. Very few governments listened. "You have to go after the virus". You have to fight. So many smart and stupid people spending the last few months…

The risk to NSW. NSW has low case numbers right now. Here's Victoria's graph of case numbers for the pandemic. They had months (the red line) of low case numbers before the cases exploded in late June. They had…

Another parasite, preaching no action on climate change or Covid, retreating to the safety of their country estate.…

Gladys saying exactly what my posts have been saying. I follow the public health data and thinking, I don’t improvise some random personal views of the pandemic. Ms Berejiklian said authorities were concerned the virus…

You can see the origins of Big Pharma in this pandemic I think. In the absence of basic, cheap public health systems, the US is always after the latest wonder drug, the latest snake oil to get them out of the hole that…

More than 99% of Victoria's Covid cases can be traced back to 3 untraceable transmission chains. NSW currently has 16 untraceable transmission chains.

Surveys in the US and UK say up to 50% of people there will refuse a Covid vaccine. The government here talking about making it 'mandatory'. To me this is just another example of the total absence of an actual virus…

More than 25% of Americans believe Bill Gates is using vaccines for mind control. When will we start taking seriously the destruction of our institutions (education, government, journalism etc.), creating this lunatic…

A lot of virus denialists (perfect term I think, like climate denilaists - people who deny international emergencies right in front of them) hanging their hats on this sort of research. It is interesting research, but…

No doubt much excitement in NSW today over its only one new Covid case. Community transmission is what caused Victoria's outbreak. Ignore all the other tabloid BS. Read what the experts say. NSW's community transmission…

"A danger greater than war faces the State of NSW...". From 1918-19. People came out of 4 years of horrific war into 3 years of horrific pandemic. The pandemic killed far more than the war. They weren't strategic…

Since late July this has actually been National Cabinet’s aim, their strategy. Many of their supporters appear unaware of it, still parroting the propaganda that ‘we can’t eliminate this virus’, and ‘we have to live…

A clear example of how the pandemic was politicised. Breaches of hotel quarantine (which it turns out may not have actually occurred) in Victoria were hammered day after day as 'Victorian mismanagement'. Now guards at…

Wow. Have to wonder if this is a pissing contest for territory between medicine and public health professionals. Doctors prescribe drugs that have risky side-effects in some people already, because benefits are thought…

Nice example of how ‘lockdown’ is a political construct in this pandemic. In public health it’s just one specific strategy applied in various degrees. But listen to the Covid deniers like this one and it’s their code…

HIV is a nice example I think of how treating disease as a medical thing means losing control of it. Look at the HIV stats for Australia. Strong public health action from the 1980s through to the mid-1990s pushed HIV…

Brilliant example here of how to do public health in a pandemic. The traffic light system, like the fire danger system. Takes it completely out of the hands of politicians, and culture warrior alarmists, and it helps…

Do we have an idea of ‘we’, or only ‘I’? Covid created a tidal wave of personal grievance. Pandemics do that I think, hold the mirror up to society.

About 20 years ago the Commonwealth held a big enquiry into bushfires. A lot of what it found is repeated in the NSW enquiry on last Christmas' fires. Interestingly it also said Australia had shifted to a 'fire…

Virus denialists will say 'lockdowns' caused more harm than good, like suicides. Call them out on it, ask to see the numbers.

The 1.5m rule is simplistic ('economy-opening') tosh. Brilliant graphic giving a much more nuanced understanding of Covid transmission risk, from the British Medical Journal.

Another great piece, about how we need to move beyond the medical definitions, and away from the ridiculous idea of 'balancing' lives and livelihoods in this pandemic.

Victorians when asked whether restrictions should be lifted. Why do the opponents of public health restrictions get any air time at all? Comes down to who owns the channels, obviously. The same platforms that give…

Back to this brilliant research published in the BMJ. I've marked with an X now where schools, public transport, many workplaces, pubs, clubs, restaurants and shops would sit. All extremely high risk in NSW right now.…

Wanted to post this separately. Kenny is part of that anti-lockdown brigade who are trying to turn the pandemic into some ridiculous culture war. Now they've realised lockdowns are actually hugely popular, so the next…

Another anti-lockdown fan, with yet another fabulous idea.

Today's colouring-in exercise. Paint Sydney in Covid yellow and green. Still some empty spaces left, if you're quick. Those who went outside the lines to the Central Coast and Newcastle are very naughty.

There's something delicious about watching a man who weaponised Australia's borders to win elections being helpless before closed borders. Are people realising yet that the feds have no authority in a pandemic? ScoMo…

One of the debating tricks people who oppose strong public health action against the virus use is to say 'more people are being harmed by the restrictions than by the virus'. That's like saying 'we can't build new…

This is what we need for pandemics. Where the boundaries between each level and the actions that flow from them are determined by public health metrics, not by politicians trying to ram borders open or pander to…

The Economy Crowd. Not only spending their pandemic happily sheltered from the virus while undermining public health action for the rest of us, like demanding borders open to help mates in the tourism and airline…

Notice the same people who argue through Right to Life that every life is precious and must be protected at all costs, are quite happy to say 'let people die of Covid to protect our economy'. The Economy Crowd. If…

Maybe a million Australians have lost their jobs under Covid. Do you think Josh's $158 billion in tax cuts will cheer them up, now that they have no income and are paying no tax? Shows pretty clearly who's getting most…

Deloitte, one of the big business consulting firms: "The underlying equation is simple. The greater the success against the virus, the greater the success in protecting economies against the pandemic." Anybody who tells…

You run out of words. Scandalous. Corruption. Cronyism. Our Covid recovery commission is stacked with the gas industry. There's a global GLUT of gas. See those pollies in grey suits with solemn faces every day talking…

Some people say lockdowns cause more deaths than the pandemic. I might buy them a calculator.

Gladys today saying that NSW knows how to control the virus while keeping its economy running. The fact not one other place in the world has managed it should make us suspicious. As should the data. Here's Victoria. It…

Go for zero. https://grattan.edu.au/report/how-australia-can-get-to-zero-covid-19-cases/

Check this out. Spanish Flu in NSW, 1919 - January 25, pandemic arrives in NSW (same day as COVID 101 years later) - NSW quickly put public health restrictions in place - only about 15 died in NSW during this first wave…

Conservative politicians were very critical of BLM protests in a pandemic. One of the few times I've agreed with them. It's very revealing that, as yet, not one word of criticism from the same politicians on the…

A disgrace. "...where we can reopen our economy and reasonably restore the liberties of all Australians." When will more thinking Australians speak out and say they're quite happy to have 'liberty' from the fucking…

SKY 'News' making the case for strong lockdowns, without even realising. Not the sharpest tools in the shed.

You can train a Chief Medical Officer to do tricks. Like this one, appearing as an attack dog for the government as head of the Federal Department of Health. Obscenely inappropriate, Department Heads NEVER do press…

6 of our 8 States and territories are sitting there as good as free of Covid, while the remaining 2 are held hostage to a culture war, led by the PM, about scoring cheap political points and undermining the public…

Wow on every level. How we think determines what happens with everything, including the pandemic. I'm not seeing much thought going on, but I'm seeing every single one of these 9 'traps' happening, in truckloads. Please…

“...we don’t understand that things look fine until right before they’re very not fine...Pandemic data are like the light of distant stars, recording past events instead of present ones...Policy makers end up acting…

Victorian England. Massive building programs, creation of the sewers, the railways, roads. The time of empire. Do we stop to think about what made all of that possible? Today we flog all this stuff off, to give away in…

Goodhart's Law says if you use a measure as a target, it stops working. Organisations do this all the time. We're seeing it in the pandemic too. In Iowa, 'exposure' to the virus is taken to be at least 15 minutes within…

My number one pandemic tip. When a politician or somebody on YouTube speaks, turn it off. Then read something like this instead. https://www.policyforum.net/australias-pandemic-policy-made-a-second-wave-inevitable/

Did you know there have been about 1000 *fewer* deaths in aged care homes so far this year? Every time somebody tells you this public health action is creating more harm than it prevents, ask them to quantify it. You…

Democracy. Where everybody is free to not do the most basic things. Like public health work.

I’ve been so proud to be an Australian in this pandemic. Our magnificent public institutions stuffed full of expertise have been allowed to flex their muscles. We’re the envy of much of the world. At the same time…

Be mindful of this phrase? It's conspiracy theory folk suggesting you go and watch loon videos on YouTube about loon conspiracies, rather than follow official sources. Populism is spreading, much more lethal than Covid…

Pueyo has been superb in this pandemic. Now he's talking about borders and lockdowns (quarantine) - internal, and external. And how without them, the virus wins.

Fewer people seem to be dying of Covid. (Always a critical sign a pandemic may be waning.) There's a theory that wearing masks is giving people immunisation against Covid, by restricting the dose of virus they inhale.…

Paul Ewald, one of my favourite thinkers on microbes, on why public health measures don't just stop people getting sick, they actually change the virulence (danger) of the virus itself. The virus evolves in real time…

Economists agree with the public health people. Restrictions save our economy and health at the same time, they're the same thing. Next time somebody says we need to relax restrictions to save our economy, just remember…

Conservatives protected every life, even the unborn, with ferocious conviction. Until Covid, when suddenly the economy was under threat. Guess what got priority? (Hint: not your life.) To be fair, modern conservatives…

Delicious! The health experts back Queensland. Is there anybody left who thinks the federal government has the first interest in the pandemic? Or just the economy?

I've pasted the deaths in 4 countries here. The US, Brazil, France and the UK. US and Brazil are the graphs where the deaths are continuing to be super high right now. France and the UK still getting high cases, but…

We need this to really hurt, to kick us in the economic balls, to force the idiot economic ideas we live under to change. Nothing else will work, this is what pandemics do, force you to throw away idiot ideas that have…

Prediction is a mug's game. (I would add I predicted just this here only yesterday.) Every pandemic almost without exception ends when 'no one is quite sure why'. All of the reasons given in this article are the most…

Couple of things here. First, the 'disaster' here is (of course) apparently 'financial'. Bugger people's health. Second, we hear the same bluster from idiot politicians all over the world, including here. The virus…

A major business consulting firm explaining that lockdowns didn't damage the economy. The virus did. Economists almost universally say the same. When you see a politician demanding restrictions be relaxed to save the…

The UK was a leader in 'balancing' the virus against its economy (which really means - do nothing against the virus, keep business open). The virus forced them to lockdown, which drove numbers down for a while. Then…

Angus Taylor today, talking about energy policy and climate change. "We shouldn't damage our economy to reduce emissions". Sound familiar? Replace 'emissions' with Covid-19 and you have their pandemic strategy too. He…

We live in Asia. Asia has been mostly superb in this pandemic. Vietnam nails it again. As have we, In Oz. But growing numbers of Strayans look to the US as a guide, becoming whingy, whiney libertarians attacking the…

We live in Asia. Asia has been mostly superb in this pandemic. Vietnam nails it again. As have we, In Oz. But growing numbers of Strayans look to the US as a guide, becoming whingy, whiney libertarians attacking the…

What do people think of the idea of becoming a Republic? I think history is often a good guide (as it was for the pandemic). Look at the Romans, the most famous Republic. They began as a monarchy, and then became a…

Do you reckon John is out there fighting the fight against diarrhoea? No, I don't think so either. Do you reckon John is saying we should let Covid rip so it's a genuinely serious thing? Do you reckon John has a brain…

Think longer-term. (The Chinese do.) In the next 40 years working-age people in the developing world (Africa and Asia mostly) will expand by about 1.5 billion people. In the same period working-age people in the…

I started the day hopeful this government would do the right thing for Australia. And ended it as flabbergasted as all the financial experts at how appalling this government is. Rather than dump their ideology about…

Excellent handful of lessons from the pandemic, to avoid us ever losing control. Note it includes swift & hard lockdowns as needed, and not 'opening up' unless the situation warrants it. Not advice you'll hear from our…

Boris wants to test 10 million people a day to avoid lockdowns. Operation Moonshot. It won't work, in fact it will do terrible damage. You know what works? Lockdowns, basic public health. The anti-lockdown people are…

Victoria is what this virus does if you open up with the virus still spreading. You'd need to have your head pretty firmly inserted up your own backside not to see that pattern repeated all over the world. Why do we…

It's not an analogy for me that pandemics are the rebooting of societies. It's their job, throughout history. To force us to throw out everything we think we know and question everything we do. They can do that because…

Monash has surveyed for both waves of Covid in Australia, to test what Australians know, feel and how they behave, with Covid. Testing and tracing won't save any country, including us. Up to half of men and a third of…

There are many here in Australia who still seriously argue for us to do as Boris has done. Not lock things down, let more people get infected so we'll hopefully get 'herd immunity', save the economy etc. It's beyond…

Very important people understand this I think. A pandemic is not a medical problem to solve. What's interesting is that as communications technologies and data analysis improve, the distinction between individual and…

This is average number of sexual partners for some countries. It’s a perfect example for me of how we don’t take infection seriously. Having multiple sexual partners supercharges the virulence of STIs. HIV became lethal…

So many have wanted a plug-and-play solution to this pandemic - lockdown, no lockdown, just test and trace etc. But it's never going to be about that. It's about getting to know your enemy intimately, and modulating…

White Cliff opal mines from the air. The more they learn about Covid, the more they realise this is how the virus sees us. Most of us if we catch it, won’t spread it. But a few of us will spread it to lots of others.…

Why NSW is playing with a can of petrol and fire, by lifting restrictions right now. There won’t be a time in this entire pandemic, unless we have a vaccine or the virus disappears by itself, that we can ‘live alongside…

“Dr Ryan said developed countries had become “entirely complacent of infectious diseases” and associated them with poorer countries...”If you look at any metric of resilience, the industrial world has not demonstrated a…

The government’s actions during the pandemic? - university funding gutted, thousands of jobs lost - arts sector gutted - $50 billion of peoples’ superannuation gutted - environmental protection laws gutted - a Covid…

The big orange man-baby has just done a drive-past of his supporters outside his hospital. Think about this - his car has about a half-dozen secret service agents in it. Windows must be up for his safety. So a known…

ScoMo is building a chicken coop (illegally) at his Sydney PM home. But it’s the invincibility that’s important here. Populism makes a politician politically invincible. Every check and balance - institutions (the law,…

People who are more worried about businesses no longer able to make plastic Xmas cracker toys and porn videos than they are about the virus, suggest we should just isolate all our most vulnerable people (nobody knows…

You might think there’s no depths to which Fox News wouldn’t stoop. But look at the host’s face when our own Miranda Devine suggests old people are selfish for not dying of Covid. Even they were stunned. The…

"Until the end of the pandemic, it's highly unlikely that NSW will ever get to 28 days of no community transmission, because that is not how a pandemic works." It's highly unlikely this will occur because the State…

When you lock up a virus by locking down people, the virus becomes milder. (Why lockdowns not only stop virus spreading, they make it much less dangerous, very few scientists are noticing that yet.) If you’re not sure…

This day, at the beginning of May, was a turning point for Australia. A large group of Australian experts from a huge range of fields advised the government to hold that first wave lockdown for a few more weeks, to…

Look at that line I’ve highlighted with yellow. This is staggering. It shows that the productivity of the workforce has exploded during the pandemic. What that basically means is that the million or more jobs lost were…

Add this to your "Pandemic BS" list. Intelligent lockdowns, targeted lockdowns, ring-fencing, hotspots etc. All BS, none of them work. There's not one single way to 'live alongside the virus', as the Economy nuts keep…

I think Gladys is likeable. A competent politician, those who would replace her from her side are mostly hopeless. I’d be surprised if she survives the latest scandal, she knew about the corruption, there’s no escape…

If you saw a parent or teacher pleading with kids to ‘follow the rules’, you’d (rightly) assume they have no idea what they’re doing. Think about that the next time a politician says we all need to follow the Covid…

Exactly what I've been saying. (Gideon is a prominent Oz epidemiologist.) This pandemic is almost nothing to do with the virus, and nearly everything to do with what we call the 'Economy'. It's why I call it The Economy…

The pandemic follows the same pattern worldwide. Rich folk bring the virus into a country through their extensive travelling. They then can afford to shelter at home from it. The poor catch it, can't afford to stay home…

What caused all this in Europe? The Economy crowd in their summer demanding everything open up. They're at Dan Andrews every day here saying the same thing. An *extra* 7000 people will die in the UK before Xmas because…

BoJo doesn’t want big lockdowns because it might damage the Economy. Because that’s bullshit, the virus is now teaching him humility. He wanted local lockdowns instead. They don’t work, and on top of that he now has to…

Did you know 80% of all businesses fail? Instead of blaming the virus and public health action against it for the global emergency right now, let’s blame the idiot idea of trying to make business the basis of society.…

The median age of somebody in Africa is 19. They’re poor, and smashing Covid so far. We rich, fat, old and entitled, anti-lockdown whining whiteys are getting infected in the hundreds of thousands per day. Too lazy and…

Sweden, darling of the virus deniers, is being forced to introduce lockdowns due to an explosion of cases. Incidentally if you know somebody who believes the fastest way out of this pandemic is just to let everybody get…

If you reckon this fella is doing a good job with Covid...he cancelled National Cabinet last week. His reason? He couldn’t get a plane back from Queensland. The real reason? He was at a Liberal Party fundraising dinner,…

A beautiful example of how sophisticated spin works. ‘Lockdown’. Millions now believe that time off at home is tyranny, and getting back to their meaningless jobs (which they hate) will be freedom. Imagine that, people…

Homes used to be like a folding of the landscape itself, with many paths for walking, plants, animals, and lanes to link different villages. Beautiful spaces, the sort that make people feel joy when they occupy them.…

The anti-lockdown people plead with us all to ‘wake up’. Let me flip that. Wake up people, and ask one simple question. If stopping a lethal virus gets in the way of our economy, shouldn’t it be our economy that…

This is a statement from NSW Health yesterday: “The only way to find new cases and prevent further transmission is to increase testing." That’s just obviously wrong. There are all sorts of ways to prevent transmission…

We’re so lucky we have superb public health systems in Australia. This story is horrifying, what catching Covid can do to you, even if you’re young. And yet there are still people in Australia today who will look you in…

How much attention did people pay to Josh’s big pandemic budget? Remember the tax cuts for all? Have a look at how they almost completely evaporate for everybody except the wealthy, from next year. Apart from being…

“The Prime Minister said the continued lockdown suggested the state government was not confident its health system was capable of suppressing transmission of the virus.” Our health systems don’t suppress the virus,…

75% of all small businesses fail within 3 years. Lockdowns help clear out all those hopeless businesses faster.

The NCCC is the National Covid-19 Coordination Commission. The group planning our way out of the pandemic (really just looting the Treasury for the gas industry.) Jobs for the (gas) boys - Nev is a gas industry man.…

What the virus is doing now is showing that the health sciences, including epidemiology, aren’t capable of getting us through this pandemic. Notice that their advice can get our numbers very low, sometimes to zero, but…

Contact tracing WON'T stop the virus. Ask the Germans. They have contact tracing nailed. It didn't help. Read this, it's not long, it says everything the authorities here are saying is our way to 'Covid normal'. Then…

Why do we even sing the national anthem at games that aren’t national games? Nobody pays much attention to the pandemic, the biggest event of our lives that puts us all at risk, but this sort of bullshit gets them hot…

Less than 2% of Australia's vast health spending goes to public health preventative measures. Barely a cent has been spent on that during Covid either. It's what I mean when I say the government has no plan to actually…

People are amazed I think Australia is in real danger with Covid. Our numbers are so low! Much of Europe’s numbers were low, going into their summer. Much of it is now about to be locked down. Low numbers come from…

The battle between the virus and our idea of the ‘Economy’ is brutal and bloody. And the virus is winning, easily. Because the Economy doesn’t exist. How many more people need to die before we realise this? What are YOU…

I think the virus hasn’t been our real enemy in the past year. It’s a population trained for the past 5 decades to see themselves as individual, ‘free’ consumers. Many responded to the pandemic, and still do, just by…

Because in my experience people have very little knowledge of how politics actually works, ScoMo the professional marketing man continually pulls the wool over our eyes. Take the masterful spin of ‘Covid normal by…

If you're smart, you'll read this chart as 'Victoria is leading the world in public health'. If you're somebody who doesn't think much, you'll say 'Dan Andrews mismanaged the virus'.

3 cases per day. We had that many in NSW today alone. The Swiss are highly organised people. They also all wear masks. Did you know we're following an 'aggressive suppression' strategy here? Except we aren't, it's more…

Superb, amazing. Captures exactly my ongoing passionate interest in this pandemic, in case you think I’m just obsessive. Pandemics are the key to understanding everything. If you’re prepared to do the hard work. The…

NSW may shortly be the only place in Australia with any Covid. If it’s the ‘gold standard’, ask ‘gold standard of what?’

I think we can safely gauge the quality of the anti-lockdown crowd, that they haven’t noticed that the lockdown is over. Not the sharpest tools in the shed.

Gladys yesterday said 'if our businesses are Covidsafe, we can open the economy even more'. She was talking about QR codes. 3 important things here: 1) QR codes do nothing to make any business safe. They let NSW Health…

As we open up for summer here, in an orgy of border opening, relaxation of restrictions and excitement, I offer people a rewind button to the beginning of Europe's summer. Hundreds of thousands of Europeans who took…

Governance is my profession. This is a fascinating graphic doing the rounds. It’s slightly misleading, there aren’t far fewer Republicans (red), they’re just spread out a lot more. And their Congress (peoples’ house) is…

I’ve said pandemics reboot societies. It’s not really Joe Biden who ultimately beat Donald Trump. It was the virus. Trump was cruising to another victory until Covid. Pandemics do this because they force every belief we…

Exactly the way we should be looking at this. The (few) countries whose political systems prioritised public health have escaped most of the pandemic.

Finally NSW is exposed as the outlier in our national fight against the virus, rather than as the ‘gold standard’. Because Gladys shares ScoMo’s views, which are Boris Johnson’s and Trump’s views. The ‘balance the…

Have a look here at how Victoria has SMASHED Covid. There's not a case of any type in nearly a fortnight. Same for every other State and Territory in the country, except NSW (it's *very* close). The entire country could…

Here's an IQ test Australia. This is Covid numbers (unknown source infections) for the past 2 weeks in Australia. If you were the boss, would you: 1) tell all those zero States that NSW is the 'gold standard' and they…

The virus deniers will be very disappointed in this, they were banking on thousands of people topping themselves, to justify hindering public health efforts against the virus.

People have been told that a vaccine will end the pandemic. That's because basic public health practice has been hijacked by stupid politicians, who want a quick medicine they can give you so they can minimise…

Sometimes it takes an outsider to see the truth. Thanks Dr Fauci. We can stop slapping ourselves on the back over contact tracing and instead congratulate ourselves for our successful lockdowns.

Sweden’s pandemic, from its own public health authority. Smash the virus, or it will smash you. Don't try to 'live with it'. Kill it. See that they were still lifting restrictions as recently as 22 October? Never, ever,…

This looks a bit dry. But it means something important. NSW never had significant Covid-19, tiny amounts at most (0.04-0.32% of the State infected). That's important, because right now we're encouraged to believe…

Today Angus Taylor said ‘the only way to slash emissions is to slash economic activity’. Replace ‘emissions’ with ‘Covid’ and you can see how the same strategies are used across both issues. In both cases they say we…

Birds in lockdown. No doubt other birds somewhere nearby getting soaked, saying ‘get out from under that leaf’, ‘build your natural water resistance’, ‘think of all the education your chicks are missing while you hide…

Victoria's 14-day average is now zero. The anti-lockdown/pro-economy people are all piss and wind. Traitors to our communities.

“We’re following the science on Covid”, our pollies say. Ask the scientists, nearly half of them disagree. Or put another way, I’d say we followed the science just over 50% of the time, and not the rest of the time.…

The first 2 waves have killed nearly 250,000 Americans. A tragedy unfolding. There are still people who compare it to flu. It’s already killed more than 4 times as many people as a bad flu year, *with* public health…

TANZANC = Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, Atlantic & Northern Canada. ‘Hammer and Dance’ = using contact tracing to ‘manage’ the virus. TANZANC is now famous as a *zero Covid* strategy, the only successful strategy in…

Yaneer is a scientist working on the pandemic. Don’t be a lazy bystander to this most important event of our lifetimes, understand what’s going on. We’re not out of the woods yet. You *must* eliminate the virus, it’s…

One of Australia’s leading public health doctors on what it takes to beat Covid. - contact tracing is only useful with very low case numbers - “it is impossible to lock down too early or too hard” - the business…

Surely this must be Dan Andrews’ fault? Somehow. Only Victorian hotels have quarantine lapses, I’m sure people have told me that. ‘Incompetence’ and ‘mismanagement’, something like that. P.S. quarantine is a federal…

Education isn’t about subjects, it’s about learning to pay attention. And keeping at it past the point where others get bored (Einstein’s advice). Without training your attention, everything in the world will just be a…

Have you noticed this too, all the claims about the apparent disaster of lockdown, that aren’t matched by any actual facts? Lockdowns are our greatest weapon against this virus. Against most infectious disease. This was…

My criticisms of ScoMo and Gladys are about these exact words. Words which are completely *opposite* to the national Covid elimination strategy. A strategy THEY announced in July, the exact same month. The rest of the…

For those who wondered about the full-house crowd at the footy, this is what ‘balancing’ the economy with public health looks like. We shouldn’t be surprised.

It usually takes a decade or so to develop a new vaccine. With funding it’s now been done inside a year. You could make a list of things we’ve been told society can’t afford - free childcare, free dentistry, affordable…

The new 'LNP' strain of the virus. It's the same virus, behaving in exactly the same way it always has. This is just political spin. SA is experiencing exactly what Victoria experienced. It's also borrowed Boris'…

This from the SA (Labor) opposition leader is worth comparing with the LNP pile-on, on Victoria. Kind of tells you that the modern LNP is really just an ex-party, captured by lobby groups. Who else would argue against…

Follow up from yesterday. Another clear example of how politicians distort public health measures. They made up this 'new strain' rubbish to justify going into lockdown, because they knew it was embarrassing to have to…

Today they'll persecute this poor lying sod (everybody lies, first rule of governance) to escape their lie that this is some new strain of virus. Here's a little governance quiz, which strategy will work? 1) A long and…

We should have eliminated the virus completely at point 1 in May, at the end of lockdown 1. Just needed 3-4 more weeks (see the small bumps at 1, which we didn’t stamp out and which then created 2.) Instead we opened…

With tens of thousands already to die over Christmas in Europe, the same ‘open up’ crowd like Boris are lifting restrictions, seeding another new wave of death in the New Year. I started this pandemic saying the idea we…

If you think our politicians are doing an amazing job with this pandemic, it means you're not paying attention. And it's mostly the LNP who are emulating their heroes in the UK and US here. I have no time for anybody's…

Meanwhile in the UK, Boris negotiates a deal with Covid to stop infecting people over Christmas. "Happy Christmas, look what I got you - a lethal infection!" will reverberate around the land. Funeral directors looking…

Many vaccine-deniers, with 'natural wellness' philosophies, are also pumped full of silicone and fillers, and have serious surgery, to look young, firm up the boobs and pecs etc. But no toxic vaccine in their bodies, oh…

It seems like common sense, hey? Those publicly-funded leeches pulled back into line with the private sector. That’s what they’re counting on, that we don’t have a clue. Under cover of the pandemic, yet again, a toxic…

People think the LNP Premiers and PM are doing a good job in the pandemic, and the Labor Premiers are dreadful, keeping borders closed. That's because people prefer mindless slogans to actually understanding anything.…

Pauline. She and any other vaccine-refusers won't get travel insurance even if the airlines did let them fly. Know how morons like this get a say in how things work? When smart people don't engage in the issues of the…

Have a look, Boris’ 3 ‘tiers’ of restrictions to replace their (ridiculously short) national lockdown. With infections still at 20,000 a day. Rule after complicated rule after complicated rule. Lockdown is one rule -…

Sharing this to highlight that eliminating diseases, even very tricky ones like HIV, is standard public health practice. Remember politicians saying from Day 1 of this pandemic Covid couldn't be eliminated? That was a…

George Orwell coined the term Doublethink in 1984, to mean people persuaded through propaganda language to believe two mutually contradictory things at once. Classic examples are 'Covid Safe' and 'Covid Normal'. Orwell…

I don’t make stuff up. The Australian government chose the UK and US as guides for our pandemic response. You know, those countries where people are dying all over the place. Luckily most of our Premiers decided to…

One of the glorious things about Covid. It's destroyed group work in corporate training.

Countries that tried to 'balance' action against Covid with the economy were all hammered by Covid, in deaths and economically. My argument from the beginning of this pandemic. I criticise ScoMo and Gladys so often…

And yet, Gladys and ScoMo are *still* using this nonsense 'balance' idea today. People say 'but look, it's worked'. No it hasn't, our lockdowns beat Covid here, we never at any time 'balanced' the virus against the…

“NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has repeatedly maintained that eliminating the virus locally was "unrealistic”. But Australia’s largest State is also on track to get there, EVEN IF IT WASN’T BY DESIGN...” (emphasis…

“Nobody has ever tried to control a pandemic or an epidemic by inducing herd immunity.” "It astonishes me. I think they were caught up in their own bullshit." There has to be a reckoning that people were allowed to…

A NSW Liberal. A champion. Compare and contrast with the knuckle-dragging LNP disgrace in Canberra. Our federal system may save us from climate change just as it did from Covid, by States bypassing the idiots in…

The real reason the feds are so interested in super is in that first line, industry super is set to control half of Australia’s economic output within 5 years. Industry super is the 21st century version of unions in a…

How many years have most workplaces had air con now? Not schools. None of the people wailing about lost education during the pandemic actually give a shit about schools, they just wanted them open as childcare so…

More *young* people have died of Covid in the US now than the total number of people killed in the 911 attacks.

NSW Health today said NSW has likely eliminated the virus, remember that 'impossible' thing? Does nobody notice that the 'freedom' here isn't being described as freedom from the virus, but freedom from the public health…

Watching the Brits and others getting excited about this as some sort of ‘end of the pandemic’ shows yet again how completely out of touch with basic public health practice the public discussion is. Politicians are to…

The danger of identity politics, which is neither a Left or Right thing, just as populism isn’t, is that it takes a fragile social commons, and splinters it into a million subjective grievances. It happened with the…

Would be amusing if it wasn’t tragic. The Economy lovers never left the old normal, that’s the reason so many are now dead. The vaccines won’t end the pandemic, they’re mostly not even targeted at immunity but at making…

The developed world should be ashamed and disgusted that they’re so infected with the Economy Virus, they need to use vaccines as emergency measures. It’s a measure of our stupidity and ignorance that we don’t even see…

Does this mean (using modern gender theory) that many men are actually repressed homosexuals or bisexuals, and are masking it by having anal sex with women?…

Most of the vaccines aren’t even designed to give you immunity, so re-infections are highly possible. I’m sure many of my friends on FB stopped reading what I say about the pandemic months ago. I’m actually quite…

One person dies of Covid every 30 seconds in the USA.

For those who think vaccines are a quick off-switch for the pandemic.

Even if we accept his numbers (which are wrong), it would still make Covid deadlier than most other diseases we have vaccines for already. A tidal wave of stupid is overtaking our societies, what are you doing about it?

Nearly everybody I see is more or less acting as if normal life has returned. Politicians are to blame, they’ve encouraged it. For some reason we let them get away with bringing the virus under control being an excuse…

The pandemic flushes out another beauty. A lot of these farmers receive enormous taxpayer subsidies as well. This is why your fruit and much of your veg will go up by up to 25% this year, no slave labour available. And…

This was the hope of Economy zealots the world over. We can avoid restrictions on the economy if we do great contact tracing. Nobody did it better than the South Koreans, way more intensive than ours even. And - they've…

If these vaccines protect against serious disease, rather than provide immunity (which the trials suggest is the case), rolling them out gradually like this could mean the virus will spread to the entire population.

Far out, this is Germany. Germany! Most organised nation on Earth. That European summer was a total disaster. Fingers crossed every day we’ve killed off Covid here, if we haven’t, this will be us in the New Year.…

How we going with this one, Straya? Yes to botox, MDMA, Ice, alcohol poisoning, no to vaccine?

So apparently next cab off the rank of ‘shit we can get away with under cover of the pandemic’ that the LNP are onto, is compulsory voting. The envy of the world, but of course they want us to be the USA, so it has to…

Professor Crabb has been saying this for some time. As have I, because I follow his work and that of many other researchers. Covid is binary - you either have zero, or you have lots. There is no 'low' amount of virus,…

In the UK as here there was much theatre early in the pandemic from pollies saying they were ‘following the science’. Conservatives never were, it was spin. They don’t on climate change, why would they on a pandemic?…

Do people even notice that every day of this pandemic, offices have been exempt from most Covid Safe requirements? It’s all been about the economy, not the virus or your health. Will we ever realise the beliefs we have…

South Korea was held up as the example of how lockdowns (a stupid term by the way) are unnecessary. They’ve just discovered the hard way they’re the only way to beat the virus. Just like everybody else eventually does.

Yaneer Bar-Yam is a scientist who has been working on pandemics for 15 years. He's a huge fan of NZ and Australia's approach. Here's his summary of what works (green) versus what doesn't (red). Notice that what we did…

Many people argued schools were immune to Covid earlier in the pandemic. They are when you have no virus, they’re superspreaders when you do. What’s particularly disgusting about this is the reason they argued it. They…

On the same topic, let’s remember how cavalier people were with our children’s health in this pandemic. It was considered more important to keep millions of small and large businesses running, that only had a lifespan…

In the UK, millions of children will potentially contract Covid in the next week, take it home to extended families over Christmas and kill some of those family members. In both Germany and the Netherlands, they’re…

How's this for the 'free market', government interrogation of banks for their market-based decisions? And we think China is 'authoritarian'. All red meat for the lunatic backbench, these decisions are only about…

A public service announcement, because I doubt they'll spend much telling people this. NSW Health advises that if you're in crowded shops this Christmas, please wear a mask. Notice, no rule saying you should, which…

"Polling shows that 62% of people “believe Australia is a victim in the trade war rather than making itself a target by the government publicly criticising the Chinese regime (38%)". A.k.a. 62% of Australians couldn't…

The two biggies in virus mitigation - ‘living with the virus’ - biting the dust. Will we suffer long enough to understand that it’s our way of life that is the cause of this pandemic, not the virus? Insecure work and…

Al Capone (yes, the gangster) ran a free soup kitchen for the unemployed in the 1930s (in the pic). It fed several thousand unemployed people 3 times a day. When people can't eat or shelter without a job, you have the…

The great myth of this pandemic is that NSW has been ‘managing’ Covid, and that you can have virus and keep everything open at the same time. That’s the myth that has crippled the US and Europe and has killed hundreds…

NSW Health Minister currently lecturing us all on an ‘avalanche of complacency’. Notice the political strategy here, copied from Boris and the Don? Government outsources its responsibility for the pandemic to the…

Professors, so often smart. I highly recommend them over opinionated windbags on radio and TV. And politicians in a pandemic.

If you needed a plumber, would you hire a politician? No? So for a pandemic, let’s listen to pandemic experts. Just for once.

In case you don’t see these. See how they’re now warning the whole State? Because they (Gladys, not NSW Health) relaxed most of the Covid restrictions. Don’t blame the people. The government have no idea how far this…

The number of infected people that breaks a contact tracing system is only about 50. NSW now has 28, with a big spike on that due tomorrow. And at this stage the contact tracers haven’t even been able to find the origin…

We began the pandemic blaming each other for supermarkets’ hopelessly fragile supply chains. (We’re still doing that.) And now we blame each other when governments don’t do their jobs with public health restrictions.…

In 2020, airlines have been parking their planes in the desert, because of the pandemic. You might think this has destroyed the tourism industry, and it is doing that. But as an indication of just how obscene the amount…

One of Australia’s leading pandemic experts. I’ve been critical of NSW all year, for all of these reasons. It’s one of the most perverse nonsenses of this whole pandemic that NSW is seen as handling this pandemic…

William Topley. In the 1930s one of the first researchers on the idea of herd immunity. The idea that if enough of us are immune to a disease, it will prevent it spreading at epidemic levels. This is why it pays to do…

Exactly. As McGowan says, the only way to defeat this bastard virus is to whack all the moles at once. People who believe the Economy is an actual thing will not get that into their thick skulls. Boris has been whacking…

Scroll down this list of Covid hotspots in NSW (it will take you some time). Is it dawning on us yet, all the BS about contact tracing? Notice that this has spread far and wide before anybody even noticed. Exactly what…

Some simple maths here. Northern beaches locked down for 5 days. Many who may be infected won’t show any symptoms in that short time. It’s a political timeline, not a public health one. To try to save Christmas. It…

“Every city that has laboured under the misapprehension that they can carry on with a bit of community transmission has been forced into lockdown when the health system collapsed.” Been saying it for months. You play…

I often think about the world wars, when I hear people talk about the inconveniences of the pandemic. 6 years of this. I imagine somebody at that time saying the fight against the enemy was a restriction on their…

The toilet paper ‘panic buying’ idea to me shows something entirely different to what people say. There’s very little panic, and most people aren’t buying truckloads of toilet paper. Just a bit more, they’re…

A key (and unreported) finding of the review into Victorian quarantine? ScoMo had prepared no pandemic plan, with no quarantine arrangements. All commonwealth responsibilities. Premiers were stunned, and were left with…

This should really anger us. The key voices opposing public health action in this pandemic, including this pair of senior US politicians and Rupert Murdoch, pushing to the front of the queue to be vaccinated. These…

Current list of places with Covid contact in Sydney (the venue list is MUCH longer again). This is for a small number of cases. It's why contact tracing quickly falls over once you get even a small number of infections,…

Imagine if Dan Andrews had said this. The double standard is disgusting, not one word from the attack dogs in Canberra or the Murdoch press about this. But I don’t expect the people who attacked Andrews to show the…

I feel that our ‘mental health’ (whatever that is) would be stronger if we stopped automatically assuming 2021 will be better than 2020. As if disasters are neatly wrapped in calendar years. This pandemic will be over…

Rather than seeing 2020 as some horrible year, at Christmas we could maybe see the similarities with what Christmas is actually about? The incarnation of the eternal in the body of a man. A reminder to humans of…

It’s been difficult all year to get many to take this virus seriously. So I’m not confident a day of booze, family and friends will be Covid best practice. Merry Christmas everybody, I hope Santa doesn’t bring you Covid.

And again, what happens when you make the health system the front line of attack in a pandemic, rather than (as it should be) the last line of defence. A pandemic is not a medical event, it’s a political creation.

Just wow. Read this to see how the pandemic, unaffordable housing, toilet paper disappearing, economic booms and busts and nearly everything else in society is due to the drive towards ‘efficiency’. A lack of social…

Nobody much questions why ‘finding people who are infected’ is the main virus strategy across the world, and not ‘stopping people getting infected.’ Just let that difference sit in your mind for a while? It explains the…

One of the most sinister things about this pandemic is that victims have been almost invisible in the news. In a disaster or with crime, victims become the central narrative. You have to wonder if this is a deliberate…

This is the UK. Unsurprisingly a government who sacrificed over 70,000 Brits, and climbing, to save a fictitious economy, also can’t organise their magic beans pandemic solution either.

Johnson’s incompetence is on track to kill over 100,000 people by early 2021. Anybody in this pandemic who argued for softer public health action to save ‘the economy’ is worse than a war criminal. It’s genocide, no…

Many, many experienced experts have been saying this for months. Around the world conservative governments have been trying to use contact tracing as an excuse to not do public health work, to keep everything open. It’s…

Telling individuals to ‘stay safe’ with Covid is like telling homeless people to ‘be warm’ in winter.

This British hospital has the largest intensive care facility in the world. These ambulances contain Covid patients, waiting to get in.

This is the core belief system of governments being smashed by Covid. Ideas kill. It’s why Gladys is watching the virus spread through NSW and is doing almost nothing about it. You know whose ‘choices’ she’s protecting?…

The ‘hotspot’ Tier 1-4 strategy in the UK, which ScoMo wanted here and which Gladys is now implementing in NSW (what she calls ‘proportionate response’), has completely collapsed. Tens of thousands more will now die,…

‘Covid only kills sick and old people’. Says idiots, the world over.

I didn’t hate 2020. I hated so many lives lost and being at risk, but I enjoyed lifestyles being openly challenged by actual life. Life isn’t endless holidays, shopping, partying, travelling and good times. Life isn’t a…

Joshua Lederberg was a Nobel Prize-winning biologist who questioned our ‘war’ on germs. He was one of the biologists who realised that we need to look at germs as part of an ecology, rather than always trying to kill…

Sorry if you’ve just eaten. This is the Black Plague (it really is black), alive and well in the 21st century. This man had removed a mouse from his cat’s mouth, to stop the cat from choking. The reason I posted this is…

A few days ago I started talking about the occult. Today some more connection to it, when it turns out the person who defaced the Eurydice Dixon memorial was an occultist. This is the fastest growing set of beliefs in…

Greg Hunt, Health Minister: "We support private health". Greg, government 'supporting' private health makes it public health, not private health. Admit it, you're a socialist. Nothing else works.

Have been battling this mongrel for a couple of months now. Whooping cough is on the rise, and both the pro-vax and anti-vax crowds miss the point I think. We're possibly making the same mistakes with vaccination that…

Whooping cough part 2. Because it might get you next, whether you're vaccinated or not, and it isn't nice. But there are things you can do that can make you suffer a lot less. The treatment of whooping cough hasn't…

Final instalment on whooping cough. This is a table from a pretty famous scientific paper published in 1937. It's a small sample of treatments the Canadian medical researchers concerned…

I posted this a few years ago, but think it's so important and interesting that it's worth revisiting. Harris also has a stake in the whole science-religion wars (he's a devout atheist), but that's irrelevant for this…

Saw this last night, and after having whooping cough last year (and still getting over it) it struck a nerve. We're maybe making the same mistake with vaccines as we did with antibiotics. We set up these extreme…

I know people love my Daylight Saving rants. Here's another angle. The only argument anybody ever gives in favour of Daylight Saving is "I love it". Is an argument for beating your wife, that you love hitting women? Or…

The school teacher in me wants to stop kids gripping pens with hands that look like they're in the final stages of arthritis. And to stop girls storing their mobile phones in front pockets of their skirts resting right…

It may actually not be long until you could die from scratching your finger, as sometimes happened pre-antibiotics. But also an opportunity to rethink microbes, they absolutely are the future of health, including…

I'm not sure people realise just what fanatical zealots are in charge here now. They won't stop until they've dismantled most of the public sector that Australia took a century to build. But all the way along they'll be…