COVID
NSW is up to 9,657 active cases. Hospitalisation rates still trending upwards.
NSW premier releases statement saying she sees light at the end of the tunnel when it was at all time high number of daily cases of 681. COVID proceeds to laugh in her face as new daily cases proceeded to go up. It feels like numbers are going higher despite all measure being taken. Unfortunately it means they are not vaccinating and locking down hard enough!! Meanwhile in NSW, a local council shot dead some dogs in a animal shelter to avoid people travelling to pick them up to avoid spreading COVID. That’s the level of madness we are at right now.
VIC is at 440 active cases. The propaganda machine is in overdrive in Melbourne recently.
Here’s the other states if you are interested. The surprise for me is ACT at 121 active cases.
The other thing to note is the Australia daily new cases in this wave is now higher than the previous wave. We are at all time highs.
For the first time in Victoria, childcare is closed except if one parent is an essential worker. There is still confusion on who can access childcare as the rules are still changing on Sunday night! Anyone who has a young child knows it’s going to be hard to work and look after a non school aged children.
Jeff Kennett thinks we will be locked down till the end of the year. For those who didn’t live in Victoria in that era, Kennett was the Premier of Victoria who brought the Grand Prix to Victoria. “End of the year” is not too hard to imagine if COVID is spreading regardless of vaccination status.
Scotty tells the States “it’s federal election soon” so stick to the target vaccination numbers. Does lockdown end once you are 80% vaccinated? Israel has 80% vaccination but COVID is exploding over there. Also in Israel, the Jerusalem post has an article that Israeli scientist say COVID could be treated for under $1 a day with Ivermectin. The drug’s safety profile is known cause it’s an existing drug. However we can’t allow this fake news to spread in mainstream media, we need to lockdown harder and vaccinate harder so that our big pharma shares can go higher!
For the longest time the definition of a vaccine was that it was something that provided you with immunity to an infectious disease. Your immune system is supposed to find the micro-organism associated with the agent and destroy it in all future encounters. We don’t give small kids the measles vaccine when they are young to have them then get sick with measles. That doesn’t appear to be the case if COVID is still spreading. My thought / concern at the moment is because the vaccine doesn’t stop the spread or provide immunity it will leave only the resistant virus to be selected by natural selection and speeds its evolution to a more efficient killing machine? Note that I’m not saying don’t get the vaccine especially if it keeps you out of hospital. Source for the following image.
The world has never been more divided, and mainstream media is trying to divide you from your friends also. I’m sure history must have seen this in Germany if you were German and had Jewish friends.
You now need to be authorised worker in NSW or you can’t earn money to feed yourself.
Do you want your employer to store your medical history, or do you want your future employer to ask you about your medical history. Once upon a time it was considered discriminatory, but in the current environment, everyone is not discriminating hard enough!
History is repeating itself in Germany, it’s the new normal in Berlin when police use force to pull you off a train (for not complying with the current law). He was not wearing a mask.
Footage of anti lock down protest in Brisbane. Footage of protest in Melbourne that broke through the police line. Protest of the vaccine movement licence has been happening in 250 cities in France for the 6th week. Here a short clip of various cities around France on 21 August 2021.
Don’t protest against the gov in Australia, it means jail.
Not sure if it is really COVID related, but I still wonder for what reason does the police and medical personnel separate a child from their parent by force. The medical personnel are dressed in COVID appropriate protection, so you can only assume it’s during COVID times.
This guys wife’s heart started racing after getting the COVID shot, she’s ok now it seems like. But if you get that, please go straight to emergency.
The world s at 17,939,421 active cases and 4,440,981 deaths (2% of all cases).
Finance and Economics
Remember in June 2018 when CNBC hosted a funeral for bitcoin? The internet doesn’t forget. Bitcoin up another ~$4k since last week.
The IMF is saying that for the next two years “Vaccine policy is now Economic policy“. In that you won’t be able to operate your business, make money, get a job or live free without a vaccine.
Other Stuff
Afghanistan is demonstrating why you don’t give biometric data to a government. All that data now belongs to the Taliban. I know what you are thinking, but we don’t have a Taliban in our country. That’s probably what the people there were thinking also, that the Taliban is never coming back, it’s been 20 years, and look at the might of the US military. The point is we don’t know what will happen in the future if you hand over data to centralised entities.
If you are missing Chinese tourists, here’s a video for you. These two girls talk about China and their experience and it’s just a reminder to broaden your horizon, beware of the algorithm echo chambers that social media gives you.
Back in 2009 /2010 when I was walking around Beijing, there were people crowded around looking at some walnuts. Now I finally know what was going on. It’s cause walnuts had gone Tulip mania and people were paying high prices for good looking ones.
Wow this 7 year old gave a TED talk in Sydney about what parents can do in the first 5 years of a child’s life to help them thrive. Put the phone away and interact, it applies when you are interacting with adults as well.
When you no longer have a choice, just “bent the knee”…like this bear. Have a great week all! And if you think you are having a bad week then spare a thought for these guys.
