Just a reminder that the below is just interesting things I’ve come across in the last week. I am neither right or wrong, and my views of different things evolve over time. Do your own research!
COVID – Health
Lose weight! If you are fat you are going to die early. COVID just accelerates that trend. Carrying excess fat lowers your immune system. If your kids are fat, they are at risk.
10 Most dangerous food for your health that you can eat.
Why you should or should not get COVID vaccination. I enjoyed the arguments put forth by that doctor. Also note that Moderna is banned in some European countries. Do the vaccines make a difference or are we all waiting for Novavax, the more traditional vaccine.
How Vaccines work and the immune system. This is a really good video because she is a immunologist who can explain things with drawings which makes it feel like first year biology class again. She also explains how Novavax works, which is very interesting especially the use of moth cells.
I was having a look at the UK Cumulative total death from COVID (keeping note that they have a population of 67mil).
And I thought I would compare to Australia. The Australian numbers can be found from ABS. (Noting the number was 2020, but we haven’t been told that the latest strain is more deadly, so I would assume it would still low for the non-retirement age groups)
I would probably consider being fat a co-morbidities. I have fat shamed friends in the past which has resulted in them coming to lift weights with me at the gym.
I found this site which has all the possible treatments and the studies associated with them. (Green means good, and red means bad)
A look at Ivermectin compared to the new drug Molnupiravir. I think we are being lied to by our health officials, if they are prescribing Ivermectin in hospitals in NSW.
COVID – Politics
A brief history on government COVID response efforts.
This is the right approach to analysing data. When someone says “90% of people who went hospital are unvaccinated”. They need to provide their data sources and show us how the data was collect otherwise it is meaningless. The reason it is meaningless is if the data was since the start of the pandemic, then there was a long period of time when the vaccine was unavailable so of course there’s a large % number of unvaccinated in hospital. So don’t believe stupid data numbers that people quote unless they can provide the source and how it’s collected.
And this is how you should be looking at mainstream media articles. This guy looking at a BBC article and breaking it apart is great. A bit of digging results in him finding out that the journalist is referring to a group of scientist “on twitter” who have never published anything and the paper that’s been referred to is by a student.
Some Pfizer employee are telling journalist that your COVID antibodies are probably better than the vaccination. Their organisation is now run on COVID money. An Australian biotech company has invented a new drug that will hopefully prevent you from dying from COVID *Vaccine*…..wait say that again. You are being selfish for not participating in world clinical trials.
These young kids went for the flu shot but accidentally been given the COVID vaccine, now they have heart issues. Greg Hunt says you are participating in the largest clinical trials, but it’s also safe in the same sentence.
Coming soon to Australia – test positive and be taken away from your home like in Korea. Here is a thread on what it will be like if you live in a place like Lithuania where you are excluded from society because your social health credit score is too low. Don’t worry social credit score system coming to Australia soon, it’s called the Digital Identity Legislation. It’s to help you be more transparent online.
Canada is ruled by a psychopathic liar.
Israel represents what life will look like you haven’t got your 3rd booster shot in the future.
- Protest in Italy got a bit out of hand.
- Protest in Strasbourg France.
- Protest in South Africa.
- Protest in NY.
- Police marching with protesters in Paris. Bit of a new concept for Australian, you guys would have probably got bashed and capsican sprayed already.
LA Fire fighters are suing City of Los Angeles over the COVID vaccine mandate and are seeking $2million per plaintiff. Meanwhile in Victoria, businesses will be worried about being sued by employees who contract COVID at work, so you won’t be allowed to the office if unvaccinated.
Judging from the comments in this article, if you are unvax your fellow citizen wants to tax you into oblivion. I feel ashamed, cos by that logic we should probably do the same for fat people – you didn’t need to eat that extra donut pal.
Dan Andrews denies FOI request cause it will incriminate himself. The once vibrant city if Melbourne is now dead, it won’t be coming back once restriction are lifted. Too much uncertainty to start a business, knowing that the government might shut you down at any time.
For simply posting about a protest on Facebook, Victorian Police will knock at your door. Since the laws haven’t passed yet that allows police to look into your Facebook account, I would guess either this guy’s facebook settings was set to anyone can read and police are actively looking, or one of his “friends” dobbed on him. Either way is frighting. Victorian Police women quits because she no longer wants to enforce COVID mandate.
Home schooling is on the rise, not just in Australia but everywhere in the world. NSW Deputy Premier slammed Victoria rule to muzzle school children as “ludicrous”.
The below would most certainly be time to consider home schooling. I am part way through a podcast with Jimmy Wales the founder of Wikipedia, and it was interesting the non traditional schooling he had where you just go with what you are interested in. He spent a lot of time reading encyclopaedia.
The Victorian CHO says it will never be over, even at 90% fully vaccinated. Victoria contemplates “Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor“.
1)”Are you going to get vaccinated?”
2)”I think I am going to wait a little bit longer”
1)”Why are you being so selfish”
2)”How am I being selfish?”
1)”Because if you get covid 19, you could give it to me!”
2)”But you are vaccinated!”
1)”Yeah but I can still get it.”
2)”So if I get Vaxed, I could still get it.”
I)”Yea but you should still get it because then you won’t pass it to me.”
2)”So I should get vaxed, but I can still get it, and pass it on to you”
1)”Well yea, but you still should get it.
2)”But you can catch it off of me, whether I get Vaxed or not!”
1)”Yeah, but you should still get it.”
2)”But Why????”
1)”Because it is the right thing to do.
2)”Who says?”
1)”The people who make it.”
2)”????.”
COVID Travel
The stats of people departing Australia during COVID is interesting.
Vaccination is required for Qantas and Air NZ but not for other airlines. You will be discriminated based on your citizenship, where you came from, and your vaccination status, with each country having different rules. And each country could change the rule without notice. You will need to worry about what insurance will cover for you.
It’s going to be complicated to navigate all the different vaccine passport requirements. And that’s not even to say that the rules could change on you while you are gone and not be allowed in or not be allowed back, so you will need to prepare for that scenario.
The health pass in France for Australians. How travel could look like for Australian in Italy.
Tech
Belgium is trying to get through legislation to undermine end to end encryption, every nation state dream is to get a look into what you talk about in the bedroom when they are not looking.
Government asking Google to identify all people who search for a term to prosecute them. This is a slippery slope.
If you are using lots of “if statements” in your code please stop and use some polymorphism.
Finance and Economics
In Switzerland you can buy Bitcoin and train tickets at the same place. Don’t let the hedge fund people front run you to buy Bitcoin. Yes that’s right Bitcoin price has gone up (or to say another way your currency has become more worthless).
This is what someone who is broke asking to borrow more money looks like. You borrow money to pay for your existing debt. It’s like getting a new credit card every time you max out your old one.
Can someone tells me in which scenario that this ends well. And they said that Bitcoin was a Ponzi scheme. This is what money looks like when it becomes worthless.
Other Stuff
Joe Tsai (co-founder of Alibaba) was asked about human right abuses in China. His answer might not be what you expect.
Must watch video of individual VS Tyranny.
I’ll leave you with the French song Voyage Voyage. It’s not the original version but I like it. Have a great week all.