Post by Struth on Jul 2, 2021 7:35:13 GMT 8
Re: swift move to vaccinate health staff (CP 1/7), my sister quit her nursing job on the spot over this. She's only mildly sceptical of the side effects but she will not have her hand forced when it comes to her own health. She told her manager to look up "Nuremberg Code." Theresa, Atherton
(CP 1/7) "Hello sun, is that you?" Hang on, the BOM seem to be blaming natural systems for the unusual wet. Surely it's really sneaky old 'climate change' that's responsible? True Believer, Smithfield
Chris Bradley (01/07), you're right - those entering the country are counted here, www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/tourism-and-transport/overseas-travel-statistics-provisional/latest-release. Key statistics - 115,600 total arrivals, 44,600 Australian citizens (39%), 9,900 permanent visa holders (9%), 52,300 New Zealanders (45%) and 10,100 temporary visa holders (9%). Like most major stuff-ups, this is Our Saviours in Government's fault. Cynic of Kuranda
Message to Cairns Council - tighten your damn belts, you bloated wastrels. Cap Council pays at the median wage for Cairns, take a chainsaw to the administration section, require Councillors to volunteer and not take a generous salary, end all staff perks, stop unnecessary beautification schemes, no airline travel as Zoom will do, focus solely on roads, rubbish and reticulation (water and sewage). Furious Ratepayer, Whitfield
By my count the "expert advice" on vaccination has changed eight times. Sure doesn't sound like "settled science" to me. Govts have nobody to blame for "vaccine hesitancy" but themselves. Maree, Innisfail
Next time we have a lockdown I propose that all the big chain stores are closed and small businesses stay open. It's their turn and it's only fair. Also every time a worker loses pay because of a govt edict everyone on the govt payroll has the same loss of pay. Again it's their turn and it's only fair. One Tooth Wally, Cairns North
How can Council be all-in on covid alarmism (CP, 1/7) and simultaneously oblivious to the economic hardship that very alarmism has created? The problem is nobody on government payrolls has lost a cent during this seemingly endless panic over nothing. I vote that all elected reps pays stop until they cease freaking out and trying to "save us" from the sniffles. Mark W. Redlynch
"Asia booms on back of coal power" (CP, 01/07). Yep, those five Asian nations aren't dopey enough to believe a modern economy can thrive on expensive, unreliable, intermittent, low-inertia wind and solar. Sorry, warmies - profiteers lied about that green dream. Mariner, Portsmith
(CP, 01/07) Wait, what? Qld govt health experts put a casual teenage worker in harm's way? And now they're blaming the kid? I didn't think the Qld govt could be less competent or more contemptible, but there ya go. It seems we haven't reached the peak of govt negligence and inconsistency yet. Here's a suggestion for the Qld govt. Sit down, shut up, leave us alone, and butt out of our health decisions. Higgs, Tolga
Just as most of us have seen no first-hand evidence of climate change, now most of us have seen no first-hand evidence of covid. Nobody I know in Europe has seen anything from covid other than a typical nasty flu, same as every winter, but this time governments have driven a scare campaign about it - seemingly designed to give themselves more power over us. That is not OK. Salvatore, Babinda
Four 12- to 14-year-old girls committing CBD arson after midnight on a school night. CP, 30/6 &1/7. Activists will somehow twist this to be a failure of capitalism and not the failure of the long-term nanny-state socialism that it actually is. Giving away other people's money is never the solution and is always the cause of bigger problems. Spiro, Mareeba
I went in to the supermarket and asked a staffer where the nuts are. She replied, "They're in the toilet paper aisle." F.M.D., Trinity Park
UK figures reveal a 99.9% survival rate for weak, sickly Poms infected with the Delta variant. Why then is it necessary to go full nanny-state on healthy, bronzed Aussies? Methinks our "public servants" and "elected representatives" have jumped the shark big-time. Chillaxed Aussies are slow to anger, but once we get going ... watch out, scaremongers! Winston Smith, Goldsborough
Consider the media's ongoing relentless microscopic examination of all things Trump-related and contrast that to their overwhelming disinterest in alternatives to everyone being vaccinated against a largely non-fatal strain of flu. Weird, isn't it? A. Reader, Kamerunga
Bwa ha ha ha - somebody sneezed in Brownsville (1/7) and now the Bruce Hwy is packed with people fleeing to Cairns. Apparently being murdered in bed by rampant youth criminals is low-risk but an illness with a 99.97 per cent survival rate means run for your life. This redefines the word "gullible". Let's hope these sheep get home to find their homes intact and not ransacked by "low-risk" home invaders. Belle, Cardwell
Covid frightbattery is off the scale in Australia and even left-wing media overseas is either laughing at us or scratching their heads in bewilderment. We no longer have a population with a common culture. We're now two classes - people who can think independently, and people who follow the herd wherever the dogs send it. Woz, Parramatta Park
It's no coincidence that we've seen two stories this week about the families of criminals attacking innocents over the crimes of their relatives. Such is the entitlement and privilege from getting everything for free that some people seem to think they and their families are blameless and everyone else is responsible for their criminality. This is the inevitable outcome of welfare states. All these people need to be put to work earning the generosity of taxpayers, so they understand that in the real world their choice is personal responsibility or starvation. Gladys, Mareeba
Bob Manning, 1/7. An old adage goes, "Fail to plan and you plan to fail." That sums up your Council's attitude to bulk water storage. How about pushing UNESCO over and building a twin to Copperlode Dam on another Barron River or Mulgrave River tributary? Realist, Cairns
The "highly contagious Delta strain" (CP, 30/6) has killed zero Australians. Not even one. Our moronic pollies are addicted to the power they've gained from their fear campaign. Meanwhile, cancer is going untreated and all the extra hand hygiene has reduced everyone's immunity to next year's inevitable flu. We are led by idiots. Jennifer, Edge Hill
Anyone who hasn't seen Queensland's Senator Roberts in the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee questioning health officials about Covid "vaccines" should search brandnewtube.com for "Australian Government Admits COVID Vaccines are not safe." Baa. Chippa, 4810
Now do you see what happens when religion is disavowed and demonised by the technocratic bugman class? We get the Cult of the Covidians and widespread worship of the wisdom of health bureaucrats. All I've seen is confusion and conflict amongst those bureaucrats. I don't think they have anything to teach on trust, harmony, compassion or any other valid contribution to a functional society. Sister Mary, Cairns
Spot on, Alan Jones, CP, 1/7 - "A nation of sheep will get a government of wolves." It's staggering, given the extent of government lies, deceptions and incompetence throughout our history, that anyone can believe we've been "kept safe." It's more likely that covid is everywhere in Australia but it was no different to any other flu and if it wasn't for the substandard testing regime we would never have even heard of it. Sheepdog, Cairns
(CP 1/7) "Hello sun, is that you?" Hang on, the BOM seem to be blaming natural systems for the unusual wet. Surely it's really sneaky old 'climate change' that's responsible? True Believer, Smithfield
Chris Bradley (01/07), you're right - those entering the country are counted here, www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/tourism-and-transport/overseas-travel-statistics-provisional/latest-release. Key statistics - 115,600 total arrivals, 44,600 Australian citizens (39%), 9,900 permanent visa holders (9%), 52,300 New Zealanders (45%) and 10,100 temporary visa holders (9%). Like most major stuff-ups, this is Our Saviours in Government's fault. Cynic of Kuranda
Message to Cairns Council - tighten your damn belts, you bloated wastrels. Cap Council pays at the median wage for Cairns, take a chainsaw to the administration section, require Councillors to volunteer and not take a generous salary, end all staff perks, stop unnecessary beautification schemes, no airline travel as Zoom will do, focus solely on roads, rubbish and reticulation (water and sewage). Furious Ratepayer, Whitfield
By my count the "expert advice" on vaccination has changed eight times. Sure doesn't sound like "settled science" to me. Govts have nobody to blame for "vaccine hesitancy" but themselves. Maree, Innisfail
Next time we have a lockdown I propose that all the big chain stores are closed and small businesses stay open. It's their turn and it's only fair. Also every time a worker loses pay because of a govt edict everyone on the govt payroll has the same loss of pay. Again it's their turn and it's only fair. One Tooth Wally, Cairns North
How can Council be all-in on covid alarmism (CP, 1/7) and simultaneously oblivious to the economic hardship that very alarmism has created? The problem is nobody on government payrolls has lost a cent during this seemingly endless panic over nothing. I vote that all elected reps pays stop until they cease freaking out and trying to "save us" from the sniffles. Mark W. Redlynch
"Asia booms on back of coal power" (CP, 01/07). Yep, those five Asian nations aren't dopey enough to believe a modern economy can thrive on expensive, unreliable, intermittent, low-inertia wind and solar. Sorry, warmies - profiteers lied about that green dream. Mariner, Portsmith
(CP, 01/07) Wait, what? Qld govt health experts put a casual teenage worker in harm's way? And now they're blaming the kid? I didn't think the Qld govt could be less competent or more contemptible, but there ya go. It seems we haven't reached the peak of govt negligence and inconsistency yet. Here's a suggestion for the Qld govt. Sit down, shut up, leave us alone, and butt out of our health decisions. Higgs, Tolga
Just as most of us have seen no first-hand evidence of climate change, now most of us have seen no first-hand evidence of covid. Nobody I know in Europe has seen anything from covid other than a typical nasty flu, same as every winter, but this time governments have driven a scare campaign about it - seemingly designed to give themselves more power over us. That is not OK. Salvatore, Babinda
Four 12- to 14-year-old girls committing CBD arson after midnight on a school night. CP, 30/6 &1/7. Activists will somehow twist this to be a failure of capitalism and not the failure of the long-term nanny-state socialism that it actually is. Giving away other people's money is never the solution and is always the cause of bigger problems. Spiro, Mareeba
I went in to the supermarket and asked a staffer where the nuts are. She replied, "They're in the toilet paper aisle." F.M.D., Trinity Park
UK figures reveal a 99.9% survival rate for weak, sickly Poms infected with the Delta variant. Why then is it necessary to go full nanny-state on healthy, bronzed Aussies? Methinks our "public servants" and "elected representatives" have jumped the shark big-time. Chillaxed Aussies are slow to anger, but once we get going ... watch out, scaremongers! Winston Smith, Goldsborough
Consider the media's ongoing relentless microscopic examination of all things Trump-related and contrast that to their overwhelming disinterest in alternatives to everyone being vaccinated against a largely non-fatal strain of flu. Weird, isn't it? A. Reader, Kamerunga
Bwa ha ha ha - somebody sneezed in Brownsville (1/7) and now the Bruce Hwy is packed with people fleeing to Cairns. Apparently being murdered in bed by rampant youth criminals is low-risk but an illness with a 99.97 per cent survival rate means run for your life. This redefines the word "gullible". Let's hope these sheep get home to find their homes intact and not ransacked by "low-risk" home invaders. Belle, Cardwell
Covid frightbattery is off the scale in Australia and even left-wing media overseas is either laughing at us or scratching their heads in bewilderment. We no longer have a population with a common culture. We're now two classes - people who can think independently, and people who follow the herd wherever the dogs send it. Woz, Parramatta Park
It's no coincidence that we've seen two stories this week about the families of criminals attacking innocents over the crimes of their relatives. Such is the entitlement and privilege from getting everything for free that some people seem to think they and their families are blameless and everyone else is responsible for their criminality. This is the inevitable outcome of welfare states. All these people need to be put to work earning the generosity of taxpayers, so they understand that in the real world their choice is personal responsibility or starvation. Gladys, Mareeba
Bob Manning, 1/7. An old adage goes, "Fail to plan and you plan to fail." That sums up your Council's attitude to bulk water storage. How about pushing UNESCO over and building a twin to Copperlode Dam on another Barron River or Mulgrave River tributary? Realist, Cairns
The "highly contagious Delta strain" (CP, 30/6) has killed zero Australians. Not even one. Our moronic pollies are addicted to the power they've gained from their fear campaign. Meanwhile, cancer is going untreated and all the extra hand hygiene has reduced everyone's immunity to next year's inevitable flu. We are led by idiots. Jennifer, Edge Hill
Anyone who hasn't seen Queensland's Senator Roberts in the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee questioning health officials about Covid "vaccines" should search brandnewtube.com for "Australian Government Admits COVID Vaccines are not safe." Baa. Chippa, 4810
Now do you see what happens when religion is disavowed and demonised by the technocratic bugman class? We get the Cult of the Covidians and widespread worship of the wisdom of health bureaucrats. All I've seen is confusion and conflict amongst those bureaucrats. I don't think they have anything to teach on trust, harmony, compassion or any other valid contribution to a functional society. Sister Mary, Cairns
Spot on, Alan Jones, CP, 1/7 - "A nation of sheep will get a government of wolves." It's staggering, given the extent of government lies, deceptions and incompetence throughout our history, that anyone can believe we've been "kept safe." It's more likely that covid is everywhere in Australia but it was no different to any other flu and if it wasn't for the substandard testing regime we would never have even heard of it. Sheepdog, Cairns