Post by Struth on Aug 3, 2021 11:23:18 GMT 8
Hang on - lockdowns, masks and social distancing were going to set us free. Then vaccines were going to set us free. Now vaccination passports are going to set us free? How many times do these morons think they can fool us before we start to see the pattern? Unimpressed, Cairns
The AZ vax is available everywhere (CP, 3/08) and the pro-vax and easily-swayed have been jabbed already. The govt hype is now spiking up because they're now up against the anti-vax and sceptical crowd. That's why the rhetoric is pivoting to vax passports, denial of rights to the unvaxxed, class division and class hatred. The MPs and officials who have misinformed us repeatedly are now resorting to bullying peer pressure to get themselves out of the mess their lies created. Charlie, Cairns
Mike O'Connor (CP, 3/8) - outstanding, sir! We expect politicians to lie - if they didn't nobody would vote for them. But it's not OK for our senior civil servants to lie - ever. They are meant to be beyond reproach. Obviously it's time civil service pays and job security were dropped back to the private sector norm. Jennifer, Edge Hill
Woah - YouTube has suspended the Cairns Post's brother and sister journalists over at Sky News Australia for a week for non-compliance with the official narrative. If that doesn't wake up Aussie journos I don't know what will. What would Big Tech do if News Corp shook off the dead hand of government censorship? It can't ban all of News Corp because they rely on its content for their news streams. And News Corp can't sack all its journos or they'd go broke. Could this be the moment Aussie journalists start leading the world back from government tyranny? Tomi, Edge Hill
Good Lord, all of News Corp is juxtaposing the Olympics with vaccination programs. Talk about an own goal! Nobody much likes the Olympics anymore, so why would that association make us like emergency-use vaccines when there's obviously no emergency? Stanley, Cairns
People in the UK who took AZ (3/8) are being offered Pfizer as a “booster”. Remember, these were being sold as rolled gold 100% effective, completely mundane, safe and well understood vaccines. They just missed the minor detail that they don’t work for more than a few months, don’t stop you catching it, don’t stop you spreading it and come with a grab bag of nasty side effects. But ask even the most gentle questions and you’ll be banned and censored from any major platform, media or political party. Danielle, Stratford
Good grief, Mayor Kerr (3/8), of course the landscaping industry prefer overnight watering. That's how they can sell, install and service lots more automatic watering systems. You know, because people usually sleep overnight and won't want to up all night shifting sprinklers. Dennis and Jason, Port Douglas
There was two months between Greg Hunt announcing the first covid case in Australia and Scott Morrison mostly, but not completely, closing the national borders. Therefore when Morrison claims his actions saved 30,000 lives it makes me sneeze - "bullsh!t, bullsh!t, bullsh!t," like that. Debbie, Mooroobool
Nick Dalton (CP, 03/08), as at 24/07, Israelis were 74 per cent fully vaccinated. Of their new covid cases, 84 per cent were fully vaccinated. It seems the covid vaccine doesn't stop people getting covid. Anyone who still thinks any of this is about a flu variant hasn't woken up yet. Higgs, Tolga
Why is the paper equating surviving covid with getting the jab? The covid survival rate was above 99 percent before the vaccines were invented. That is so disingenuous. One Tooth Wally, Cairns North
(CP 3/8) Jeannette Young "doesn't know where the virus has moved" because, after 17 months, the tracking, testing and quarantine systems she's responsible for still don't work. Mr Obvious, Earlville
"Tik Tok star executed" (3/8) - ooh, that begs a question: was the shooting the gun's fault, the movie's fault, or the alleged murderer's fault? And the "Gun-toting Nazi" (3/8) - more questions: was the shooting his gun's fault, his flag's fault, his fault (although legally defending his property) or the thief's fault for entering his property knowing he had the legal right to defend it? Sid, Westcourt
Good to see the media beginning to face the reality of Donald Trump's immense popularity in the US (CP, 3/8). Once the election audit results start coming out later this month we may even see moves to cancel Biden's "win" and hold a new 2020 election. Republican, Cairns
For the first time in history we can spread a virus we don't have to people who are immunized against it. Yeah, rightio then. Whatever. Davina, Bungalow
You know how large companies have to have a "social contract" with the people these days, well, the media one was built on trust. 'If we trust them to report only truth they will only report truth.' Well, they blew that up quite spectacularly, didn't they? Intsy, Kuranda
A minor niggle, but Jeannette Young is NOT "Queensland's top doctor" - she's Queensland's chief health bureaucrat. This distinction is important because Young did not practice much medicine and has spent most of her career in the bureaucracy. A long career as a bureaucrat does not imply top medical skills. Alfio, Woree
Weird. Every Murdoch paper has the exact same front page today (3/8). It seems editors no longer control their own content. Imagine reaching a career peak as an "independent" editor and then being reduced to a mere box-ticker. Ouch, that's gotta hurt. Selina, Innisfail
I'd like to see a very large-scale public debate on covid, the vaccines, the treatments, and the government responses and not just the government and media mass-debating themselves. Janelle, Brinsmead
I've never trusted politicians, journalists or used car salesmen - but everything about the public discussion of Covid (3/8) is making used car salesmen look like paragons of virtue and honesty beside the other two groups. Woz, Parramatta Park
Home ownership is slipping out of reach (CP, 3/8) but can anyone tell me this - if interest rates had not been artificially suppressed by Reserve Banks to prop up asset prices and prevent a double-dip post-GFC recession, where would house prices be now? This is why economics is called "the dismal science" - even the best and brightest of the field are dumb as rocks. And that's why healthy free-market democracies sack and/or prosecute senior officials who put ideology before honesty. Only honesty allows the market to find its own price signals. Darryl, Westcourt
We're back to sea turtles chowing down on plastic again (CP 3/8). Australia isn't responsible for oceanic plastics, China is. So what is being done to stop China sending plastic waste out to sea? Joanne, Manunda
The AZ vax is available everywhere (CP, 3/08) and the pro-vax and easily-swayed have been jabbed already. The govt hype is now spiking up because they're now up against the anti-vax and sceptical crowd. That's why the rhetoric is pivoting to vax passports, denial of rights to the unvaxxed, class division and class hatred. The MPs and officials who have misinformed us repeatedly are now resorting to bullying peer pressure to get themselves out of the mess their lies created. Charlie, Cairns
Mike O'Connor (CP, 3/8) - outstanding, sir! We expect politicians to lie - if they didn't nobody would vote for them. But it's not OK for our senior civil servants to lie - ever. They are meant to be beyond reproach. Obviously it's time civil service pays and job security were dropped back to the private sector norm. Jennifer, Edge Hill
Woah - YouTube has suspended the Cairns Post's brother and sister journalists over at Sky News Australia for a week for non-compliance with the official narrative. If that doesn't wake up Aussie journos I don't know what will. What would Big Tech do if News Corp shook off the dead hand of government censorship? It can't ban all of News Corp because they rely on its content for their news streams. And News Corp can't sack all its journos or they'd go broke. Could this be the moment Aussie journalists start leading the world back from government tyranny? Tomi, Edge Hill
Good Lord, all of News Corp is juxtaposing the Olympics with vaccination programs. Talk about an own goal! Nobody much likes the Olympics anymore, so why would that association make us like emergency-use vaccines when there's obviously no emergency? Stanley, Cairns
People in the UK who took AZ (3/8) are being offered Pfizer as a “booster”. Remember, these were being sold as rolled gold 100% effective, completely mundane, safe and well understood vaccines. They just missed the minor detail that they don’t work for more than a few months, don’t stop you catching it, don’t stop you spreading it and come with a grab bag of nasty side effects. But ask even the most gentle questions and you’ll be banned and censored from any major platform, media or political party. Danielle, Stratford
Good grief, Mayor Kerr (3/8), of course the landscaping industry prefer overnight watering. That's how they can sell, install and service lots more automatic watering systems. You know, because people usually sleep overnight and won't want to up all night shifting sprinklers. Dennis and Jason, Port Douglas
There was two months between Greg Hunt announcing the first covid case in Australia and Scott Morrison mostly, but not completely, closing the national borders. Therefore when Morrison claims his actions saved 30,000 lives it makes me sneeze - "bullsh!t, bullsh!t, bullsh!t," like that. Debbie, Mooroobool
Nick Dalton (CP, 03/08), as at 24/07, Israelis were 74 per cent fully vaccinated. Of their new covid cases, 84 per cent were fully vaccinated. It seems the covid vaccine doesn't stop people getting covid. Anyone who still thinks any of this is about a flu variant hasn't woken up yet. Higgs, Tolga
Why is the paper equating surviving covid with getting the jab? The covid survival rate was above 99 percent before the vaccines were invented. That is so disingenuous. One Tooth Wally, Cairns North
(CP 3/8) Jeannette Young "doesn't know where the virus has moved" because, after 17 months, the tracking, testing and quarantine systems she's responsible for still don't work. Mr Obvious, Earlville
"Tik Tok star executed" (3/8) - ooh, that begs a question: was the shooting the gun's fault, the movie's fault, or the alleged murderer's fault? And the "Gun-toting Nazi" (3/8) - more questions: was the shooting his gun's fault, his flag's fault, his fault (although legally defending his property) or the thief's fault for entering his property knowing he had the legal right to defend it? Sid, Westcourt
Good to see the media beginning to face the reality of Donald Trump's immense popularity in the US (CP, 3/8). Once the election audit results start coming out later this month we may even see moves to cancel Biden's "win" and hold a new 2020 election. Republican, Cairns
For the first time in history we can spread a virus we don't have to people who are immunized against it. Yeah, rightio then. Whatever. Davina, Bungalow
You know how large companies have to have a "social contract" with the people these days, well, the media one was built on trust. 'If we trust them to report only truth they will only report truth.' Well, they blew that up quite spectacularly, didn't they? Intsy, Kuranda
A minor niggle, but Jeannette Young is NOT "Queensland's top doctor" - she's Queensland's chief health bureaucrat. This distinction is important because Young did not practice much medicine and has spent most of her career in the bureaucracy. A long career as a bureaucrat does not imply top medical skills. Alfio, Woree
Weird. Every Murdoch paper has the exact same front page today (3/8). It seems editors no longer control their own content. Imagine reaching a career peak as an "independent" editor and then being reduced to a mere box-ticker. Ouch, that's gotta hurt. Selina, Innisfail
I'd like to see a very large-scale public debate on covid, the vaccines, the treatments, and the government responses and not just the government and media mass-debating themselves. Janelle, Brinsmead
I've never trusted politicians, journalists or used car salesmen - but everything about the public discussion of Covid (3/8) is making used car salesmen look like paragons of virtue and honesty beside the other two groups. Woz, Parramatta Park
Home ownership is slipping out of reach (CP, 3/8) but can anyone tell me this - if interest rates had not been artificially suppressed by Reserve Banks to prop up asset prices and prevent a double-dip post-GFC recession, where would house prices be now? This is why economics is called "the dismal science" - even the best and brightest of the field are dumb as rocks. And that's why healthy free-market democracies sack and/or prosecute senior officials who put ideology before honesty. Only honesty allows the market to find its own price signals. Darryl, Westcourt
We're back to sea turtles chowing down on plastic again (CP 3/8). Australia isn't responsible for oceanic plastics, China is. So what is being done to stop China sending plastic waste out to sea? Joanne, Manunda