Post by Struth on Aug 15, 2021 10:40:27 GMT 8
The worst cyberbullies of the pandemic aren't schoolkids (14/8); it's the tech giants censoring and deplatforming anyone who disagrees with their world view. In doing so they're acting as publishers and not as common carriers. Telstra is a common carrier and it knows not to cut off your phone call to your doctor when you're asking about covid cures. Try using Facebook to ask the same questions. It'll be censored or "fact checked" out of existence. Bob, Mission Beach
I'm doing my bit to keep spirits up during the pandemic. When I see someone wearing a mask I reach out to them with a supportive verbalisation, using simple terms they're sure to understand. "Baaaa." Try it, they love it! Angry Steve, Redlynch
Here's an idea to repair our governance. Any government that invokes a "state of emergency" must face a general election within three months. F.M.D., Yorkeys Knob
Can we please lock down the government for two weeks to stop the spread of totalitarianism? Mark W. Redlynch
OK, help me understand the $600m federal-state cash support package (14/8). Does this mean govts will tax us all to give money to the businesses they killed by deciding to micromanage our health? Or will they borrow money in our names from overseas to give to business and we pay it back for decades? Or do they just print money out of thin air and devalue our savings in the process? Confused, Cairns North
It's been estimated that half the death toll of the 1918 Spanish Flu were not from the influenza virus. They were from bacterial respiratory tract infections caused by the masks. If you're not putting a fresh mask on every 20 minutes or each time you sneeze you're setting yourself up for a bacterial infection. Medic, Smithfield
The govt wants to force me to have a vaccine to protect me from a virus that probably won't kill me, but it won't allow me to have a gun to protect myself from home invaders that may well kill me. Weird, right? Neil, Bungalow
Any activity that involves personal risk must also involve personal choice. That is why government vaccine mandates are morally and ethically wrong and unlikely to be supported by the High Court - which is where such mandates will end up. Bethany, Aeroglen
To understand climate change alarmists you must understand that you are the carbon they want to reduce. Bailey, Cairns
If anyone is wondering if the ALP still harbours "thugs" then the article about Mundingburra MP Les Walker, his punch-ups in pubs and his banning from the Safe Nights Precinct (14/8) says the answer is probably yes, yes they do. Woz, Parramatta Park
Peter Carruthers (CP 14/8) is only partly correct on the motivations of capital city residents buying property in the regions. The other significant factor is that city folk have seen how easily a city can be shut down on the whim of the ruling government and how disastrous that would be in a genuine pandemic where supply chains were cut and power, water and internet services were interrupted. Many are planning to flee the cities at the first sign of a real pandemic - which would be homeless people dead on the streets. Stacey, Kanimbla
The network of like-minded people who own and run the media don't actually want regional content (CP, 14/08). There's too much room for regional reporters to deviate from the centralised message. They want everything filtered through central office to remove any unapproved ideas - you know, like treatments for covid as opposed to vaccines. Dot, Whitfield
(CP, 14/8) No. Wearing masks is not "the new normal." Masks are a psychological control mechanism - a constant visible advertisement for a fear campaign that is based on blatantly false information. Masks cannot stop viruses. The workers in virus labs wear full-encapsulation suits pressurised by an external air supply precisely because masks don't stop viruses. Masks are solely to force you to capitulate to an out of control administrative state. Fern, Holloways Beach
Have you noticed that "fact checkers" didn't exist until the truth started getting out? Anne-Marie, Earlville
If our Constitutional Monarchy worked as intended the Governors and Governor-General would have sacked the Premiers and Prime Minister by now for their abuses of our federal constitution and our God-given human rights. Merryl, Port Douglas
Well done to federal education minister Alan Tudge for showing some spine. (CP 14/8). These "industry associations" led by credentialed folk who fallaciously appeal to their own authority are usually trying to advance a radical left cause of some sort. In the education sector that usually involves dumbing students down so they don't ask difficult questions. Never give such activists an inch. Jennifer, Edge Hill
Some government advertising in support of covid vaccinations is referring to "media conspiracy theories" against the vaccines. This is puzzling because the media has dutifully reported all the governments positions on each vaccine. Are they really trying to say that the government didn't keep changing its advice, especially about AstraZeneca? Isn't that "gaslighting?" Slavitsa, Mareeba
Pam (CP 14/8). How would linking Quaid Rd to Black Mountain Rd be a better link to the Cape than the existing Rex Range Rd? Quaid Rd links Southedge Dam to Wangetti Beach - neither is a major population centre. And nobody has suggested using the existing Lake Morris Rd as a regional highway - it would need to be widened and straightened which the UN won't allow. But that's still a better idea than the Katter and Entsch Crystal Cascades gorge road. Resident, Redlynch
Funny how there's all these "exceptions" to quarantine rules (14/8). At least marine pilots perform a vital role - more so than movie stars, politicians and footballers, who have all had non-vital work quarantine "exceptions." If this was a real pandemic and the govt had really saved us there would be no exceptions. Haley, Brinsmead
The governments' ongoing excessive over the top reaction to Covid outbreaks are not based on sound medical evidence or on the federal government's own pandemic plan from 2019. They are the result of shallow-thinking narcissists trying to make themselves look heroic for political advantage. TR MacDonald, Clifton Beach
Covid hysteria has become so irritating that I now only read local, non-covid stories in the paper and the only TV I watch is Outsiders on Sunday mornings. Outsiders was interrupted by a ScoMo press conference. From what ScoMo was saying it appears he now works for foreign pharmaceutical companies and not for Australians. Ex-LNP Voter, Manunda
Doctors can be attracted to regional areas very easily, but Mr Katter (CP, 14/08) doesn't seem to know how. You see, doctors are entirely dependent on government for licensing and for income via the medicare system, and that system needs a tweak. Take provider numbers off doctors and pin them to postcodes. Doctors will suddenly be willing to move to wherever they can get a provider number. It really is that simple. Higgs, Tolga
(CP, 14/08) The top-ranked bureaucrat in a government health department should not be described as the "nation's top doctor." That honour rightfully belongs to someone who actually practices medicine as their full-time job. It dishonours committed healers to award their top gong to someone who sits at a desk. Nurse J, Cairns
Regarding the $44m roads boost (14/8) if the Mareeba to Atherton section is the example then all we'll see is fewer places to overtake and wider but rarely-used bicycle lanes. Truckie, Mareeba
The FNQ radio station that plays the Top 40 on Saturday arvo was running pro-vax ads on high rotation. The ads were aimed at indigenous people. We all know that the government has exempted vax makers, doctors and themselves from indemnity for the consequences of the side effects, but are radio stations and other media also exempted? Albert, Cooktown
CMO Paul Kelly reckons we'll have a third wave of covid (CP 14/8). How odd. Looking at ABS figures I see we still haven't had a first or second wave. In fact, 2017 still has far more more flu-related deaths than we've seen from covid. Theresa, Atherton
There's been several recent reports here of bushfires in the US, with the media blaming climate change. However, a former Professor of Sociology has been arrested for wildland arson in California and is suspected of starting many bushfires (npr.org
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). This is the sort of prove-a-point climate activism that Michael Crichton, author of "Jurassic Park," described in his 2004 novel "State of Fear." Without the excessive forest fuels demanded by climate activists this arsonist would have had nothing to light. Darryl, Westcourt
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Peter Campion's letter (TB, 14/08) very precisely identifies the serious flaws in the IPCC's version of climate science and the reasons it will not improve. Campion also correctly describes how to end the frightening but false IPCC prophecies - by defunding it. However, Campion's concise statement of facts will trigger mass outrage from the rote-learned, the low-info party hacks, and the cultists who exhilarate in feeling afraid. I forecast that the Bulletin's radical left commentators will inundate the Editor's inbox with hysterical attacks on the "heretical denier" and on the newspaper for allowing him to speak. Prof. D, Garbutt
I'm doing my bit to keep spirits up during the pandemic. When I see someone wearing a mask I reach out to them with a supportive verbalisation, using simple terms they're sure to understand. "Baaaa." Try it, they love it! Angry Steve, Redlynch
Here's an idea to repair our governance. Any government that invokes a "state of emergency" must face a general election within three months. F.M.D., Yorkeys Knob
Can we please lock down the government for two weeks to stop the spread of totalitarianism? Mark W. Redlynch
OK, help me understand the $600m federal-state cash support package (14/8). Does this mean govts will tax us all to give money to the businesses they killed by deciding to micromanage our health? Or will they borrow money in our names from overseas to give to business and we pay it back for decades? Or do they just print money out of thin air and devalue our savings in the process? Confused, Cairns North
It's been estimated that half the death toll of the 1918 Spanish Flu were not from the influenza virus. They were from bacterial respiratory tract infections caused by the masks. If you're not putting a fresh mask on every 20 minutes or each time you sneeze you're setting yourself up for a bacterial infection. Medic, Smithfield
The govt wants to force me to have a vaccine to protect me from a virus that probably won't kill me, but it won't allow me to have a gun to protect myself from home invaders that may well kill me. Weird, right? Neil, Bungalow
Any activity that involves personal risk must also involve personal choice. That is why government vaccine mandates are morally and ethically wrong and unlikely to be supported by the High Court - which is where such mandates will end up. Bethany, Aeroglen
To understand climate change alarmists you must understand that you are the carbon they want to reduce. Bailey, Cairns
If anyone is wondering if the ALP still harbours "thugs" then the article about Mundingburra MP Les Walker, his punch-ups in pubs and his banning from the Safe Nights Precinct (14/8) says the answer is probably yes, yes they do. Woz, Parramatta Park
Peter Carruthers (CP 14/8) is only partly correct on the motivations of capital city residents buying property in the regions. The other significant factor is that city folk have seen how easily a city can be shut down on the whim of the ruling government and how disastrous that would be in a genuine pandemic where supply chains were cut and power, water and internet services were interrupted. Many are planning to flee the cities at the first sign of a real pandemic - which would be homeless people dead on the streets. Stacey, Kanimbla
The network of like-minded people who own and run the media don't actually want regional content (CP, 14/08). There's too much room for regional reporters to deviate from the centralised message. They want everything filtered through central office to remove any unapproved ideas - you know, like treatments for covid as opposed to vaccines. Dot, Whitfield
(CP, 14/8) No. Wearing masks is not "the new normal." Masks are a psychological control mechanism - a constant visible advertisement for a fear campaign that is based on blatantly false information. Masks cannot stop viruses. The workers in virus labs wear full-encapsulation suits pressurised by an external air supply precisely because masks don't stop viruses. Masks are solely to force you to capitulate to an out of control administrative state. Fern, Holloways Beach
Have you noticed that "fact checkers" didn't exist until the truth started getting out? Anne-Marie, Earlville
If our Constitutional Monarchy worked as intended the Governors and Governor-General would have sacked the Premiers and Prime Minister by now for their abuses of our federal constitution and our God-given human rights. Merryl, Port Douglas
Well done to federal education minister Alan Tudge for showing some spine. (CP 14/8). These "industry associations" led by credentialed folk who fallaciously appeal to their own authority are usually trying to advance a radical left cause of some sort. In the education sector that usually involves dumbing students down so they don't ask difficult questions. Never give such activists an inch. Jennifer, Edge Hill
Some government advertising in support of covid vaccinations is referring to "media conspiracy theories" against the vaccines. This is puzzling because the media has dutifully reported all the governments positions on each vaccine. Are they really trying to say that the government didn't keep changing its advice, especially about AstraZeneca? Isn't that "gaslighting?" Slavitsa, Mareeba
Pam (CP 14/8). How would linking Quaid Rd to Black Mountain Rd be a better link to the Cape than the existing Rex Range Rd? Quaid Rd links Southedge Dam to Wangetti Beach - neither is a major population centre. And nobody has suggested using the existing Lake Morris Rd as a regional highway - it would need to be widened and straightened which the UN won't allow. But that's still a better idea than the Katter and Entsch Crystal Cascades gorge road. Resident, Redlynch
Funny how there's all these "exceptions" to quarantine rules (14/8). At least marine pilots perform a vital role - more so than movie stars, politicians and footballers, who have all had non-vital work quarantine "exceptions." If this was a real pandemic and the govt had really saved us there would be no exceptions. Haley, Brinsmead
The governments' ongoing excessive over the top reaction to Covid outbreaks are not based on sound medical evidence or on the federal government's own pandemic plan from 2019. They are the result of shallow-thinking narcissists trying to make themselves look heroic for political advantage. TR MacDonald, Clifton Beach
Covid hysteria has become so irritating that I now only read local, non-covid stories in the paper and the only TV I watch is Outsiders on Sunday mornings. Outsiders was interrupted by a ScoMo press conference. From what ScoMo was saying it appears he now works for foreign pharmaceutical companies and not for Australians. Ex-LNP Voter, Manunda
Doctors can be attracted to regional areas very easily, but Mr Katter (CP, 14/08) doesn't seem to know how. You see, doctors are entirely dependent on government for licensing and for income via the medicare system, and that system needs a tweak. Take provider numbers off doctors and pin them to postcodes. Doctors will suddenly be willing to move to wherever they can get a provider number. It really is that simple. Higgs, Tolga
(CP, 14/08) The top-ranked bureaucrat in a government health department should not be described as the "nation's top doctor." That honour rightfully belongs to someone who actually practices medicine as their full-time job. It dishonours committed healers to award their top gong to someone who sits at a desk. Nurse J, Cairns
Regarding the $44m roads boost (14/8) if the Mareeba to Atherton section is the example then all we'll see is fewer places to overtake and wider but rarely-used bicycle lanes. Truckie, Mareeba
The FNQ radio station that plays the Top 40 on Saturday arvo was running pro-vax ads on high rotation. The ads were aimed at indigenous people. We all know that the government has exempted vax makers, doctors and themselves from indemnity for the consequences of the side effects, but are radio stations and other media also exempted? Albert, Cooktown
CMO Paul Kelly reckons we'll have a third wave of covid (CP 14/8). How odd. Looking at ABS figures I see we still haven't had a first or second wave. In fact, 2017 still has far more more flu-related deaths than we've seen from covid. Theresa, Atherton
There's been several recent reports here of bushfires in the US, with the media blaming climate change. However, a former Professor of Sociology has been arrested for wildland arson in California and is suspected of starting many bushfires (npr.org
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). This is the sort of prove-a-point climate activism that Michael Crichton, author of "Jurassic Park," described in his 2004 novel "State of Fear." Without the excessive forest fuels demanded by climate activists this arsonist would have had nothing to light. Darryl, Westcourt
......
Peter Campion's letter (TB, 14/08) very precisely identifies the serious flaws in the IPCC's version of climate science and the reasons it will not improve. Campion also correctly describes how to end the frightening but false IPCC prophecies - by defunding it. However, Campion's concise statement of facts will trigger mass outrage from the rote-learned, the low-info party hacks, and the cultists who exhilarate in feeling afraid. I forecast that the Bulletin's radical left commentators will inundate the Editor's inbox with hysterical attacks on the "heretical denier" and on the newspaper for allowing him to speak. Prof. D, Garbutt