LTE 14/9

Both sides of politics have promoted so many falsehoods about climate and covid that I cannot trust them on anything any more. The bull they repeat is mostly anti-scientific nonsense invented by radical left academic activists. None of them deserve our votes or our money. Mark W. Redlynch

Grey Nomads everywhere at the minute - a demographic who would bunker down somewhere safe in an actual pandemic. Clive, Edmonton

Re - "Care for mental health." If the Cairns Mental Health Hub wants to slow the ever-increasing suicide rate it ought to lobby the government to ban all covid restrictions and all covid propaganda in the media - because suicide is taking many more lives than unchecked covid can. Old Aussie, Woree

If you're wondering why it's unseasonably cold and windy for this time of year (CP, 11/09) it's because of a low in the solar cycle and a reduction in Earth's electromagnetic shield. That causes "Rossby waves" in the polar jetstreams - which push strong cold wind further north than usual. Like all climate change, it has nothing whatsoever to do with any trace gases. Noel, Bayview

How do you force people to disbelieve something they already knew to be true? Just pretend often enough that it never was true. Masks are the current example. We've known for a century, since the Spanish Flu, that masks make plagues worse. But if a gaslighting technique is delivered persistently and universally, stating confidently that masks save lives, the substitute 'reality' becomes the new normal. Even the packaging on masks says they don't stop infection - but the new normal (a falsehood) prevails. Now, what else do you believe that just isn't true? Chip, Kairi

The only way to end covid lockdowns is for ALL public service pays to stop for the duration. Shorty, Cairns

Leftists: "Health care is a basic human right." Also leftists: "The unvaccinated should be denied health care." Kelly, Cairns

Australia: beautiful one day; totalitarian the next. Jeff M., Yorkeys Knob

On a scale from "I Am Legend" at the worst end to "Neighbours" at the mildest end, what sort of pandemic are we having? Lara, Whitfield

The Council doesn't need the public to read about its self-created water shortage problem. The solution has appeared on these pages several times. There's at least three good local dam sites close by. Upper Mulgrave River, Flaggy Creek or Davies Creek. We just need our governments to stand up to the UN over their stranglehold on our bush. Al, Stratford

I read the instructions on the box of N95 masks, the "better" ones that are alleged to "stop viruses." "The mask does not eliminate the risk of contracting any disease or infection." Submission muzzles are pure theatre. Now ask yourself why they're doing this to you, here, in Australia. Peter, West Cairns

Re: Roger responding on homeless deaths (CP, 10/09). Yes, I do watch foreign news. Homeless camps keep getting bigger as immigrants flood into richer countries. Some carry covid, have no access to health care and still aren't dying. Stevo, Cairns

The Council has ruined Shields St. When I was growing up in Cairns, Shields St had four traffic lanes and parking everywhere. It was always lively, bustling with people and busy, busy shops. I walked through on Friday, for the first time in many years. It's dead. No cars, no people, vacant shops, and - sorry to say it - a strong smell of poo and despair. Council's "improvements" have killed Shields St, may it rest in peace. Cecily, Ravenshoe

Covid theory says spread is logarithmic. Yet with 60 per cent of Americans fully vaccinated, daily Covid cases are 300 per cent higher than when Covid arrived and nobody was vaccinated. Experts don't even try to explain that. Marianne, Woree

What "new world order" was NSW chief health officer Kerry Chant talking about? Was it the same one that the exclusive little group that meets at a Swiss health resort calls a "great reset?" Davos Dave, Cairns

Have the vaccines been fully approved yet? If not, why not? Are we still under "state of emergency" conditions? Because nobody I know has seen any emergency. (TV reports from overseas don't count because we're banned from going there to see if they are true.) Chloe, Kuranda

Modern phones make everyone an instant social media journalist and viral videos reach more viewers than most TV channels. If the pandemic was as bad as the officials say it is we'd know it. The algorithms wouldn't be able to crush new reports quick enough. Now that we all realise that, why are officials still making our lives hell? Mitch, Westcourt

Let's really step up the campaign against the selfish anti-vaxxers who don't understand that my jab won't protect me unless they have it too. Let's force them to wear a symbol showing their tinfoil hat status. Make them sew yellow stars to their clothes so we can ship them off to quarantine camps. Greenie, Yorkeys Knob

Atticus, (CP, 11/09) the US "tinfoil hat" sites I use include the New England Journal of Medicine, Stanford University, John Hopkins University, and the American Journal of Therapeutics. Aussie sites include the TGA, ABS, RACGP, AHPRA, Qld Health and federal Health. I never use your "reliable" sites, such as CNN, MSNBC, NYT or WaPo. There, I admitted it. Higgs, Tolga

The greenies that post on the texts page are cracking under the strain of all the left-wing lies unraveling at the same time. Climate is cooling. Covid is a failed pandemic. Biden is making America worse again. Popcorn time. Sceptical Sharon, Mooroobool

Newsweek has reported that members of the US Congress and their staff are exempt from Joe Biden's vaccine mandate. Yep, vaccines so safe and well-tested that lawmakers don't want to be forced to take them. www.newsweek.com/members-congress-staff-exempt-biden-covid-vaccine-mandate-1627859

Biden Announces Vaccine Mandate For All Businesses With More Than 100 Employees
The president's executive orders apply to employees of the executive branch and federal government contractors.
www.newsweek.com
Darryl, Westcourt

Australia is now a post-Constitutional society. Our governments have no legal boundaries. Centuries of carefully developed Westminster governance checks and balances are ignored. Politicians and officials no longer serve us - they rule us as communist dictators would. While covid only kills the elderly and co-morbid, dictators kill everyone who fails to comply. The society we had in 2019 is gone. If you want it back, understand you will need to fight for it. Marco, Brinsmead

Why is the govt setting the vaxxed against the unvaxxed? That's the wrong thing for govts to do. The virus cannot be a truly problematic disease. The many examples of infected people, taxi drivers, ward clerks, etc, who had thousands of close contacts, would have proved it. They didn't. Therefore the govt is telling porkies. Setting sheeple against sceptics is a truly sick strategy - and it's coming from all the big parties. Astrid, Edmonton

Re, editorial, (11/9). I was amongst the small group of protesters at the Convention center on Friday and I thought it was sad seeing the people trickling in, totally brainwashed by a non-stop media campaign, taking injections of drugs for which there is no long-term safety data - to make a disease that won't kill 99.9% of them slightly milder. Literally gambling their health on the basis of one side only of a complex subject. Very sad. Trevor, Smithfield

We don't need a plan for a "Covid normal" because 99.9 per cent of people don't die of it even if left untreated. We just need our old normal back and to sack every politician and public servant who panicked more severely than they did in any other country on earth. Davina, Bungalow

Can anyone tell me how the Taliban survived the last 18 months without vaccines, social distancing, PCR testing, masks or lockdowns to then recapture the entire country with no mass deaths during a pandemic? I'll wait. Woz, Parramatta Park

How did the Taliban survive the pandemic? I'll wait. Woz, Parramatta Park

We don't need a plan for a "Covid normal" because 99.9 per cent of people don't die of it even if left untreated. We just need our old normal back and to sack every politician and public servant who panicked more severely than they did in any other country on earth. Davina, Bungalow

if you want grandkids don't take your child to be vaccinated. Early indicators suggest it will limit their reproductive success. Stefan, Earlville

"Viral fragments found in wastewater (13/9) - this time in Ballarat. Never amounts to anything, does it. Just scare porn. Again. As usual. Because the PCR test will find viral fragments anywhere when it's run at too many cycles, as we've been doing. The whole covid fear campaign is based on fear-mongering leveraged off the PCR test being used in a way its designer never intended. Liam, Whitfield

Grey Nomads everywhere at the minute - a demographic who would bunker down somewhere safe in an actual pandemic. Clive, Edmonton

If it was a real pandemic that people could see actual evidence of the vax hub (CP, 13/09) would've been swamped and its targets exceeded. If it was a real pandemic politicians wouldn't leave their home bubbles and WAGS wouldn't get border exemptions. The anomalies are endless, but there'd be none in a real pandemic. How long will the media-govt complex keep this charade alive? Mark W. Redlynch

Have the vaccines been fully approved yet? Why not? How can there be vaccine mandates without full approval? Are vaxx manufacturers still exempt from liability for injuries? Why? How can there be mandates without manufacturer liability? Are we still under "state of emergency" provisions? Why? Where's the emergency? Why aren't hospitals over-run? Why wasn't hospital capacity increased back in the old flatten-the-curve days? Negligent much? Why suppress the covid cures that everyone now knows about? Why the vaxx obsession really? Why won't you admit it never was a pandemic? Who are you really working for? Chloe, Kuranda

Deb Tyler (13/9) can't you see the ethical hole you've dug yourself? How can it be OK for governments to override bodily autonomy, the Nuremberg Code lessons and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to mandate vaccinations but not OK for governments to mandate your ownership of a phone too? By giving in to the first you have given them the power to do whatever they want to you whenever they want to do it. Some principles aren't merely worth fighting for, failing to fight for them dooms your children to a worse life than you enjoyed. Higgs, Tolga

Covid theory says spread is logarithmic. Yet with 60 per cent of Americans fully vaccinated, daily Covid cases are 300 per cent higher than when Covid arrived and nobody was vaccinated. Experts don't even try to explain that. Marianne, Woree

Going by the very low attendance at the vax hub (CP, 13/09) the combined might of the media and the government have failed to prove the pro-vax case. The moral to that story is that it doesn't matter how much you pour into an advertorial blitzkrieg, you're not guaranteed to overcome the inbuilt bulls**t detector most regional Aussies are born with. Jennifer, Edge Hill

Has Qld dodged a bullet? CP 13/9. Lol, no - there's no bullet to dodge. Only the hardest lefties believe this covid crapola in the ongoing absence of actual evidence. No, scare stories on TV aren't evidence - they're a sick form of entertainment for the obsessed. Frank Elly, Clifton Beach

There's a reason the left so quickly coin killer pejoratives such as "climate denier" and "anti-vaxxer." All the hare-brained, fluff-science, Arts-grad "creatives" are on the left. In fact, they're fully programmed from birth to continue the Gramscian left's long march through our institutions. Whatever they say you can be sure it's based on politics put through focus groups - and not on facts and evidence. Think twice about left-wing advice. Darryl, Westcourt

(CP, 13/9) How long before our PM is pelted with stones, too? People everywhere, 120,000 at one protest in France alone, are waking up that covid is a disguise for an administrative state coup against all free peoples. They've long wanted one world government and they don't much care what voters want. Susan, Cairns