My nipper became the Dux of the school by far over the next person in line. went to Catholic schooling all the way as I wanted some say in such and not just toss such in a State School system of Socialist degenerate muck like I was.

Ok some of the teachers were fine but some others were trash that I would not piss on if they were on fire.
I would fire up on them even as a child, in grade 6 in a history lesson I pointed out that he was wrong and they did not take kindly to that at all and you know what he said, he did not care for the truth but only for what was on the paper and the results with the kids marks.
I was ready to walk out the door and never set foot back in that school, but I was backed up by 5 others in the class that I was right on the History point made and then he calmed down. I was just about to say, I am going to get my Grand Father and he will come down and punch out your lights.
Not to mention that I did like that teacher personally, he was alright but just a typical Socialist brainwashed type.

The last 2 1/2 years of my nippers school was run by a total fool and a moron, it was a horror show, my wife worked for the school to help them out and found out that this Principle knew nothing at all, she was just a public relations officer and legal eagle placed in the school that know how to fuck over anyone making claims on the school in any regards child molesters and all. it knew nothing of the religion at all but informed me that the new Priest was helping it. the Priest knew f all and was spinning total shit, that would of got he tossed out on the street years ago, the Priest before him was fine bloke. but this bloke I called him out on his crap and he took offence at me, I did not hammer him as I put such forward nicely to him. happens that my nipper toped the class in Religion by far as well and he stormed off when that was read out.

while I agree totally with you, the problem is that, yes... nutters like Jones Bolt, Credlin. Paleo Pete ( and I will include Christiansen) have very large followings on social media.

Whilst I am of the 'do NOT believe everything you read on the interweb and social book' philosophy, people like Jones (who had a huge radio following base in Sydney when he was on air, biggest in Oz)
can say .. black is white and people (yes adults of sound mind) AUTOMATICALLY believe what he just said.

It’s such a load of crap. Dubbo in lockdown. I was in Dubbo yesterday so now I am in lockdown, which means that my son can still go to school and I can still go to town for farm supplies. I can also still go to work as it’s considered an essential service.
Who makes this crap up? Lockdown but we can still mix in large groups of people?
You can not stop a virus spreading like this. If you could we would have eliminated all airborne disease years ago.
As for this patient zero crap, when the virus flew here (but the flu stayed behind by some miracle) where did the person who brought the bug with them go and why were we never told who it was? It was clearly someone above the average level as they were being picked up from the airport in a limo. We heard all the garbage about the limo driver but never a squeak about the person who gave it to him.
Does no one question this stuff?
There was a death from Covid the other day. They normally tell us they are not vaccinated, there was mysteriously no mention of the vaccination status.
Did anyone else read the story in the Telegraph quoting the scientist from the Wuhan lab? She claimed the virus will mutate into something 600 times more contagious and vaccine will have no effect.

The next lot of Covid vaccines are happening, based upon subsequent strains. It will behave much like the flu over the years, will always be around and will probably require annual vaccines like the flu. Proper Doctors and Scientists (not fake social media ones) tell us that normally viruses do mutate to become more transmissible but less deadly. The one that causes Covid-19 may or may not follow suit.

That's the thing, ignore the opinions and listen to what the State and Federal Medical chiefs are telling you. Then there is no confusion!

The reason this SARS virus is so virulent is most people in the world have no immunity to it as they have never encountered anything like it. Once you have some immunity you will be in general less affected by it and future mutations. Exactly the same as the annual flu. If any of us were to jump into a time machine and walk into un-colonised continents like Australia and North America 200-300 years ago, carrying with us the modern flu virus we would probably see it devastate those native local populations like this virus is doing now. This happened on both continents with the Smallpox virus.

The idea of the vaccine is to introduce a certain (and inert) aspect of the virus to your body so your body sees it as an invader and develops antibodies to it. So that when you are eventually exposed to the real virus (which every single Australian will be after a certain vaccination % is reached) your immune system acts quickly rather than having no idea what’s going on. The idea with annual flu vaccination is it gives you some immunity from the most recent mutations of the flu, from the Northern Hemisphere winter. Most people will have some immunity from prior mutations but it gives you a head start so at worst you get a bad cold rather than spending days in bed or dying which can easily happen with the elderly. The Covid vaccines will be basically the same.
This isn’t rocket science, it is high school biology!

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They also haven’t said when the poor guy in his 90’s that died had his second dose. Unfortunately anyone in their 90’s is running on borrowed time, with most organs not functioning optimally. A big shock to the system can see catastrophic failure across the board. That is why a bad dose of the flu or a fall can be a death sentence. When my old Doberman left us, he was near to 11 but functioning OK. Fell in the pool and was there for not sure how long. He never really recovered and stuff started to fail, he died a few weeks later.

You can’t compare the two. That is 847 with normal life. If we’d gone on with Covid without restrictions we’d be in the 10’s of thousands dead from Covid. Have a look at how many have died from the flu with Covid restrictions, almost none.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate Mon 17 Feb 1919 Page 4 THE PANDEMIC.

Oh the Irony.

THE PANDEMIC.
While interstate disputes are to be deprecated, that which is now taking place between Victoria and New South
Wales has been forced upon the latter State, and the plain and strong language in which Mr. Fuller, the Acting
Premier, has worded his reply to the sister State, is justified by the circum stances. Victoria unquestionably failed
to give effect to the essence of the agreement arrived at in December by the Medical Conference, and it may
also be said that the Federal Governent failed, in that it did not at first rise to the necessities of the case. To
urge that it waited for official advice from Victoria is not a satisfactory reply. Conditions in Melbourne were
matters of public property, and the Federal health authorities cannot have been ignorant of them. Now that difficulties
occasioned by the clash of authorities are materially diminished, the matter is no longer as serious as at first. But there is still
noticeable in Victoria a disinclination to follow New South Wales in taking all precautions. While the use of masks is a matter of controversy,
there is the fact that the bulk of medical opinion supports it. And there is the fact that thus far the pandemic is being fairly held in Sydney, while in
Melbourne the daily list of cases and of deaths is high. As evidence of the singular disinclination in Victoria to
treat the disease as seriously as it should be may be cited the difference in the action of commercial firms in
that State and in New South Wales. There has been an outcry from country districts in both States against the
regular visits of metropolitan commercial travellers. It is purely a matter of precaution, and is accepted as such in
this State, where the large firms indicate that their travellers will remain in the country. In Victoria, however,
although the outbreak in Melbourne is far more serious than in Sydney, it is held that there is no reason for cur
tailing the activity of the travellers. This decision may or may not prove of consequence. But it is an exemplifica
tion of the difference in the attitude' of the two States. The importance of the methods or lack of method followed in Victoria to
fight the disease is that until the neighbouring State becomes clean again it can hardly be hoped that New South Wales will be freed
from pneumonic influenza in its epidemic form. The precautions being taken in New South Wales are preventing its spread, and it may
be hoped will continue to do so, but the chances of infection from Victoria must continue. Hence the fact that the epidemic is spreading
to many parts of that State is a matter of concern to New South Wales as well as to other dominions. With the regrettable experiences of New Zealand
before their eyes, New South Wales extacted wisely and determinedly. Even assuming that in some instances its precautions might be deemed scarcely
necessary, the error, if any, was on the right side. Victoria at first refused to take any steps, with the result
of the present visitation of disease with its daily list of victims. There should be absolute interstate and
Federal co-operation in the effort to stamp out the pandemic, and this ought still to be brought about.

It isn’t everywhere as sensible people are staying apart. It is highly infectious. If things were back to normal there would be thousands of cases daily and large amounts of deaths. Just look at other places with low vaccination rates and Delta. India, Texas, Florida etc. if it was anything other than exactly what it is Governments wouldn’t be reacting like they are.

Yes, but due to restrictions it’s spread to the population is very much inhibited. It is only being spread by selfish morons or by sheer bad luck. Without restrictions it would be like a wind driven bushfire on a 42deg day. Just look at what happened in India.