To say that vaccine supply and distribution in Australia is opaque is putting it mildly. [2021-09-13] Since I first published this article in late July there have been a number of revelations regarding disproportionate distribution of vaccines. Some have been made, we’re told, with the agreement of State premiers, however others have only emerged as […]
“The first casualty of war is the truth”
For months I’ve watched with growing alarm the obvious bullshit being fed to us by politicians on the subject of Covid-19 vaccines. Even more alarming sometimes has been bullshit from government health experts. For politicians to lie, obfuscate or evade is second nature, but when experts and scientists start playing fast and loose with facts, or decide that “you can’t handle the truth” then it’s past time to call it for what it is.
Commissioner Fuller is revealed as a polymath – law, medicine, taxation, foreign affairs, ethics, public health, sport, the list goes on.
We all know the plot—it has been around since H. G. Wells’ War Of The Worlds, and has been re-imagined many times since then. The intentions of the aliens vary, from exploratory to utopian to malign, but Earth’s response is formulaic: Chaos Frantic international discussions National differences put aside as humans unite as one behind […]
You know the joke about the computer programmer who drowns in the shower because the shampoo directions say “Wash hair, rinse, repeat”, an infinite loop. Unfortunately the same thing is happening to our democracy, and we’re letting it happen. Scandal, defiance, rinse, repeat. It’s not an accident. Relentless escalation of bad behaviour, flouting and rejection […]
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