New South Wales now at 94% first dose and 90% second dose. Now down to 244 local Covid cases. Well done to everyone who got vaccinated. A reminder that the noisy anti-vax people here represent a tiny minority.
Lockdowns could have been handled much better, esp in Victoria (which is simply just badly run as a State on all sides), but thanks to Perrottet's national leadership, Australia is slowly reopening, safely, and with a very low loss of life.
The pandemic has been useful as a guide to who was mostly sane vs those who were mostly broken. No issue clarified this more than those who saw their doctor re getting vaccinated - and those who followed utter crankery & very online grifters, and did not.
If I am critical of libertarians etal as, mostly, cranks and weirdos, and paranoids - the employed version of the Greens - this pandemic and the libertarian 'Iverchloroquine' responses are why. The horseshoe theory of politics is, basically, right.

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30 Oct
As November (the month of remembering those passed) approaches, my thanks to every reader of my Medium piece & especially to those for who it has been helpful. If you are in a tough season, just keep going. The wisdom of this will be apparent in due course.
There are few joys in writing about, well, your most loved ones passing away, but, if you do, you will find, as I have, to my pleasant surprise, that you will be helping others, already, who were afraid to speak, and, also, helping the 'younger you'.
Modern western societies are so atomised & so transitory & so irreligious that they leave people, esp the most vulnerable & lonely, in their worst times, with so little to hold onto .... fools speak of 'closure', as if curtains fall, there is applause, the theatre is exited.
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27 Oct
Reading @DeclanLeary on the appalling state of American public schools .... makes me grateful that Australia had such large esp Catholic systemic & Christian/Independent schools for parents to escape to & also to force public schools to keep selective HS

theamericanconservative.com/articles/we-lo…
While there may be some grievances with the British imperial settlement .... but one good thing the Anglicans did (which Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists etal got to do as well) was set up church school systems that the Crown patronised, which then helped educate generations
Not sure if it is the US' rather Jacobin 'separation of church and state' doctrines that denies parents the choice of an inexpensive local Catholic or Anglican (or other) school - 'only Gosplan public, comrade' - but education alone, shows the Tories were, well, right .... again.
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21 Oct
Given historical and current events, will be starting this thread to post on Seapower, the oceans as our global commercial commons and most important strategic domain, and all ships, vessels, boats, etc, floating & submerged, that interest me. "Look always to your moat!" Image
Always be sensible discussing #Seapower Image
In peace & war, the sea & its sailors are - esp if you speak English - your most crucial strategic doman. The ships at sea as combatants & escorts & cargo/POL carriers plus your ports/wharves/railheads all join up to make supply chains work ... Our most precious infrastructure Image
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15 Oct
For most sensible people, climate change is, mainly, an energy generation problem that can be solved, calmly.

For post religious esp white people, climate change - with its obsession on sin, the wrath of Gaia, etc - fills the void that ancestral Protestantism once filled.
The world's pajandrums gather in Glasgow to debate climate change commitments (for 2050 when all will be long gone from office) as European energy markets collapse under Renewables failure & the US meets the perfect 1970s storm: inflation, supply & energy cost rises
We in Australia (like Canada - do not let Trudeau's antics fool you) will do the bare minimum as we are an energy superpower that is supplying coal, gas, uranium, etal to the world at near record prices. We have a massive & people dispersed island & we cannot all work for an NGO. ImageImage
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11 Oct
For those in NSW & VIC: both IBAC & ICAC are de facto inquisitions ala Roman Law. The commissioner & counsel assisting may go wherever the evidence leads. At the same time, people adversely reflected on (publicly!) may not have the same protections under common law. Caveat.
The ICAC problem in NSW is it is the closest body we have to a 4th branch - it is not a court & thus not part of the appellate hierarchy. It is part of the executive govt but not really responsive to any Minister. It is a body made necessary by NSW's endemic corruption problems.
The problem for anyone who lives in Sydney & New South Wales (and has grown up with our historic corruption problems) is that unless there is some public inquisitorial (in the Roman Law sense) body like ICAC threatening public officials, then NSW is back in the Askin & Wran years
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10 Oct
Welcome to the (final) Sydney Lockdown day 107 .... "Freedom Day"

#Covid19NSW #SydneyLockdown Image
Statistics for New South Wales in the past 24hrs:
- 73.5% fully vaccinated
- 90.3% first dose
- 496 new local cases
- 83,000+ tests

NSW has today commenced a "cautious" reopening.

“Freedom Day”

#Covid19NSW #SydneyLockdown
After 107 days, I am hoping that I never, ever, have to again make these daily posts ... And for those fools esp in media who platformed hysterics & uncredentialed 'experts', you have urged ruination on innocent people as surely as any crank anti-Vax

#Covid19NSW #SydneyLockdown
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