Daniel Andrews declared from on high that, without further ado and with neither explanation nor apology, that “Covid exceptionalism” was over. Scotty from AstraZeneca said that “we have moved on”. But, apparently, the Covid info-wars are not over. Just as those who were personally injured by Covid policies, or simply found them to be abominable, still seek some form of justice, or even a modicum of accountability, there are others, up to their ears in defence of the Covid State at the time, who are still at it. Like the remote, escaped Japanese war prisoners on lonely Pacific Islands who didn’t realise the war was over, and that they had lost, there are those stalwart scribblers in the legacy press who are still fighting yesterday’s war. They don’t realise that the Covid vaccines never worked, and that everyone bar them now knows this. With some of the narrative-clingers, it is still unacknowledged publicly but it is known deep down. They know they were conned.
They’ll all defend it to their death. Too much sunk cost. People like McLaws are the worst sort of self-interested charlatan, but have been a protected species for 3 years. I am a highly experienced, senior medical practitioner, a pathologist with a deep understanding of disease and disease process. Science and medicine are dead until there is a reckoning and renaissance, they have been perverted beyond recognition. I still have concussion from banging my head against walls by writing to newspapers (of all leanings), federal and state politicians, professional bodies and public servants. No reply, not one. Nothing sent to a newspaper was published apart from the odd ‘comment’, usually toned down. No challenge of any approved narrative was tolerated. But ‘The Experts’ like McLaws, we’re wheeled out repeatedly to deliver their ghoulish reading of the tea leaves, over and over. It’s all an unmitigated disgrace. I agree with Ramesh Thakur, who has been one of a few shining lights in this fog of authoritarian, unscientific nonsense; genuine mistakes are forgivable, but the vast majority of this was driven, ruthless and lethal. The only way they were able to perpetrate it was with the cooperation of the useful idiots in the media. People should serve time for this.
So true. I gave up on the Oz. They were hopeless mostly and still are on the covid nonsense. Steve Waterston was an exception. The journalist you mention-I just stopped reading her.
The Vermin In Power will always seek to hide the inconvenient truth. It is one of the ways that they stay in power. Journalism is an honourable profession in that it seeks to expose the truth.
Like any profession, journalism has its less than honourable members who seem to be in the majority in Australia at present.
However, there are writers in what I term the underground media who are doing sterling service for genuine journalism. But how much readership do they have in the legions of the Herd - the masked, the jabbed, the mindless Uniparty voters ?
It used to be said that Australia rode on the sheep's back. These days the sheep ride on Australia's back.
They’ll all defend it to their death. Too much sunk cost. People like McLaws are the worst sort of self-interested charlatan, but have been a protected species for 3 years. I am a highly experienced, senior medical practitioner, a pathologist with a deep understanding of disease and disease process. Science and medicine are dead until there is a reckoning and renaissance, they have been perverted beyond recognition. I still have concussion from banging my head against walls by writing to newspapers (of all leanings), federal and state politicians, professional bodies and public servants. No reply, not one. Nothing sent to a newspaper was published apart from the odd ‘comment’, usually toned down. No challenge of any approved narrative was tolerated. But ‘The Experts’ like McLaws, we’re wheeled out repeatedly to deliver their ghoulish reading of the tea leaves, over and over. It’s all an unmitigated disgrace. I agree with Ramesh Thakur, who has been one of a few shining lights in this fog of authoritarian, unscientific nonsense; genuine mistakes are forgivable, but the vast majority of this was driven, ruthless and lethal. The only way they were able to perpetrate it was with the cooperation of the useful idiots in the media. People should serve time for this.
So true. I gave up on the Oz. They were hopeless mostly and still are on the covid nonsense. Steve Waterston was an exception. The journalist you mention-I just stopped reading her.
The Vermin In Power will always seek to hide the inconvenient truth. It is one of the ways that they stay in power. Journalism is an honourable profession in that it seeks to expose the truth.
Like any profession, journalism has its less than honourable members who seem to be in the majority in Australia at present.
However, there are writers in what I term the underground media who are doing sterling service for genuine journalism. But how much readership do they have in the legions of the Herd - the masked, the jabbed, the mindless Uniparty voters ?
It used to be said that Australia rode on the sheep's back. These days the sheep ride on Australia's back.
Let’s face it, the Australian is Rupert’s sheltered workshop for corporate sycophants.
It hasn’t made a profit for at least thirty years.
Brilliant, thank you Paul.
Perhaps I should photoshop Angela Shanahan into this meme.
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