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Robert
Horton is a sneery Marxist twerp as so often found in academia. He very obviously pleasures himself using his pulpit to propound his ideology without having the inconvenience of debate and disagreement - quite a lot not to like there. I reckon he's done a lot of reputational damage to The Lancet.
tomo
tomo,
It's just a bit weird when an academic medical journal starts opining about world geopolitics. Perhaps the recent European election results will move the Lancet's dial a bit.
Watched about half the Carlson interview. Rather long and, much as Internet publishers might push it, I don't think length equates to depth.
On overordering vaccines, it would have been interesting if Kelly had asked how many doses have already been discarded due to expiry (date or failure to meet storage requirements).
John Kerry... I mean... what do you say?
The COVID thing: the graph and figures surely make it look like COVID was just another year. I know *nobody* who suffered badly from COVID, but have seen a number of sudden onset cancers and deaths amongst my friends and acquaintances. Some of them, I feel, must be due to the vaccines. Still not inclined to see a great conspiracy, but there was certainly an intoxication with power and profit going on.
BTW, I don't think I can see replies to tweets (as a casual viewer). A Twitter login is probably needed for that.
Quite an interesting John Anderson interview with a couple of merchant navy men. Amazing to hear that the UK merchant fleet is about 4x the size of the US's. Australia's is now a nice round number: zero. They suggest this needs a serious rethink given our extremely short-term utter dependence on shipping for import of fuel. Of course we export a lot of stuff too. Nice point that most Australians would think we're self-sufficient for food; thing is, growing that food is highly dependent on fuel.
Again, a not very polished interview by Anderson. Some of his mispronunciations are slightly charming. He has bother with "emeritus". In one of his older interviews he pronounced it like a disease (patterned, say, on myelitis). I assume he was taken to task for this, because he did get emphasis onto the /MER/ in a later interview. Unfortunately, he kept the /itis/ ending as well, so we got /emerititis/. Best mispronunciation so far was Klaus Schwab, called him Claws Schwab. Maybe it wasn't a mispronunciation.
Robert Swan
Credibility deficit - see replies
https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1800099031261007994
tomo
https://twitter.com/wideawake_media/status/1799783795236774346
overordering jabs in Oz
https://x.com/CraigKellyPHON/status/1799251334337851798
tomo
Robert,
Horton at The Lancet has me thinking about Bolsheviks and the press media ... namely Stalin, Trotsky and Gramsci - all peeps I've read quite a bit about (and some of their writings...) Horton's diagnosis and remedies echo what has gone before....
The Carlson interview with Massie is good - Mr. Massie is capable of using a long handled spoon to do pragmatic politics and the anecdotes come quite thick and fast... I like the fact that Massie goes to work in Washington and returns to Kentucky mountains and his ducks, chickens and gardening at every opportunity - at least it seems that way.
The problems in "big health" / public health were indeed there prior to the coronavirus episode - I remember pronouncing very early on that the UK's health bureaucracy would make an utter horlicks of it and that it seemed likely to me that opportunistic bad actors would feed on the incompetence and ineptitiude that pervades those areas... plus authoritarian overreach ... And lo, it came to pass...
The ludicrous over ordering of vaccines seems to be popping up all over the place... yet to be linked to brown manila envelopes or Swiss bank accounts - WhatsApp and text messages are winking out of existence daily....should it be shrugged off?
tomo
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Government is not your friend...I don't think it ever was. The shift has been from ally/neutral to neutral/enemy.
tomo,
Nature is probably about where they belong these days, and they can even romp there au naturel if they like, since it's not gong to assail my eyes. The Lancet is also off the reading list, but a comment at Jo Nova's pointed out this item. Pure politics. In this snippet:
The prospects for this failing system look bleak. Donald Trump again as US President? The far right making electoral gains across Europe? Murderous political leaders able to act with impunity?the last statement is nicely ambiguous. I presume the "murderous leaders" are meant to be Putin and Netanyahu, but why not names like Andrews, Trudeau, Cuomo?
Enjoyed that doco on Massie. Comes across as authentic, but then maybe he's just a *really good* actor. If he were on my ballot I'd risk it and give him a tick anyway.
This article was an interesting read. It's about one doctor's experience during the COVID capers and his perceptions of the USA system and its harmful incentives.
I don't think we can preen too much that That's where a private-only healthcare system gets you; it's another case of looking from pig to man and man to pig and seeing that there's no difference. He describes how doctors are pushed into particular behaviours by private administrators; in our systems they're pushed around in just the same way by public bureaucrats. Either way, the orchestra is lumbered with a conductor who can't read music.
He makes an important point that hasn't been emphasised enough elsewhere: this *wasn't* a COVID thing. The structural problems were there long before; COVID served to bring it to a crisis.
Liked one of the comments describing the result as a purge of the capable. That's it, and it's been more widely applied than just in medicine.
Robert Swan
The Greenest member of the US Congress - not what you might expect!
https://youtu.be/18_yXt1s2yc
suck on that Caroline Lucas
tomo
Mailman
it was a bit triggering as far as Lewandowsky is concerned after learning (incensed) earlier this week that the outgoing Mayor of Bristol Marvin Rees will be joining (local) Bristol University (Lewandowsky's present roost) as lecturer in some climate stuff...
pukes - no mention of remuneration = a fat wedge, no doubt
tomo
Tomo,
Well I guess if anyone knows misinformation its that lot!
Mailman
I am absolutely loving the lefts latest mental breakdown over the 4 Jews that were taken as war trophies (and in the womans case, sex slave) by Hamas being rescued by the IDF! I mean how very dare the Jews be rescued in the middle of a Gaza civilian area and wont everyone just think of all the innocent children murdered by the IDF during the raid...which at last count was 4 bazillion children aged between new born and 6 months old!
Absolute chefs kiss!!