Thinking over the amazing Australian events where as I write 59 mostly old people have died over ? 8 weeks – prob most with co-morbidities (against Oz normal average death rate ~3,000 per week).
The stunning rapidity of Fed Govt/States response with ‘National Cabinet'(for which there is no history or constitutional origin) – why not COAG?
The stunning rapidity of the formulation of the stimulii packages half $Trillion explosion in our national debt.
This from Govts who can not build a new dam in decades.
Gaming being a hypothetical movie maker 6 months ago and kicking around a concept with his team that the ChiComms release a virus as a fairly dirt cheap risk free way to weaken the west.
So it starts with CCP heavies being told – “our Wuhan lab has developed a new flu virus that has tested very well and should perform internationally. We have the cover of the wet markets and have stories and bodies ready to plant.”
When would you do this? How does Christmas hols sound with most western decision-makers away? Check.
Would you want the WHO to assist early on with helpful, misleading and tardy output – check.
Could other similarly fellow traveler infested UN channels be feeding to other national channels packed with the GreenLeft?
Was the Diamond Princess cruise ship loaded up to hit Japan? I have not researched its origins but if Japan had not been right on their toes matters could have been much worse.
Were multiple cruise ships deliberately loaded up later? Dunno.
All your ChiComm quislings 5th Columns assisting by screaming “anti-Chinese xenophobia” whenever any authorities proposed border shutdowns. Check.
Here we are half way thru 5th month ex test tube stunning unbelievable success all over should mean celebratory banquets in Beijing.
In fact in terms of a movie plot relevant to Australia – the people you were war-gaming this with would be telling you to go back to the drawing board and get a more realistic plot – that no movie producer would risk an AU$ on such an unlikely scenario as we find at Easter 2020.
Fed Govt would never load us with half a $Trill on our NatDebt without a significant national debate.
Aussie cops would not act like Stasi.
NSW Govt would not have let the Mardis Gras take place.
Our Border Force plus NSW Govt Depts would not let a ship dock at 4am on 19 March and spill onto Circular Quay thousands of infected passengers – too unrealistic – too stupid.
As ScoMo and Health Dept Boss explained over a week ago the first Govt modelling used hugely exaggerated misleading scenarios – but of course they are more clever now.
Back to drawing board silly boy our Health pros would have used the very best and most relevant modelling from day 1.
A weakness in the above is that the ChiComms would have done more to at least fake deaths in Beijing & Shanghai.
If enough readers tell me I need a course of Valium I can take this down.
Nice that the ChiComms little carefully nurtured and protected attack dog says they are safe.
North Korea says country remains coronavirus free, despite sharing borders with Asia’s hardest-hit nations 12Apr20
www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-12/north-korea-coronavirus-kim-jong-un-pandemic/12143268
Hysteria and sensationalism has become the order of the day. It is a nasty virus, but history suggests there have been many as bad in recent decades.
However, we did not have overnight medical experts, social media and amateur immunologists contending with those past virus’.
The media is now in full swing. The global warming superlatives transferred to bushfire reporting and have now transferred to the virus. What do “unprecedented” and “catastrophic” transfer to next?
Fake news has never had it so good. Nor has numerical homogenisation.
Recalling the recent news re the virus outbreak onboard the US aircraft carrier. I see google says the ship had called at Danang. How simple it would be to plant “infectors” there.
Sorry Warwick, but a biological weapon such as C19 is just too indiscriminate.
But the Wuhan lab is most certainly researching coronaviruses from wild bats (likely kickstarted from SARS). The lab is located in Wuhan precisely because the wet market offers a ready supply of raw virus.
Beijing arrogance (no loss of face) took control once it was realised that a dangerous infection had been inadvertently leaked from the lab. I suspect that this particular viral particle had likely been lab-altered in attempts to understand the biochemistry.
The undisguised glee with which the various Aus Govts imposed a form of martial law (glee ? watch Andrews’ body language) is unhidden opportunism. Beyond scary – the leash of constitutional law is destroyed. This works because the state police forces have the guns – and the police are rewarded with the fun of arbitrary rule changes under the cover of “saving lives”.
So, not a Chicom plot to take over the world, not initially, but morphing into globalised UN rule (with the Chinese controlling most of it). Trump is the only real opposition and the pandemic results in the large US coastal cities will be enough to knock him out in November. Biden will nominate Michelle Obama as running mate and then retire sick within 12 months.
Perhaps nothing is what it seems…..
www.sgtreport.com/2020/04/here-comes-a-revolt/
Birx & Fauci appar to be Gates Foundation lackys.
cui bono?
Unbelievable. I swear I had not been aware of this before I commented.
wattsupwiththat.com/2020/04/12/useful-relevant-science-the-bats-behind-the-covid-19-pandemic/
Just too much …
Quotes pasted from Watts; need dates
“We’ve got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy.” – Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation
“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?” – Maurice Strong, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution.” – Christiana Figueres, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary
“We’ve got to go straight to the heart of capitalism and overthrow it.” George Monbiot April 12, 2019
Does anybody know how to save this hour long video to a memory stick? For later viewing on TV screen.
The low numbers in Taiwan probably reflects their greater experience at reading the ChiComms
A population the same as Australia’s but a fraction of the coronavirus cases
The expert responsible for suppressing the coronavirus in China’s closest neighbour says the superpower cannot be trusted, is influencing the World Health Organisation, and countries such as Australia must remain a step ahead of Beijing.
The director of infectious diseases at Taiwan’s National Health Research Institutes established dedicated respiratory nursing homes with thousands of ventilators and increased intensive care capacity to 10,000 beds, four times the size of Australia’s capacity even though the two have roughly the same population.
Taiwan has recorded 385 cases of COVID-19 to Australia’s 6314. It began scrutinising and quarantining passengers on flights from Wuhan and Guangdong in December, implemented travel bans on China and introduced strict social-distancing measures in January.
Timeline of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic from November 2019 to January 2020
Coronavirus: China’s first confirmed Covid-19 case traced back to 17Nov2019
From Wuhan to Australia: A timeline of key events in the spread of the deadly coronavirus 6Apr2020
Waz, I use Youtube Downloader for Youtube videos. It is free. For other videos I used 4k Downloader which is also free. They work differently. With Youtube downloader when you have the video running I think the web address is usually entered automatically but just to make sure I copy and past it. If you have the address you do not need to run the video. You can put the download in any folder you wish. With 4k Downloader you need to have it video running and then click the search. The downloaded video goes into a special folder in your PC video.
re wuhanvirus, as with ianl above I think it was accidental release but do go along with the chinese back operators around the world for their own advantage. The ABC here and the newspapers in many countries are being pushed to discredit Trump. However, it seems in USA that hydroxychloroquinine with Zn is a useful drug now approved by the US FDA. Trump will benefit and will be relected with a huge majority.
I actually have been drinking tonic water for many years with orange juice. I like the taste. I also have been taking zinc tablets. I have had the latest flu shot. Same last year and no flu.
Could I suggest get out into the sun for vitamin D, eat citrus fruit and vegetables (eg saurkraut) high in vitamin C, eat probiotic yogurt for a healthy gut, take some zinc to help the immune system.
And this rumour is truly beyond me (silly links everywhere you look now):
COVID-19 is caused by Heuwei’s 5G network
When faced with this depth of stupidity, it becomes hard to remain optimistic.
The smug CMO Murphy is blotting his copybook a bit too frequently. Time for a big holiday. Having to back down over his NW Tassie “illegal dinner party claim” made while big-noting on phone to some NZ parl committee.
Making this sneering statement re people washing their hands “Australians are learning to behave differently. You have all seen it when you walk into shops. You have seen people obeying the rules, people washing their hands. More in the last month than some have done in a year. These are great changes in our psyches.”
www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-12/returning-australians-the-biggest-coronavirus-risk/12143334
Thanks cement – I downloaded the 4K software – says it wants “activating” but maybe that is the Premium Vers. – when downloading I left settings on the mid-range it chose and I ticked the option for subtitles – I was able to watch the Epoch Times early April movie which went v well on the TV – perfect vision good sound & our TV speakers are nothing special.
First half of this
Epoch Times early April movie
is quite informative, once you discount the persistent hero poses of the compiling journo, pause the film long enough to read the text excerpts put up on screen and date them, plus discount the unacknowledged scary CGI viral images that drift across the screen.
I found the 2nd half of this film too full of cobbled conspiracy fears to be of much value.
The first half, though, does provide quite good evidence that the Wuhan lab was indeed playing splicing genetics with the S-protein from HiV for those aggressive spikes inserted into a SARS-type coronavirus RNA assemblage. With its’ highly infectious and aggressive spikes, I had thought a while back it may have been an experimental hybrid.
Dangerous exprimentation without iron-clad security against inadvertent leakages into the general population.
His mother would be proud of him.
Only topic- connected through C19 information, but an interview with a New York physician active in the NY ICU wards was played this morning (Sunday April 19) on Outsiders, Sky ch 600.
The interview was extremely informative of actual conditions in the ICU wards, informative of both the tragedy and faint shoots of light, informative of empirical, clinical detail, informative of the empirical results from the use of hydrocloroquine … and so on.
The doctor giving this interview was forthcoming on directly answering questions with point, answering without hesitation or dissembling, without political motive. She is very well informed on both the details and trends of various developments.
She brought me to realise just how utterly childlike our MSM is, with its’ obsession in treating us, its’ audience, as incapable of any comprehension above kindergarten level, its’ obsession with “gotchas” against politicians and especially Donald Trump. Obsessions to the point of destruction of normal cohesion. This interview made it clear to me that the MSM, for the majority of its’ denizens, is really our enemy. I’d always resisted this notion, but not now. One may hope that when these denizens view that interview (and they will so that they can cherrypick the information they give us), there would be a modicum of shame at their own despicable performance. But holding one’s breath is not a good idea.
Perhaps worst of all, although our own front line doctors and nurses are doing incredibly brave work, is that none of their tv spokespeople even consider doing what this woman did without hesitation or guile. The nanny state simply does not permit hard, useful information to be released to the great unwashed. Utterly, utterly shameful when compared with this NY doctor.
I also saw that brilliant Sky News Outsiders interview this morning with Dr. Qanta Ahmed and was impressed with her clear descriptions of her work and the conditions there and problems they faced.
I can not find a link on Sky but here is an article by Fox.
There is an hour of Outsiders from 7pm till 8pm (Canberra) tonight so they might replay that interview. Check your TV guide – Sky News is on Channel 83 – right down the bottom of this TV Guide.
OT but too good not to report. I think it was last Friday and Saturday nights at 8pm Sky News ran a 2 part doco titled Lawyer X 2 hrs of interviews by Peter Stefanovic re the barrister Nicola Gobbo stunning decades long saga as a Vic police informer. Google tells me it dates from mid last year but I see there is a Youtube vid I must watch some time. I came away thinking a few cops should be charged.
On the Gobbo topic, perhaps the most penny-dropping fact for me is that in her 1st interview as a wanna-be informant, the interviewing police officer assures her right upfront that the interview was not being taped (understandably, she was frightened of such a recording being leaked to the clients she was double-crossing).
And how do we know the interviewer promised her with absolute assurance that no recording was happening ? Why, you can hear him saying so on the recording played at the RC !
Wazz here’s the Dr Quanta Ahmed SkyNews interview, link:
www.skynews.com.au/details/_6150547021001
As you say an impressive interview.
Thanks Bob in C
That interview deserves to go “viral”. I will do my bit to try and make that happen.
The closest Aus interviewee to Quanta Ahmed that I’ve seen on the tv (I have probably missed some others) who provides good hard information without any other agenda is Prof Peter Collignon
medicalschool.anu.edu.au/people/academics/professor-peter-collignon-am
He has grown in media confidence and answers the questions without guile or condescension.
Great interview with Qanta Ahmed, and it’s great to see a doctor talking about the whole picture, including causes, treatments, psychological aspects, and economic and social impacts of the shutdowns.
One thing that may be slightly misleading in the printed summary is Qanta quoted as saying this:
“we are seeing that this disease ravages people who are normally of very good constitutional health” and did not have pre-existing heart conditions or diabetes which makes people more vulnerable to the virus…
True enough, but she went on to say in answer to a question from Rita Panahi that most critically ill patients were obese.
OT but topical I just watched the Michael Moore movie Planet of the Humans. Relies on lots of intricate dialogue questioning prominent people for effect, quotes are often devastating. Your ordinary “nearby observant resident” type of person contribute many great quotes too. Many great scenes of USA outside glam places.
Subtitles would help. He spent a fair time on biomass burning causing forest clearing.
Here are “U.S. utility-scale electricity generation by source, amount, and share of total in 2019”
www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
Biomass wood burning only 1%.
Beachgirl
Typically Malthusian, the “conclusion” the film preaches is that there are too many people. This is the basis for the hysteria of the screeching that C-19 is the answer (we’ve all seen this nonsense).
My thought is that this film will be very quickly shoved down the memory hole by the MSM. For the meeja, this film contains unbearable viewpoints.
On a quick bits ‘n pieces look, I thoroughly enjoyed watching Gore and McKibben disembowelling themselves over the money and funding. Apparently Gore even joined a venture with Sachmann’s Blood, allowing quite a good joke within the film: the venture could be called Blood and Gore.
Just saw this review at Catallaxy – I downloaded a 345MB version to watch over the weekend
catallaxyfiles.com/2020/04/24/more-rave-reviews-for-michael-moore-and-the-planet-of-the-humans/
Oh joy – Chaamjamal a commenter @ Watts has transcribed the dialogue of PLANET OF HUMANS at his blog
– also fascinating enviro history to read sometime – THE HUMANS MUST SAVE THE PLANET
This reads plausible to me.
I’ve studied China for decades. Here’s how I know the virus was engineered in a Wuhan lab
www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/the-china-virus-was-engineered-in-the-wuhan-lab
also saw this so France assisted to build the Wuhan Lab.
How France helped build Chinese biolab linked to COVID-19 – and then got burned by the communists
www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/how-france-helped-build-chinese-biolab-linked-to-covid-19-and-then-got-burned-by-the-communists
JoNova now saying –
Evidence grows that Coronavirus was man-made: the bat virus it “evolved” from appears to be faked
joannenova.com.au/2020/08/how-about-a-nasal-spray-of-nanobodies-smaller-faster-and-cheaper-than-antibodies/