Disease and Disaster

Disease and disasters have occurred throughout time, mostly with disease causing the following disasters.

Plagues and pestilence have been around for ever, those microscopic bugs have an incredible time weaving their RNA (and DNA) into our DNA based life forms to further their survival, the apparent nature of life itself.

Life is a means of extending our DNA through eternity, just as RNA (and DNA) is the vessel that carries bacteria and vira throughout the eons.

Vira and bacteria (V and B) have been speculated to have been around since before double helixed life appeared, thus presenting the sordid possibility that out double helixed life may have been an aberrated bacteria or virus.

Whether the chicken or the egg came first is now academic, but all these life forms are here to stay.

Probably the most successful is the double helix as it appears to succeed more successfully in life, the mix and match of single helix breed particles allows for intelligent design with the weak being knocked aside for the better adaptive taking reign, thus changing over the course of time to make a better model. 

The V and B need the double helixed (DH) life forms to pass on their DNA (or RNA), this implies that it does not appear to have adapted as well as the DH, but is still changing but not so radically.

Segue from science (or at least my imprint of poorly researched stuff) to belief, faith, or religion, as some may call it.

During earlier bouts of plague in ancient times, the belief was that God was showing disdain for the crew he created, humans, by casting said disease upon the population that were in effect the perpetrators things not Godly.

Examples would be:-

Noah and the floods, in a time before big city states took hold,

Sodom and Gomorrah where Lot and Abraham with families escaped before the aberrant behaviour of the residents caused destruction,

The 10 plagues cast on the Egyptians for placing the Jews in captivity and not releasing them, Moses being the main character,

100 odd other mentions in the Old Testament of disease and or destruction, lees so in the New Testament.

What is apparent to me, is that historians, or story tellers, created or weaved a story based upon human wickedness, but what was in effect the results of poor hygiene in large bodies of humans living in close proximity.

Take this latest episode of virus, purported to have been made in a Wuhan lab, accidentally or purposefully released via large numbers of Chinese expats leaving their ancestral homes to return to Western civilisations, spreading the virus far and wide.

During the early days, January to March 2020, the message from authorities was fairly benign, but then great numbers of older citizens in winter time civilisations began to die, so the new message of hygiene was created, face masks, hand washing, not touching other humans, coughing into elbow, and other means of non infecting, with a dramatic drop in deaths of the Wuhan flu, as well as other flus.

In times of old, populations died in high percentage numbers, from 30 to 40 per cent of populations, causing great loss of labour, knowledge and food sources.

In the current time, populations died in low percentage numbers, from 1 to 2 per cent of populations, causing governments to create shut downs , which have caused great loss of labour, knowledge (School shutdowns) and food sources (through loss of casual labour relied upon for fruit picking, et al).

The economic damage will be immense, it will carry on for half a century, with debt still around in First World Nations.

This is the burden the authorities have created for our Children, they will carry the burden of responsibility long after we are gone.

MONEY

 Money, what is it? Why do we have it? What does it do? How does it do it? When does it do it? 

Money has been around for as long as life has been around. It is the grease that keeps the wheels of life turning.

It can be a flashy tail show from a male peacock, to a shit show spread by a hippo's tail.

It is the thing you get to trade for the things you want.

It is wealth, gold, silver, lucre, copper, diamonds, dirt, water, air. 

It can be anything.

Modern life has it defined as cash, coinage, currency, an enumerated thing called money.

It is what we all want so we can get whatever we want.

It is blood to our lives.

TRUMP

 My belief is that Trump already has the Presidency sown up, with also the Republicans in the majority in both the House and Senate come the first Tuesday in November.

This to me is not hard to read. The Democrats have chosen a real donkey in Biden and a real piece of work in Harris. Their plans would be based on internal polls showing no hope for whomever was chosen, so two burnouts with a distinct lack of popularity have been selected to die by the sword.

This will allow the Dems and donkeys to start afresh when The Don hangs up his hat.

The Dems will use their storm troopers who are currently burning all major Dem controlled cities to continue their attacks after November in the hope of bringing the rest of the USA to its knees and capitulate for the next election in 2024.

That will not happen, the true Americans, will fight with guns and tooth and nail to keep America sane, the new incumbent Governors and Mayors will bring back law and order and stability with the help of Federal troops through the National Guard and local law enforcement to lock up the loonies and the donkeys currently running riot in Gotham.

A truly democratic republic has never been torched as badly before but the one big difference is the guns, guns owned by the public and mostly by Republican supporters, this will stop the pitch fork carriers of the Democrats in their tracks.

I know that history is not written till it is carried out, but this draft is already for the presses.

Communism

Why is there a push for Communism/Socialism/Totalitarianism (CST) in our modern First World Capitalist/Market (CM) based countries and societies?

Why do most of the press/bureaucrats and others think the CST is a brighter alternative than what the CM provides?

A quick look at history would show that the best alternative is CM, the options in life are broader, the safety nets are there, the freedoms that most expect are in abundance, the sun is shinier and the air fresher and cleaner.

Yet  we are currently seeing CST, particularly the Totalitarian bit, pushing for the destruction of CM and replacing it with CST.

An adage in life is look for the benefits that some will receive in changes, also to get to the root issue, simply follow the money.

Firstly the money, in a CM system, there is a wide spread of wealth owners in society, from the mega wealthy to the ultra poor. A lot of the ownership of monies is the individual pushing themselves hard to gather said wealth, generally speaking the ultra poor have no such drive but use all their wealth to gain personal pleasure on a daily basis.

Those with no money or wealth will generally lust after said wealth, so they are quite easily available for turning to the CST side. In the past revolution was used to gain changes, look at France in the 1890's for the French Revolution, at Russia in the 1920's for the USSR, at China in the 1950's for the CPC, at Venezuela in the 1990's for the FRM.

Not all of the above were armed conflict, France, Russia and China were, Venezuela was an electoral process.

Nazi Germany was also a case of CST, via the ballot box to pure Dictatorship and Global Armed conflict.

Those who are keen on CST invariably are keen on control, control means death and mayhem. This is where CST leads.

CM gives hope so all involved can do what they can to get ahead, according to the rules and ability. It is the good road.

Beautiful Skies and Bad Journalism

Another cracking day here, Sun shining, birds chirping, beautiful blue skies abound.

The press is all about Covid this, Covid that, Covid everything. If you listened to the press you would think that Covid is the only thing in town.

This harping from the press is basically a chicken little ploy, the press who have cried wolf far too often and will continue to do so as the journalism of today is cheap, nasty, and mostly not correct.

If you listen to the radio, you get news read out by illiterate readers who cannot pronounce words correctly, they cannot structure sentences correctly, they sound like the local bogan has been asked to do the deed.

Besides the poor reading, the content is also poor and quite often incorrect. It seems to be written to arrive at a certain outcome that is not the news at all.

This morning a cry baby whinging woman was complaining about the plight of koalas, the decimation of brumbies, the destruction of kangaroos. All this caused by horrible Coalition governments and uncaring plebs who voted for said Governments. She was the opposition member with job of reporting on sustainability, hence climate change.

Koalas are in an abundance of numbers, the recent fire did take out a few (along with other animals), but this is mostly due to said fires and they were caused by green policies not permitting back burning so the fuel load on ground was massive.

Brumbies are in abundant numbers and causing massive land damage by hoof, they should be culled.

Kangaroos are also in abundant numbers thus causing a scarcity of food cause they are eating themselves out of food.

All this in the ACT, the always left wing reactionary solo focused idiots who are creating these bushfire effects on land and creatures.

The Left and the Law

Those of the Left are BIGOTS, their view is correct and no other view can be offered.

Those of the Left are LAWBREAKERS, their view is that laws are for others as their view is supreme.

Those of the Left are RADICAL, their view is that the status quo of lawful changes is too slow and urgent action is required to change the world to their view.

Those of the Left are VANDALS, their view is to destroy, tag, defame and delegitimise those things not aligned to their thoughts.

Those of the Left are EVIL, they care nought about others but only that their narrow views must be followed or you will be destroyed.

Those of the Left are PSYCHOPATHS.

Glad to have that off my chest, now onto important matters.

The protests in Sydney last weekend were legal. Those of the left applied for a permit, the police applied to have that permit revoked successfully, the applicants won a reprieve at the last minute.

This Friday is different, as far as I can find out, the protestors have not applied for a permit for this disruption, the police have stated they will arrest people at the illegal event.

Does this not show the Left's disdain, nay, disregard for the LAW.

No responsibility, no restraint, no remorse, no respect.

Sums up the bastards completely.

Ain't That America

John Mellencamp created a great song back in 1983 and called it "Pink Houses", it is better known as Ain't That America.

Recent times have given rise to question the veracity of that statement, with a weeks worth of violence supposedly caused by the improper death of a citizen called George Floyd at the hands of police in Minnesota. 

Floyd was being arrested for trying to pass a counterfeit $20 bill, he had served a previous 5 years prison term for aggravated armed robbery in a home invasion back in 2009, he was allegedly under the influence of alcohol or drugs when arrested recently. He had lost his job during the Chinese Virus lock downs, so I guess that he was desperate for funds and tried to pass the counterfeit at a grocery store.

In my simple way of thinking, you do not go down the road of criminality to survive, there are many other avenues that can be taken for survival, even in America. Food kitchens, charities, all aplenty in America.

Other pundits have predicted the death of America as it currently stands because of the looting and rioting at present, this has been stated many times in the past because of looting and rioting, America, the most free market place in the world, has and will bounce back from these outbursts of illegality.

Certain parts of the American population still hold onto the victim mentality, blaming others for their plight in life, using this as an excuse to loot and pillage at will, based upon the perceived outrageous death of an "innocent" man.

Until those sections of society take on board their self responsibility, these illegal outbursts will occur in the future.

Looking at other countries that have survived and thrived with past social norms now considered the bane of society, we can see Australia itself as a successful transformer from penal colony (slavery by arrest) to modern Democracy. 

The United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, Rome, India, China, all ancient societies and still some modern societies have or had slavery as a social norm. It is nothing new and is understood and it is up to the individual to have the opportunity, either grabbed or forced, to take control of their own life.

The current unrest in America is not about a lone citizen meeting his demise at the hands of authority, it is about the selective creation of an advantage by the left of American politics to fester and further destabilise and create greater division within society. It is about looters getting free goods that others work has created, it is about the worst intents of humanity against their fellow citizens.

America will survive, it will grow, and the words from the poem The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus:-    

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

will continue to draw the hopeful to its own shore.

Ain't That America.

A Conspiracy - Contagion

Where did this latest global virus come from?

A lot of pundits have given a name to this particular virus, the most sanitised version being from the WHO, COVID-19, standing for CO(rona) VI(rus) D(isease)-19(2019 discovery of this strain). I prefer to call it the Chinese Virus and will do so. The reason the virus should be called the Chinese Virus is because it came from Wuhan, China, either through the viral lab in Wuhan, called the Wuhan Institute of Virology, or the “wet market” close by.

EITHER - the virus was created or altered at the laboratory from an existing virus, and managed to find a release into society at large, and that would probably have happened through poor practice standards at the lab, or it could have been released on purpose to see what a biological weapon it could be.

OR – the virus made the jump from bat/pangolin to human through poor practice at the wet market.

All releases are probable, accidental or deliberate, what is known is that China DID cover up the initial effects of the Chinese Virus, and are still lying about the lab, the spread, the cause, the reality in China. All this is standard fare for a dictatorial regime such as China, in fact, lying is endemic to almost all Asians as a matter of saving face, coupled together with Asian/Communist the end result is far from the truth.

Another arrow for the Chinese bow is through deliberate or accidental release, the accidental release could have been encouraged to spread after realising containment was going to be difficult, hence the cover up, also the need to delay the notification to the World in general at the start so that infections could increase through the after Chinese New Year diaspora returned to their Western nations.

What we do know now are some very interesting facts about the Chinese Virus. It has a high death rate for the elderly, especially those over 70 who also have other health issues, such as smoking health issues, obesity, diabetes, blood pressure issues, cancer, going through or recently have had chemotherapy, in other words, the ailing elderly. It does not seem to affect youth too much, providing they are reasonably fit and healthy. It does not seem to affect those in mid life too much for the same reasons.

For these reasons China will in all likelihood have some very big blow back, China has one of the most exposed populations to tobacco smoking, really bad air pollution, a diabolical health system, this trifecta alone will help the Chinese Virus spread through China like wildfire, with a death rate likely to outstrip every other country, with the possible exemption of North Korea.

The Free World, those countries with elections and vision on responsibility, as soon as the Chinese Virus came evident, instigated efforts to contain the spread of said Chinese Virus. 5 Eyes, the collected intelligence between Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK and USA, more than likely determined that this was a biological attack out of China and would have recommended hard shut downs.

As the Chinese Virus spread throughout the free world, people died and the curve peaked and then dropped, the intent of the shut downs. I believe it is now too hard and should be removed until it can be proved that the Chinese Virus is causing deaths above a normal Flu season. The secondary spread may well be worse than the initial, also if the Chinese Virus is man made, there may be no herd immunity and a second infection could well affect those who have already suffered.

A good result from the global shut down would be the bringing back onshore of productive manufacturing such as steel works, aluminium, computer parts and so many others, prices may be higher but employment would be higher as well. This could also provide further grief to China, their attempts to influence a free market would hurt them as their bureaucrats as well as politicians know next to nought due to their fixed economies with central planning.

I guess we shall see.

The Coming Winter

Winter is not coming, it is upon us. The temperature has dropped as the world has continued on its revolution around our Sun. In the Southern hemisphere we are getting cooler as the Northern hemisphere gains warmth.

It is amazing that a great temperature difference can occur with a small increase or decrease in the distance the Sun's rays travel to reach our land and ocean masses. Without the approximate 23 degree slant on the Earth's rotation we would not have seasons as they now are, it would just be hotter the closer to the equator and colder the greater the latitude.

The coming of Summer in the North means longer days, shorter nights, greater temperatures, more outdoor living. This will help decrease the spread of the Chinese Virus.

The opposite in the South, the Chinese Virus will likely cause more cases, more deaths, more economic pain. This is not good all around, but the human toll will be less than the economic toll inflicted upon us by the bureaucratic mandarins. Shutting down our economy was a bad idea from the very start, more discrete targeted shut downs would have ended up with similar fatalities but way less economic vandalism and destruction.

We have to see what the future brings for Aus during Winter, I await the coming details.

A Failure to Communicate II

The biggest failure so far in this Chinese Virus time is from Governments, their bureaucrats, and the press. All have self interest at heart and it shows in their announcements and decisions.

Here in Australia we have:-

1. Federal or Commonwealth Government - a Canberra based two tiered entity representing 150 odd separate electorates in the lower house with another 76 members representing the states, riding over the states and being pushed back at every chance,
2. NSW Government - a Sydney centric two tiered system similar to the feds with 93 members in the lower and 42 members in the upper,
3. Victorian Government - Melbourne based and centric with 88 and 40 respectively,
4. Queensland Government - Brisbane based and fairly centric with 93 members in the one house only,
5. South Australian Government - Adelaide centric with 47 and 22,
6. West Australian Government - Perth centric with 59 and 36,
7. Tasmanian Government - Hobart based but representative with 25 and 15,
8. Northern Territorian Government - Darwin centric with 25 in the one house only,
9. ACT Government - quite a small area with 25 in the one house only.

Now to do populations roughly:-

1. Federal - 25,362,000,
2. NSW - 8,090,000,
3. Victoria - 6,595,000,
4. Queensland - 5,095,000,
5. West Australia - 2,622,000,
6. South Australia - 1,752,000,
7. Tasmania - 535,000,
8. ACT - 427,000,
9. Northern Territory - 246,000.

Local Governments (councils) are in number throughout Australia at 537, so an average of 12 councillors will give another 7,280. Local councils employ 187,600 which is approximately 10% of all public servants to give a total of 1,876,000 public servants.

Adding this all together in terms of bureaucrats directly funded by the proles is 1,884,116.

This is astounding 7.5% of Australia's population of 25 odd million.

The population of working Australians is about 12.5 million.

So bureaucrats are an even more astonishing 15% of Australia's working population.

So for every dollar that a worker makes, 15c is used to pay these desk sitting drones who tell us what to do and how to live our lives.

Are we over governed, yes, are there too many bureaucrats, yes, is it unfair that ALL these bureaucrats have not taken a single blade of hair off in the massive haircut that the proles have had to take at the decisions made by said bureaucrats, YES.

Just like the ABC, over employed, under worked, and overly represented in Australia's future.

Sack 15% straight away, get the rest to do a bit more work, this would be a great way to start to repair the over extended budget that these bludging bureaucrats have created by massive over reach.

Press to be visited next.

A Failure to Communicate

Day whatever in this time of Chinese Virus and the wheels of life still turn with some astounding statements.

Our fave PM, Scotty from Marketing, has announced that all his previous announcements matter nought. From - this time of Chinese Virus is the most deadly, most pernicious, most disturbing and troubling period of time in history; to - where are you all, get back to work, you slackers, you dole bludgers, you have all taken enough Government money so get off your arses.

Needless to say, I am not happy with his pronouncements, they are massively ham-fisted, way too over-reaching, all too egotistical and centrist to have the proper effect.

Like a true populist pollie, his appeal to the proles is driven by the polls, and unfortunately, his decisions are guided by the bureaucrats that hide in the cold depths of Canberra.

To call on the shutdown of a Nation-wide economy, to shout from the mountaintop that doom is upon us all, a drive encouraged and signed off by un-elected bureaucrats, who ALL have not lost a cent in earnings, all because they know better than anyone else, is the height of conceit, imperiousness, and self love to be seen in a long time.

My hope is that 25%, yes, 25% of the dingbatted bastards lose their jobs in the near future because we ALL need to tighten our belts to pay off the great debt caused by THEM.

Yes, THEM, not the Chinese Virus, that little bit of RNA was only an excuse for Stasi overreach in the proles lives, the sickness/death rates are so low as to be funny, more deaths happen from car accidents, more deaths happen from lifestyle choices, more deaths happen from pedestrians walking into moving cars whilst they stare at their mobile phones.

So I guess we all have to wait for the next communication to see what stupidity will be next visited upon us proles.

The Day That Wasn't

Free marketeers, I hope, would understand the following, Mothers Day is just a sop to retailers between Easter and mid Summer/Winter (depends on your hemisphere).

Yes, being a free marketer, I believe that markets should be able to do whatever to create movement of goods, but individuals are able to decide which markets are important to them. No need to purchase things at overpriced rates on this day to help out retailers who should be on top of their game every day of the year.

No gifts to give, no waste of money on cards, but a BBQ with family to celebrate nice food. In this time of Virus and Zoom et al, it is quite impersonal to speak to and see someone on a computer, but heh, I am old fashioned.

The leg of lamb is on the Webber, potato bake in the oven, salads being tossed, bread cut and placed on the table. It will be a nice breaking of bread as the saying goes.

Some food will be eaten, some grog will be drunk, some discussions will be had, and life will be somewhat normal again.

The Chinese Flu restrictions will need to be lifted soon to keep normal human relations going, after all, you cannot really have a dinner via Zoom, you need to be with them.

Further Education

Have not been to school (Primary, High, TAFE) in a learning capacity for quite some time. Finished Primary School in 1968, finished High School in 1974, finished TAFE in 1978 or 1979, did a 2 x weekend course around late 1980's, that is it for formal education. 

The rest has been life experience education, the stuff we should all pick up from families, friends, co-workers, bosses, fellow human beings (also pet animals - we are smarter but should look to them for our base moves and desires).

In this time of Virus, NSW TAFE decided to offer some free courses to keep the proles occupied, I decided to take up the challenge and have just completed:-

Statement of Attainment in Excel Spreadsheets (I did suggest that TAFE should refer to the software as Spreadsheets - not Excel - as that is a proprietary name). Have managed to get a pass in that one, yet to be given the kudos but will soon. Strange thing is the time allowed to do the course. It was advised that the course was of a 12 week duration, I managed to carry out all the scheduled lessons and tests in a one week period. I think this pissed of some in TAFE as results have been slow in arrival.

Am just about to start another course - Statement of Attainment in Build your digital literacy with coding.

Have always had an interest in computers and programmes, has to self learn over the years whilst in business and that can be a good and dangerous thing.

It is almost 9am on 8/5/20 and about to start the first lesson, will keep progress posted.

Some Numbers Found

Just got the news, the magic number of 40% downloads that Scotty from marketing was tossing around as the magic number for social distancing restrictions and the boot can be removed from all the proles necks.

I have written before about the lack of details regarding numbers and restrictions. The figures came out in a Senate committee hearing today where other evidence was that the Covid-19 app was not that good at the electronic handshake from smart phone to smart phone, also it would not work that well if the smart phones were locked whilst electronically shaking hands.

To crack the numbers down:-

• Smart phone numbers in Australia are roughly 18.5 million,
• 40% of that number is roughly 7.4 million,
• Uptake started on approximately 26/4/20 so has been going 11 days and is at roughly 5.1 million,
• We have two days to get up to 7.4 million, so 1.3 million more,
• Average per day so far is roughly 450,000,
• 2 more days at average will take us to roughly 6 million.

So we don't get the numbers so if Scotty from marketing is to be believed, there will be no lifting of social distancing rules.

I believe we will get lifted restrictions, it has to happen if Scotty from marketing wants to hold onto his job.

After all, it is about the numbers in politics and the polls cannot go below the elusive 40% to ensure next election success.

New Facts for a New Day

It seems that we no longer have groundhog day, every day is completely different. The data is different, the facts are different, the requests are different.

So far, we have been told that in regards to the Covid-19 app:-

• On 27/4/20, in the first 24 hours after its release, over 2 million people downloaded the app, both Greg Hunt and Brendan Murphy said fantastic, they only expected 1 million in 5 days. Murphy further said - "The more Australians who downloaded the app, the more confident authorities would feel about starting to ease restrictions on movement in just over a fortnight's time." And further - "Asked whether there was a threshold number of new cases a day before movement restrictions would be eased, he said if numbers stayed below 20 a day with very few from unknown community transmission, "that would put us in a very strong position"

The actual number of proles required for taking up the Covid-19 app to allow restrictions to be reduced is unknown, I have searched high and low on the internet for over 3 hours and all I can come up with is 40% of Australians need to go app bound to reduce restrictions. Is that 40% of population, 40% of mobile phone owners, 40% of adults owning mobiles, 40% of WHAT?

The Government has a narrative to sell but is doing an immensely bad job of it, Scotty from marketing would get a big fail from his bosses if he keeps up with his continual poor efforts.

This actual poor distribution of information can only be seen as one of two things, either the Government and the bureaucrats know nothing and are winging it, or the Government and the bureaucrats know a lot more than they are saying.

I believe it is the second because Governments and bureaucrats have a habit of keeping knowledge from the proles, knowledge is power and the arseholes in power know it.

Take Newmarch nursing home in Sydney's west, an experiment in death by the bureaucrats as they keep the residents cooped up and spreading the disease. The bureaucratic overreach is astounding in all things at the moment, and NO bureaucrats have lost their jobs or taken a pay cut.

Groundhog day in extreme.

An Offer that Cannot be Refused

Our brave leader, Scotty from sales, has been pushing an offer too good to be refused. He may as well just have said nothing personal, it's only business.

Further, the  Federal Health Minister, Greg Hunt, has tweeted - want to watch the footy, download this app. The app being the tracing app for the Chinese Virus, Covid-19.

See my last post about the dastardly wording and intent of said app, the vile threats that our elected Federal Government is casting on the voting population about doing something or else, no freedom.

I am absolutely sick and tired of this attempt to stop the spread of nature, in my view cleanliness and sunshine will have a greater effect on slowing the spread of the Chinese Virus.

Some basic facts, at time of writing Australia had a total of 94 recorder deaths from the Chinese Virus, this is approximately 0.000037% of our population. Of these deaths , 14 have come from one establishment that is filled with old and frail people - Newmarch House - a nursing home in Sydney's west. This figure of 14 deaths out of 94 which is 14.9% of deaths from one establishment where the residents are kept inside and where the Chinese Virus is allowed to infect the residents.

Get them outside into the sunshine and fresh air and they may have a better chance at living.

I feel it is almost like a petri dish experiment to see how good the Chinese Virus is at infection.

Lift the restriction now.

Lock down 2!

We are truly in Authoritarian times. Our elected Dictators are truly holding hands with the unelected henchmen/public servants/ultimate No 1's.

The latest assault on nations like Australia is a a "non-compulsory" download of an app for your computer/phone combo to help in the fight to curb the spread of the Chinese Virus. This one action is so Big Brother Totalitarian in its intent it worries me that so many Australian proles have already downloaded it onto their devices.

Below is the rules on Governments use of the data collected via the app:-

What information do you have to provide?
Your name, age range, postcode and mobile phone number.
Can you register with a fake name?
Yes, you can use a pseudonym.
How does it work?
The app is designed to help contact-tracing of coronavirus cases. Using Bluetooth, it will check every minute whether any other phones with the app installed are within 1.5m. If two people with the app are within 1.5m for more than 15 minutes, the phone will swap encrypted details.
What happens if you are diagnosed with COVID-19?
If you are diagnosed, a health official will ask for your consent — via a text message sent with a pin number — to share the last 21 days of contact the app has detected.
Who is the information shared with?
Only state and territory health authorities will be able to access the cloud, decrypt the data and contact those who were in close proximity to the COVID-positive person.
Where is the information stored?
Once consent has been given, the data is stored nationally and then provided to the relevant state officials. The federal government does not see the data at any time.
How long will information be stored for?
All data on the phone is deleted after 21 days. If a person deletes the app, it also deletes the data. And all data sent to the national store will be deleted at the end of the pandemic.
How can you download the app?
Search for “COVIDSafe” on the Google Play Store for Android or App Store for Apple phones.

Lets do a quick analysis of this "request".

1. You MUST provide your name, age range, postcode, and mobile phone number. But you can register with a "fake name" by using a pseudonym.

So you do not have to use your real name, but your phone is registered to someone, and that someone is you, so your real identity details are known by the holder of the data. 

2. The stated aim is to allow contact tracing of Covid-19 cases. This means that every phone that has downloaded the app is traced, and that information is stored - forever! Forget about the "if two people with the app are within 1.5m for more than 15 minutes, the phone will swap encrypted details", your phone can be linked to each and every phone that has the app on a database, forget about the 15 minutes, that is a sop and absolute bullshit, they already know where you are via your phone location.

3. What happens if you are diagnosed with Covid-19? A "health official" will contact you requesting you to supply information with your consent about accessing your last 21 days of close contact (i guess this means the 1.5m limit). What a load of horseshit, the "authorities already have the data about your location and everyone else who has downloaded the app. There will never be a need to get your approval for data sharing, it will be shared because of a public health emergency.

4. Only State and Territory health authorities will have access to the "encrypted" data which is stored in the "clouds". This information is stored Nationally, which means that ANY public servant, Federal, State, or Territory can, and will, access this information.

5. The Federal Government (which is the pollies) does not see the data at any time, so what, the public servants, the BUREAUCRATS, get to see and use the data as they see fit.

6. "How long will the information be stored for?" Here is a cracker, data collected has to be organised to provide "information". So if the "information' is deleted, the raw "data" is not so can still be sorted in a different way to provide "different" information.

7. "All data on the phone is deleted after 21 days. If a person deletes the app, it also deletes the data. And all data sent to the national store will be deleted at the end of the pandemic." Another great get out of jail free card, delete the app on your phone and the data on your phone only will also be deleted. But the "national store" also has the "data", which will be deleted, but the INFORMATION will not, so each and every body, Federal, State and Territory will do whatever they want with the information. Remember, the data can be changed so that it does not have to be deleted, the information can be changed so that it does not have to be deleted. And both data and information only need to be deleted if the pandemic ends, which can be never if a bureaucratic organisation decides it to be so.

The wording of the document is most important, this is the old "it's only business" to carry out the most heinous of crimes, the use of your private information. This is dastardly, hypocritical, pernicious and downright deceitful for our elected pollies  and our un-elected bureaucrats to engage in such behaviour.

There is a way to evade such a despicable act, leave your mobile at home when you go out. Print you contact list out and carry it with yourself, buy a burner phone from different locations every week, use a "pseudonym" to buy the burner.

Fuck the Government, fuck the public servants, fuck this tyrannical system of abuse.

We, the proles, deserve better.

Back into East Berlin

May day is here, originally celebrated by the heathens as a celebration of the flowers (another festival stolen by modern concepts, this time by communists to celebrate disruptions causing the 8 hour working day), as the flowers started to bloom signifying new birth/life.

In this time of Chinese Virus, the better half and I decided to travel across to East Berlin (Queensland) to get some pills from our Pharmacy and to exercise the dog and to get a great brekky (Bacon and egg roll, hash brown, coffee of your desire all for $11.90) from the local surf club. Social distancing is obviously voluntary as groups of proles where everywhere.

To get across to East Berlin you need a pass, I have two, one for travel/work, the other for essential goods/pills. As we approached the border guards, I had one of the passes on the dash thinking that was enough, the Stasi asked if we had another border pass, all because we had two people in the car. I produced the other pass, even though it was not sufficient for their request, we were waved through as they did not inspect it but looked at it from afar. The SS, or the Stupid Stasi, do not have the brains to inspect simple things.

The moral of the story is that with all the new rules on movement, never once here in border town has the Border Pass been described as being for "a single person". But hey, don't let English get in the way of Government intervention in your way of life.

Further to this little kerfuffle from Queensland pollies, yesterday some Stasi and pollies got caught breaching their own distancing rules, all in the name of drinking XXXX, the Queensland way to spell beer. Haven't heard yet about whether the Stasi officers got fined.

Anyway, we got the food, we slipped back across the border, we made it home.

The great escape on May Day was fruitful and flowering.

Cannot See the Trees for the Forrest

Isn't it amazing that people who become mega-wealthy generally end up telling all us proles what is good for us. 

Take Bill Gates (Microsoft), who set up a tax rorting fund with his fortune to avoid tax, pure and simple, he is continually telling us proles what to do about carbon emmissions whilst his expansive homes have a carbon footprint of thousands of proles.

Take Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) who has also set up a tax avoiding fund, he avoids tax like the plague, tells us proles that FB is good for society and as safe as houses whilst he gathers megadata and sells it, that is how he made his fortune.

Take Sergey Brin and Larry Page (Google), both of whom have set up charities to avoid tax, Google is the largest miner of data and provider of advertising on their Google search, anything a prole has searched for is linked to an ad and that will be shoved in your face each time said prole uses a web site with an advertising bar.

Take Twiggy Forrest (Fortescue Metals) with his Minderoo charity having soaked up over $2 Billion of his fortune for tax reasons, telling us proles what to do with his Chinese partners pulling his strings and telling him what to do. More on this dude later.

Now I have no problem with tax minimisation, if I was worth Billions I too would look at ways to minimise my tax load, but I would not go telling proles what to do or how to think. That is the difference between a free thinking marketer and the above totalitarian despots who have insecurities coming out of their aresholes, hence the wish and need to control.

Back to Twiggy, the pretender who hides behind his charitable work for aboriginals and then pushes his intolerable views on control all to keep his fortune going larger. He has lost me forever with his hypocrisy and stupidity with his Chinese envoy presser, he has sold out completely, all because of this Chinese Virus spreading through the world like bat wings.

China is digging deep and wide, trying to shift the blame for this latest global disease, and certain global actors are assisting, take the US Democratic Party, take the Australian ALP, take the UK Labour Party, all lying, fibbing, obfuscating to hide the truth.

A prole can only hope that when this unnecessary shut down finishes that our freedoms return and inquiries can get to the bottom of this dead tree forest.

Sunshine

Sunshine, the stuff of life itself, has been vilified for a long time now. It has been said that it is the cause of skin cancer, skin wrinkles, heat stroke, and a variety of other bad things. The good things are more numerous, Vitamin D being the prime example, lack of depression, serotonin production, boost to immune system, and many others.

The best effect however is the production of nitric oxide, the elemental goodness of this product is incredible. It can lower blood pressure, help keep diabetes at bay, open blood vessels to give greater blood flow, this helps with sexual health, and lastly but not least, allows the lungs to function better to help oxygen flow which helps defeat the Chinese Virus, Covid-19.

In this time of Virus, what are our health authorities advising us to do, that's right, stay inside, isolate, get no sunshine. Moving people on from beaches where they are sun bathing and getting much needed Vitamin D, you would think it could be a conspiracy to keep us depressed and scared.

The bureaucrats have their fingers deep in this pile of shit, stirring it up and flinging it at us proles.

No job losses for them, they will in all likelihood receive bonuses after this calamity, voted on by themselves and the pollies because just because.

It is a misdemeanour to lay about sun bathing at the moment, the Stasi, the Police, can issue a fine for such action, how long before it is made a crime which can involve incarceration.

These restrictions on the basic tenents of life have far reaching effects on all of us, the longer they go on the more damage will be inflicted by deprivation, all created by said bureaucrats and pollies.

The proles are keen to get back to a normal life, albeit it with the Chinese Virus, to go along with all the other ailments that can afflict us, the common cold, the other 3 or 4 flu that float around the air, as well as others.

Just let us get some sunshine.

Life and Death in the time of Virus

Statistics are lovely, you can glean all sorts of information from them, move it around, create tables, compare differing facts and figures to make our World more understandable.

Take a few here:-

The average death rate for whatever reason (mostly old age) World wide per 100 people is 1.

The average death rate for Chinese Virus or Covid-19 World wide per 100 people is 2.

World wide, approximately 150,000 people die per day, this equates to 53 million per year (mostly old age).

Just like Winter follows Autumn, then follows Spring then follows Summer, birth and death are numbers in all living things.

So what is all the fuss about?

World wide, approximately 360,000 people are born each day, this equates to 130 million per year (all young).

Replacement is more than double the deletions.

The fuss mostly comes from those of us who are entering the deletion phase, we just don't want to go.

The end effect is fairly stark for deletion phase people, unlike replacement phase  people who have it all in front of them.

The march of life is eternal, statistically speaking.

Lest We Forget

Our Market going Forward

Went to see the vampires this morning to take some claret for divining, wonderful how our medical class can perform, improve and supply services that help us live longer. Thank God we are still 1st World.

Brain functioning well and as the electrons moved those thought processes about, I ventured into the future and how our Markets may fair going forward.

The thing to remember is that the current Chinese Virus is not the first pandemic to visit our shores, the first was smallpox in 1789, a year after 26/1/1788 when Governor Phillip set up Sydney Town and other Colonies, and there have been many more since then.

The biggest difference between historic pandemic and the current one is the influence of Government on the lives of all Australians. Sure there have been shut downs (pubs, cinemas, schools, churches, race meetings, agricultural shows and celebratory events for example in 1919) across all pandemics in Australia, how this one (Chinese Virus or Covid-19, standing for Corona Virus Disease of 2019) differs is the amount of cash being splashed about by Federal and State Governments.

Unprecedented is the word that comes to mind, this creates unique reactions and possibilities for our economy going forward.

A lot of businesses will not prevail the length of shut down, most of these will be employee based enterprises and Corporations, sole traders using casual labour will have the most success at start up.

Given the urgent need to get jobseekers and jobkeepers back to work to start to generate the taxes our un-elected bureaucrats seem to spend willy-nilly, a new concept of employment will need to be taken as given for the hordes of proles that exist week to week.

Things cannot go on the same, redtape, greentape, anytape will have to reduced to nothing to allow any hope to get things moving. And this should mean we need less bureaucrats, my view is a 10% cut across State and Federal environs over the next 365 days. This is not a hard ask, these employees move around all the time, so just by tightening up the zipper a bit will allow them to leave and then gain employment in the real world, the Market based employment that will be available.

More tax generating enterprises and less tax guzzling bureaucrats will be a double improve to the bottom line.

Along with this minor change to effort, Australia should also expect to see a decrease, albeit slight, in reward for effort. Why may be asked, well, if you reduce the cost of things then the market (proles) will spend more on things. This will have a knock on effect to all other markets, like the worth of real estate, the value of money, the cost of goods, the value of reward for effort. This new market will give rise to new entrepreneurship that will give rise to the bobble to allow it to soar.

By taking off red tape, adjusting markets downwards and upwards, the end result will be increased economic activity so increased revenue so paying off debt can be greater and everyone is happier.

Perhaps tax rates can be decreased, down to 25% to 20%, the GST could be increased to 15%, whatever to increase economic activity which is how a free market place can thrive.

None of this will be easy but then extreme measures mean that extreme answers have to be taken. Our economy through the markets will take off and provide excitement and hope and adventure for the future.

Whatever to remove some of the vampires that add nought but a cost to the market.

The World Market

Woke up with vigour this morning, beautiful blue skies and a slight chill in the air with a good nights sleep under my belt. Brain was cracking and my mind came  to markets.

The Chinese Virus is a product that is available, although mostly not wanted, but it has spread widely throughout the market place. It is an advertising guys dream, costs nothing, easily disseminated, you get it whether you want it or not.

What the spread has shown is the difference in the market places throughout the world, how the product has been taken up, how it has been reported, how it being "treated".

Most First Worlders were quick to shut down, and the current data shows that this strategy has been quite successful in slowing the spread, the data from Third Worlders is sparse is probably incorrect, but truth will out in the end.

The biggest pretender is China, wanting to match it with the First Worlders but still the hamstrung kid hanging at the back of the pack and lying, lying, lying. When the shit stops flying it will be found that China will have the biggest death rate, the biggest infection rate, the biggest disruption to its markets that are not real markets at all.

Chinese culture still reigns supreme in China, the Communist only took over the Imperialists to instigate a new bunch of bosses, so the Mandarins changed but still lorded it over the proles. That Chinese culture is based on "Face" which is based on lies, all to save said "Face". This culture does not allow for any fault to be taken even in the face of death.

Western culture, based on Judeo Christian structures, allow for fault to be taken, get up, dust off, try again. It is expected, and this is one of the reasons why Western culture reigns supreme throughout the World. Western culture learns through example and fault, it is built into our DNA to expect to fail at some time but to learn from our mistakes.

This is the most telling example of why China will not recover from this period of time as well as Western cultures. Our system of culture allows fault and fix, Sino culture does not allow for fault so no fix can be applied. Obfuscate and dodge is the best they can try, but this does not allow a fix.

So no blue skies for China, just deep red like their flag.

The New Market

Markets have been pushed aside in order to keep order, workplaces shut down to isolate the proles from one another in an irrational attempt to stop the spread of the Chines Virus. It will still spread but not as quickly as in a pandemic, but in the movement of time we will all be exposed.

Herd immunity will probably take over once the 50% to 60% point of exposure has been reached, this is the normal for virus in the past and will be normal for virus in the future. The Plague or the Black Death, The Plague of Justinian, The Antonine Plague, The Spanish Flu, Aids and the ever present Cholera have all visited humanity previously and they all still hang around in some form and number. 

Firstly we need to get over our panic and understand that this is a situation that is natural, albeit helped by bat eating habits in China, we will see more of these virus in the future, I just hope we do not have to go through the same market resets that we have yet to experience. Nature hates a vacuum so the market will be filled by many other ventures, some good some bad, but the bobble that the market is will not fail, it is the basic of human interaction. 

From our earliest moves as hunter gatherer tribes to modern metropolis, the market has always been there as a standard for the exchange of goods, the exchange of ideas, the exchange of wealth. All we need is for Governments to get out of the way, to get rid of the red tape, to allow the kernel to flower and the markets will be filled with new entities, it is natural.

The new market will be a bit different, it will come with a new feeling of openness after the short period of shut down, the entrepreneurial nature of proles will fill the holes created by Governments and the Chinese Virus, but then I am an eternal optimist. I hope Governments understand the need for untrammelled activity for a short period to encourage all humanity to get back on board. Bureaucrats get out of the way!