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.