Scientists all over the world are
attempting to develop a vaccine for SARS-Cov2, the virus that causes Covid-19,
which, at the time of writing, has infected just over 22,638,000 people and
killed 792,106 of them1. One of the most promising vaccines,
apparently, is being developed at Oxford University, and the Covid-19 vaccine trial is being run by the
Jenner Institute and Oxford Vaccine Group. The team, who started work on
New Zealand had its first confirmed
Covid-19 case on February 26th, 2020. This case was a person who had
arrived from Iran, and their diagnosis was announced publicly on February 28th.
By that time the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern had already announced (February
2) a ban on travellers from mainland China. By March 5th, the first case of
community transmission was demonstrated from the person who had returned from
Sophie Elsworth is the
‘national personal finance writer and columnist’ for News Corp according to her
own profile on Twitter1. She has published in the most egregious of
the Murdoch rags: The Daily Bellylaugh, The Hun and The Australian. This
morning (10/8/2020), it was announced by the Victorian Government that over the
last 24 hours, it had detected 322 new Covid-19 cases, and 19 people had died2.
There are many stupid
people in all countries; after all, the bell curve of intelligence (whatever
that is) demonstrates that 50% of the population are of below average
intelligence. However, it has confused me greatly that some 60+ million people
in the US could vote for Donald Trump to become president when perhaps as many
people could clearly see that he was at best an amoral charlatan and a
pathological liar1,2 who probably
The second amendment to the United States Constitution
states:
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary
to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms,
shall not be infringed.”1
This was passed by Congress on September 25th,
1789 and was ratified on December 15, 17911. At that time the most
sophisticated weapons of war were musket and cannon.
Nicolle
Flint is a Liberal Member of the House of Representatives, representing the seat
of Boothby in South Australia. She was initially elected in 2016 and was
re-elected in 20191. ABC Presenter and Adelaide Advertiser’s Sunday
Mail columnist Peter Goers received a copy of a newsletter which Flint sent out
to her constituents, and he wrote in that Murdoch rag “Nicolle wears pearl
In early March of
2020, I posted a list of instances of corruption by the coalition governments,
both federal and state1. Not long after that was posted, I found it
necessary to begin another compilation as the instances of corruption continued
coming. That second effort was published at the end of April2. Only
a couple of days after that was posted, more instances were pointed out to me,