WHAT'S A BLOKE GOTTA DO TO GET A DRINK AROUND HERE?

For the benefit of non-Western Australians, the government restricted alcohol sales [without prior warning]. This accompanied limits to certain foodstuffs and other goods imposed largely by supermarkets to stop panic buying and thus allow all consumers a fair go.

But why impose a flash ban on unlimited sales of alcohol?

Yes, I know........ a fair go for all drinkers, right? But why did the bureaucrats believe that alcohol would be the subject of panic buying? There were no signs of it, that I could see.

What about more necessary items which haven't been restricted?  Say, toiletries like toothpaste. What about cosmetics? Baby foods - there's still plenty on shelves. Clothing?......in the event of an extensive lock down, wouldn't families want to stock up with winter coming on? And fuel..... despite travel restrictions, scared folks will stockpile fuel first, especially preppers. I posted 6 weeks ago that fuel could come down to $1 per litre and was laughed at, but today it's at 95c., but there's no panic buying. These restrictions do not apply in some other states, but aren't we all Australians?

So, let me tell you what these socialist restrictions actually mean, not just to a casual drinker but to the death rate, to the environment and to costs when we are being given supplementary hand-outs.





The following applies in my personal case which I use as an example of restrictions defeating the purpose - the cure being worse than the disease, you might say.

I enjoy between 1 and 3 drinks per day on average of fortified wine [to the exclusion of other types of beverage]. I can buy in bulk to save by purchasing a case [4x4Ltr casks] for $80 which incurs a cost to my imbibement of less than $2 per day. Plus, I only have to make one trip per 7 or 8 weeks for this purchase. The present restrictions mean I [and evryone else] can only buy 1x 750ml bottle per day. At that rate I need to make a trip every 3 days for each bottle, which can cost from $6 to $12 per bottle [and this excludes the up market brands which can reach $50]. All that looks like this [Noting that as a senior I am in the high risk category for Covid-19 and rely on my past taxes coming back to me in the form of the aged pension which is my only income]......


                                                                                   
NORMAL PROCESS                                                   UNDER PRESENT RESTRICTIONS                                         

1 x Trip                                                                       17 x Trips
Little social contact                                                     Much social proximity
Negligible emissions                                                   High vehicle emissions
Negligible chance of a vehicle accident                      Increased chance of vehicle accident
Cost $80                                                                       Cost $180
Fuel $2                                                                          Fuel $35

CONCLUSION: WHAT A BLUDDY JOKE THIS GOVERNMENT IS !!!


WHAT'S A BLOKE GOTTA DO TO GET A DRINK AROUND HERE?

For the benefit of non-Western Australians, the government restricted alcohol sales [without prior warning]. This accompanied limits to certain foodstuffs and other goods imposed largely by supermarkets to stop panic buying and thus allow all consumers a fair go.

But why impose a flash ban on unlimited sales of alcohol?

Yes, I know........ a fair go for all drinkers, right? But why did the bureaucrats believe that alcohol would be the subject of panic buying? There were no signs of it, that I could see.

What about more necessary items which haven't been restricted?  Say, toiletries like toothpaste. What about cosmetics? Baby foods - there's still plenty on shelves. Clothing?......in the event of an extensive lock down, wouldn't families want to stock up with winter coming on? And fuel..... despite travel restrictions, scared folks will stockpile fuel first, especially preppers. I posted 6 weeks ago that fuel could come down to $1 per litre and was laughed at, but today it's at 95c., but there's no panic buying. These restrictions do not apply in some other states, but aren't we all Australians?

So, let me tell you what these socialist restrictions actually mean, not just to a casual drinker but to the death rate, to the environment and to costs when we are being given supplementary hand-outs.





The following applies in my personal case which I use as an example of restrictions defeating the purpose - the cure being worse than the disease, you might say.

I enjoy between 1 and 3 drinks per day on average of fortified wine [to the exclusion of other types of beverage]. I can buy in bulk to save by purchasing a case [4x4Ltr casks] for $80 which incurs a cost to my imbibement of less than $2 per day. Plus, I only have to make one trip per 7 or 8 weeks for this purchase. The present restrictions mean I [and evryone else] can only buy 1x 750ml bottle per day. At that rate I need to make a trip every 3 days for each bottle, which can cost from $6 to $12 per bottle [and this excludes the up market brands which can reach $50]. All that looks like this [Noting that as a senior I am in the high risk category for Covid-19 and rely on my past taxes coming back to me in the form of the aged pension which is my only income]......


                                                                                   
NORMAL PROCESS                                                   UNDER PRESENT RESTRICTIONS                                         

1 x Trip                                                                       17 x Trips
Little social contact                                                     Much social proximity
Negligible emissions                                                   High vehicle emissions
Negligible chance of a vehicle accident                      Increased chance of vehicle accident
Cost $80                                                                       Cost $180
Fuel $2                                                                          Fuel $35

CONCLUSION: WHAT A BLUDDY JOKE THIS GOVERNMENT IS !!!


LATEST FROM SWISS PROPAGANDA RESEARCH



Facts about Covid-19

Published: March 14, 2020; UpdatedApril 16, 2020
LanguagesCZDEENFRESHBSHEHUITNLNOPLPTRUSESISKTR
Fully referenced facts about Covid-19, provided by experts in the field, to help our readers make a realistic risk assessment. (Regular updates below)
“The only means to fight the plague is honesty.” Albert Camus, The Plague (1947)

Overview

  1. According to data from the best-studied countries such as South KoreaIcelandGermany and Denmark, the overall lethality of Covid19 is in the lower per mille range and thus up to twenty times lower than initially assumed by the WHO.
  2. A study in Nature Medicine comes to a similar conclusion even for the Chinese city of Wuhan. The initially significantly higher values for Wuhan were obtained because a many people with mild or no symptoms were not recorded.
  3. 50% to 80% of test-positive individuals remain symptom-free. Even among the 70 to 79 year old persons about 60% remain symptom-free, many more show only mild symptoms.
  4. The median age of the deceased in most countries (including Italy) is over 80 years and only about 1% of the deceased had no serious previous illnesses. The age and risk profile of deaths thus essentially corresponds to normal mortality.
  5. Many media reports of young and healthy people dying from Covid19 have proven to be false upon closer inspection. Many of these people either did not die from Covid19 or they in fact had serious preconditions (such as undiagnosed leukaemia).
  6. Normal overall mortality in the US is about 8000 people per day, in Germany about 2600 people and in Italy about 1800 people per day. Influenza mortality in the US is up to 80,000, in Germany and Italy up to 25,000, and in Switzerland up to 1500 people per winter.
  7. Strongly increased death rates, as in northern Italy, can be influenced by additional risk factors such as very high air pollution and microbial contamination as well as a collapse in the care of the elderly and sick due to mass panic and lockdown measures.
  8. In countries such as Italy and Spain, and to some extent Great Britain and the US, a serious overload of hospitals, notably by the flu, is not unusual. In addition, up to 15% of doctors and nurses currently have to self-quarantine, even if they develop no symptoms.
  9. An important distinction concerns the question of whether people die with or indeed from coronaviruses. Autopsies show that in many cases the previous illnesses were an important or decisive factor, but the official figures usually do not reflect this.
  10. Thus in order to assess the danger of the disease, the key indicator is not the often mentioned number of test-positive persons and deceased, but the number of persons who actually and unexpectedly develop or die of pneumonia.
  11. The often shown exponential curves of “corona cases” are misleading, since the number of tests also increases exponentially. In most countries, the ratio of positive tests to total tests either remains constant between 5% to 25% or increases rather slowly.
  12. Countries without lockdowns and contact bans, such as Japan, South Korea and Sweden, have not experienced a more negative course of events than other countries. This might call into question the effectiveness of such far-reaching measures.
  13. According to leading lung specialists, invasive ventilation of Covid19 patients is often counterproductive and causes additional damage to the lungs. The invasive ventilation of Covid19 patients is partly done out of fear of spreading the virus through aerosols.
  14. Contrary to original assumptions, however, the WHO determined at the end of March that there is no evidence of aerosol dispersal of the virus. A leading German virologist also found no aerosol and no smear infections in a pilot study.
  15. Many clinics in Europe and the US have been lacking patients and some have had to introduce short-time work. Numerous operations and therapies were cancelled by clinics, even emergency patients sometimes stay at home out of fear of the virus.
  16. Several media have been caught trying to dramatize the situation in clinics, sometimes even with manipulative pictures and videos. In general, many media outlets do not question even doubtful official statements and figures.
  17. The virus test kits used internationally are prone to errors. Several studies have shown that even normal corona viruses can give a false positive result. Moreover, the virus test currently in use has not been clinically validated due to time pressure.
  18. Numerous internationally renowned experts from the fields of virology, immunology and epidemiology consider the measures taken to be counterproductive and recommend a rapid natural immunisation of the general population while protecting risk groups.
  19. The number of people suffering from unemployment, psychological problems and domestic violence as a result of the measures taken has exploded in the US and worldwide. Several experts believe that the measures may claim more lives than the virus itself.
  20. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden warned that the corona crisis is used for the massive and permanent expansion of global surveillance. The renowned virologist Pablo Goldschmidt spoke of a “global media terror” and “totalitarian measures”. Leading British virologist Professor John Oxford spoke of a “media epidemic”.
READ THE UPDATES FROM THE SOURCE:  https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/#latest 

LATEST FROM SWISS PROPAGANDA RESEARCH



Facts about Covid-19

Published: March 14, 2020; UpdatedApril 16, 2020
LanguagesCZDEENFRESHBSHEHUITNLNOPLPTRUSESISKTR
Fully referenced facts about Covid-19, provided by experts in the field, to help our readers make a realistic risk assessment. (Regular updates below)
“The only means to fight the plague is honesty.” Albert Camus, The Plague (1947)

Overview

  1. According to data from the best-studied countries such as South KoreaIcelandGermany and Denmark, the overall lethality of Covid19 is in the lower per mille range and thus up to twenty times lower than initially assumed by the WHO.
  2. A study in Nature Medicine comes to a similar conclusion even for the Chinese city of Wuhan. The initially significantly higher values for Wuhan were obtained because a many people with mild or no symptoms were not recorded.
  3. 50% to 80% of test-positive individuals remain symptom-free. Even among the 70 to 79 year old persons about 60% remain symptom-free, many more show only mild symptoms.
  4. The median age of the deceased in most countries (including Italy) is over 80 years and only about 1% of the deceased had no serious previous illnesses. The age and risk profile of deaths thus essentially corresponds to normal mortality.
  5. Many media reports of young and healthy people dying from Covid19 have proven to be false upon closer inspection. Many of these people either did not die from Covid19 or they in fact had serious preconditions (such as undiagnosed leukaemia).
  6. Normal overall mortality in the US is about 8000 people per day, in Germany about 2600 people and in Italy about 1800 people per day. Influenza mortality in the US is up to 80,000, in Germany and Italy up to 25,000, and in Switzerland up to 1500 people per winter.
  7. Strongly increased death rates, as in northern Italy, can be influenced by additional risk factors such as very high air pollution and microbial contamination as well as a collapse in the care of the elderly and sick due to mass panic and lockdown measures.
  8. In countries such as Italy and Spain, and to some extent Great Britain and the US, a serious overload of hospitals, notably by the flu, is not unusual. In addition, up to 15% of doctors and nurses currently have to self-quarantine, even if they develop no symptoms.
  9. An important distinction concerns the question of whether people die with or indeed from coronaviruses. Autopsies show that in many cases the previous illnesses were an important or decisive factor, but the official figures usually do not reflect this.
  10. Thus in order to assess the danger of the disease, the key indicator is not the often mentioned number of test-positive persons and deceased, but the number of persons who actually and unexpectedly develop or die of pneumonia.
  11. The often shown exponential curves of “corona cases” are misleading, since the number of tests also increases exponentially. In most countries, the ratio of positive tests to total tests either remains constant between 5% to 25% or increases rather slowly.
  12. Countries without lockdowns and contact bans, such as Japan, South Korea and Sweden, have not experienced a more negative course of events than other countries. This might call into question the effectiveness of such far-reaching measures.
  13. According to leading lung specialists, invasive ventilation of Covid19 patients is often counterproductive and causes additional damage to the lungs. The invasive ventilation of Covid19 patients is partly done out of fear of spreading the virus through aerosols.
  14. Contrary to original assumptions, however, the WHO determined at the end of March that there is no evidence of aerosol dispersal of the virus. A leading German virologist also found no aerosol and no smear infections in a pilot study.
  15. Many clinics in Europe and the US have been lacking patients and some have had to introduce short-time work. Numerous operations and therapies were cancelled by clinics, even emergency patients sometimes stay at home out of fear of the virus.
  16. Several media have been caught trying to dramatize the situation in clinics, sometimes even with manipulative pictures and videos. In general, many media outlets do not question even doubtful official statements and figures.
  17. The virus test kits used internationally are prone to errors. Several studies have shown that even normal corona viruses can give a false positive result. Moreover, the virus test currently in use has not been clinically validated due to time pressure.
  18. Numerous internationally renowned experts from the fields of virology, immunology and epidemiology consider the measures taken to be counterproductive and recommend a rapid natural immunisation of the general population while protecting risk groups.
  19. The number of people suffering from unemployment, psychological problems and domestic violence as a result of the measures taken has exploded in the US and worldwide. Several experts believe that the measures may claim more lives than the virus itself.
  20. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden warned that the corona crisis is used for the massive and permanent expansion of global surveillance. The renowned virologist Pablo Goldschmidt spoke of a “global media terror” and “totalitarian measures”. Leading British virologist Professor John Oxford spoke of a “media epidemic”.
READ THE UPDATES FROM THE SOURCE:  https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/#latest 

FOREIGNERS LEAVING AUSTRALIA IN DROVES

EDITED FROM THE SOURCE AT: https://www.xyz.net.au/coronavirus-miracle-foreigners-flee-australia/


Coronavirus Miracle: Foreigners Flee Australia


From the Australian:
The coronavirus is driving the biggest population decline in Australian history, with 300,000 tourists, temporary workers and students already departing this year in an exodus that threatens to deepen a consumer spending slump and hit the housing market.
Good. Property is not worth what people pay for it in Australia. The price of property is kept artificially high through the artificial injection of more people to create artificial demand via mass immigration. I refuse to buy property in Australia until this policy ceases.
The number of temporary visa holders in Australia dropped by 260,000 in the first three months of this year, with a further 50,000 departing in the first two weeks of April, Acting Immigration Minister Alan Tudge has revealed.
Research obtained by The Australian predicts a further 300,000 people could leave the country to return home by the end of the year, which economists warn could further erode consumer demand and cause a slump in the rental and housing markets.
It has been gratifying to se The XYZ utilised as a platform by Australian nationalists as a platform for policy discussion. A number of excellent ideas have ben put forward over the years about how to attain power and what to do with it once we have it.
Here is my own genuine policy suggestion.
Within days of achieving power an Australian nationalist government should declare a national health emergency due to an epidemic. It can be for coronavirus, gastro, werewolves. Whatever. Lock the country down for a couple of months, or make it look like you’re locking down, and declare that all foreigners who can leave must leave. The first wave of remigration will occur with no need for financial incentive, nor unpleasantness.
I am not joking. This is 100% my genuinely held belief.
Naturally, the attempted globalist spin has to be seen to be believed.
Analysis by former senior ­Immigration Department official Abul Rizvi estimates that the number of temporary visa holders could drop to 1.82 million from more than 2.4 million at the start of the year. “We could be on the verge of the biggest percentage and absolute decline in our population since 1788, more than during the Great Depression or when we sent troops to the Somme,” Mr Rizvi said.
He estimated one-fifth of foreign students and one-quarter of temporary foreign workers would go.
We have come across Abul Rizvi before. What on earth an un-Australian is doing as the go-to man for the supposedly conservative Australian newspaper when it comes to demographics is anyone’s guess. Does this mean that the Australian is a globalist newspaper?
There is more to these two paragraphs. Note the phrase “absolute decline in population” in reference to the loss of “temporary visa holders”, ie foreign students and foreign workers. When we report that Australia’s net immigration rate is above 200,000 it does not include these temporary residents, nor does it acknowledge their backdoor path to permanent residence. The real figure could be higher than half a million a year. It is yet another example of how our government lies to us and betrays us.
Also note the equivalence of the flight of several hundred thousand non-Australians with the deaths of real Australians during the Great Depression and World War 1. This is simply an insult.
Australia’s population grew by 371,000, or 1.5 per cent, to 25.46 million over the year to last September, of which 63 per cent was due to net overseas migration.
Each new million seems to come around very quickly these days.
In the most recent budget, the government pencilled in net overseas migration of 271,000 this year, up from 259,600 in 2018. More than 800,000 net new immigrants were forecast over the next three years, the budget papers say.
Hadn’t they capped it at 160,000?
Reserve Bank research by Peter Tulip and Trent Saunders, conducted last year, found a reduction in population growth would increase rental vacancies, trim rents and housing prices, and reduce construction.
This is the best thing that has ever happened to any Australian who is not a Boomer.
And they just keep spilling the beans:
Grattan Institute chief executive John Daley said weaker ­population growth would focus ­attention on the recent period of weak growth per capita.
“Per capita recessions will ­become real technical recessions”, Mr Daley said. “Total growth ­matters to Woolworths and ­Westpac and other businesses whose profits depend on population, but it doesn’t help the local gym instructor.”
An admission that artificial GDP growth via mass immigration is in the interests of the elites but it is per capita growth that matters to regular Aussies. The globalists are getting sloppy.
Mr Rizvi said two decades of high temporary immigration had come to a “shattering halt”.
He sounds disappointed.
“If you look at the 1990s recession and 1980s recession, and after the Great Depression, two things stand out: net migration fell like a stone, and fertility fell,” he said. Mr Rizvi urged the government to provide greater support to the estimated 150,000 remaining foreign workers, who he said risked being left “destitute” without jobs in Australia.
“We won’t be able to run a ‘Where the bloody hell are you campaign’ ever again if we told everyone to piss off,” he said…
“The last time we grew out of a big debt, after the war, we had a baby boom and post-war migration surge; neither are likely this time,” said Mr Rizvi, who is completing a PhD in the history of Australian immigration at the University of Melbourne.
Get the bloody hell out of my country, Mr Rizvi.
Bob Birrell, the president of the Australian Population Research Institute, said how government responded to the drop in migrants would be “pretty central to how Australia is going to evolve in the next few years”.
Yes.

FOREIGNERS LEAVING AUSTRALIA IN DROVES

EDITED FROM THE SOURCE AT: https://www.xyz.net.au/coronavirus-miracle-foreigners-flee-australia/


Coronavirus Miracle: Foreigners Flee Australia


From the Australian:
The coronavirus is driving the biggest population decline in Australian history, with 300,000 tourists, temporary workers and students already departing this year in an exodus that threatens to deepen a consumer spending slump and hit the housing market.
Good. Property is not worth what people pay for it in Australia. The price of property is kept artificially high through the artificial injection of more people to create artificial demand via mass immigration. I refuse to buy property in Australia until this policy ceases.
The number of temporary visa holders in Australia dropped by 260,000 in the first three months of this year, with a further 50,000 departing in the first two weeks of April, Acting Immigration Minister Alan Tudge has revealed.
Research obtained by The Australian predicts a further 300,000 people could leave the country to return home by the end of the year, which economists warn could further erode consumer demand and cause a slump in the rental and housing markets.
It has been gratifying to se The XYZ utilised as a platform by Australian nationalists as a platform for policy discussion. A number of excellent ideas have ben put forward over the years about how to attain power and what to do with it once we have it.
Here is my own genuine policy suggestion.
Within days of achieving power an Australian nationalist government should declare a national health emergency due to an epidemic. It can be for coronavirus, gastro, werewolves. Whatever. Lock the country down for a couple of months, or make it look like you’re locking down, and declare that all foreigners who can leave must leave. The first wave of remigration will occur with no need for financial incentive, nor unpleasantness.
I am not joking. This is 100% my genuinely held belief.
Naturally, the attempted globalist spin has to be seen to be believed.
Analysis by former senior ­Immigration Department official Abul Rizvi estimates that the number of temporary visa holders could drop to 1.82 million from more than 2.4 million at the start of the year. “We could be on the verge of the biggest percentage and absolute decline in our population since 1788, more than during the Great Depression or when we sent troops to the Somme,” Mr Rizvi said.
He estimated one-fifth of foreign students and one-quarter of temporary foreign workers would go.
We have come across Abul Rizvi before. What on earth an un-Australian is doing as the go-to man for the supposedly conservative Australian newspaper when it comes to demographics is anyone’s guess. Does this mean that the Australian is a globalist newspaper?
There is more to these two paragraphs. Note the phrase “absolute decline in population” in reference to the loss of “temporary visa holders”, ie foreign students and foreign workers. When we report that Australia’s net immigration rate is above 200,000 it does not include these temporary residents, nor does it acknowledge their backdoor path to permanent residence. The real figure could be higher than half a million a year. It is yet another example of how our government lies to us and betrays us.
Also note the equivalence of the flight of several hundred thousand non-Australians with the deaths of real Australians during the Great Depression and World War 1. This is simply an insult.
Australia’s population grew by 371,000, or 1.5 per cent, to 25.46 million over the year to last September, of which 63 per cent was due to net overseas migration.
Each new million seems to come around very quickly these days.
In the most recent budget, the government pencilled in net overseas migration of 271,000 this year, up from 259,600 in 2018. More than 800,000 net new immigrants were forecast over the next three years, the budget papers say.
Hadn’t they capped it at 160,000?
Reserve Bank research by Peter Tulip and Trent Saunders, conducted last year, found a reduction in population growth would increase rental vacancies, trim rents and housing prices, and reduce construction.
This is the best thing that has ever happened to any Australian who is not a Boomer.
And they just keep spilling the beans:
Grattan Institute chief executive John Daley said weaker ­population growth would focus ­attention on the recent period of weak growth per capita.
“Per capita recessions will ­become real technical recessions”, Mr Daley said. “Total growth ­matters to Woolworths and ­Westpac and other businesses whose profits depend on population, but it doesn’t help the local gym instructor.”
An admission that artificial GDP growth via mass immigration is in the interests of the elites but it is per capita growth that matters to regular Aussies. The globalists are getting sloppy.
Mr Rizvi said two decades of high temporary immigration had come to a “shattering halt”.
He sounds disappointed.
“If you look at the 1990s recession and 1980s recession, and after the Great Depression, two things stand out: net migration fell like a stone, and fertility fell,” he said. Mr Rizvi urged the government to provide greater support to the estimated 150,000 remaining foreign workers, who he said risked being left “destitute” without jobs in Australia.
“We won’t be able to run a ‘Where the bloody hell are you campaign’ ever again if we told everyone to piss off,” he said…
“The last time we grew out of a big debt, after the war, we had a baby boom and post-war migration surge; neither are likely this time,” said Mr Rizvi, who is completing a PhD in the history of Australian immigration at the University of Melbourne.
Get the bloody hell out of my country, Mr Rizvi.
Bob Birrell, the president of the Australian Population Research Institute, said how government responded to the drop in migrants would be “pretty central to how Australia is going to evolve in the next few years”.
Yes.