To those here not worrying, and being happy about the anticipated arrival of Omicron, perhaps look at the current hospitalisation figures and deaths in Denmark I linked to on Open Mike. 30 deaths a day (27th Dec.) as the hospitalisation rate rose lagging ...
Living with the virus is such fun....not! Check out Denmark's outbreak, now one of the world's worst and the hospitalisation and death rate is rising too, albeit there is a lag...30 deaths there 2 days ago, population the same as NZ. As one commenter in ...
My wife reckons Tryphena in a raging south westerly was one of our worst ever anchorages, but we didn't drag, just no sleep all night! Lovely sunny calm next day as we motor sailed across Colville Channel towards the Mercuries accompanied by friendly ...
Your low / cyclone is heading our way overland next week (Sandy Strait, Queensland). We have had 2 cyclones in the NT, 1 in Thursday Island, 3 in PNG, all while on a small yacht. Mind you, hanging on for dear life at the end of an anchor chain in ...
According to Kerry Chant (NSW's CHO), 80% of all new cases in NSW are Omicron. That ratio is probably higher in Queensland. There is no consensus on how severe Omicron is compared to Delta, as yet. I know we all hope new variants become less severe, but ...
According to Kerry Chant (NSW's CHO), 80% of all new cases in NSW are Omicron. That ratio is probably higher in Queensland. There is no consensus on how severe Omicron is compared to Delta, as yet. I know we all hope new variants become less severe, but ...
Scott Morrison's best mate, right wing libertarian, pro-business premier of NSW, Dominic Perrotet (we call him Parrot Hat for some reason) is just beginning to panic* as case numbers and hospitalisations are rapidly increasing in NSW. 80% of cases are now ...
Not sure whether the concept of "Aussies" has much relevance at the moment as each state/territory has been/is pursuing a different strategic pathway. Queensland has only just opened up to the southern states, with strict rules, still. Fear, propaganda? ...
No worries in NZ with a potential Omicron outbreak (according to Bill, Open Mike) it's all OK. He sounds like the Tory government in New South Wales. Meanwhile, because of low vax rates in the third world, the virus couldn't give a shit what the armchair ...
Yep....Juice Media, The Chaser, The Shovel...all good Aussie political satire. haven't found anything quite like an Australian equivalent of the Standard, though (not suggesting that most of posters here are satirical!).
You're right. Plenty of pukeko here in Australia, although not so dominant because of a greater diversity of water birds. Never seen them in PNG, despite having spent 9 years there. I still call swamphens "pukeko" here when I see them. The hypothesis is ...
Think this was Johnathan Pie's best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23nDxPSIoAw. It was filmed when Pie attended the COP 26 climate change conference in Glasgow. Funny if not depressing.
Balanced unfortunately by the large fire in Leeuwin-Naturaliste national park (Margaret River area) which has destroyed quite a bit of the karri forest there. Dry in the west and sodden in the East in Oz! Hope to cycle the Munda Biddi trail in October next...
Maybe the so-called crime surge in Auckland doesn't exist, just a media beat up, according to an article in Newsroom. More to the point is why crime could be considered the only reason for voting for a right leaning alternative. How about climate change, ...
The data that these stat breakdowns don't really show is what those involved in political polls are responding to: leader's personality, media coverage, policies of the different parties, broken promises, fatigue with the status quo, etc. There have been ...
And young women are more intelligent than all men?
Great idea about printing it off card size then laminating it. Thanks.
Mongabay's data seems quite different. Australia's forest loss is particularly depressing - very noticeable west of the Divide in Qld.
I respect worldindata but if you have a close look at some of those forest cover stats they look very dodgy. Almost all the Eastern European stats show huge increases in native forest cover. I really can't believe that Malaysia's has increased either. ...
Yep... and you would think that hundreds of thousands of the disenfranchised and homeless would be out on the streets protesting the obscene inequities portrayed by that data linked to by Blazer in 3 above rather than protesting so called freedom ...
It's depressing to think that a tired, out of date centre right party is still viewed as the legitimate opposition to a timid, incremental, centre left party. Surely it's time to see the development of a vibrant, progressive, left of Labour party as the ...
Robertson is an intelligent, centrist, neoliberal with zero personality. Ardern is an intelligent, centrist, neoliberal with recognised empathetic personality. If JA decides to leave, or is pushed and Robertson takes over, it's hard to see any glimmer of ...
Seems like Morgan Godfery (writing* an opinion piece in the Guardian) agrees with you, Micky. He's not usually that complimentary. I'm in Queensland, where the Premier is a woman. The Covid response (unlike JA the only crisis that Annastacia Palaszczuk has...
According to one recent Japanese scientific analysis* of the Delta variant in Japan, it may have mutated in such a way to make it much less infectious. There is no indication that this, if actually correct (sounds a bit dubious to me from an evolutionary ...
More urine in it, too.
Agreed, but who would have known in 2019 that a pandemic was about to change everyone's lives and precipitate a lot of hard decisions. As for the vast majority of teachers I've met most have their students' welfare at heart, not their personal ...
Teachers not getting vaccinated to protect themselves, colleagues and kids is pathetic. Teachers, just like all other workers, are forced to obey myriad other 'mandates' in order to keep their jobs, e.g. turn up to work on time, prepare lessons adequately,...
Plus leaders of four gangs that made a pro-vax (dot?) video with the help of prompting from Willie Jackson.
I was taught the History of the British Empire and Commonwealth by a Tanzanian Gujarati history teacher in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) as a kid - absolutely riveting version!
Protesters in Glasgow are sending a clear message to the Cop 26 participants in the main hall, singing "You can shove your climate crisis up your arse". Good to see Greta Thunberg smiling as she sings along. https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/...
And the Greens up to 10.5% - left block on 51%, holding well despite all the negative blah blah blah and hard decisions made. Must be a rogue poll I suppose.
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