Coronavirus 5 - Last Blood

[stui magpie]

Vaccines were indeed foisted on us, people lost their jobs if they didn't have the required level of doses, couldn't go out, etc.

I'm unconvinced that "Big Pharma" had a role to play in that, it was just a failure of public policy by the imbecile in charge.

The MRNA vaccines clearly work, just look at China. If ever anyone wanted evidence that they didn't create Covid in Lab, you just need to look at their utter failure to develop an effective vaccine.

Yeah some people get side effects, some die, that's what happens when you rush a process, but the vaccines have saved a lot more lives than they've adversely impacted, a serious lot.

Everyone is wired different. I get a Covid shot or a Flu shot, nothing. But I know of people who've had bad reactions to the flu shot. Doesn't mean it doesn't work.

[Pies4shaw]

[Pies4shaw]

[think positive]

[David]

Ironically reinforcing the view that there's an unwillingness to talk about vaccine injuries is the curious fact that Phelps' submission hasn't been reported in some mainstream news outlets at all. In The Guardian, the best they could manage was a single sentence in a morning news round-up (they couldn't even be bothered to go to the primary source, instead summarising another newspaper's coverage of a publicly accessible document – see https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/21/morning-mail-conspiracists-build-wieambilla-alternate-reality-victory-fans-banned-azealia-banks-disgrace); and as far as I can tell it's been the subject of a segment on ABC radio (https://www.abc.net.au/sydney/programs/breakfast/vaccine-side-effects/101796390) but otherwise hasn't been reported as a news story on the ABC website at all.

People can debate what is and isn't newsworthy, but, to me, the former head of the AMA telling a parliamentary inquiry that "regulators of the medical profession have censored public discussion about adverse events following immunisation" and that she herself has faced "obstruction" in discussing her experience is a slightly bigger story than – to pick a couple of random examples on the front pages of the sites mentioned above – 1) flying foxes annoying residents of a New South Wales town or 2) that one in three women will avoid going to the beach in a swimsuit this summer. I can only assume that editors of these and other publications are aware of the story and have deliberately chosen to ignore or bury it, and that they may have done so because they don't want to bolster the "wrong" narrative. If so, that is itself a form of self-censorship, and repeating the exact problem that Phelps is trying to raise in her submission.

I'm not saying for a moment that Phelps' claims need to be accepted uncritically by journalists or reported without context: we should hear both sides of the story, including a response by AHPRA. But these publications do themselves and their readers a major disservice when they ignore news like this altogether and instead leave it to the Murdoch press and blogosphere to cover. It's actually crucially important that establishment and/or progressive media outlets break through the echo-chamber effect; otherwise, they only give credence to the view that they and the institutions they represent have something to hide, and that inconvenient truths can only be found on the other side.

So I think the ABC and The Guardian have stuffed up here, and sadly far from the first time; there's a big "telling you what you want to hear and nothing you don't" vibe about publications like the latter, in particular. We deserve a media publication of record that covers stories of public interest truthfully, reliably and without ideological agendas. With the former Fairfax papers going down the toilet and the Murdoch press a longstanding ideological cesspit, these publications need to seriously lift their game.

[roar]

^^ This is the big problem with media these days. They now cater their news to their viewers/listeners/readers without any concern for balance, or even accuracy. There is no single source that you can rely on to provide the news, without massive editorial spin in both what is and what is not covered.

[stui magpie]

https://www.theage.com.au/national/we-keep-looking-for-them-the-expert-hunt-for-vaccine-side-effects-20221221-p5c7z4.html

Interesting article about the amount of follow up analysis being done on vaccination side effects that references Phelps.

reported in mainstream media, who'd a thunk it.

[Jezza]

[Pies4shaw]

^ I certainly support conducting appropriatrely-constituted reviews/inquiries. My concern is simply that commissions royal have no capacity to get to any useful "learning" outcome. They tend to be adept at allocating political blame but not good at identifying the "truth". You can have Dan's head on as pike, if you want, over hotel quarantine (though probably not too much before 2030, at the earliest) - I just think time spent on a sideshow of that kind could be more usefully spent working out how to run things like that better next time.

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[eddiesmith]

[Bruce Gonsalves]

....So anyhow, the missus and I get back to our 'sea change' home after spending 6 days in the Big Smoke for Christmas. Missus tests positive, I do the following day.

I had only one really bad day, headaches, dizziness, tiredness, phlegm even a touch of the deliriums whereby I remember rambling on about the pricks that brought the virus into the world.

We're both on the improve.

[think positive]

Hope you and the missus recover quickly

[LaurieHolden]

I too finally succumbed to the over-population virus, picking it up in Wagga Wagga during my annual Xmas pilgrimage to visit the family. (masked up through airport, sanitised etc)
Like Brucey G, I really only suffered through one bad day / evening without much sleep, can't say I recommend it though.
I put this down to taking myself to the Murrumbidgee River, aka 'the Lourdes of the Riverina', for an ablution. This ritual cleansed me of the peoples virus, and I a stand as proof of the miracle* healing powers of the mighty Murrumbidgee.

*Disc :
to date not officially sanctioned by the AMA...

[stui magpie]

Good one Laurie, and Bruce, hope you're both back to 100% soon.