News Coronavirus Thread

[Val Keating]

Heh.

Not sure whey you're so down on the Chinese and bats, we all know the original source.

Alright. I’ll make a concession, they can eat raw bats but they have to be on as many drugs as Ozzy to balance it out

 

[DesertRoo]

Goes back to us always having had the need for strong navy and naval skills.

Naval intelligence = cryptography and spying.

Naval intelligence is where real spooks learn, like say, Pete Buttigieg.

Also helps if daddy had a sir in his title when you were born or in the case of the US, which collage you when too.

 

[Del191229]

The whole shit fight over the WHO is so transparent.

 

[DesertRoo]

The whole shit fight over the WHO is so transparent.

As transparent as the US haven’t been paying the bills for a while so might as well make it offical?

 

[Del191229]

As transparent as the US haven’t been paying the bills for a while so might as well make it offical?

Exactly, and the current administration's whole worldview has been to deconstruct international institutions it is no surprise they're using this opportunity to attack one.

 

[ferball]

Turn it up I was buying cleaning products.

I'm clearly missing something here, because the risk of the government destroying my life based on my phone movements seems even more remote than catching covid off the guy who showed me where the cleaning aisle was.

I get that I'm probavly uneducated and naive but I'm happy to go with that at the moment.

Its not that remote, especially if you are now on benefits. Do you remember the robo-debt thing? I'd forgotten but was reading about it this morning.

It was an automated process with plenty of failures and no effective, easily accessed review process. It appears to be a bureaucratic process designed to be as much of a campaigner as possible.

People have suicided as a direct result of it and hundreds of younger people have died soon after receiving notices tho there are no actual figures on suicides that I am aware of.

So don't be too sure anything new along those lines doesn't have the potential to **** you over big time.

 

[D23D]

My thoughts also.

I have nothing to hide, just don't tell my wife I once visited Pornhub :sternlook.

"Once" haha

 

[giantroo]

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

Does anyone read this type of stuff and immediately think of implications for sport? Are we campaigners?

 

[Orange Peanut]

Does anyone read this type of stuff and immediately think of implications for sport? Are we campaigners?

Yes and yes

 

[Tas]

That's some fairly naive stuff Tas. Laws can and do change. Laws on protest, whistleblower protection and journalism have been systematically weakened over the last 2 decades in this country. The idea that all laws are just and in the public interest is as dangerous as the idea that no laws should be obeyed.

You can't stop progress because you are afraid of government potentially abusing the power they have to create and uphold the law, we just need to be more vigilant about placing in safeguards. Our major problem is we have no bill of rights in the constitution so it is easy for the government and the courts to strip rights and it forces us to be reactive towards protecting rights. We need to be more proactive in terms of ensuring those minimum standards.

I agree we should have laws that safeguard whistleblowers, nobody should ever be prosecuted for telling the truth, regardless how sensitive the information is if what was being done is abhorrent in the eyes of the public. This is something we have dropped the ball on for more than a hundred years, it was always going to come home to roost. We can't remain in the dark ages because we have dropped the ball in relation to getting a bill of rights in our constitution. We are vulnerable even with low technology levels.

 

[Del191229]

Yeah, Nadine Dorries whatevs.

 

[SMaturin]

Yeah, Nadine Dorries whatevs.

The Vikings will see weakness, invade and conquer.

 

[DesertRoo]

Use MDMA to combat coronavirus mental health issues, says former Coalition minister

A former Coalition minister is driving a fresh campaign to introduce MDMA and psilocybin — found in magic mushrooms — as treatment options ahead of what he says will be a "mental health pandemic" triggered by COVID-19.

mobile.abc.net.au

CoVid brings MDMA and psilocybin treatments up again.
got covid, have a sip of this tea and all your worries will disappear.

 

[Hojuman]

Use MDMA to combat coronavirus mental health issues, says former Coalition minister

A former Coalition minister is driving a fresh campaign to introduce MDMA and psilocybin — found in magic mushrooms — as treatment options ahead of what he says will be a "mental health pandemic" triggered by COVID-19.

mobile.abc.net.au

CoVid bring MDMA and psilocybin treatments up again.
got covid, have a sip of this tea and all your worries will disappear.

Prefer the opium

 

[GarnerSmash]

Use MDMA to combat coronavirus mental health issues, says former Coalition minister

A former Coalition minister is driving a fresh campaign to introduce MDMA and psilocybin — found in magic mushrooms — as treatment options ahead of what he says will be a "mental health pandemic" triggered by COVID-19.

mobile.abc.net.au

CoVid bring MDMA and psilocybin treatments up again.
got covid, have a sip of this tea and all your worries will disappear.

One can only hope.

I know a few people who use psilocybin to treat pretty severe anxiety and it works a freakin treat and has zero negative effects. Small doses, semi-regularly and the anxiety is well kept at bay.

They also use it to trip balls from time to time. Good times.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Farewell England

 

[Firestarter]

That's some fairly naive stuff Tas. Laws can and do change. Laws on protest, whistleblower protection and journalism have been systematically weakened over the last 2 decades in this country. The idea that all laws are just and in the public interest is as dangerous as the idea that no laws should be obeyed.



If that's what you want to hang your conspiracy chops on I don't know why you'd bother. Of course they're set up to catch drivers. That's in no way hidden. Whether you want to argue the merits of traffic impact research and the metrics of this type of equipment or not it doesn't exactly go into Government subterfuge territory - they openly tell you the metrics they measure on. They might be frustrating but on the whole being at your destination 1 min later as an average commuter rarely has a catastrophic effect (outside of butterfly effect level items).

I'd be more worried about the stuff they're not telling us, actively hiding and prosecuting people for daring to expose than this kind of stuff.

Edit: Further to this, my biggest concern with Government oversight is that this is the one thing that the two major parties rarely disagree on nowadays - if you think that's because they have our interests at heart I have a unicorn that I'm selling for a bargain price...

There's a bloody good reason that anti corruption is not a high policy agenda item for the major parties - and it's not because they've not found a whiff of it around parliament house.

I don't trust technology that has proven to be inaccurate and more of a hindrance and money scabber than a legitimate practice for traffic control. Sue me...

 

[giantroo]

 

[sbdan]

Your argument sounds like you want to avoid being held accountable for your actions. I hope that isn't what you mean. You shouldn't be afraid if what you do is within the law. We have laws when it comes to the right to protest and I would expect anyone who protests to operate within the laws.

How about speeding tickets by gps? As soon as the crime is committed, they could instantly charge your bank account.

 

[7577969923]

Over 5,000 deaths in the USA in the last two days alone. Grim stuff.

 

[sbdan]

2000+ tests for just 2 cases in QLD.

Time to open up for herd immunity

 

[sbdan]

Use MDMA to combat coronavirus mental health issues, says former Coalition minister

A former Coalition minister is driving a fresh campaign to introduce MDMA and psilocybin — found in magic mushrooms — as treatment options ahead of what he says will be a "mental health pandemic" triggered by COVID-19.

mobile.abc.net.au

CoVid bring MDMA and psilocybin treatments up again.
got covid, have a sip of this tea and all your worries will disappear.

Finally!

 

[Snake_Baker]

...........ain't that the ****ing truth............and it applies to ALL of them.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Finally!

Yeah, tripping while bunkered down because of the evil virus at your door is a good idea.