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dogwatch said:
I just watched the best film that I've seen on Covid-19 and strongly recommend it. It's called "Cracking Covid" by Emmy-award winning Melbourne-based film maker Sonya Pemberton.

Trailer:
www.theage.com.au

Trailer - Cracking Covid

'Cracking COVID' is a rollercoaster real-time journey through Australia’s pandemic experience. It airs on ABC, Tuesday, July 13, 8.30pm.
www.theage.com.au www.theage.com.au

Using footage and first hand accounts taken throughout 2020 and early 2021. While Melbourne-centric it still takes a world view and an Australian view. It tracks the emergence of the disease, its spread, the lockdowns, the development of vaccines and the different impacts on those who get it. It's done with empathy and humanity combined with cold hard science and without political commentary or rancour. A remarkable achievement.

It includes segments where Pemberton is allowed to be an observer in the Doherty Institute's regular Zoom meetings as the year progresses.

If you want an insight into any of the following you should watch it:
  • how does Covid make you sick?
  • how do the vaccines work?
  • what did Australian scientists contribute to the battle with Covid?
  • was Australia's lockdown approach exceptional in any way?
  • why don't most children get severe Covid symptoms?
  • how many people around the world are suffering from "long covid"?
  • what happened to the UQ vaccine - why did it not proceed to full trials and production?
  • if we are meant to "follow the science" why is it constantly changing?
  • what impacts can Covid have on young people? The case study was a husband and father in his early 40s.
  • is it important whether I get vaccinated or not?
It was on ABC so I imagine you can watch it any time on iView. Do yourself a favour.
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Thanks DW. Just watched it now. Great doco.
 
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dogwatch said:
A decade or so later they have the same need for control but they do it differently.

They bring in "ministerial advisers" in place of the public servants. Not being career public servants they can sidestep a lot of the rules and if they do happen to get caught overstepping the mark they'll be looked after in finding another job somewhere else, or maybe not even lose their job at all, perhaps just shuffled elsewhere.

These "advisers" provide cover, lack of accountability and plausible deniability to all the dirty deeds of the ministers (and others). They also do things like the mischievous backgrounding of journos on characters they want to undermine. The public servants are left to do the menial process-driven tasks while much of the critical policy and advice stuff is done by party hacks who have been given the agenda in advance. So much for frank and fearless advice from the public service.

And when there's a change of government all the old ministerial hacks are replaced with a new set, so we lose continuity and corporate memory.

By such means are our democratic institutions being undermined. Our democracy is impoverished.
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But they get to tell the media that they're "cutting public service numbers" (even though they hire the same people back as contractors/consultants on 50% higher salary, costing taxpayers even more)
 

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MCG (MCC members) is now an exposure site from the Carl/Geel match.
A guy from that apartment complex where the removalists were has tested positive & was at the footy over the weekend.

Highpoint is also a new exposure site.
 
random__hero said:
MCG (MCC members) is now an exposure site from the Carl/Geel match.
A guy from that apartment complex where the removalists were has tested positive & was at the footy over the weekend.

Highpoint is also a new exposure site.
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Lockdown coming. 1 case was in a supermarket at the same time a the Craigieburn family member who SHOULD HAVE BEEN QUARANTEENING. Jeez all this pisses me off so much.
 
You'd have to presume that if these removalists have casually infected 7 people in an apartment block, then the virus has had a few days to run wild across other contacts around their little tour. It's amazing how fast a virus can travel.
 
Weimar mentioned that the removalists came down in 2 separate trucks & they weren’t wearing masks whilst they were unloading/loading the trucks.
 

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Not sure how to stop this sort of thing happening. It's blatantly at odds with the intent of public health measures and nearly everybody would know they are breaking the health orders or stretching them to their limit.

Perhaps the NSW wishy-washy approach ("we're not sure how to define essential services") is partly to blame for people either not knowing if they are affected or not caring. Or perhaps people will just go and do their thing no matter what the health orders might say and no matter what state they come from.

A Covid case has cropped up in Goulburn because an infectious painter from Sydney was deemed "an essential service" and was working on a hospital building site. The Goulburn mayor has understandably questioned why local painters could not have been sourced from Goulburn.

Anyway some book-throwing is likely to be tried. It can't undo the current outbreak but might be a disincentive to anyone else trying it. It might also be cathartic for those who are tearing their hair out.

Mr Weimar said it had now been confirmed the removalists travelled to Victoria in two vehicles and the men were not forthcoming with information about their movements.

"Books will be thrown when it's time, when it's appropriate to throw them," he said.

"I'm exceptionally frustrated at the pace and transparency of the information coming from the removalists' exposure, that's been a real matter of concern."
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There will be more tomorrow, and tomorrow again. Just lockdown today.
 
ScragCity said:
Time for a circuit breaker imo. Seven day lockdown, Feds send us all a few quid. Back to normal by next weekend. Show the rest of the country what the real Gold Standard looks like.

Also publicly execute the idiots who caused this to deter further bullshit and to appease the angry mob.
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I don’t think it’s a executable offence…. BUT it might be time to name and shame.
 
ScragCity said:
Time for a circuit breaker imo. Seven day lockdown, Feds send us all a few quid. Back to normal by next weekend. Show the rest of the country what the real Gold Standard looks like.

Also publicly execute the idiots who caused this to deter further bullshit and to appease the angry mob.
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Execution is too swift and doesn’t rehabilitate.

A satisfyingly sadistic punishment would be to make them listen to the Channel 7 footy commentary for 500 hours.

They will never re-offend.
 
dogwatch said:
Execution is too swift and doesn’t rehabilitate.

A satisfyingly sadistic punishment would be to make them listen to the Channel 7 footy commentary for 500 hours.

They will never re-offend.
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Has the team left for the game at Fantasy Island on the weekend could the new outbreak change anything regarding that ?


On iPhone using BigFooty.com mobile app
 
Perhaps we should remove the removalists.
 

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