See the latest Australian dollar analysis here:
Heading into the end of the trading week, risk markets are falling out of bed due to the latest COVID variant news, with Asian stock markets heavily sold off and USD bid up strongly, although Yen safe haven bidding is also gathering pace. Gold has broken out somewhat, although this has been overshadowed by other risk off events and is currently just shy of the $1800USD per ounce level while Bitcoin has rolled over to be under the $58K level as daily resistance overhead as proven too hard to beat in the latest dead cat bounce:

Chinese shares are selling off everywhere with the Shanghai Composite down more than 0.5% lower at 3566 points while the Hang Seng Index is being sold off very sharply indeed, down over 2% to 24213 points. Japanese markets are having the worst time however, with the Nikkei 225 currently down nearly 3% at 28633 points with the USDJPY pair sharply inverting on the risk off move, seeing Yen bid off strongly with the pair back below its recent historic high at the 114.70 level:

Australian stocks couldn’t escape the carnage with the ASX200 currently down 1.7% to be at 7281 points as the Australian dollar has bounced off the diving board again, cracking well below the 72 level to the low 71’s making yet another monthly low:

Eurostoxx and S&P futures are down sharply to almost new weekly lows going into the London open with momentum switching to oversold as overseas markets react to the virus news. The S&P500 four hourly chart shows price heading back to the previous weekly lows at the 4650 point level with support very close below:

The economic calendar finishes the week with a whimper, just a few ECB speeches and not much else.
- Macro Afternoon - August 5, 2022
- Macro Morning - August 5, 2022
- Macro Afternoon - August 4, 2022
Thanks Chris!
By a whisker!!
Thanks The Travelling Phantom!
Don’t mention it , thank 🙏 you
Thank you. ball boys.
What fun!
Lotsa fun!
Thank you Yebrosky !
Another week finishing…thank you Chris!
Thanks B.1.1.529!
Thanks Spunky!
Thank you , and thanks to Chris too!
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Liar from the Shrire says we don’t have to be concern.
https://www.9news.com.au/world/south-africa-coronavirus-variant-everything-to-know-about-the-b11529-covid19-variant/30c0a077-9e7f-40c5-893e-218c4cfbb855
The means we’re stuffed!!
Hopefully truckloads of students are coming from South Africa soon, I miss Lock. Us . Down .
And the light traffic
Traffic today was dreamy. Folk must be choosing to work from home on a Friday.
I drive back from a job in Hawthorn to Flinders, it was shmozell 😔
Those choosers
Negative sideways choosers
It’s a very quiet Friday evening. Maybe everyone’s gone to the coast?
Already in Hong Kong and Israel.
Totally stuffed. He’ll close the border for no mutation!
Virus gonna virus. Interesting story from Japan of a Delta strain mutating itself out of existence.
yea my conclusion about that was, it is designed not to attack certain races maybe
Rashist!!!
I’m actually living this, I mean it is likely to kill the people ponzi reboot. Shame my sister is in Botswana though! She’s stuck there now.
Why is she there? Hoping safe trip for her back here
Short version: She’s an idiot and I’m not really happy with her for it.
Jeez, the ASX sure sh1t the bed today. 🙁
Dutton’s taking us to war with those nice Chinamans.
Hey, maybe it will take property prices with it. Silver lining and all that.
Could II Dutto make a grab for the big chair before the election ……might be his only chance to be PM
….even if only for a few weeks
MACROPOLL: Who or what is more dangerous:
A. Dutton
B. New Variant
Ahhh yes, the Chinese Valiant. Some beautiful designs that could kill in the wrong hands.
B.
Dutto will never be allowed. He’s already tried once and thats how we got Scomo.
Sadly unture. Once he plugs in some new ears, eyes, mouth and nose parts, he’ll have a second go and they won’t even know it’s him having another try.
New S.A. covid variant that is more drama than delta …
So problematic.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10242869/Egypt-celebrate-grand-reopening-3-000-year-old-Avenue-Sphinxes-TODAY.html
Why? You like Zeus more than Amun_Ra?
How did they walk?
Side to side
Called The Wall in Sydney
Thats sphinxes!
Spelling ending with
cter.
Oh yeah, just an accident
Why A Universal COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Is Ethical Today
https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20211029.682797/full/
“Mandates should only be used if they are needed. Individuals should first be educated about vaccination and its effectiveness—along with any potential risks—and then be encouraged to get voluntarily vaccinated. Incentives to encourage voluntary vaccination should also be tried.
A public health mandate should also only be instituted after robust public debate, in which there has been an opportunity for all people to voice their opinions. This has already happened. Indeed, social media have enabled all voices to be amplified and heard, sometimes over and over again. Those who prefer to remain unvaccinated will be disappointed to feel the pressure of a mandate. Not getting your way when you live in a democracy, however, does not mean you were excluded from the deliberative process.
Unfortunately, public debate and voluntary means have not been enough. When education, encouragement, prodding, and even incentivization have failed, and when harms from outbreaks are ongoing, then coercion in the form of mandates is ethically justifiable.
By “coercion,” we do not mean that anyone is going to be strapped down and jabbed with a needle against their will, or that this should happen. There is still a choice not to be vaccinated, but because that choice imposes substantial burdens, risks, and possible harm to others, it is reasonable for it to carry significant costs. For some, choosing not to be vaccinated will mean not holding a certain job, not enrolling in a school, or not being allowed to attend a public event. These implications are admittedly coercive, but coercion is justified when we are facing a terrible public health threat that involves many people getting infected and dying every day.”
That is absolutely sickening.
social media have enabled all voices to be amplified and heard
A clear lie. Any mention of Ivermectin in social media got the post removed.
lol
is it ….TABOO?
How is it sickening?
Not true, Facebook actually has a system whereby certain “important” people can bypass censorship. It’s called xcheck.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-files-xcheck-zuckerberg-elite-rules-11631541353
Because Ivermectin isn’t a treatment. (edited)
Well, depends. What you’re trying to treat.
Labor looked like a real chance of winning until the see foot, shoot it crowd within their ranks opened up their big mouths – https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10244473/Australian-Capital-Territory-Chief-Minister-Andrew-Barr-calls-migrants-pandemic.html
Unbelievable what a tool
Unscrambling The Macroeconomic Omelette With David Llewellyn-Smith And Damien Klassen
https://digitalfinanceanalytics.com/blog/unscrambling-the-macroeconomic-omelette-with-david-llewellyn-smith-and-damien-klassen/
Someone should hug Hugh and what is the odd of the new S.A. variant putting things back to before square one and how will that effect places like the U.K. and the U.S. as everyone not in the 20% gets the burnt end of the stick just 12 years after the GFC …. whoboy …
Wat
Yeah it’s all going to custard fast again. 🙂
Now this is art.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10244819/Banana-statue-Fitzroy-sparks-confusion-cost.html
Always wondered what Banana Man looked like.
He used to hang around, then peeled off
Slippery fella’
I’m sure this is problematic too.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-26/doctor-john-boffa-congress-vaccine-passports/100653302
Is my pussy a sociopath?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10244469/How-check-cat-psychopath-Tormenting-prey-meowing-loudly-signs.html
https://areyoubeingserved.fandom.com/wiki/List_Of_Mrs_Slocombe%27s_Pussy_Quotes
One for the memory bank (not the other bank), to regurgitate or discharge (dependant on the direction) at the appropriate future comment🐱
Yes she is
I’ve always found your missus to be quite tender albeit a bit highly strung
Is she an unskilled big top trapeze artist who falls off a lot?
Or, could simply be an a**hole.
Bubble much?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-26/anz-dragged-to-court-after-cleaners-and-real-estate-agents-helpe/100653078
anz always come in in the news for such grubby issues, when they’ll learn the Reusa way (do it but never get caught) !!??
Hey booma haven’t you got a story like this one from Bubbley?
You’ve got a good memory. Posted that years ago
Central Coast RE many years ago told me he had been selling nicely and one Sat came to work And Nothing.
Not one call, describing it as,
Though someone just turned the lights off.
Instantaneous stop of client flow.
After the 89 crash, all Aust similar.
‘She also had a couple of clients from Victoria that are going to sell and go home now that Vic is coming out of lock downs’
Darwin summer coming have something to do with that ?
The build-up sorts out the sheep from the goats.
Victorians would go troppo in NT..I’ve seen it few times..they just lose it..lose it completely
That’s what I’m hoping. We are definitely in the build up. My sweat moustache currently has its own sweat moustache. Hopefully it rains this weekend.
The real estate sales market has apparently started to slow down. I think affordable rentals will remain hard to come by for a while. I wouldn’t like to be a low income renter having to renegotiate a lease up here at the moment.
They could make ’em here you know, we have people who know how to do it.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/newcastle-light-rail-suspended-due-to-fault-with-spanish-built-trams-20211126-p59ckx.html
Quite an easy fix,
don’t know why they have to go GB for advice.
Whatever happened to the Steel City’s expertise.
Died with boomer retirement. Then get them back to work.
They’ve got Downer on to it, who once were Walkers in Maryborough who have 150 years of knowledge. There’s also Goninan still operating under a new name that I don’t know.
We can do this and it sh!ts me that no one cares.
UGL, Mining. I knew a few in the Townsville ops.
and what economic camp set the stage for everything all you and yours lament … better yet were rusted on and helped drive that agenda on everyone else …
My fitter mate works for a privatised workshop that maintains and repairs state rail rolling stock.
He reckons their trains have all been shyte since they stopped procuring the Newcastle built ones for foreign built.
Had to teach fitters at a railways workshop classroom how to hand scrape sliding steam valves for restoration of steam locomotive as all the younger blokes had no need for that knowledge previous to that.
Futures Tumble Amid Sudden Fears Over “Dramatically” New Covid Strain With “Extremely High Number” Of Mutations … Zerohedge
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/futures-global-stocks-tumble-amid-sudden-fears-over-dramatically-new-covid-strain
Covid: New heavily mutated variant B.1.1.529 in South Africa raises concern … BBC
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-59418127
Covid 19 Delta outbreak: New South Africa Covid variant’s most concerning feature … NZ Herald
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/covid-19-delta-outbreak-new-south-africa-covid-variants-most-concerning-feature/IRTOFH3MA6VQXY4FBNCXVURIRM/
What if the currently fully vaxed are found to be more susceptible to it than unvaxed.
9 is reporting that they think vaccine effectiveness could be as low as 30%….
So, a bit higher than the regular flu shot then?
Leading flu researchers recently (2019) admitted that it was as low as 23%
Or worse, they mandate 2 extra jabs one on each arm
What if covid deniers made worthwhile contributions to discussions on the topic? It’s a possibility. Well just have to wait to see if it occurs to find out.
All your vitamin D are belong to us
LOL
Austria, Italy and UK shut borders with SA.
Scummo says it’s fine. Here we go again.
Like what happened with India earlier this year?!
If he keeps the borders open (vested interests) the pain it brings (because hotel quarantine stilll not fixed) will parlay into so much electoral pain for him they’ll be gone
It’s going to cost lives unfortunately
Sir Antony of Dross has his lines – you’ve only had 2 jobs, innit. Vaccines and quarantines
Yeah well people die all the time
Qld quarantine will be fixed just in time !
Whodathunkit ??
Headline: New SA Variant found in Sydney airport workers.
In other news, PM encourages ex-pat Aussies to attend Springbok Test in Durban.
Netherlands, France and the Czechs have joined the chat.
Germans and Israel watching with great concern.
Game on!
ZH is actually worse than any variant of covid … it dulls the mind …
So says commie scum!
Ugh … Canadian gold mining squib funded a website …
I thought you guys were on the same team now, no?
Youse are both commie scum, just different spheres.
have you had a falling out or something?
get new glasses
So ScoMo brought the hammer down on Bridget Archer today and then suggested that she take some time off while being paired. It seems she told him to GFH.
If she keeps this up, she might even win her seat.
Why the actual fvck would Labor give them a pair after the clownshoes debacle?
Because Labor are fked in the head
They should play hardball on everything from here on in
The LNP are such a rabble at the moment they’d probably pair her with another LNP member.
I picture her channeling Logan Roy
Fkoffffff
Lioness indeed. I emailed Bridget last night with a short note of appreciation and support.
Nice. I’m going to do the same.
Defence Minister Peter Dutton says China considers Australia a ‘tributary state’ that should submit to its power
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-26/dutton-npc-china-australia-tributary-state/100653538
It is probably ASIS that is making trouble in the Solomons……we will know if the PM is deposed and the agreement with China voided……….our first coup ! We are getting in the big time.
As we should. One of the best things America has done is depose commie leaning governments.
My mate just sold this for almost 1.9 million in Sydenham.
You can see the facial expressions of passengers in the windows of landing aircraft flying into Sydney from his out door furniture.
It was my favourite part of visiting my mate Ridgy. Watching so many of those monsters land while drinking beers.,…so many beers.
He is another one, leaving me behind, on his way to Queensland.
Sigh.
🥺
https://www.realestate.com.au/property/75-park-rd-sydenham-nsw-2044
10-15 years ago you’d be lucky to get 300k for that. Awesome boom times for that area. At about the same time loosers on here were loosing. Has that “Don’t buy now” evil scumbag been executed yet? (Covid has made me pro-public-execution – I can feel its merits building deep inside. Life has little value, if it’s scum, and gets in the way of freedom.)
Davis Collier. That bloke will never be invited to relations parties.
I always said he would disappear in shame. And he did. Years ago. Told Solar Boy the same thing. Same thing happened. Sadly people got suckered by that false profit just like don’t buy now scumbag. Why do they stick to sh1t on here in the hope of cult love?
I’ve been telling everyone on here it’s boom times for many years yet they’ve hated me for my positive advice that would have made them rich. 300k on a westie flight path sh1thouse back then would give the 2 mil now. 2 mil !!
What’s wrong with you people? Learn to profit!! And if that means you destroy the weak in the process it’s your win and their loss. For eternity. So get on with it!
Good grief. 1.9? There? Not prying but curious, what multiple of household income in that area for that type of dwelling?
K mart meets alfresco…….such quiet understated style
and in Sydenham too….a steal at that price …( sorry ..level of debt )
I remember thinking they were crazy buying that for around 500k 12 or 13 years ago.
Barely over 200 m2 and the planes couldn’t be more than 100m up when coming in to land.
The flight path is 45 degrees out from the “alfresco” area.
The Jacuzzis got some stories.
“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.”
Isaac Newton
Did you and your mate jack each other off in the jacuzzi?
Lol
You know there is only one man in this entire world that I would let jack me off in a jacuzzi and I think you know who that man is my little Metrobius.
“However, even though he [Ermington Plumbing] had such a wife at home, he consorted with actresses, harpists, and theatrical people, drinking with them on couches all day long. For these were the men who had most influence with him now: Roscius the comedian, Sorex the archmime, and Metrobius the impersonator of women, for whom, though past his prime, he continued up to the last to be passionately fond, and made no denial of it.”
😘
Not bad for a plumber with a year 12 education.
Well don’t tell Skip but I was actually kicked outa HS half way through year 11.
You disgust me.
And you me.
Nice Dick pic BTW
I wish I knew how to quit you.
Well to quote Plutarch again,
“It was this laxity, as it seems, which produced in him [Harry] a diseased propensity to amorous indulgence and an unrestrained voluptuousness, from which he did not refrain even in his old age, but continued his youthful love for EP, a Plumber”
Maybe a propensity (homo stuff), as old as civilisation itself, isn’t meant to be quit.
There must be a lot of heady tombs of litreature clogging bogs in Ermo or do said clients just wipe their derieres with nothing but the classics?
Who puts a roof over a spa.
Why would ya
Fair dinkum what a goose.
It helps to keep the dumped jet fuel outa the water.
And it’s not a spa, it’s a jacuzzi, ya goose
J’accuse!
Dreyfus decking on the tub, sacre bleu!
Not vaccine related but…
During the 2021 financial year in Victoria the crime incident rate per 100,00 people was down 6.6% v the 12 mths to Jun20.
That is there were less criminals in Victoria as a share of population.
Given there were less criminals v non-criminals in 2021 (and less criminals threatening non-criminals) should Dan Andrews make crime legal?
i remember seeing the same post before. Are you plagiarising comments?
only my own. I’m going to keep repeating this one until it sinks in.
Do you think Dan Andrews should make crime legal?
if its weed yes
Road vehicle deaths were significantly down too in 2020.
And flu deaths ……. was a good year actually
Harry!!!! I’m still wondering what’s the factoid you wanted to share couple of weeks ago, 🤔 😕 🙃
It’s a pretty boring factoid.
https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2021/11/weekend-links-13-14-november-2021/#comment-4202572
I must have missed it when you wrote it 2 weeks ago, very interesting to know!
would Ermo be able to fit the dunny for you on the boat?
Check this out – I think it’s a showroom for boats in Deutschland.
And the boat’s OK for 130k too.
https://www.bandofboats.com/en/boats-for-sale/106178
beautiful piece! and its German so must be good, how would you bring it down here? fly to there then sail back?
how much they’ll tax you when you dock here?
…anything submersible, good for sailing in a pack?
Ermington Plumbing Pty Ltd offers a 5% discount to all Macrobusiness.com.au subscribers, pensioners and concession card holders.
Note – This discount only applies on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and only on jobs located in Ermington or adjoining suburbs to Ermington.
Otherwise it’s full price.
Edit – Of course for Harry it’d be my,…Super best friends Mates rates.
😘
CBA hikes fixed rates for third time in six weeks
https://www.brokernews.com.au/news/breaking-news/cba-hikes-fixed-rates-for-third-time-in-six-weeks-279258.aspx
https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/investing/buy-now-pay-later-providers-reveal-millions-in-losses/news-story/a0cf57f1fb85b440cda6066322e6065d?amp
https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/passenger-claims-woman-breastfed-cat-onboard-flight/news-story/7cdbbde8ab099cf9bcf25913ec6cb338?amp
[Delta has tightened regulations regarding emotional support for animals over the last few years after experiencing an 84 per cent increase in incidents.]
https://amp.smh.com.au/national/christmas-grocery-supplies-under-threat-as-pallet-gate-intensifies-20211125-p59c25.html
I’ve been watching this for the last few weeks
It’s obvious in supermarkets now
Fruit and veg in some lines
Lots of empty shelves – baby stuff, cereal pasta
And wtf is going on with plant based stuff – all the stuff from Holland is gone, pepperoni, facon etc, naturalii, beyond meat etc
I’ve never understood this. Assuming consumer preference satisfied, why do vegans want products that imitates meat product appearance and flavour? I get the convenience of the ‘sausage’ (handy on picnics too, apparently) but it must be more than that.
I’m a vego and love vege hot dogs (“not dogs”). I think it’s the sauce and bun and whatever spices they put in.
But I find those imitation bleeding meet patties quite disturbing, quite like vego burgers tho that don’t pretend to be meat..
Other thing is, these things are quite expensive too, so I generally don’t bother. And some are horrible for carbs.
If I can’t tell the difference (in my mouth) between synthetic steaks and bacon and the real thing then I could be a vego.
But otherwise,…not really.
Harry, hmmm. So not the product but the accompaniments making the flavour package. I can understand that aspect from classical cooking.
Ermo, I take more care what goes in my mouth but, granted, some people aren’t fussy.
My view – the industrialised profit/convenience of food is horrendous. It’s a giant experiment and the evidence is emerging, or at least getting mainstream cover. Health wise, and my own preference, is that, assuming a ‘balanced’ diet, it is not the vege or omnivore streams that matters most, it’s the processed / raw food composition in the total. In a nutshell, processed is bad. I gather that vegan offerings may be just as bad.
Even 99 whatever % of milk is processed. Industrialised, it’s put through the factory and the component bits separated and then re-blended into this ‘natural’ product on the shelves. The homogenisation process itself disintegrates the natural fat molecules into the mix because the consumer ‘wants’ consistency.
@ ginger. But it’s a familiarity thing too with hot dogs, I’ve had them since a kid.
I wish there could be a vego Oktoberfest so I could have all the mustards and buns and biers.
I don’t think the meat industry can monopolise minced protein-stuffed membranes.
I do find I sometimes miss KFC, but you can sort of make a substitute with salt and pepper tofu.
Other meat cooking makes me gag now, to my sister’s evil enjoyment.
^^ interesting, second commentator mentioning his sister tonight
The smell of frying bacon should adjust you back to your true natural state and get those pointed incisors back to what they were developed for, tearing flesh again.
Because it doesn’t involve a dead animal
Plenty of people used to eat meat, and enjoy it, but don’t want to any more for ethical and environmental reasons (or simply want to reduce their consumption).
https://forkast.news/headlines/reserve-bank-australia-wholesale-digital-dollar/amp/
https://news.bitcoin.com/russia-gets-bulk-of-chinese-mining-machines-amid-miners-exodus-report-reveals/
Dodgy Russians can dodge all US sanctions now
Glad I fixed at 1.99 though the refix will be interesting
https://amp.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/affordability-fears-as-perth-rents-eclipse-prices-seen-in-sydney-and-melbourne-20211118-p59a3o.html
Sh1yte me dax (really bad this time)
WOOOOOP
Paging TTW Paging TTW dax news spillage aisle 7
Ruh roh.
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets
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Now this is interesting in its timing and its positioning
https://www.theage.com.au/national/tanya-and-michael-okay-you-ve-been-to-jail-fine-20211109-p5977e.html
Meh, every election someone goes hard at her hubby’s past. Guess they’ve learned to get in early.
I meant from the perspective of positioning her – puff piece
4 Corners strikes again.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-26/port-macquarie-development-allegedly-linked-to-obeids-rejected/100655104
It’s not over yet though : if they go to the Land and Environment Court it can be overturned. The Court can disregard any planning rules if the judge feels like it, and there is no avenue of appeal once the judgement is made.
Brandon, a man from Nantucket,
………..
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10244773/Bidens-Thanksgiving-menu-revealed-celebrate-Nantucket.html
A Massachusetts democrat ….just like the Kennedys…
Eh isnt that a given? Not too many teapartyists in the home of the original and real tea party.
Does he follow through?
Completely predictable that a new variant pops up in a country with a 23% vaccination rate.
But will this stop the anti vaxxers claiming the vaccines cause the mutations and new variants despite science and all evidence saying the exact opposite – where the highly vaccinated countries see very few variants.
Anti vaxxers are not only vessels for current variants. they are also the perfect natural laboratory for the evolution of new ones. But this is their “right”.
I won’t blame the people in South Africa, Maybe cause of the high rate of poverty 🤔 and the lack of the state’s ability to provide the vaccine.
What’s the Vax rate in Japan and how did they manage to have it mutate to extinction?
Here in Victoria it’s above 90% vaccination and still getting high numbers, why NSW isn’t getting same numbers?
I’m not blaming people who would willingly have the vaccine if it was available.
I am blaming the anti-vaxxers.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/11/probable-vaccine-escaping-covid-variant-sequenced-in-gauteng-south-africa-and-spreading-rapidly-press-underplaying-downside-risk.html
Can you be anymore absurd
Properly vaccinated populations will have nothing to fear from this new strain.
The statistics will soon show that fully vaccinated people will not die from the new strain.
Anyone who speaks differently is an anti-vaxxer and should be cancelled.
What part of safe AND EFFECTIVE don’t you understand? Sweeper = anti-vaxxer.
new variants would not develop if populations were properly vaccinated.
Did you read the link fknuckle
Ha? What’s your link meant to tell me.
From your link:
“Why didn’t the WHO trumpet the importance of sending vaccines to developing economies, targeting above all their HIV positive populations? Instead, all they did was bleat when the first world started launching boosters, that they should stop until 10% of the population of emerging economies were vaccinated. 10%? With no recommendation of prioritizing populations that could incubate variants“
I agree with that. Pace of vaccination has been too slow and hasn’t been targeted. 2 years into this and nothing has been learned.
You are obviously so blinkered, first vaccines were for the wild variant and still does not stop transmission, then delta blew right past it, and now as predicted we have a new variant that surpasses delta. You obviously don’t follow the science community discussing this before it gets politicized and I’m not talking about randoms on UTube or MSM.
Worst of all the notion that vaccination rates by themselves would fix everything is false. It takes a flexible multivariate approach to limit the potential of covid and save lives. Do you get the factors like the high HIV dramas in Africa and how that effects the evolution of this new covid variant.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s warning in late January 2020, which was not heeded: that the downside of Covid-19 was that it could be a pandemic, and the risk was that of ruin.
https://necsi.edu/systemic-risk-of-pandemic-via-novel-pathogens-coronavirus-a-note
“And we are collectively about to pay for the eagerness of the officialdom to declare the pandemic over at every possible turn and put all their chips on a non-sterilizing vaccine, which is very useful at preventing worst outcomes of the current variants, but does little to prevent transmission of Delta due to its very high replication rate. Yet the authorities have been bludgeoning the public to get vaccinated, not to protect themselves and keep the medical system from breaking down, but as a confidence-builder, based on the inaccurate claim that the vaccines stop spread.
In the US, Biden administration systematically failed to support or actively denigrated all non-pharmaceutical interventions. It actively encouraged the vaccinated to abandon masks (positioning non-masking as proof of virtue). The CDC and WHO have been silent on ventilation and have actively opposing the aerosol theory of transmission. Even social distancing has been discouraged with Fauci recommending that the vaccinated carry on as if it were the old normal over Thanksgiving.
Now, when we need non-pharmaceutical interventions to hold the line until some sort of vaccine/treatment rescue arrives, they have all been systematically undermined and rendered dysfunctional by Biden’s vax only policy (a view embraced by the Democrat base and indeed taken as a marker of tribal affiliation).
By letting business drive public health policy with its quest for a “return to normal,” the entire last year was squandered, not just NPIs, but testing, contact tracing, international infection control standards, everything. We said this amounted operational to “Let ‘er rip.” B.1.1.529 may show us the true cost of that recklessness.”
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/11/probable-vaccine-escaping-covid-variant-sequenced-in-gauteng-south-africa-and-spreading-rapidly-press-underplaying-downside-risk.html
Do you have a comprehension problem Sweeper and then double down on past opinions due to path dependency.
Sweeper is the #PRGUY
Then he has the cheek to talk about science and trust in how citizens respond in the here and now and future …. who will listen when its squandered to forward some ridiculous political ideology for point scoring in the face of a novel[tm] virus pandemic. What kind of humans use such rhetorical devices and what is their ultimate agenda that would compel them to stupefy others for some notion of advantage, uncaring how that effects everyone regardless of personal views or tribalism – during a global health crisis, and then wrap themselves in the cloak of well meaning responsibility to all.
Anyone got any tips for race 6 and race 10 a Rosehill tomorrow.
They are my punters club bets for the day.
We’ve got just under 5 grand to spend which is just under break even.
I was one of only 3 to make more than I put in and I basically achieved this over the year with multiple small place bets on the 2nd and 3rd longest odds paying over 10/1.
How’s that for a sophisticated system.
Dont back the three legged horse…spend it all on p1ss for yer mates instead, then everyones a winner🍾
Nobody will be going thirsty today
A man’s not a camel.
It could have been a contender in the sixth.
Throwing it all away in the tenth.
R6-2,5,8
R10-8,12,16
You were unhelpful in Race 6 Jigga.
Let’s see how you go in race 10
Phuked, just like my hay
Omicron variant of Covid-19 has ‘unusual but mild’ symptoms, doctor who raised alarm says … Peta Thornycroft and Will Brown … UK Telegraph / Stuff New Zealand
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/africa/300465027/omicron-variant-of-covid19-has-unusual-but-mild-symptoms-doctor-who-raised-alarm-says
The first South African doctor to alert the authorities about patients with the Omicron variant has told The Telegraph that the symptoms of the new variant are unusual but mild.
Dr Angelique Coetzee said she was first alerted to the possibility of a new variant when patients in her busy private practice in the capital Pretoria started to come in earlier this month with Covid-19 symptoms that did not make immediate sense.
They included young people of different backgrounds and ethnicities with intense fatigue and a six-year-old child with a very high pulse rate, she said. None suffered from a loss of taste or smell. … read more via hyperlink above …
I heard this too this morning. Hopefully this is good news, but I remember they said the same thing initially about Delta as well.
Some still say Delta is more mild than the original COVID. Who knows what’s true any more? There are agendas being pushed all over the place using this as leverage.
I wager the official word will be “get the vaccine naow! Get two or three, to protect you from the evil Omicron” whether it is a more mild infection or not.