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This virus does not like the hot humid conditions; it has a seasonal aspect to it; viral load is important, and so on. My family were involved for many years in nursing homes and I once worked as a nurse in a major nursing home. So I have a bit of understanding of how these places work. I am not at all surprised that Victoria is now a disaster area for these establishments. This thread is just a place for me to make public some of the links I regularly collect for anyone who would want to use them.

At least the Sky hive mind is a slight improvement on the hive mind propaganda streaming out of the -government funded- alarmist headquarters with their pretense of balance over time etc! If people are not keeping up with Dr. John Campbell all I can say is that they ought to! IMV there is no excuse now for a lack of optimism as death rates are currently tumbling as the treatments often very cost efficient are coming on stream at a rapid rate!

Barry recently published a reminiscence about his trip to China that I very much enjoyed reading. Nevertheless the following paragraph struck me as just the sort of thinking that people used to get away with in the sheltered land of communist youth groups and perhaps such thinking is still lingering with Barry. Who needs a Navy? My ears pricked up when mention was made of a coastal naval defense force.

We shall never become imperialist! Only imperialists need a large powerful Navy! But that statement from the Chinese side was silly at face value. That is to say even at the time it was made it was silly! So am I building a straw man? I hope so in the narrow sense; but in the broader sense definitely not. The style of thinking involved here is spread right through the progressive element that I have known over the decades. They live a pretence that they as individuals are scientifically minded and open to debate when they are nothing like involved in the search for understanding.

After Putin signed up to some comforting words about democracy and elections in Syria half theorists — who were people that used to regularly post or comment at Strangetimes — totally abandoned the Strangetimes project. In never walking this issue back they demonstrated that they most certainly are vulnerable to a delusionary drift. Lately we have had the anti Erdogan claptrap from Tom G and silence from all the others who know full well that it is claptrap!

Or they ought to! Who can tell with the silence! Cancel culture. Talk to themselves. This Chinese blather from 50 years ago is not the sort of thinking that could sink the Bismarck and of course the Bismarck had to be sunk!

But then who would think that someone from Malta could accept such twaddle either. He immediately built a blue water navy to deal with the Barbary pirates.

From the very beginning of that revolutionary country the navy was integral to its survival as a beacon for revolution. Whatever line was being pushed in , in reality Mao would not have accepted such blather any more than Zhou En Lai. Both had lived through WW2 and both had watched Battleship Potemkin.

Building of Atom bombs was something that the young communists of the time managed to rationalize and I for one would be keen to learn how those that did so argued about it.

Shipping is the reality of globalists. Proletarians have a world to win and we crew big ships that we build and fill and consume the contents of. Simply speaking the democratic revolution does not go global from the start so revolutionaries do have naval issues to consider! The communist revolution is not yet in sight. Despite appearances created by the current victories of revisionists, genuine communists are the cutting edge of the democratic revolution, and we are very interested in the navy.

In when there are still no revolutionary countries in some kind of socialist camp to bother us, piracy still creates a stupid thought pattern among pseudoleftists. The greenies even try to stop the coal and other fossil fuels being shipped to save the planet no less. Just consider the green scaremongering when a bulk carrier ran aground the other day!

Totally pathetic scaremongering of a very minor mistake made by careless workers. The workers stuffed up! Of course Barry gets the stupidity of a stand that leaves seafarers at the mercy of pirates, but he might be a bit weak on just how you deal with pirates!

This type of soft thinking from 50 years ago jumps up to bite almost everyone with a leftist disposition when it comes to people sloshing around the world as refugees.

The vexed issue of refugees brings on more silence. Not just people being bombed into sloshing around by the current crop of fascists led by the audacious Putin either.

We know there are 3. I suppose , Syrians made it to the safety of the west! The lucky ones who are enjoying the good life! They had policies of attacking hospitals and making lots more refugees; so what is to be done?

Put in troops to resist him and shoot down his aircraft if they come near that is what a modern mechanized army can do. That is what the Turks are positioned to do. That is how Erdogan is dealing with the issue. The other far more humble entrepreneurial type people smugglers who just know what they want and have the get up and go to go and get it are also audacious in their own way. But are they the solution to the peoples problems? NO and that is obviously so. Open the borders, let the people of the world roam free is the -quite frankly- dishonest or dim witted easy answer that neither Zhou En Lai nor Mao were themselves prepared to countenance in their day.

They did exactly the opposite. Stay at your post was the order in China. Do not flood the cities but urbanization was required and proceeded in a measured kind of way. Mao did not betray the peasants or just use them and move on. The historical tasks were not avoided by policies of silence either.

China had to be functioning as well as changing as rapidly as possible. What was possible was always at issue but make yourself useful was never in doubt! So those seeking the easy life are simply not first priority when the real problem is millions in poverty. Being bombed by the fascists to the point where there is for them no alternative but to run to save their lives is one thing. Having for example made it to Turkey ought Turkey shuffle them on to Sweden? Ought all the doctors go to live in Paris?

How about all the engineers? Will the emptying countries be left with the old and no one to care for them as parts of many countries actually develop right now? So to recap. September was when the Russians turned up with aircraft in Syria! The now silent Australian communists post no current content on what is now several years of important developments in the MENA region. Indeed some comments from as little as a couple of years ago were nothing more than a doubling down on the previous foolishness!

We are now about to enter the sixth year after the intervention and Arthur retained his thinking from the last months of that reality had shattered with Russian barrel bombs in the first 6 months. Since then not much for me to even bother to reply to.

Silence from reds is nothing less than a disgrace! Big problems requiring revolutionary solutions are in the here and now! No involvement in the political struggle, no involvement in the economic struggle and no involvement in the theoretical struggle is just no involvement at all!

No one does. But they will want to control it. A week after the phony elections and the unrest is now peacefully growing but the police after just one death of a demonstrator -from their brutality- have eased up and clearly they are unable to stop the large scale milling around that will now — in the grand tradition of such struggles- become a daily feature of Minsk life as the main square or something has to be occupied immediately.

It may look to the police a bit like visions of the old East German police and look what became of them! They might not see this as a good bet to stay out of jail themselves now.

Lukashenko is clearly finished if the demonstrators press their advantage now! The only thing that could keep him going for even a couple of weeks is a lack of immediate action to send him on his way! That was a stupid blunder! Silence was a no brainer! What do they look like to the people of Belarus now! Not pretty! So this week all is apparently forgiven from the recent arrests of Russian mercenaries; whatever that was all about. The world is starkly divided with such idiocy on full display.

That old form of tyranny makes a bit more sense to me than this farce and that is what it is. Anti democrats of the world unite because you have empires to lose! Putin really believes that territory is Russian! He is not going to bow out of this contest. That is not the nature of the little Czar.

The week after another election has been blatantly stolen by Lukashenko as he has done often enough before and naturally his police state thugs were out beating and arresting anyone who objected. Calling a clear and big election win a gigantic loss is bound to deliver a mass turnout on the streets so they had quite a few to put in the slammer and it just got bigger.

After all, I have always half thought along the lines of the half theorists! The European Union must act. They will undoubtedly offer a great deal of revolutionary advice! There has been an election and this can now only be resolved in a hand over to the real winner; for an eventual re-run under proper free and fair conditions and thus for her husband a very probable 2nd win.

Putin is scrambling because there is no legitimate candidate for him. The resolution of this one simple democracy issue is whatever else it is economically doomed from day1. It will fix nothing of the peoples livelihood issues. Capitalism is not capable of fixing the current crisis in Belarus. The golf and hotel element has to Read the latest report and enter this week's contest.

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