Every sick child, and probably every adult at some point, asks that existential question: why am I suffering?
No answer is satisfying. To be sick is to feel vulnerable, weak, not in control, not in the game. Life is chugging along outside of your room. You can hear laughter, cars going here and there, people out and about. But you are stuck, shivering under blankets, appetite disrupted and struggling to remember what it was like to feel healthy.
With fever, all of this is worse because the capacity for one’s brain to process information with full rationality is deprecated. High fever can induce a form of brief insanity, even involving hallucinations. You imagine things that are not true. You know that but can’t shake it off. The fever breaks and you find yourself in a pool of sweat, and your hope is that somewhere in this mess the bug has left you.
Read more: The Psychological Cruelty of Denying Natural immunity
I watched a video today which has had a deep impact upon me. It said so much in such a short time and I found it hard to argue with or question anything in it. The speaker said " To those of you who are not aware of what is going on or still haven't figured it out, Let me get you up to speed. Citizens of Australia - we are at war. "
When our government on a federal level and our governments on a state level start locking us up, depriving us of our rights " for our own good ": I have to wonder: are we at war?
Or have we already surrendered?
How did we bend over and give up so quickly? Not a shot fired, unless you count rubber bullets of course; not a blow dealt - unless you count the taking down of people walking in parks; not a person handcuffed - unless you count the pregnant women and old aged pensioners - ah, such a peaceful battle.
Novak Novax is now a household name throughout the world - even with those who have never followed tennis.
It struck me that this was completely different from how I have acted for as long as I can remember. In my day, and to the present, when someone showed you a courtesy, you would show appreciation, “a little thing”.
Read more: In todays complicated and troubling world, we must not forget the little things
WW2 brought an abrupt end to test cricket as it did with most other internationally contested sports. The last test tour of England was in 1938 which ended in a drawn series and Australia retaining the Ashes. The next tour by England was scheduled for 1940/41 but was curtailed due to the war.
Before the end of 1945 the public, particularly in England, were anxious for cricket to resume and a series of four matches was arranged between England and an Australian composite side drawn from service personnel based in the UK. This was known as The Australian Services team and was captained by Lindsay Hassett. The games were known as The Victory Tests but they did not have Ashes Test status. Two games were won by each side and the fifth listed for Manchester was abandoned.
Read more: When sports survived politics - war was no match for the love of the game
We seem to be so pre occupied with fear and tales of terror these days, don't we? If you are not careful with your choice of news broadcaster, you could believe that the end of the world is nigh.
The problem is that it does not matter which broadcaster you choose, all that is being reported is that the end of the world, as we know it, is on our very doorstep. Fear is a terrible weapon and it is often the fear of a bogeyman that does not exist that causes the greatest fear.
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Could the Australian Government’s current banning of Novak Djokovic be because of his public support for the preservation of Serbian ecology in Jadar Valley? Hmm... let's have a think.
Rio Tinto is an Australian mining company that was planning to open a huge Lithium mine in Serbia. There have been massive anti Rio Tinto protests across Serbia in recent months, protests that were supported by many popular public figures, including Djokovic.
Djokovic shared a photograph of the protest on Instagram and commented that “clean air, water and food are keys to health. “Without that, every word about ‘health’ is obsolete,”
Would Rio Tinto be amused? Probably not. In fact, I suspect that they would not appreciate Novak Novax supporting a movement to stop them mining lithium in Serbia. Tut tut, Novak!
Read more: Novak No vax? Is this about tennis? Or is it about mining, money and mates?
By the time solar energy reaches Earth’s surface it is spread very thin – even midday sunshine will not boil the billy or make toast. And solar collectors will only convert about 20% of that weak energy into electricity. Thus thousands of solar panels are needed to collect significant energy, and lots more to charge the expensive batteries needed to maintain electricity supply overnight and during cloudy weather. Despite these disadvantages, force-feeding of “green” energy by all levels of government has given Australia nearly three million solar collectors (mainly imported from China).
It requires scads of land to generate significant electricity from the sun’s weak rays. But even in sunny weather they produce nothing for 16 hours every day. And a sprinkling of dust, pollen, ash or salt, or a few splatters of poop from birds or flying foxes can reduce output by 50%, while night, snow or heavy cloud cover snuffs them out completely.
Read more: Australia’s Giant Green Gamble on Solar Energy Toys
Investigative journalist Jordan Schachtel said that presently there is no Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved vaccine for the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) in the United States and that Big Pharma intends to use children as legal human shields for vaccines.
On top of monetary gains, Pfizer, Moderna and other manufacturers appear to need the children as legal human shields for their products. Children face near-zero risk from COVID-19 but continue to experience alarming side effects. Health authorities in the U.S. have confirmed that children and adolescents develop COVID-19 in an extremely mild manner, if at all.
A study also showed that up to 80 percent of children develop side effects that can lead to severe trauma. In the study, Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine was tested on 1,097 children and adolescents from 12 to 15 years of age. At least 866 experienced some form of unpleasant side effect – 466 were described as “mild,” 393 were “moderate” and seven were “severe.”
Australian officials have refused to support Novak Djokovic's visa in a move which again casts doubt on his participation in the Australian Open. Novak Djokovic faces an anxious wait to discover if he will be eligible to play at the Australian Open after Victorian officials refused to support his visa to enter the country despite being medically cleared to do so.
Djokovic, who is understood to be unvaccinated against Covid-19, announced on Tuesday that he had successfully received a medical exemption to play in this month's first Grand Slam event of the new year, where he is hoping to win his fourth-straight tournament in Melbourne and set a new all-time Grand Slam record in the process.
However, his participation is again in question according to a report by Australian publication The Age who state that the Serb - who has landed in the country - submitted an incorrect visa application.
Read more: Novak Djokovic ‘denied entry’ to Australia in visa issue
For those of us who value liberty, these past two years have been a bad dream. It seems like we fell asleep in early 2020 and woke up in 1984! They said that if we just put on a mask and stayed home for two weeks, we’d be able to return to normal. The two weeks came and went and instead of going back to normal they added more restrictions. These past two years have been a story of moving goalposts and “experts” like Anthony Fauci constantly contradicting themselves.
Early on, in April 2020, I warned in an article titled “Next in Coronavirus Tyranny: Forced Vaccinations and ‘Digital Certificates,’” that the ultimate goal of the “two weeks” crowd was to force vaccines and a “vaccine passport” on Americans.
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