Coronavirus

[Rico1304]

9 hours ago, Pureblood said:

That's your take on it, I respectfully disagree. 

 

As a qualified solicitor, I'm used to absorbing lots of information, sorting the wheat from the chaff and deciding what has credibility. 

 

It's a gift. 

Ha ha ha ha ha ha.  Are you a solicitor?  I’m pretty sure, but not 100%, that saying you are a qualified solicitor has a specific meaning.  I think that you are telling porkies.  
 

Dominic Raab and Priti Patel were both solicitors weren’t they? What company!   

[Skidfingers McGonical]

9 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

You really need to question why stories being pushed by reprehensible racist liars like GB News are being ignored by any journalists with so much as a scintilla of integrity.

Are all GB News racists?
 

From the small number of clips I have seen, it’s mainly been that Scottish bloke. So I can’t make a fully informed decision. 
 

I personally wouldn’t know the full scale of racist behaviour on there because I don’t watch that Shite, however throughout this thread you seem to be fully knowledgable on all news media outlets. I like your skills.

 

Have you spent a considerable amount of time observing and watching GB News to make a well informed decision. Or are you just echoing what others say about it because it’s the “in” thing to do and you don’t like the conversation going a different way?

 

So what Media Outlet should we be watching? What are the ones we should listen to and and trust? 

[Skidfingers McGonical]

23 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

Ha ha ha ha ha ha.  Are you a solicitor?  I’m pretty sure, but not 100%, that saying you are a qualified solicitor has a specific meaning.  I think that you are telling porkies.  
 

Dominic Raab and Priti Patel were both solicitors weren’t they? What company!   

Qualified solicitor means that you have the qualification. Then you specialise in house. 

[Rico1304]

7 minutes ago, Skidfingers McGonical said:

Qualified solicitor means that you have the qualification. Then you specialise in house. 

I think it means he qualified. It doesn’t mean he practices.  I’ll bet he doesn’t have the certificate to practice. He’ll clear it up though.  I’m not sure him qualifying years ago gives him any greater insight. It’s a classic appeal to authority.  

[Pureblood]

39 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

Ha ha ha ha ha ha.  Are you a solicitor?  I’m pretty sure, but not 100%, that saying you are a qualified solicitor has a specific meaning.  I think that you are telling porkies.  
 

Dominic Raab and Priti Patel were both solicitors weren’t they? What company!   

Qualified and practised for 15 years. 

[Skidfingers McGonical]

6 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

I think it means he qualified. It doesn’t mean he practices.  I’ll bet he doesn’t have the certificate to practice. He’ll clear it up though.  I’m not sure him qualifying years ago gives him any greater insight. It’s a classic appeal to authority.  

No, qualified solicitor is just a degree. They can practice in a Personal Injury firm or a Family Law for example. Or are you talking about running their own practice? Because that is different. I believe. 
 

I walked out the law sector 2 years ago so things may have changed in that short time. 

[Pureblood]

2 minutes ago, Skidfingers McGonical said:

No, qualified solicitor is just a degree. 

Degree + Legal Practice Course + 2 year training contract at a law firm = qualified. 

[Skidfingers McGonical]

2 minutes ago, Pureblood said:

Degree + Legal Practice Course + 2 year training contract at a law firm = qualified. 

Ah, yes the LPC, forgotten about that. 
 

 

[Rico1304]

38 minutes ago, Pureblood said:

Qualified and practised for 15 years. 

Fair enough. 

[Denny Crane]

First they came for. This is on the Tory twitter feed it seems to have riled some vaccine hesitant people. 

 

 

 

[TD_LFC]

2 hours ago, Iceman said:

Yeah never mind. Edit out your post because you don't like how it makes you look. Pity for you I already quoted you. You focus on barbed wire instead of human rights. Indefensible shit man. 

No I edited it out almost immediately, because It was gonna descend into a argument over semantics and mis-quoting of reports for the sake of drama.

 

I'll look out for your human rights posts over the need to quarantine in hotels post travel in the UK and abroad, given Howard Springs is primarily used to house people needing to quarantine from international flights and while the wifi can be a bit spotty, and you can only order from supermarkets and not deliveroo/ubereats we're a little bit away from concentration camps just yet.

 

I mean it could be another Jeremiah Denton situation but the aboriginal view of it is.

 

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“The Covid team working in my community at the moment is best for my community, my people,” indigenous Garawa leader Dickie Dixon said a few days back about Robinson River. However, it’s true that the indigenous community didn’t simply roll up their sleeves at the sight of health workers. “We sat down with the health team that came around and gave us the info of what’s coming and how you can get the vaccine,” said Dixon, “We questioned everything, but we still got it.”

 

“We are very pleased with how the Northern Territory Government has reacted to the outbreaks in Katherine and Robinson River,” confirms a press release of the Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory, an Aboriginal controlled body seeking to improve culturally appropriate medical care for indigenous people in the Territory. “Northern Territory Government staff have gone above and beyond to protect our people and we thank them all sincerely.”

 

Some people here in the Katherine area aren’t even aware of the conspiracy theories taking shape on social media overseas about our communities. “This is the first time I heard that, when I happened to be watching TikTok this morning,” the Kunwinjku man Andy Garnarrandj told Australia’s National Indigenous Television network. “It’s not happening here.” Residents of Binjari troubled with social media hysteria have spoken through the Wurli-Wurlinjang Aboriginal Health Service to the media from their locked-down community. In the words of one Binjari woman, “I wanna say after seeing all the social media stories saying things about Binjari communities and the lockdown … The army and police are not removing anyone against their will. There are no children getting forcibly vaccinated.” “We are being looked after and have a voice to people that can answer our issues,” another Binjari woman says in admiration for health workers, “All the workers are working hard in the heat in their suits and we know it’s not easy.”

 

“We are in the biggest fight of our lives,” community leaders in Binjari and Rockhole camps announced. In an expression of their gratefulness to health workers, the leaders said, “We have been treated with a lot of respect and appreciate all the support being given by these support personnel people.”

“People are being treated with respect and nobody is being held down and forced to be given the COVID-19 vaccination,” the well-known Aboriginal town councillor Jacinta Nampijinpa Price said in a recent Facebook video. Known as a conservative voice in Australian politics and an opponent of vaccine mandates, Price has nonetheless ridiculed the claims made as deeply disrespectful, “Likening it to Stolen Generations is an insult.” Wurli-Wurlinjang Aboriginal Health Service’s Luke Ellis tweets from quarantine, “My grandmother was stolen generation. To compare what I’m going though in this camp to what she and her generation went through is disgusting.”

The camp Ellis speaks of is the Howard Springs Quarantine Facility, where he and 39 other indigenous people from these areas have been taken to isolate for two weeks. This is Tim Pool’s “concentration camp,” the same one that interns international arrivals including our National Olympians.

 

This is not America. I want you to understand that. In communities like Binjari there are upwards of thirty people living under a single house roof. That makes a mockery of the idea of self-isolation at home. So when the government realized that 39 people were probable infections, they were transferred, without protest, to Howard Springs. Of these, all 39 have tested positive, meaning that hundreds of indigenous people in their households have been spared infection.

 

Now, think what you will about the defining criteria of a concentration camp, but my reading of Viktor Frankl’s description of his time in Auschwitz and other camps in Man’s Search for Meaning leaves a somewhat different impression. Let Frankl tell you what a concentration camp is. It’s being stripped naked. It’s taking beatings for no good reason at all. It’s trying not to make eye contact with guards. It’s being crammed together and forced to sit on feces and urine. It’s endless forced labor in snow. It’s the sound of sulking from a grown man whose swollen feet won’t fit into his shoes. It’s the slow, drawn-out process of starvation. It’s the moral dilemma of cannibalism. It’s talking to a man and staring into the eyes of his corpse barely an hour later. It’s knowing that it’s your wife’s birthday, staring out into the stars, and wondering where she is and if she’s alive anymore.

 

“I’m in a nice room with my own aircon,” tweets a contented Luke Ellis from Howard Springs, “I’m sitting back watching Netflix on free Wi-Fi. I had barra with garlic butter and broccolini for dinner. I’m in constant contact with loved ones.” “The food is amazing.” But Ellis’s best observation? “If it’s a ‘genocide’ it’s a pretty shit planned one.”

 

 

[elvis]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/03/italian-man-tries-to-dodge-covid-vaccine-wearing-fake-arm

 

 

Pretty impressive ingenuity . 

[TD_LFC]

1 hour ago, Skidfingers McGonical said:

Are all GB News racists?

Absolutely not, it would be absolutely wrong to say all at GB news are racists, some are grifters and chancers, some are so shit they can't be employed elsewhere.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

6 minutes ago, TD_LFC said:

Absolutely not, it would be absolutely wrong to say all at GB news are racists, some are grifters and chancers, some are so shit they can't be employed elsewhere.

That’s the impression I get (from the small amount of knowledge I’ve got of it). Not sure why that Coast dude jumped on board though. 
 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I'm in a waiting room at a station and three teenage girls just walked in. Straight away, one of them started complaining that it smells of wee and another one says "Haha! I lost my sense of smell, so I'm alright. Get on my level."

 

Silver linings, eh.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 hour ago, Pureblood said:

Qualified and practised for 15 years. 

 

[cloggypop]

5 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

I'm in a waiting room at a station and three teenage girls just walked in. Straight away, one of them started complaining that it smells of wee and another one says "Haha! I lost my sense of smell, so I'm alright. Get on my level."

 

Silver linings, eh.

Do you smell of wee? 

[TD_LFC]

18 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

I'm in a waiting room at a station and three teenage girls just walked in. Straight away, one of them started complaining that it smells of wee and another one says "Haha! I lost my sense of smell, so I'm alright. Get on my level."

 

Silver linings, eh.

Even if they don't know your name they could at least say he instead of it.

[Jenson]

12 hours ago, Pureblood said:

I was going to post the GB News tweet but I knew all of the wet knickers people like yourself would get upset, so I went with the Indian newspaper article instead. 

 

The reason I go to these sources is because they're the only game in town if you want to read about this sort of thing. I know you don't want to read about it, but I do.  

The GB News bit was really just the icing on the cake.

The main part I was focusing on was the bit about the unnamed researcher, from an unnamed cardiology dept, from an unnamed institution, claiming something with absolutely zero evidence, and you thinking that it even has the tiniest shred of credibility!

[Pureblood]

1 minute ago, Jenson said:

The GB News bit was really just the icing on the cake.

The main part I was focusing on was the bit about the unnamed researcher, from an unnamed cardiology dept, from an unnamed institution, claiming something with absolutely zero evidence, and you thinking that it even has the tiniest shred of credibility!

Rejoice in the censorship, if you must.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

56 minutes ago, cloggypop said:

Do you smell of wee? 

I'm calling the anosmic one as my character witness.

[Spy Bee]

 

[Jenson]

1 hour ago, Spy Bee said:

 

Fingers crossed 

[Rico1304]

German vaccine rates are low, the German homeopathic society has recommended people get vaccinated. Even people who believe in magic water believe you should get jabbed.  

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

A thread on why it's ludicrous to equate current governments action on Covid and vaccines with fascism in Nazi Germany. 

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/MikeStuchbery_/status/1467239560618905605