Cult: A review of ‘QAnon and On’
Badham, V. 2021. QAnon and on: A short and shocking history of internet conspiracy cults. Hardie Grant Books, Melbourne, 469p.1
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Conservatives rightly fear the young
After the US mid-term elections, I wrote a piece about some astonishing data from the University of Michigan in which 94% of voters (presumably mostly educated young students) at the university voted for the Democrat rather than the Republican candidate1.
More natural selection
Everyone but the supremely gullible know that the SARS-Cov2 virus caused the Covid-19 pandemic that has so far resulted in more than 662 million infections and more than 6.6 million deaths globally1.
Much research has been undertaken which show the long-term effects of infection with the virus on multiple organ systems, and the increased risk to those organ systems of multiple SARS-Cov2 infections2.
Even longer Covid
Almost eighteen months ago I wrote a piece about what was then termed ‘Long Covid’, the persistence of symptoms in multiple organ systems beyond the acute phase of SARS-Cov2 infection. At the time it was understood that the symptoms spanned 10 organ systems: neuropsychiatric, systemic, reproductive, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, immunological, head-ear-eye-nose-throat, pulmonary, gastrointestinal and dermatological.
The gift
A couple of days ago, someone asked me what was the best Christmas present I ever received. It got me thinking about all the stuff I had been given over the years: diecast Matchbox and Dinky cars, plastic kits of aircraft and ships, a Hornby Dublo train set and envelopes of money, and the occasional book. Nothing in that list really stood out until I thought of the one book that may have changed my life.
The war on Christmas, 2022
Every year, up until recently (I thought), the RWNJs from places like the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) and the Murdoch gutter media have maintained that there is a war on Christmas. I wrote about one instance of this back in 2016, when Murdoch’s national budgie cage liner, The Australian, maintained that the Labor Victorian Education Minister was going to ban the singing of Christmas carols. This, of course, turned out to be a lie, and was promptly put down by that Education Minister1.
Deranged Creighton at it again
The Murdoch pretend journalist Adam Creighton has tweeted the following
“‘My mask protects you, your mask protects me’. The most embarrassing, unscientific slogan of the pandemic?”1
There were numerous replies from normal people who know that masks do protect people by inhibiting the transmission of the SARS-Cov2 virus, the cause of Covid-19. One of them was from GrumpyNonnaK who said:
Creighton: from idiocy to lies
The idiotic Adam Creighton, who has seemingly been banished from Australia to the US by his Murdoch bosses, put out a Tweet stating:
“’Guess which developed country had the lowest excess mortality between 2020 and 2022: Sweden, which refused to close shops or schools or to impose a mask mandate’.
If that’s true, the humiliation of Team Lockdown is as complete as it is profound.”1