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To all those who follow me because of @xx_xyathletics and who are now telling me to stop talking about covid...
Let me just explain a few things -- and why that isn't going to happen.
The only reason I'm even active on @X is because of covid. The only reason I have any following at all is because of covid.
Why? Because I objected to school closures and lockdowns from day 1. I lost my career, my city, pretty much all of my friends. Because I said closed schools, closed playgrounds, and masking were harming our kids.
We all suffered the most egregious violations of our civil liberties imaginable during lockdowns. I will never understand why people don't care and want to just pretend it never happened.
We couldn't leave our homes. Literally. We were told we couldn't see family, celebrate the holidays. We couldn't move about freely. We were censored. We couldn't gather or protest (unless it was for BLM, then it was ok). People couldn't go to church or AA meetings. For years!
Two year olds were forced to wear masks for hours a day. They suffered speech and developmental delays. That continue to this day.
Public school students in blue states were kept out of full time school for a year and a half. While their private school peers attended school and played sports. The most vulnerable children were harmed the most.
People couldn't work. 27M people lost their jobs in 2020. 27M!!
People couldn't visit loved ones in the hospital. People died alone. Women gave birth alone.
People were arrested for surfing. In the ocean - alone.
The world shut down. Supply chains stopped. That initiated the inflation we still are struggling to beat back.
I've been a covid dissident since March 2020. Children were harmed. They are still suffering from learning loss and the emotional impact of isolation and halted development. For some, the course of their lives was altered forever. They dropped out of school. Or fell behind and never caught up. Disengaged and never re-engaged. Drugs. Eating disorders. Suicidal ideation. Attempted suicide. Oh and the by way, the trans madness accelerated during lockdowns. Why? Isolation, terminal on-line-ness, depression, anxiety, all of it. Caused by lockdowns.
This is not something I will forgive. Or forget. You can't treat kids like prisoners and expect them to be ok (that is quote from a parent in Generation Covid - a parent who lost his child to suicide in 2021.)
I started making this documentary in 2022, and followed children and families who were harmed for 2 full years. It's called Generation-Covid.
Don't look away.
Tony Carter retweeted
Sale Sharks should change their name to Manchester Rugby. Much more globally relevant in Sport and Culture when you say, Manchester.
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The Escalating Price of Ignoring Extremism | Excellent post by Iram Ramzan in Middle East Uncovered, a publication of insider reports from the Middle East by Ideas Beyond Borders @IdeasB2 open.substack.com/pub/middle…
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AIG hires former Everest exec as international commercial chief
#AIG #EverestRe #Chubb #Reinsurance #RiskManagement
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Based on data from the Australian Institute of Criminology which indicates ~10% of gun homicides are committed with a registered firearm
The two Bondi shooters killed more with registered firearms than every single Australian in the last 5.5 years.
We have an extremism problem
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The many articles by Malcolm Gladwell (like Sacks, a fine essayist) which mixed good reporting with dubious statistical reasoning and misleading claims (e.g., that only practice, not talent, is necessary for achievement, or that IQ above 120 doesn't matter) nytimes.com/2009/11/15/books…
Tony Carter retweeted
There is no evidence of the supermarkets price gouging. Their annual profit is only 3-4%.
But Labor needed a scapegoat for inflation caused by rampant govt spending.
Jim here is patting himself on the back for fixing a problem that didn’t exist.
Totally performative.
#auspol
Our ban on supermarket price gouging is now law.
Labor's amendments to the Food and Grocery Code are now in place, setting clear rules for very large retailers.
The ACCC will police the new regime, with penalties of up to $10 million for Coles or Woolworths if they breach it.
We're cracking down on supermarket price gouging to help Australians get a better deal at the checkout.
Tony Carter retweeted
Is the RBA ‘behind the curve’, as the saying goes? Well, the 10 year bond yield is one bad day from the highest interest rate in 15 years. Answer is literally yes. They are behind the yield curve. If nothing else it brings into question the wisdom of the rate cuts this year. And the RBAs unwillingness to be forward looking, leaving them at the mercy of the data.
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A recent paper explores the limits between muscle fiber size and aerobic capacity. What does it mean for achieving your training goals? Full article linked below.
bit.ly/3KuQBRq
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'He has a point, but he's too blunt.'
From the start, a key tactic of the gender identitarians has been linguistic prescription, and it's proved shockingly successful. Trans activists' shibboleths and euphemisms have been allowed to penetrate the upper echelons of our culture with devastating consequences to freedom of speech and belief. Huge swathes of liberal media, the arts, academia and publishing have thrown themselves with gusto into the defence of a quasi-religious belief causing provable real world harm, and in their arrogance they've been outraged when people they assumed were part of their In Group have refused to march meekly along in lock step.
Time and again, I've seen and heard well-educated people who consider themselves critical thinkers and bold truth-tellers squirm when put on the spot. 'Well, yes, maybe there's something in what you're saying, but it's hateful/provocative/rude not to use the approved language/pretend people can literally change sex/keep drawing attention to medical malpractice or opportunistic sexual predators. Why can't you be nice? Why won't you pretend? We thought you were one of us! Don't you realise we have sophisticated new words and phrases these days that obviate the necessity of thinking any of this through?'
As the vibe shifts, and a lot of people in the elite professions start trying to reposition themselves, the obvious place to start is, 'it's not that I couldn't see your point, but did you have to say it that way?' We dissenters were supposed to find a way of questioning the chemical castration of children while calling it 'gender affirming care.' We were meant to defend the rights of vulnerable women while also using female pronouns for male rapists. We should have found a way to discuss fairness for women and girls in sport, while pretending that the ineradicable physical advantage men have over women doesn't exist.
Either a man can be a woman, or he can't. Either women deserve rights, or they don't. Either there's a provable medical benefit to transitioning children, or there isn't. Either you're on the side of a totalitarian ideology that seeks to impose falsehoods on society through the threat of ostracisation, shaming and violence, or you're not. The alternative to being 'blunt' - using accurate, factual language to describe what was going on - was to surrender freedom of speech and espouse ideological jargon that obfuscated the issues and the harms caused. We've always needed blunt people, but we need them most of all when being asked to bow down to a naked emperor.
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If you are looking for Christmas gift ideas, here are three titles available in Australia…….
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It was realistically never a shot, the thing that surprised me was how much the league press took it all as gospel despite almost all the noise coming from league agents.
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🧵#thread
PAPERBACK PUBLICATION DAY
Donald Trump is so shocking partly because he challenges the conventional historical belief system about America. But what if that historical belief system is wrong?
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Some disgraceful right-wing Cookers have disrupted the Welcome to Country at The Shrine this morning.
You do realise that indigenous Australians fought in wars and then were denied pensions and even RSL membership? Do you stupid fucking racist cunts understand this? #AnzacDay
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Over the moon that the Bears 🐻 are back in the NRL next season,or be it as the Perth Bears, I hope they play a few games at North Sydney Oval, I’ll be over myself to watch that, the Bears have great supporters and I’m sure they will be a great success in Perth,up theMighty Bears
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It's the 250th anniversary of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. I've mapped all seven Dunkin Donuts locations Paul could've stopped at on his route
Next to no flu for 2 years, COVID displaced other infectious diseases @bradsle @RealMarkLatham @Adam_Creighton @DrCameronMurray
