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All You Never Wanted to Know About Covid and Were Afraid to Ask

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Category: Covid
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2024-12-26

Covid is the topic that divides the world.

Actually, the world divides itself into two camps - those who don't want to know regardless of the arguments, and those who are prepared to think the unthinkable, or perhaps merely just to look at it to check how unthinkable the unthinkable may actually be. I'm sure that there cannot be a single person alive who doesn't know people close to them in both camps.

It's not a race thing, it's not a left/right thing, it's not a religious thing, but it is possibly a maturity thing in so far as a child when faced with an unfamiliar intrusion (such as a less than familiar Nana and Grandad arriving on a too infrequent visit!) will cling to the familiar comfort of Mum or Dad to save them from the unfamiliar threat, whilst an adult would face the intrusion, try to understand it, and decide accordingly how to react.

The adult is responsible, the child is still neither responsible nor competent.

Maturity is not an on/off switch, it's an attitude to life which is learned and honed through experience over many years. There is in fact no end-point (perhaps not even death!) to this learning and honing experience.

It's never to late to learn more; after all this time, it doesn't look like it's going to go away just yet. And after all, how bad can it really be?

 

Behold 2025!

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2024-12-24

Those well known storytellers of future events give us their views on the incoming year - so settle down, pay attention, pin back your ears, and prepare yourselves for a year like no other ...

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Fulford Report - Monday 23 December 2024

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2024-12-23

Turkey (no, not the Christmas dinner fowl) is much in focus this week as President Erdoğan is reported to be seen as "encircling" Israel ...   so it's the battle of the Zionists against the Islamists that's taking shape. Not that the "Christian" religions are faring any better - it seems that bankruptcies hold no religious preferences.

So how will Turkey fare in taking advantage of current Middle-Eastern geopolitics to rekindle some of the old Ottoman Empire?

And just what is Elon Musk the maverick mogul up to just now? (Modest subscription required for full access)

 

"Don't Just Sit There, Undo Something"!

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2024-12-23

This could be an exhortation for that post-prandial moment - Christmas Dinner has been consumed, the family is gathered around the hearth (well, those that still have one), mellow feelings of satisfaction and togetherness suffuse the atmosphere, and everyone makes due allowance for everyone else's faults and foibles.

In many families this will be a traditional time to hand out and undo the Christmas presents, wanted and unwanted, appreciated and unappreciated, but nevertheless welcomed with gratitude for their generosity - not necessarily in terms of price paid, but in time thoughtfully taken, for time is the ultimate arbiter of value in this world.

It's rare, but sometimes someone has the opportunity to give something of such vast value to so many that the mind recoils in surprise - indeed marvels in amazement that not only were they able to accomplish it with such deceptive ease, but that nobody actually had to pay anything for it!

Perhaps all it needed was the chutzpah to get away with it ...

Sir Keir / Rachel Reeves / Mel Stride / Nigel Farage take note.

Mistakes Were Not Made?

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2024-12-22

"Mistake" is an ambiguous word. On the one hand it can reflect a happenstance where the effect is unwanted but was not intended, on the other hand it may indicate that the action was intended but that the result was unwanted. Unhappily, some events such as "yes I thought that hitting the cricket ball out of the field was a good idea, but I hadn't reckoned with it smashing a window or hitting a passer-by on the head" might be considered a "mistake" on both counts.

However, deliberately throwing the cricket ball out of the ground at the head of a passer-by would not normally be regarded as a mistake, as the result would be clearly intended.

So we could recognise an intermediate state where hitting the ball out of the ground may avoid damage to windows and heads most of the time, but not all the time, so may be considered deliberately reckless, and thus culpable.

So we may transpose the argument to a different situation, and ask whether recommending a novel vaccination that had just been developed "at warp speed", for application to an age-group that was demonstrably at negligible statistical risk of serious ill-health from the target disease, would qualify as a mere "mistake"?

Actually, it's worse than that, because it was allegedly done without supporting advice from the responsible regulatory body that such a recommendation would be justified.

How long before such revelations as these will soon end up before a jury?

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