countries with more vaccines on the schedule and higher uptake have higher life expectancy. Crucially, they clearly donโt have lower life expectancy. โญ๐
A lot of people (some intentionally) miss the point here. The data doesnโt just show that countries with more vaccines on the schedule + higher uptake have higher life expectancy. Crucially, they clearly donโt have lower life expectancy.
So if you still wonโt accept that vaccines help make populations healthier, intellectual honesty demands you at least admit they arenโt harming the healthiest countries. ๐คท๐ฝโโ๏ธ
@Strongisgentle@DavidPocock@GuardianAus Corporate profits boost if they'll donate to political parties. . Make it a crime to donate over $1k ond all favours
@CovidSolidarit1@brownecfm And they can activate profit from healthier people who live longer as they they get diseases and old age anyway so need treatments and if they were healthy enough to work they can pay for medicines, care and operations
@brownecfm Note that @bryan_johnson Avoidance of infectious airborne aerosols is crucial but missing from your science. We never used to filter drinking water either until eventually people caught up the the science. Now it's unquestionable
@Nicole_Lee_Sch So then u have to go to war to get treatment because if U do get a diagnosis., afterwards every symptom and possible ailment gets dismissed as being due to that thing you're diagnosed with and not investigated for other causes as if only 1 diagnosis per person is possible
@blakandblack The music was infectious. I saw a procession not long ago. Just 1 person, or 3. Perhaps it was longer ago than it feels.
I remember the cheap yummy food. But there were also some horrible stories via word of mouth of elsewhere in the state. But bad people always find a way
Brilliant piece from Pearls and Irritations. Finally, someone in Australia is saying out loud what the rest of us have been watching for the past five years
Let's be clear about what AUKUS actually is: the greatest military protection racket in modern history. Washington looked at its own crippled submarine industrial baseโ17 boats short, yards choking, Congress screamingโand found the perfect mark. A wealthy, eager, insecure middle power with a bipartisan fetish for great-power relevance and a defense minister who treats strategic questions like a classified state secret
The deal? Australia pays half a trillion dollars. In return, it gets used Virginia-class hand-me-downsโBlock IV boats with a decade of wear already on the hulls, probably smelling faintly of its previous crew
Even more intriguing, the article confirms for what this overpriced second-hand Australian "sovereign" nuclear submarine fleet is actually for:
Hunting Chinese Jin-class and Type 096 SSBNs. Not to protect Sydney Harbour. Not to secure Australia's trade routes. To find, track, and if ordered, destroy the Chinese nuclear submarines that threaten continental America!
That's the job. That's the whole job. Australia just committed A$368 billion to be the US Navy's underwater security guard!
The comedy of "sovereign capability" is almost too rich. Sovereign? The reactors are American. The combat system is American. The weapons are American. The fuel is American. The intelligence feed is American. The maintenance schedule is American. Permanently tethering Australia to U.S. software, maintenance, and logistics, effectively ending any "sovereign" capability. The only thing Australian is the taxpayerโand the Prime Minister standing in front of a camera calling this independence
Australia is not buying a submarine; it is buying a node in a U.S. sensor network. The acquisition deeply integrates Australia into the U.S. military command structure, making Australia a tool for U.S. strategic objectives in the Indo-Pacific โ while a massive amount of Australian wealth is transferred into the U.S. military-industrial complex
And the timing is exquisite. Washington just added another half-trillion to its own defense budget while Australia is told to hit 3.5% of GDP. America gets the money, the boats, the basing rights at HMAS Stirling, and a Pacific ASW auxiliary. Australia gets the bill, the dependency, and the warm fuzzy feeling of being taken seriously by the adults.
The U.S. 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) emphasizes "burden-sharing among allies" and "realist diplomacy." This submarine deal is the perfect execution of that strategy: the U.S. maintains its military overmatch against China by essentially "outsourcing" the financial cost of undersea surveillance to Australia ๐คก
Paul Keating called this three years ago. He was mocked, of course. The press club gasped. The security establishment rolled its eyes. But he was right then, and this article proves he's right now. It is worse than he thought. It's not that AUKUS is of little military benefit to Australia. It's that AUKUS is of negative military benefit to Australiaโactively diverting resources from actual defense needs toward a capability designed for someone else's homeland
https://t.co/f7lYAMf3JY