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I can just about see where the drip view that AZ BAD PFIZER GOOD comes from. To draw a distinction between the two equally effective mRNA vaccines, and say we

An annoying thing well-meaning Australians tend to do is to internalise economic/social axioms that are true in the USA and false here. In particular: the median Australian has a comfortable,

One thing that the pandemic has really brought home is how much I hate the word/concept "safe", when presented as a universal good. No, I don't want to be "safe",

This is a really odd thread, and disappointing work from Grattan, who are usually at least thoughtful and honest. The argument is explicitly based on the false dilemma of "zero

Something that I've been really getting into recently is reading about WWII in the Pacific from the point of view of the Japanese sailors and commanders involved. This is one

There are a lot of papers in which covid19 clusters have been traced to shared living arrangements, sweatshop workplaces, hospitals, cruise ships and other cramped indoor places where people have

This is a good piece. It is grimly funny that Australia's worst science deniers at the moment are left wing broekns who refuse to accept that we've done a great

We have a well accepted value range of the spending required to save a life when evaluating public safety infrastructure projects, which is about $2-5m. It's noticeable that the Downer

Much as poetic justice is fun, it's worth noting that the Bondi covid19 local transmission cluster consists almost entirely of backpackers stuck in horrible plague-friendly conditions, and not of the