I switched the lot off

 Its 16th January   2022. The attention seekers are in a fanatical mood .
I heard the ABC news talking about all the covid deaths ( in no context) 
 the beach closures on the eastern seaboard ,   the noises under the ground  and the NZ PM bleeting danger.

I had to Switch them all off .
AND I WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO
HOPE U WILL TOO . 

Those who claim to be able to save us ,,October 2020

Many Australians on October 31st 2020 are convinced our Premiers have our best interests at heart . I don't .And later, I suggest the people won't either . Short term gain long term pain. There are brief moments when people trust their political leaders . They are periods often of fantasy , which are often much much much longer than are justified. Premiers Andrews ( VIC ) and Palaszcazuk (QLD) claim the high moral ground of best intention ; Saving us from death and saving us from death from respiratory tract infections and the evil incarnate one named COVID 19

I don't think so, and as a microbiologist and a risk planner I have never thought so. ( see other issues which suggest caution in adopting the politics of the moment ) Microbes like all life , do not act alone and its technological fix blindness to assume If we are to go back to living in the real world, realistic risk management will involve recognizing the misplaced concreteness processes , the overblown ambitions of wannabes and the evil things they will do to stay in control. To project all hell on a version of Coronavirus is to fall for an old projection trick . "Its not my or our problem - its someone or someone's else's problem . " If the evil object is not the problem , what is the real reason for the fear ? later My Story ---

As a good citizen and a public servant advising on risk management and under the authority of a CMO many times before ( on Fire for example) , I follow the regulations and largely only voice my concerns to the advice taking decisionmakers in the chain of command . This is supposed to be how it is done by all in the chain of command to the one chief ( we now have 6) I have told the CMOS's each month this year where and why their changing shallow word play on risk management is wrong, unaccountable and unconvincing .

The mood on November 1 2020 . World wide Westerners are in a deep panic ( one that started well B4 the pandemic) because little hope is on the horizon to drag us away from the diseases which deeply threaten us. I am not taking about things that are we really talk about properly . ( see a lit at the bottom on the page of real and perceived threats and a bit about why a technology for solution is NOT applied to them. ) The very use of the accusation "deniers " at such times in history shows we see that possibility and that truth - if only in those opposing our ' answer "to , our "disease control method " it on the other side More coming (Incomplete summaries only below)
Current Victorian examples of overblown simple fears leading to simply ineffective and wasteful answers to fears
Fear and poor understanding Poor understanding ( some truth ) leads to Inappropriate ineffective solutions 1. We are going to run out of energy we need to stop using fossil fuels NOW

2. Nuclear power is dangerous only use renewable's or safe stuff that doesn't explode 3. The forests will burn more fiercely we mustn't stop people living in a fireplace-- its their choice 4. We must not touch now sacred objects Buy a fleet of water bombers ( Comm enquiry Oct 2020) ) 5. I don't really know what I am doing I will apply the "abundance of caution" approach ..... and do nothing You will find some clues to the technological fix games of the unrepentant and incompetent's in misplaced concreteness .Abuse of The Precautionary principle is Brett Sutton latest shallow excuse for defending the shallow logic of his bubble groups. see quick fix word abuse on other sites ,

 

Take the ecological view

re Coronavirus  focus
With a view to making  personal and public expenditure on exposure as effective as possible .
That is
 use gloves and clean hard surfaces including , but don't over clean your hands as they are  a substrate 

When I did microbiology at the best Uni in Australia we were taught NOT to wash hands too often and why . Disinfection was a site for reinfection with all sorts of new tenants that were often not better than the family ( ecol) we killed.
http://cuttingedgecare.blogspot.com

Lost in the mists of the superficial with the blind and deaf worry warriors

It is not wise to follow the crowd when things are not working , The sort of leadership you get can be expected to be quick fix: Te sort of leaders you get can be expected to be so heavenly minded they are of no earthly use .
Australians have been running around in a panic  this summer ,
What we all need in such situations is to stay calm ( with a faith with a track record ) and study the substance of your worries .
https://graceware.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-wonder-of-mere-water.html

Do you see This fully functioning 

Or THIS below 

What word will the media use when they have used up catastrophe ?

The dummies in charge haven't noticed . Too much "crisis"  ,too much "worst "Anything but objective .
The media  report anyone who is an panic and that's a lots of people (and its makes the media relevant)
Tommorrow ( 12th Nov 2019) we are told all hell will break loose . It might
After all there is so little focus on on ground prevention , containment and  control  ( fires floods and landslides) 

The city and observers are not calm . They are now quite confused

We all know' the other"  doesn't listen and we all have a role as observers. we know there are times to shout ,

Rural people throw up regularly when they meet  those irresponsible people who tell us  a problem but have not qualified as problem solvers 

So,  is all this shouting about the environment right ? .
Clearly Not .called cry wolf and it kills. What will the media worry about tonight and who has switched OFF ? . If the person Ur trying to help gets angry ( esp on quiet) shut up and hang around .
And one day the rapid growth of emerging crisis services  will be seen as retrograde and totally countercultural - a wound that's infected.  Put the productivity commission onto it ! 
Instead of protective services our leaders grow "fire fighting" services , Its one clear way to end our culture-- cost blow outs  

Our equally confused polys continue to ignore the need for objectivity and RISK .Their advisors in 2019 know little .the good ones left the house years ago. 
My generation will be remembered for worrying about the environment , but not employing people who know it and allowing them to speak .


Whats wrong with the media when they talk to the environment is they simply don't know it .
They like they think they do and the city uses its potential observer status to justify MUCH arrogant and ignorant fear mongering. ..........let alone guilt projection

Takes one to know one

When the media start accusing particular politicians of running scare campaigns , thinking people outta smell a rat . Greenlabor lost their right to rule cause they failed to be reasonable about risk , they woory too much - closing down industries (like cattle and oil ) on a mere threat from their own ;  ignorance and inexperience in the media means they don't know who to believe ; for them to fall for cloned drip feeders shows how little wisdom they often have --there are more objective professsionals out there and their surnames don't all end with Flattery or Flannery .
Clearly they don't know enough about what they are talking about to know the different dangers in fracking and the finite risks from exploiting  a natural connection to coal seam gas - all industry interactions with nature are bad .
The worry warriors are finally losing their opportunities to scream blue murder from their very own soapbox ........and getting fanatical over the threat to their power

Most wouldn't realize today  that Barnaby Joyce today dealt with the issues in a concrete way which should slow down their sad case of worry warring.

Except of course places like QandA where its run like a Colosseum. Those who can't stand football on weekend get to see the other team suffer on Monday  night,
Why a Colosseum? Where if you listen to audio you might think its fair game in a democracy but if you look in all dimensions the panel is  a set stronghold;  the questions are vetted and there is  strong fence between those who smile and those treated with snide; where one group is always moving on and the other is never going to get anywhere ;;;except to be sport . Go Paul Kelly - not before time . ABC hypocrisy. not a game ; a sport.

Real nature of evil

We of course don't sell it here . That would really be to corner the market . But of course to be successful in our line of work we have to know what it is and where it is . Lots of people thinks they know. But anyone who does know either doesn't shop here or doesn't need to shop here . Sure they pray we will go out of business but we are not worried . Such people could do us out of business if they had their way . They would do harry potter and lots of great youth filmmakers out of business too if the audience was aware of how its being hidden here and there and everywhere . Despite the confusion, we have no worries about a widespread discovery ever happening .After all , prominent people and parties play the game 

For anyone who wants to know how to talk sense on the subject of evil - the one unseen , unknown and denied by most reactionaries , see the soon to be released  " Evil in Modern Thought " by Susan Neiman

Those who push will eventually get pushed

Climate debate is lost because of a spin alliance amongst those who seek to move the people without moving their minds. Your margins in profits for an educational profile will never be good , so why do we tell you this? Well  , Christmas is coming and we at the fearmongers shop are sick of all those who copy us and don't have the same level of integrity