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Both of us can totally afford, even relish the chance to get stranded, we can work from anywhere. We will definitely work on getting stranded in Japan for all of Ski season and my japanese tutor would relish the chance to house sit and look after the cat.

I can't see any problem with pushing for as close to 100% vaccination as possible but that is not the same as saying we shouldn't open at 80% (16+). The more people vaccinated the lower the costs to care for them, the lower the costs to society as a whole. We don't stop pushing for as complete...

Queensland enabling choice stoking hesitancy and undermining a perfectly good vaccine.

Singapore’s head of corporate affairs for the region was on RN breakfast just now. The Graun’s liveblog has a readout but I’ll copy it here before it disappears below the fold...

The guardian piece on the airline fiasco, there’s some more detail on the difficulties airlines face reopening. It’s seems like no one in government has spoken to anyone at an airline (apart from possibly Qantas), and I can’t believe that airline execs haven’t been trying to get in touch...

This is actually one of the things I worry least about. Australian government IT is actually quite good, and quite well joined up. (perhaps this is just my rose tinted glasses from moving from the US Tax forms to Australian ones, The Australian ones are orders of magnitude better) I still wish...

I get why we aren’t seeing anything above the parapet, but let’s not kid ourselves that it’s because they are busy working on some masterwork, it’s because they are scrambling to cobble something together at the last minute. Evidence to date suggests they will be too late and a dollar short. We...

Regifting is a feature not a bug. There’s plenty that will want them (NZ, PNG, Timor Leste, Indonesia, to think of some of the nearest ones I can think of). either that or we can outfit some vans with big nets and drive around Byron Bay catching the ‘hesitant’ I can’t think of a reason why...

As ever with this government it appears that very little work is done beyond the initial announcement. I can remember earlier in the year Singapore airlines coming out public ally and bemoaning the lack of work being done one the bubble procedures. As can be seen from the German travel corridor...

One thing I note is that whilst Qantas is somewhat bullish on their international flying schedule, none of the other international airlines are so there aren’t a lot of seats or flights, I expect this will change over the coming weeks as details on the end of the travel ban become more concrete.

Really interesting question. I am expecting some significant lurches up and down as supply and demand balance and rebalance.

Buy an american friend a sandwich.

This is pure FUD, plenty of work has been done into using existing pharmaceuticals to treat COVID - this is why drugs like Dexamethosone and remdesevir are being used today, because the evidence is there that they work. Plenty of other things have been tried and shown not to work. Death rates...

Just added a US Gold card, and I noticed on the application that there was an option to provide UK or Australian credit histories. I wish I screen shotted it now. I just breezed past it as I used to live in the US and have an SSN and credit history, but thought it was interesting. Logging into...

Another misinfo text from the coughweasel leader of the yellow and black party. Is there anything I can do to publically express my disgust at such a miserable excuse for a human being?

Definitely can’t call it a vaccine passport, the bloke in chief is only going to allow it to be called a certificate. Yesterday he said that it would be integrated into state based checkin apps so I imagine that it will have some kind of verification mechanism (that the current Medicare one...

They aren’t rational they are just dickheads.

This is promising. https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210907/p2g/00m/0bu/005000c

I fear we are hitting the knee in the curve, time to turn the marketing and incentives up to 11 as well as talking a lot more about what won’t be permissible without a vaccine passport and when. Got to keep applying the pressure till we get well over the line. Supply is not a problem now. This...

Agreed, we fund healthcare for all kinds of wilful stupidity and illegal activities. (eg. Smoking, methanphetamine abuse). There’s no ethical dilemma at all the healthcare system is there to pick up the pieces no matter what. It’s for other institutions like taxation and the criminal justice...