The Reality of Living in Australia and Covid

[Alan Mighty]

Originally Posted by El Pinguino

I'm beginning to wonder whether anyone on this thread is a fair dinkum 'strayan.
Not a word thus far about Goanna Oil
Goanna Oil - The Full Quid
And its still out there!!!

Doan think you gonna find any goanna in a can of Goanna Salve. Or the Liniment.

Not a hint. Not a drop. Not even a molecule.

The problem was farming the goannas. Just weren't suited to domestication. Plus the problem of whaddya do with the skin and meat? Not enough demand. And goanna poop stinks.

Emu, on the other hand, farms easy. Demand for emu fat is big. Have a good Captain Cook 'round the ridges, you'll find big mobs of emu farms.

Emu fat goes into high end cosmetics for sheilas, as you no doubt are aware. A good pressie to carry when you're on ya way to the Saturday night dances. Good massage and lube too, if you're inta that.

You could run a few head on ya lower 40. Bit of fencing. As long as you handle them from chicks onwards, not a problem (but doan get a big adult riled at ya).

Down around Kikuchi city (菊池市), almost smack in the middle of Kyushu (九州), you'll find an emu farm or two. A few head are run down in Oita prefecture (大分県), southwest of Kikuchi, too.

You could pop over, introduce yourself, and pick up a few tips on best feed, fencing, and so on. 'Course for all I know, you're already an expert emu ringer. I'll say no more. I'll bet SWL could teach you some rope work just right for working emus.

Just like the colt from Old Regret, a coupla dozen head got away from a farm just outside Kikuchi just the other day.

Read the story and watch the video (shot by a neighbour): https://mainichi.jp/english/articles...0m/0li/012000c

[Alan Mighty]

Originally Posted by Alan Mighty

You could pop over, introduce yourself, and pick up a few tips on best feed, fencing, and so on. 'Course for all I know, you're already an expert emu ringer. I'll say no more. I'll bet SWL could teach you some rope work just right for working emus.

A mate over in Wiluna WA used to farm emu. Haven't had a letter from him for a while.

'N of course you'll remember that incident in the WA a dozen years after the last pandemic, just 'bout the time that rich toffs were falling from the sky in Manhattan, that the 7th Heavy Battery of the Royal Aus Artillery* wuz brought in, wif their Lewis guns, to fight the Great Emu War. Emus made them look like clowns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War

* me dad wuz in 22nd Heavy Battery at the time, on duty at Fort Lytton. Holding the fort, a Mighty tradition.

[El Pinguino]

Fair go, don't spoil a good story!!
I think we have Lace Goannas/ Monitors on the farm .. I see one maybe once a year - usually on the side of a tree - now and again crossing the road. ( Echidnas are more common - rabbits less so). They run about 2 metres long - wouldn't want to find one in your sleeping bag!.
Probably why we don't have rats or mice - or drop bears.

[Alan Mighty]

Originally Posted by El Pinguino

I see one maybe once a year - usually on the side of a tree - now and again crossing the road.

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Probably why we don't have rats or mice - or drop bears.

Back in the '70s I was working in The Isa.

Used to be big perentie in the spinifex country. The Old People (the murris, First Nation people, in this case the Kalkadoon) used to say that when you saw a perentie on the side of a tree it was calling for rain to fall, bringing back water and life to the land.

Goanna, perentie, all are good hunters. Old People used to reckon they had a venom in the mouth. White 'pfellas, the Belanda, reckoned it was just a lot of oral bacteria.

Whatever, a goanna was good tucker and the fat was much prized.

In spinifex country, the Old People distinguished between goanna and perentie. Way I learned it, goanna was mainly polka dots. Perentie had dots and lines.

Great granddad Mighty (and great grandma, who came to VIC from SA) left VIC in the late 1880s and made their way up through NSW to the SW corner of QLD. So I don't have dreaming of your lace goanna or your country. Sad.

[Wotname]

Originally Posted by El Pinguino

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Seems Rawleighs are still out there but last time I had one of their salesmen at the front door would have been 40 plus years ago
https://www.truelocal.com.au/busines...ghs/ulverstone
They could probably sell you a live Goanna

Rawleighs are still a thing down here on the south island - as your links shows

[RaymondR]

Originally Posted by Wotname

Rawleighs are still a thing down here on the south island - as your links shows

You do not want live goannas aboard your boat, geckos perhaps but not goannas, they have some nasty habits.

[Seaworthy Lass]

We rented out our home several years ago to newly arrived “furriners” who contacted the property agent requesting an exterminator for a dangerous reptile that had been seen in the house. They were panicking over a gecko in the kitchen .

SWL

[El Pinguino]

A comprehensive update here on the local state of play.
Bit of a worry when Prof Cheng talks of 'stars aligning'.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/f....html#comments

Full Aust vax stats and status here. 50% of 12-15 year olds have had a shot. Two states well into the 90% and two more not far behind. Laggard states still lagging.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/c...28-p56xht.html

Meanwhile on Tuseday DP said we wouldn't be seeing Dr Chant again, just our 'elected representatives' and there would be no more daily pressers.

So there he was yesterday doing an 11 am presser - with Dr Chant. So not entirely tone deaf.

[RaymondR]

Dangerous Dan not looking so dangerous this week. He was caught twice without his mandated mask and covid infections have overtaken NSW even though Victoria is only carrying out about half the tests of NSW.

His last couple of TV appearances have been a bit of a fizzer from a belligerence viewpoint and I might have to rebrand him as "Crawfish Dan".

[El Pinguino]

Meanwhile - the ratbag right polis in NSW have run out of pregnant sheilas and grannies to bash

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-lockdown.html

Sorry about sending you to the 'daily wail' but it is what it is.

[Group9]

Originally Posted by Seaworthy Lass

A brief search shows that the US is also investigating ivermectin.

Ivermectin is one of the COVID-19 therapeutics that has been prioritized by the US for testing in clinical trials.

It is included in the protocol that is “designed to test the effectiveness of three repurposed drugs (drugs that are FDA-approved for non-COVID-19 indications and have known safety profiles) in reducing the duration and severity of symptoms associated with mild-to-moderate COVID-19.”

https://www.nih.gov/research-trainin...-trials#activ6

As with the UK, I don’t think the US would be wasting time and money doing this if ivermectin did not look “promising”.

SWL

Some friends of ours had to travel to Africa last year. Guess what preventative “horse medicine” they were advised to take by the State Department? Yep, Ivermectin. Only now, it would be a lot harder for them to get a prescription for it, because Big Pharma is afraid they will take it to fight off COVID.

[GordMay]

The CDC recommend that ivermectin is administered as a “presumptive treatment for intestinal parasites” [endemic in Africa], not for Covid-19.

➥ https://www.cdc.gov/immigrantrefugee...vNwVqcuiqe2lHE

➥ https://www.cdc.gov/immigrantrefugee...uidelines.html

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UTTAR PRADESH Going the last mile to stop COVID-19
Each monitoring team has two members, who visit homes in villages and remote hamlets to test everyone with symptoms of COVID-19 using Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT) kits. Those who test positive are quickly isolated and given a medicine kit with advice on disease management. https://www.who.int/india/news/featu...-stop-covid-19

That article failed to mention the contents of these "medicine kits". They contain ivermectin.

Uttar Pradesh government says early use of Ivermectin helped to keep positivity, deaths low https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/local...ow/ar-BB1gDp5U

AMAZING: COVID-19 Cases in Indonesia Plummet After Government Authorizes IVERMECTIN For Treatment https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...sharingbuttons

Please don't attack the source on this last one. Lot's of countries are using Ivermectin against covid. You have to search past the Trusted News Initiative sources.

[/I][/I]https://www.thedesertreview.com/opin...43582647b.html

India's Ivermectin Blackout - Part V: The Secret Revealed
The medicines comprising the kit were not identified as part of the Western media blackout at the time. As a result, the contents were as secret as the sauce at McDonald's.https://www.thedesertreview.com/opin...43582647b.html

The Ivermectin Deworming Hoax - Part II: Eric Clapton’s Human Rights Warning
Today, Uttarakhand and Goa are free from their pandemic because of their bold choice to use Ivermectin, and today Kerala is a train wreck because of their choice to abandon it. Kerala, who chose to minimize their Ivermectin use in April 2021, deleted it from their protocol on August 5, 2021. https://www.thedesertreview.com/opin...98275cff8.html

Regardless of how the FDA or NIH wishes to construct their policies, the government MAY NOT tell patients what their doctor can or cannot prescribe regarding FDA-approved repurposed drugs – whether for cancer, COVID-19, or scabies. Again, it is a matter of fundamental human Liberty.

Meta analysis using the most serious outcome reported shows 66% [52‑76%] and 86% [75‑92%] improvement for early treatment and prophylaxis, with similar results after exclusion based sensitivity analysis and restriction to peer-reviewed studies or Randomized Controlled Trials. https://ivmmeta.com/

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The US NIH (National Intitute of Health) states:

There is insufficient evidence for the COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel (the Panel) to recommend either for or against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19. https://www.covid19treatmentguidelin...py/ivermectin/

Our doctors here are legally allowed to prescribe it off label for treatment and prophylaxis of Covid19

The reason people here are using the veterinary formulas is that most doctors here are refusing to prescribe it and some pharmacies are refusing to fill the prescriptions.

Ivermectin has a well known safety profile and has been given to billions of people worldwide. It has well known anti viral properties. Any thing you see claiming that this is not true is a flat out lie.

[El Pinguino]

The reality of living in Australia and Covid is that we have remarkably few crazies compared with much of the world.

We also have over 90% of our over 55 year olds vaccinated - and over 95% of our over 70 year olds.

We don't need no steenking Ivermectin.