Aparachick 😷

Like each fortnight has been in hundreds not thousands territory. What are we missing Mike?

I need a new car, now I can’t buy an EV.

Why is Labor cutting EV subsidies? Recent gains in electric vehicle uptake have persuaded the government to roll back subsidies, despite Australia continuing to trail global peers and the threat of fuel supply shortages.

Close to one in every five new car sales in Australia are electric vehicles. As a result, climate pollution from Australia’s transport sector declined last year for the first time outside the pandemic-related shutdowns. satpa.pe/JhkdCBs

Cont:
7. People are still getting infected in hospitals
(My family member in December)
8. They stopped the Aged Care Covid Outbreak weekly reports. The only data that had mandatory staff covid infection reporting that @mikehoney.bsky.social was creating great data for us from.
Won’t vote ALP again

I stopped voting for ALP solely because they have
1. Stopped communicating about our continuing COVID pandemic
2. Stopped sharing meaningful data
3. Stopped the vaccine for <18 - kids are getting LC
4. No politician mentions the C word🦠
5. Covid causes 🧠 and 🩸vessel damage.
6. We are in a wave

In a crowded field & under consistent intense pressure from the NT & WA, Qld consistently strives to live up to its ghastly history & display the most petty, stupid, ugly, knee-jerk, system-loaded, officially racist place in modern Australia. Love & respect to everyone there fighting it.

This is a good read.

As my uncle was dying in a morphine haze, he was screaming & reliving his time on HMAS Canberra as it was being shelled by USS Chicago (same ship opened fire on Pinchgut the night Japanese subs entered Sydney Harbour).
Other stories of friendly fire & disappointed in US tactics

People ask why we don’t build a new oil refinery

They cost $6,500,000,000 to build, $150,000,000/yr to operate, 15 years to build, when prices drop our market can’t sustain it & over time prices will to drop back towards long term average prices

The Coalition shouldn’t have closed what we had

We better not give them tax incentives.

Drones Like Bicycles | Esfandyar Batmanghelidj Assessing the cost of a Shahed kamikaze drone

Cheap Iranian Shahed drones have become signature weapons of the currently conflict. Good analysis by Phenomenal World www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/cos...

Are you sure? The fortnightly reports don’t seem to show that many.

Since December, Victoria has reported almost 40,000 positive cases from PCR tests. So the issue is clearly not an absence of tests.
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Here's the latest variant picture with a global scope, to late February.

XFG.* "Stratus" continued to dominate, but fell to 55% frequency.

NB.1.8.1 "Nimbus" grew to 28%.

BA.3.2.* "Cicada" was roughly flat at 7%.

#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Global
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I have no choice but to use my car. I live in the regions.

Motoring group puts brakes on city fuel ration push - Michael West As concerns rise over the cost to the economy of rising fuel prices, a key motoring body warns against a proposal to quarantine petrol and diesel for regions.

Latest from our AAP #news feed #auspol
Motoring group puts brakes on city fuel ration push.
As concerns rise over the cost to the economy of rising fuel prices, a key motoring body warns against a proposal to quarantine petrol and diesel fo...
michaelwest.com.au/motoring-gro...

Trump Admin starts war.

Trump Admin shocked by consequences of war.

Trump Admin urgently (!) tells Americans caught by those consequences to get out! get out! and no there's no help coming from the Trump Admin, and good luck finding a land route out somewhere.

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

per washington post, this is the company that's been given a sudden, new no-bid contract to run the disastrous trump prison camp at fort bliss in texas ("camp east montana"), where at least three people have already died:

www.amentum.com/markets/civi...

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I don’t think this shit will work but i never want to hear about free speech from any trumpers or anti anti trumpers ever again, fuck off forever bsky.app/profile/cram...

Iran is receiving ‘military cooperation’ from Russia and China, foreign minister says Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says his country will continue blocking the Strait of Hormuz, which has caused oil prices to soar.

MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: Iran is receiving ‘military cooperation’ from Russia and China, foreign minister says
www.ms.now/news/iran-wa...

Exclusive: ‘Rescuers were flying blind’: Inside the crucial $200,000 contract Kristi Noem’s team let lapse | CNN Politics As deadly tornadoes tore through the Midwest and Plains last weekend, state and local search-and-rescue crews rushed to the devastated areas to look for survivors. It wasn’t until the teams deployed t...

"As of earlier this week, the tornado mapping contract still had not been renewed..."

www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/p...

Some notes.
Sars2, not only Long Covid sufferers, but anyone infected.
- It's not only about inflammation. Those who eventually are showing signs of the inflammation processes remission feel much better. However, the immune system never comes back to the baseline.

'Crisis' on the land as tens of thousands of rabbits are culled Farmers say they are killing thousands of wild rabbits on their properties, but the problem is getting worse and they are seeking help.

Farmers say they are killing thousands of wild rabbits on their properties, but the problem is getting worse and they are seeking help.

Trump has now threatened US media with their licenses if they do not provide him positive coverage of the Iranian ‘excursion’.

The derangement is so consistent with late stage dementia.

For many living with #longCOVID & #mecfs, life is measured in energy, not time.
Awareness is not only knowing long COVID & ME/CFS exist, it’s understanding the energy calculations people make every day.
Support research. Clinical education. Equitable access to care. Importantly - believe them.

After the Iran war, Gulf nations face tough decisions on the US Iran’s attacks across the Gulf have exposed the limits of the US security umbrella and forced regional leaders to rethink how they balance relations with Washington, Tehran and their own populations.

Iran’s attacks across the Gulf have exposed the limits of the US security umbrella and left Arab leaders balancing Washington, Tehran and public anger, Bob Bowker writes.
#auspol #MiddleEast #Iran #GulfStates #Geopolitics

Please expand the pic and read.
My grandmother caught measles pre WW1 and was deaf from age 16.

And a call to please get your child vaccinated and look into whether you need a vaccine too. Maybe just do it?
Pre 1966 you are assumed to have had measles - I don’t think I did.
Post 1966 to about 1994 you may have had only one not the two vaccinations. Please check it out.

Surely there has to be some way to put pressure on the US and Israel to stop now?

Impeach the whole US administration?

What a shite fest.

Measles - Measles public exposure locations in NSW Current measles exposure locations and guidance on how to stay safe and protect others.

Guess what.

ANOTHER Sydney NSW measles update to the one from yesterday.
2 more confirmed cases.
One visited an exposure site, the other unknown origin. Another hospital added St Vincent’s.
Link to exposure sites below. Take care everyone.

www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/m...

Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal-funded disinformation network “Advance” is now attacking one of the nation’s best and most respected journalists, over doing his job and pointing out the bleeding obvious regarding Israel and the US.

This is where we are, Australia’s MAGA.