Honey Honey

Russian nationalism, the racialist type of which Putin subscribes to, doesn't see Ukraine as an independent country, it considers it as an extension of Russia, part of Russia, ethnically Russian. Particularly parts of Ukraine. It considers Russia to have been robbed of Ukraine. For 20 years Ukraine has been attacked by various means, from tanks to trade wars by the Kremlin all to prevent Ukraine from breaking away from their influence and control. Strong forces in Ukrainian politics would like to join the European Union. Putin won't stand for it. This is all why Ukraine flirts with joining NATO. Hanging over Ukraine's expression of freedom is the stench of Russian nationalism and the threat of Russian tanks if Ukraine dare do what the Kremlin doesn't like.

Putin's invasion of Ukraine is not because of NATO, rather it is precisely for the reason Ukraine wanted to be in NATO in the first place. The poking the Russian bear is a Nigel Farage hot take, common today on the extreme political wings in Britain and the contrarian writers. Desperate to inflict some sort of score against our own politics. Everything must be framed as to how "the west" (an outdated cold war label and thought process) is in the wrong here.

Even with the spending we are not getting more than 33-35 points with our fixtures unless we are suddenly a top 6 form side overnight. The spending gives us a better chance of getting to 35 points than without. However there's no reason at least one of the others around us can't also get to that tally. This is a scrap til the end.

Wonder what, since it is them and not the club is it something they said?

Why is that do you think? At top line level US jobs market was surging back end of last year. As it did here. Something weird is going on, we were struggling to hire for months despite many in the industry and even our company having been laid off in 2020.

His wife also a 5G conspiracy promoter

No vax Djokovic's bonkers dad is the gift that keeps on giving. Now compares his son to Jesus crucified on the cross.

The best thing about this is how off his rocker his dad is

After accounting for masterbation frequency that % drops from 7 to -20

What you saying? That it wasn't total baseless made up shite?

*conspiracy theory klaxon*

The Imperial college study suggested 11% milder if unjabbed and 50% milder it jabbed. They're not equal implying jab makes big difference in Omicron mildness. Both British studies come with a lot of limitations, caveats and further questions. One being that it could be statistically milder for the jabbed than delta because it is more likely to breakthrough the vaccine. As in, the jab is more likely to prevent you actually getting covid full stop with delta which biases the data when looking at those jabbed who have been infected delta vs Omicron.

Go to a walk in mate. I couldn't find any good times for booking a jab at the GP, popped down the walk in yesterday afternoon, no queues at all, straight in.

Looks like the only demographic still on Facebook to me

The article doesn't look anywhere near as dramatic as your post. They say the outcome is lose lose. Suggesting if Omicron public health responses show to be more than required, there could be a loss of trust in public health authorities that could roll into future threats making them harder to deal with. I think that's a reasonable thought which could become of strategical consideration to that field. They are not saying they want it to be bad nor what is worse. Merely that whatever the outcome isn't going to be entirely positive from a public health point of view.

Happy Blue tagging Artful Dodger into the thread

Blair warning in the Sunday Times that some African countries can't cope with the amount of vaccines they are receiving. South Africa sitting on a 15 million stockpile and having to turn more away. Infrastructure not in place to cope.

A damn good idea

Haven't seen that twitter account in years but I think it's just a coincidence because our Voice of Reason was actually quite placid. Whereas I recall the twitter user being very strongly opinionated and ranty?

Oh man, forgot about that gem. Voice of Reason was it? I wonder if he has gone down the rabbit hole or whether he still lives and dies by whatever Richard Littlejohn says in the Daily Mail.

Think your first two sentences sum it up well. Truth is at any club all anyone wants is progress and to see their club going in the right direction. How that is expressed is neither here nor there, that it is expressed is what counts.

I'll be honest I stopped reading Waylander's post as soon as I saw "Bill Gates" and "dark forces". Things have gotten so weird these days with the emergence of alt right topics. The 5 year spell where all anyone spoke about on here was Islam is starting to look like an intellectual golden era.

More people are dying of covid in central and Eastern Europe right now than the rest of the World combined. Trying to jab more people instead of handing all vaccines to Africa is not a surprise really.

If we're talking about countries with a less than 20% vaccination rate that aren't war torn you're talking about almost exclusively African countries. Everywhere elses vulnerable should have been double jabbed by now unless the vaccines were given out to someone else in those countries, which in some corrupt places probably has been. Some African countries probably only need a 5% vaccination rate to cover their vulnerable population, if that.