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tcpipAt midnight tonight Melbourne opens up, somewhat, having reached a 70% double-dosed vaccination level; really I we need about 90%+. I am not particularly comfortable with this given that there are currently over 20,000 active cases in Victoria, compared to just over 5,000 in New South Wales. One can simply urge people to be careful, be cautious, keep an eye on those numbers, and avoid the unvaccinated like the plague. Because, if the math is right, these figures will increase and very quickly, and this will weigh very heavily on healthcare workers. Apropos, I have also taken the opportunity to correspond with the primary author of a Burnet Institute report which last year pointed out the Melbourne lockdown prevented 18,686 cases in July, and he gave me the data for August of this year - instead of 5,643 cases for that month, we had 1,001.
But on this note, what's the wildest vaccine conspiracy you've encountered? Today, a person was trying to tell me (after claiming that vaccinators would be prosecuted "under the Nuremberg code") that "the pedos" had paid bribe money to medical administrators across thousands of GP clinics across Australia to falsify vaccination numbers over the last year and continue to do. When I asked for their motivation they responded "they're pedos" and said that they would categorize me in the same if I didn't "do my research". They did claim they're doing a PhD on this particularly novel research, although they couldn't tell me which institution has accepted their candidacy. They did tell me that that they were a scientist and widely educated. However, they couldn't tell show me any recent journal publications under their name. I followed their LinkedIn profile and they have (or at least studied) a Diploma in Recreation (Fitness), a Diploma in Early Childhood Education, and a Diploma in Business. They also claim to have a Masters in Public Administration, but that's from a production company that they run not an accredited educational institution. I don't think they liked me pointing this out to them!
Much of the past several days, even in my nominal personal hours, have been spent on work-related tasks. This includes adding exam content for the HPC Certification Forum (we had a board meeting last night), submitting an abstract for eResearchNZ for next year on the same, attending the Victorian GPGPU Symposium (great presentation on machine learning for global weather predictions), and a workshop for NCI's supercomputer. My sole non-work-related seminar was China From the Inside, hosted by the Victorian Fabian Society, which was quite worthwhile and will help in my own evolving perspective on said country.
But on this note, what's the wildest vaccine conspiracy you've encountered? Today, a person was trying to tell me (after claiming that vaccinators would be prosecuted "under the Nuremberg code") that "the pedos" had paid bribe money to medical administrators across thousands of GP clinics across Australia to falsify vaccination numbers over the last year and continue to do. When I asked for their motivation they responded "they're pedos" and said that they would categorize me in the same if I didn't "do my research". They did claim they're doing a PhD on this particularly novel research, although they couldn't tell me which institution has accepted their candidacy. They did tell me that that they were a scientist and widely educated. However, they couldn't tell show me any recent journal publications under their name. I followed their LinkedIn profile and they have (or at least studied) a Diploma in Recreation (Fitness), a Diploma in Early Childhood Education, and a Diploma in Business. They also claim to have a Masters in Public Administration, but that's from a production company that they run not an accredited educational institution. I don't think they liked me pointing this out to them!
Much of the past several days, even in my nominal personal hours, have been spent on work-related tasks. This includes adding exam content for the HPC Certification Forum (we had a board meeting last night), submitting an abstract for eResearchNZ for next year on the same, attending the Victorian GPGPU Symposium (great presentation on machine learning for global weather predictions), and a workshop for NCI's supercomputer. My sole non-work-related seminar was China From the Inside, hosted by the Victorian Fabian Society, which was quite worthwhile and will help in my own evolving perspective on said country.
