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A Nation Divided - a Post-Covid Reflection - January 2023

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 I want to talk about the Covid “Vaccinations”. Or, as I prefer to call it, “Jabs”. Because the elixir being injected into people is not a vaccine- it offers no immunity, no impediment to transmission, and the narrative around it reducing severe illness is also crumbling. When it comes to the Covid Jabs, the world seems to see people in one of two categories: Jabbed or Unjabbed. However, personally, I see three distinct categories.  1- the Willing and Grateful. (Or WaGs) 2- The Reluctant and Coerced. (RaCs) 3- The Courageous and Defiant. (CaDs) 1- The Willing and Grateful. (WaGs). This group of people bought into the narrative very early in the Covid pandemic, and truly believed (I guess we all initially did) that a vaccine was the only way to reverse the freedoms and liberties that had been egregiously stripped from us in the way of lockdowns, impulsive draconian laws, brutal police enforcement, unfair travel restrictions, Orwellian speech and thought restrictions, wholesale ...

Covid Mandates Are Over - Or Are They? - Serving with the RFS - July 2022

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  On New Year's Eve 2019, My wife and I were getting ready to attend a party at a nearby town. Just as we were packing the esky, my phone rang. It was my employer who I was expecting to catch up with that night and find out what he and his family have been up to over the last couple of weeks since we commenced Christmas holidays. He told me that our presence was requested to assist with what would become the infamous 2020 Bushfires. My Boss, Duncan, operates a family-owned earthmoving business. I had worked for him for something like nine years operating scrapers, skid steers, wheel loaders, truck & dog tippers and crushing plants. But most of my time was operating bull dozers.  The Dunn's Road fire was out of control, and the RFS and State Forests wanted our dozer to make and clear roads, build fire breaks, clear tree-lines , remove obstacles, etc. So, I packed a bag with a few day's change of clothes, a lunch box, and set off to Rosewood in the foothills of the Sno...