And yet the flu vaccine is not mandatory for nursing home staff. I think it used to be pre-Covid but the cookers are winning. In fact there is a global drift away from science, meanwhile flat-earthers are on the rise.

An annual influenza vaccine, prior to the influenza season, is strongly recommended for all staff of residential care facilities, and mandatory for NSW Health staff in category A positions.

https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/Influenza/Pages/care-facilities.aspx

Took me a while. It is the peeling underside of the cladding which is supposed to run alongside the rear window. Compare left of the window vs right.

I followed the instructions. I don't like those Arabic numerals so I used Roman instead.

Perhaps instead of Medicare Levy they should call it Medicare Insurance.

I hope it is a flawed poll along the lines of Yes Minister. We should all hope so.

Sorry, I thought you were OP. I should have made a top level comment.

And since they went through the bother of "accidentally" uploading it, why did they go through the extra bother to remove it?

They play both sides. Am sure they have their own internal battles of which side to support since they do not seem consistent to me.

If you think that one can only enjoy serenity with a spliff then my comment was for you. It took decades for me to get to this point.

Fair enough, especially since I wasn't responding to OP as I thought I was.

Aboriginals in custody prison are less likely to die than others (according to a Royal Commission) however they are way over-represented in the prison system in the first place. That is a much more complex problem which AFAIK is not abating unfortunately.

Thanks

I had Covid last week (my 3rd bout) and it was milder than any cold. Hopefully it is like that for others.

I only bother RAT testing because I visit my elderly Mum daily.

Had 6 shots but last one was about 18 months ago.

Which Lemmy downvotes?

I got banned temporarily (but actually permanently) from TheGuardian for posting newspaper articles reporting on evidence that Assange's Swedish alleged rape victims boasted about their sexual encounter on Twitter and SMS (which bus lawyer submitted as evidence). No commentary from me.

I got banned from r/worldnews without warning because I posted an article by Seymore Hirsch suggesting that the NordStream pipeline was sabotaged by USA themselves. The only commentary there was to add that he is a respectedjournalist who exposed the Mai Lai massacre in Vietnam.

I had a comments deleted on Lemmy WorldNews because the Mod did not like my politics. At least I wasn't banned.

Friends have set up a private forum and server which is a solution however it doesn't have much activity. Those in our circle are too attracted to popular socials instead it seems.

Hard to know if the flu you caught was less severe because of the jab.

Also, I heard one should get a second shot mid winter because the formula changes. Anyone know if that is true?

What do you know... more train disruptions! From the Opal app: Delays on the T1 and T9 train services as a result of an incident requiring emergency services at Artarmon. Consider catching Metro or buses.

Delays cascading on other lines but hopefully they stay minor.

Mine was a "stale" message, lazily copied from a Signal chat. Apologies. I think it was Pete Hegseth who said it.

On TripView I can see all trains on T2 (far from T1 & T9) are running up to 40 minutes late or are cancelled.

In practice it doesn't matter much because they are still coming frequently, just out of timetable order.

Strange closing paragraph.

the highest they’d been since 1996 when 80% of Americans stated that they would live under an Islamic theocracy in exchange for a $50 gift card to Radio Shack.

Seems you are looking for "supernatural" experiences however the following probably sounds supernatural to some:

Contentment in the serenity of what appears to outsiders to be a boring situation.