You Want corona-fries with that?

50,000 people are willing to travel and queue to get into the Perth stadium. Where they will spend hours sitting or standing or queuing for food or toilets. And occasionally cheering or booing at the game of football.

The government could rent a few of the "concession stands" -- and offer coronavirus immunisation. Choose your preferred brand, from a menu of two. Pre-order with your combined travel and game entry tickets.

If it turns out that the game is a super-spreader event, at least all the close contacts will have been immunised.

Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper

...        Agamedes Consulting / Problems ? Solved

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One joy scatters a hundred griefs" ... Chinese proverb

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Goodbye common sense

What a clever government we have.

They have thrown money at people who may want to build a house. They have also simplified the approvals process for major developments. That is, made it easier to build massive new buildings. Of course the end result of all this is that builders and tradies are too busy inflating their prices to... actually build. So no houses are being built.

Now the government is paying travel agents. The payments will go to tourists (ha ha) as an encouragement for the tourists to see a lot more of our state. These would be the tourists who are... not coming to our state because our government likes to close our borders.

Other than covid-infected tourists... what resource is so scarce that it limits both development and our lifestyle? Water, of course.

So our government is pushing hard to develop "a hydrogen economy" What a pity that a hydrogen economy requires unlimited supplies of... you guessed it... water.

Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper

...        Agamedes Consulting / Problems ? Solved

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One joy scatters a hundred griefs" ... Chinese proverb

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Dying for you to read my blog, at https://notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com/ :-)

A sweet profit

Here's an interesting business idea:

I received a letter saying that it was time to renew my business name. Yes, renewal was almost due.

The letter was from a business called Registry. Cost for three years, $199.

A couple of weeks later I get a similar reminder from ASIC, the government agency which manages business name registration. I paid ASIC... their fee: $88.

If I'd been an unthinking accounts clerk I could have paid Registry. I'm sure they would have renewed the name registration for me. At a quick profit to them of $ (199-88)... Sweeeeet !

Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper

...        Agamedes Consulting / Problems ? Solved

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One joy scatters a hundred griefs" ... Chinese proverb

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Dying for you to read my blog, at https://notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com/ :-)

Enemies in the East

Gemma Tognini wonders (8 Jul) what has happened to our long-ago sense of Australian national unity.

A former WA Premier decided that public hatred of other states would gain him extra GST and, therefore, extra votes. That Premier has long faded into obscurity. So has his party.

Now Mcgowan tries the same tactic, painting other states as "the enemy" because they do not follow his lead on defence against covid.

What next, McGowan? Force Eastern Staters to wear a big E when they go out in public?

Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper

...        Agamedes Consulting / Problems ? Solved

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One joy scatters a hundred griefs" ... Chinese proverb

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Dying for you to read my blog, at https://notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com/ :-)

un declared bias

Our daily paper is having an attack of righteous indignation against "men only" clubs.

oh dear. So Kerry Stokes -- owner and opinion-enforcer for the paper -- has been rejected for membership of the Weld Club? A media empire hath no fury like a rich and otherwise influential millionnaire spurned.

Today's piece of anti-Weld nonsense has a number of otherwise sensible people uttering threats.

Company directors must be required to declare their membership -- or otherwise -- of gender-based organisations. Otherwise -- according to the bias of the paper -- otherwise these members cannot be trusted to set standards for equality within their own organisations.

Only the men-only Weld Club is named. Poor Kerry, so sad to be ignored.

Yet there is an unfortunate lack of honesty in the attack article.

Several of the attackers fail to declare their own memberships.

If I am not mistaken, several of the attackers are female.Members of the half of humanity which is female. (or similar.)This leads to an impression of bias. And yet... the obvious bias is undeclared. Which brings the entire article into question.

Well, okay: that last sentence is nonsense. because the entire article -- the entire series of anti-Weld articles -- is rubbish. Just one example of the danger of all local media being controlled by one person. by one person. With an agenda of his own. An agenda which replaces "news" with "opinion". Really!

Yes! the one daily paper does not have "news" There are many pages headlined "opinion". As though this is "a good thing" in a daily paper.

A good thing?

Good grief.

If only we had a daily NEWS paper :-(

Nick Lethbridge    /    Consulting Dexitroboper
Agamedes Consulting    /   Problems? Solved.
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VAD is not for the survivors

I have a lot of sympathy for Despene Sattler (The West, 3 July). As I see it, it is far harder to watch someone die than it it to be the person dying.

Of course my own terminal cancer is, so far, painless. I may yet change my mind.

Unfortunately Despene's experience has taught her nothing about euthanasia.

The key point is that "VAD" is for the terminally ill patient. If it were for the living then it would be "murder".

Despene writes that Howard Sattler had always been careful of his appearance. even to the end, he insisted on careful grooming. So how did he feel when so-called friends were too embarrassed to visit the physical hulk that he had become.

Perhaps he would rather be dead. Rather relax into a peaceful death. Allow aquaintances to remember him as he always wished to be seen.

His wife suffered through his death. Do you think he did not know this? do you think that he enjoyed knowing that his wife suffered more -- in a different way -- as he was dying and suffering.

And yet his widow sees it as a positive that Howard's passing was "peaceful" and natural. I'm sorry, but "peaceful" is highly unlikely.

Several pages on, the Premier displays even less understanding of death and VAD.

The Premier brags of the more than one hundred deliberate obtacles to a voluntary and peaceful death. What he means, is that the law does everything it possibly can to prevent euthanasia.

Peaceful? voluntary? individual choice? Not a bloody hope.

Not under the Premier's dictatorial definition of "voluntary".

Starting with the requirement for several doctors -- sworn to save lives -- having to agree to kill people. As if.

Bugger me, Premier. Do you really support VAD? If you do then I could -- and have -- written rules which would work. Which would allow euthanasia to be a choice. With protection against misuse. wIth no need for doctors to moonlight as murderers.

Or would you rather pat yourself on the back. Until the next election changes your claimed position.

If my cancer does lead me to want euthanasia, I hope I have the strength to die in screaming agony on the steps of Parliament house. Of course, that would be the same day that the Premier would be absent, proudly announcing another "efficiency cut" to hospital budgets.

Nick Lethbridge    /    Consulting Dexitroboper
Agamedes Consulting    /   Problems? Solved.
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The more things change, the more they stay insane ... per Ginger Meggs