As far as I know Astrazeneca has never denied the rare side-effects of it's vaccine, it's a characteristic of any vaccine or medicine that there might be side-effects, some severe for a small number of people.
The media on the other hand claims pretty much everything is a side effect, the media leverages societies wide misunderstanding of chance, probability and correlation for profit, like a "5G allergy" and "Infasound Illness" from wind power! The spurious and alarmist claims about vaccines and medicines are no different.
btw., If these medicines and vaccines were 100% harmless, they would have no positive effects either, all medicines walk a like between help and harm. If we didn't have them people would still be dying from a scratch!
For myself, the real villains here are the likes of Pfizer and Moderna, not because in the real world those products aren't perfect that is expected, the problem is they continue to deny side-effects from their own products while pointing the finger at Astrazeneca, of course they do this for profit!
It's the denials that do the harm, not the product, if medical experts are aware of side-effects they can screen and manage them, but they need the information to act. Pfizer and Moderna have kept it closed, proprietary, and highly profitable.
Yep. I wouldn't be expecting to win in the next two weeks.
We have a list that can sneak wins against good opponents, it would have been nice to sneak one extra over the last few weeks of injury outs.
But expecting wins is a bit over the top, especially when a 1/4 of the team on the day are 1st or 2nd season types, that's hard enough without carrying some older types who are out of form. The group needs contiguous football to click into shape.
That's a lot of changes on top of Martin not having played much footy in recent times, we shouldn't expect much first game back but we can hope to be surprised. For me it's the 1st step of getting things in shape for the second half of the season.
Personally, I'll be happy to see Martin and McGovern get through unscathed.
Voss knows our strengths, he just mentioned the "Effort in the collective", it's no good hoping for stuff we haven't got, there are plenty of ways to skin a cat.
My only concern is that he mentioned forwards and defenders but not the mid.
Finally some are starting to see what I've been watching for weeks now, and what tipped me over the edge was that Williams got pinged for two ultra-trivial holds, holds which were almost nothing by comparison to those which Cripps or Walsh suffered all game!
If we as fans and a club do not start asking these questions, we are going to keep finding ourselves at a significant disadvantage simply because Cripps, Walsh, Kennedy, Hewett, Cerra are at their very best in contested football situations. And the holding / shepherding stuff affects more of their game style than it does for a fast break type player.
Yes, having Chugga in the midfield mix usually means Cripps will play well.
Even Walsh resting forward would be a plus over the current SFs, I've no doubt Walsh will get front and square at the feet of the pack without hesitation, and despite some patchy form nobody is out marking Charlie or BigH.
What hurt Cripps last game was making Kennedy sub, because Cerra and Walsh largely played an outside run type game, and Hewett was tagging. Cripps got no chop out and the Filth knew he was the only Mid working predictably on the inside. As he fatigued he got the fumbles, and that just made the situation worse.
When Kennedy came on he replaced a forward, they should have put Kennedy into the Midfield and let Cerra rest forward to turn the heat back onto the Filth and make them think twice about who the double team.
Even when Cripps draws 2 or 3 opponents leaving us with extra numbers, in recent weeks we haven't gain an advantage because our ball use has been poor.
We need to get back to being brutal in the midfield, that means no respite for opposition Mids or Rucks, pound them into the ground with wave after wave of heavy hitters, no B-Graders. Put a dud in the Mid rotation, or the ruck, and you give the opponents a rest period that costs us momentum! We have to keep the opposition eternally running up hill, because we aren't fast enough for a flat surface foot race no matter what our MC does at selection!
Binns has benefited from being allowed to develop his craft in the Magoos and is way ahead of Moir.
I can't see Binns or Carroll giving us less match influence than Fantasia, I don't understand our selection at the moment, there are obviously skills, tasks and strategies we can't see.
Maybe Fantasia is living on the fact he is not making any mistakes, but it is probably because you actually have to do something to make an error! Not sure how long he can survive while directing traffic.
Regardless of Fantasia's influence or opportunities last game, we are getting next to nothing out of him.
It's borders on bizarre that some fans want the likes of Williams, Owies or Durdin dropped, but want to retain Fantasia.
I admit I was unconvinced by Fantasia at the start of the season, I probably didn't give him a fair chance, then two weeks back he fooled me because he became more involved around the contest without really getting any significant footy. I thought he was on a better trajectory. However, a week later against the Filth was it for me, Fantasia is cooked.
He'll need a 20+ possession 3 or 4 goal game just to get back to scratch in my ratings, and it's probably best if it happens in the VFL.
Horrendous story that is repeated too often, education is a big part of the solution, teaching dullards like Mantis' stepfather from an early age that their circumstances is not somebody else's fault.
Education won't prevent 100% of occurrences, it may even make some worse giving psychopaths enhanced skills, but it should reduce the frequency considerably, and improve the response of those around the situation.
Not making excuses, but this sort of behaviour can sometimes have it's roots in many generations, it takes courage to break free and not go down the same route because fear is at the root cause of much of it.
On one side a gutless fear, taking life's struggles out on those weaker, finding someone to blame.
The other side can be a fear of the unknown which is basically a fear of change even if it is likely to be change for the good, like an escape.
I suppose many could argue we made finals last season from a much lower base, the trick this year might be not wasting a better start to the season.
But regardless of intent and work ethic, luck still plays a huge part at the end of the season, you can make some of your own luck, but you can't make all of it.
Sometimes the luck of somebody else is more important than your own!
Not to mention TDK has been a very dangerous addition to the forwardline, and he has been scoring his 1 to 2 goals a game (should have had 3 against the Pies, but missed one that was gettable).
I think we just need to tidy it up a bit, and be a bit smarter and we will be fine. No need to panic, its not a personell issue, its an execution problem.
Perfect summary, no need to become Cortes at the moment!
The good thing is these events are all easy fixes that have cost us games, as long as there is the will to fix them, and the fixes do not require some 3rd party to see it our way!
Martin and SOS being missed as alternatives allowing Charlie in particular to be double teamed..
True, but we still often have blokes open and fail to use them, but BigH better not complain about it after the dying minutes of last Friday, or maybe he was teaching them a lesson, "Don't do this!"
