Successive federal governments wanted to keep up appearances with the US, & kept them on station for too long. Oversight & discipline became frayed. Certain US special forces wouldn't work with them because of it.
The grunts were sacrificed to protect the top brass, but especially the politicians who looked the other way.
Particularly embarrassing to do otherwise when one (Ben Roberts-Smith) has already been given a Victoria Cross.
University of Western Australia Study finds nasal spray could aid battle against COVID
Nasodine Nasal Spray is based on povidone-iodine, the same active ingredient found in Betadine throat gargle, and has been in development for almost a decade as a treatment for the common cold. Laboratory experiments showed a 15-second exposure to the nasal spray reduced infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 by 99.97 per cent, while a 60-second exposure completely eliminated viral infectivity.
A subsequent pilot study of six COVID-19 patients, who were shedding the virus from the nose, looked at whether the laboratory results translated to people.
The trial showed that a single Nasodine dose (four sprays per nostril) reduced viral shedding in five of the six subjects (83 per cent) at five minutes after the dose, with an overall 79 per cent reduction in viral shedding at one hour after the dose.
Povidone-iodine (taken nasally or as a gargle) kills viruses and bacteria. All types, including Covid, with 99.9% effectiveness according to numerous studies.
Has worked this way (and safely) since the 1950's.
Given that it's effective, and cheap to produce it's no wonder big pharma lobbied so hard for their own expensive partial treatments.
Yep did the gargle as well both times I had COVID. Tried nasal irrigation with the diluted form but it was just too much to handle so I used NeilMed instead. n=1 caveats, but both cases (the first one Delta) were mild.
Betadine gargle is 1% povidone-iodine. As a nasal spray dilute by 50% with water. Active protection for 3-4 hours minimum (again according to numerous studies)
Then public transit should be built to wherever you live. given the amount of investment to self driving cars and maintenance of roads that are way bigger than they should be, we could be using that capital for transit.
If you like private transport, then you should be doing whatever you can to get as many people as possible to use public transport so there’s less traffic on the road for you.
from the twitter link
..."The Optus hacker says they accessed an unauthenticated API endpoint. This means they didn't have to login. The person says: "No authenticate needed. That is bad access control. All open to internet for any one to use.
The API endpoint was api[dot]http://optus.com.au. Yes, that looks weird, but the hacker says it worked otherwise a DNS error occurred. That API is now offline, so there is no more risk for Optus. It was used in part to let Optus customers access their own data."
..."In my interviews with Baker and Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in 1994, Baker acknowledged (and Shevardnadze confirmed) that he told the former foreign minister the United States would not “leapfrog” over a reunified Germany to move closer to the borders of the Soviet Union.
There are reports that Baker was willing to put this commitment in writing, but that national security adviser Brent Scowcroft convinced the president not to do so."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1FLEnKZTAE