The Blarg of Fosnez

I expect to see the speed limit for the bruce highway between cairns and innisfail will soon be reduced to 80km/h or possibly 60km/h. Why you ask? Well, some people have died . Now I may sounds a little heartless here, but every time you strap yourself into one and a half tons of metal, and travel only inches away from other people in tanks traveling at a combined speed of 200km/h, people are going to die. Sorry, but it is that simple. To think otherwise is foolish. Reducing the speed limit seems to be default behaviour for the far north branch of the department of main roads (or whatever they are called this week). Just look at what happened on the Kuranda Range: Speed limit dropped to 60, 2 overtaking lanes removed and only after a number of complains was the speed limited increased to a measly 70 on the long uphill overtaking lane. All this when the speed limit for the (more dangerous) Gillies Range is still 80. Another fine example of bureaucrats that obviously live to the south o...

Here are some facts to consider about the current “swine flu pandemic” being hyped up by the media.  Just like horse flu was.  Just like bird flu was.  Seeing a pattern here? “Flu” or Influenza is not the same as the “Common Cold”.   A “pandemic” does not indicate the danger of the disease, rather that it is present in more than one country (technically it is more than one W.H.O. Region). There is a constant chicken pox pandemic. World View There have been 18,023 reported infections of H1N1 (swine flu) so far in the world. 114 People have died. That is a death rate of 0.6% ( source ) There are 10’s of millions of infections of normal seasonal flu per year. 500,000 people die worldwide from normal, seasonal flu per year. ( source ) Japan is treating it as the normal seasonal flu, and has reopened all schools. ( source ) Swine flu not more dangerous than normal, season flu. ( source ) There is mounting evidence that the symptoms are milder than health officials feared. As of May 27, 200...