Dear fellow Australians aged over 60, as is so obvious with the latest COVID-19 outbreak locking down all of greater Sydney and beyond for two weeks, our failure to vaccinate our population has left us vulnerable to ever more dangerous variations of the SARS virus.
COVID-19 is a horrible disease and abundant worldwide experience has demonstrated that we “oldies” over 60 (there are more than four million of us in Australia) are most vulnerable to serious infection and even death if infected. Bottom line: you don’t want to get COVID.
Should I get my second AstraZeneca dose? Yes, it almost doubles your protection against Delta
WE KNOW ENOUGH: What We Know About the Origins of Covid-19: Key findings from The Wall Street Journal’s investigation into how the global pandemic began. Some key bits:
A Journal investigation found China resisted international pressure for an investigation it saw as an attempt to assign blame, delayed the probe for months, secured veto rights over participants and insisted its scope encompass other countries as well.
Saturday’s good reading and listening for the weekend
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Consumer Survey on counterfeit goods
- 57% have unknowingly
bought counterfeits
- 18% did so knowing they
were counterfeits
- More bought on web
sites than from Amazon, eBay
Review and
recommendation: Unsettled, What climate science tells us,
what it doesn’t, and why it matters, by Steven E. Koonin, physicist
at Caltech, Undersecretary of Science in the US Energy Department in
the Obama Administration. Everyone agrees that there is more
Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but it is tough to pierce the fog of
politics and media to figure out what data we have about climate
change, how reliable it is, and whats that data means This quite
readable book should help every informed citizen get a better grasp on
key issues such as how much of climate change is natural, how much is
man made, and what are our options for dealing with this?
BBB Studies.
Here are links to some of the study topics: puppy fraud, tech support fraud, romance fraud money mules, apartment rental, crooked movers, government imposters, online vehicle sale scams, rental fraud and gift cards.
Coronavirus
Fraud News
Around the world
Humor
FTC and CFPB
Virus Benefit
Theft
Business Email
compromise fraud (read BBB study)
Ransomware
Data Breaches
Bitcoin and
cryptocurrency
ATM skimming
Jamaica and
Lottery Fraud (read BBB lottery fraud study)
Romance Fraud
and Sextortion (read BBB romance fraud study)
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