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I've been blogging, gentle reader, since October 2007.
Maybe it's time to review my experience with this strange method of communication, and to note some of the highs and lows, the costs and rewards, and the benefits.
Initially, I was blogging using a clunky Telstra platform, but any record of that that seems to have vanished without trace. We're told that the internet is forever, but I seem to have found the exception to the rule, as I haven't been able to dredge up any trace of the original blog.
The statistics are interesting. Years blogging amount to fourteen, unique page views are 253275, there are 1282 posts, and 3037 comments. I even made a small amount of money through the advertising, about enough to buy one cup of coffee each week. I avoided the temptation to advertise initially, but found (after a few embarrassing and inappropriate ads) that I could control the material. Then I became tired of eliminating the stupid ads, and removed the facility.
I have more readers in the USA than in Oz which is surprising (click to enlarge) -
There aren't regular followers, which is OK by me. There have been a few trolls down the years, but they seem to fade away after a while. That's a pity really, as they are an endless source of entertainment.
There were two persistent posters, one who took serious exception to my posting on another blog (Catallaxy) and attempted to attack my posts on that blog by commenting on this one. That kind of missed the point unless you were a regular subscriber to both blogs, but it kept him busy for a while.
The irony is that the original Catallaxy disappeared, so has been outlived by this one. The best summing up of the content of Catallaxy is this by John Quiggin -
Catallaxy was an early example of the decline of libertarianism into what we can now call Trumpism. By the end, the comments threads and quite a few of the posts were a toxic mix of racism, misogyny and conspiracy theories comparable to Sky After Dark or even Alex Jones.
There's a message in that somewhere. There have been attempts to resurrect Catallaxy, but now my posts there are censored. There's a lesson in that as well - something to do with free speech, I suppose.
I try to put something out there every week, but feel no obligation to do so. That is one of the benefits of this style of blogging. You post only when you are in the mood, or when you think you have something to say.
My memoir began as a blog, posted chapter by chapter. The responses to that original blog encouraged me to self-publish, and the original 1000 copies I had printed have almost sold out. There are only 180 copies left, and I recouped my printing costs in a month after publication. This blog is my one and only marketing strategy (apart from Facebook) and it works.
So I will continue to blog, gentle reader, as the mood finds me. It is great fun, and full of surprises.
5 comments:
https://thecovidblog.com/2022/01/17/caitlin-gotze-23-year-old-australian-horse-stable-foreman-dead-seven-weeks-after-second-mrna-injection-mother-wonders-if-pfizer-vaccine-stopped-her-heart/
Ooh, bad batches in the Woomba.
First, look at the actual facts to note that vaccinations are safe. Check page 11 of this compilation of data. Observe that Toowoomba has a double vaxxed rate of 93.4%. The population of Toowoomba is 134000, so 125000 locals have been successfully vaccinated -https://www.health.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/2022/01/covid-19-vaccination-geographic-vaccination-rates-sa3-24-january-2022.pdf Then, explain what an American anti-Covid vaccination blog would know about someone dying in Toowoomba. You have turned this young woman's tragic death into a bizarre conspiracy rant. You should be ashamed of yourself. This kind of deliberate misinformation kills people.
104,236 adverse events requiring medical attention so not just sore arms.
https://www.tga.gov.au/periodic/covid-19-vaccine-weekly-safety-report-27-01-2022
Safe? Nah. You forgot the word effective. So much so you need a rising number of boosters. And 125k have been injected with something. And Caitin really did die. And she was previously perfectly healthy. 2 1/2 months later shouldn't there have been an autopsy?
And she was previously perfectly healthy. 2 1/2 months later shouldn't there have been an autopsy?
Actually she wasn't. She was a chronic asthmatic, like one of my daughters. For years when she was little, we had numerous 3am visits to emergency when she was going a shade of blue and struggling to breathe. This continued for a year or two of our move from Mt Isa to Toowoomba, until her medication was set and her condition stabilised. It's by no means unusual.
And there was an autopsy, which at this point was inconclusive. The cause of death is "yet to be determined". In response to which, you and the other anti-vaxxers emerge from under various rocks and conclude that you know better and that she was killed by the vaccine.
You are your ilk are quite prepared to use this young woman's death as ideological collateral.
You are a disgrace.
104,236 adverse events requiring medical attention so not just sore arms.
You can't read the website you linked to.
I'll provide some help.
The 104,236 figure refers to reports of adverse events, and includes the most minor, such as bruising, swelling, and discomfort at the injection source. From the CDC's website - a report to VAERS does not mean that a vaccine caused an adverse event. But VAERS can give CDC and FDA important information. If it looks as though a vaccine might be causing a problem, FDA and CDC will investigate further and take action if needed.
Look at the ratio of adverse events to vaccinations - 48,055,260 doses administered, 104,236 reported adverse events. That constitutes a report every in 0.216% of innoculations, or a 1 in 461 rate of adverse reactions. This is a pretty safe situation, and superior to the results for most other vaccines. In fact, the universally administered pertussis vaccine has a 1 in 10 adverse reaction rate -https://immunisationhandbook.health.gov.au/resources/handbook-tables/table-comparison-of-the-effects-of-diseases-and-the-side-effects-of#:~:text=About%202%20in%20100%20patients,completely%20within%20a%20few%20days.
So don't go off half cocked linking to data which shows exactly the opposite of what you think it does.
It makes you look like a fool...
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