In my last video, I mentioned that to be considered employed in Australia, you have to have worked at least one hour in the last week, and to be considered unemployed, you have to be actively looking for work. And then I made the point that if you had given up on looking for work, then you’re technically not considered to be unemployed. I then showed a picture of a drunken Kermit who has lost all hope and has drunk himself into a stupor lying unconscious on a park bench. I wasn’t trying to imply that people who have given up looking for work are lazy, or drunk, or welfare cheats (although some people would certainly fit into those categories). I was simply trying to say that there are some places in Australia, especially regional centres, where there are no jobs available. Some people have lost all hope and cannot find a job. The Government have purposely modified the definition of employment and unemployment to make things look less worse than they actually are. MY GEAR Rode NT-USB Microphone: https://amzn.to/2OjhgB4 #unemployment #welfare #australianeconomy ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYbp4Pf09zY

Simone from EasyPunt24/7 tells us all about Australia’s favourite pastime — Having a flutter! We have raffles, poker, bingo, scratchies, keno, and more! Obviously, there’s no use saving money anymore with interest rates so low, so you may as well head out and take a punt, go for broke, shoot the moon, buck the odds, but most importantly, have a flutter! Although modern Australians love tweeting, fluttering comes more naturally to us as it is in our convict blood! THE LOVE OF THE PUNT Gambling For Life: Harry Findlay ▶ https://amzn.to/2xbWcq4 The Easy Way to Stop Gambling ▶ https://amzn.to/3aS04LD Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas ▶ https://amzn.to/2UPZnwI SOCIAL https://www.facebook.com/DailyRantAustralia/ https://twitter.com/RantAustralia ALTERNATIVE TO YOUTUBE ▶ https://lbry.tv/$/invite/@DailyRantAustralia:d IMAGE RIGHTS Scratch-Off Tickets, https://www.casino.org/news/nebraska-lottery-wont-pay-out-on-405-misprinted-scratch-off-tickets/ Veikkaus Keno by Santeri Viinamäki / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) Modern Croquet Equipment by Winnywinn / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) Two Up Set by Roland Scheicher / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) OUTRO MUSIC Baroque Coffee House (Sting) by Doug Maxwell/Media Right Productions ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEawcO_igak

We take a look at the Immunisation Coalition’s COVID risk calculator that shows you beyond a reasonable doubt that the Pfizer vaccine is not only safe and effective, it’s safer than lightning. COVID RISK CALCULATOR https://corical.immunisationcoalition.org.au/ I show you lots of positive information about the COVID vaccines, so you certainly can’t accuse me of spreading misinformation (unless you’re accusing the Immunisation Coalition of lying?). They advocate for immunisation across the lifespan. The Immunisation Coalition have recently updated their COVID risk calculator, which is what we’ll be looking at today. But before we get started, I’d just like to mention our sponsors, well, not my sponsors, but the Coalition’s sponsors. You know, household names like Moderna, Novavax, Pfizer. The point is, you can trust this data that I’m going to show you today because it’s supported by the biggest names in the industry. IMMUNISATION COALITION SPONSORS (Bottom of Page) https://www.immunisationcoalition.org.au/about-us/ For example, let’s use the Pfizer calculator. I’ll fill out the details with my information. So 43-year-old male. Vaccine, I assume we’ve all had our recommended number of doses of vaccine, but just for the purposes of this video, let’s pretend we’ve had None. How many cases are there in your community? Well, who would know? Nobody’s getting tested anymore, so let’s just stick with the default of 5% chance of getting COVID over 2 months. Click the terms and conditions, and then Calculate Risk. Scroll down to “What is my chance of dying from inflammation of my heart muscle (myocarditis)?”. According to the data, my chance of dying from myocarditis after the first shot is 0.0033 out of a million. If you click on the number, it says, “0.0033 cases per million people. This is the same as 1 in 300 million chance.” 1 in 300 million!? According to Google, in the United States, the lifetime odds of being struck by lightning are about 1 in 15,000. So that means that by the time you die from myocarditis from a single shot of Pfizer, on average, you’ll have been struck by lightning 19,607 times, according to the Immunisation Coalition. Okay, okay, perhaps I’m not comparing apples with apples. To be fair, the chances of being struck by lightning in any given year is 1 in 1.2 million. Assuming you only take a single Pfizer shot per year and this 1 in 300 million chance holds true, then this would still equate to being struck by lightning 250 times before myocarditis takes you out, at least, according to the Immunisation Coalition’s calculator. It should be noted that this is the increased chance of dying from myocarditis. According to the same chart, my base risk of dying from myocarditis, even if I haven’t had any vaccine or any COVID, is 1 in 750,000. That means there’s 400 times more chance of me dying from random everyday myocarditis than there is from taking the Pfizer vaccine! And I suppose it comes as no surprise to most of you that COVID infection is the primary cause of myocarditis, killing 1 in 2,300 people. This means that COVID myocarditis kills 130,434 times more people than does the vaccine according to this trustworthy and reliable data. The calculator also shows that my chances of catching COVID are significantly reduced after two months of having a second shot of the Pfizer vaccine at 1 in 44. This is compared to a 1 in 20 chance of getting COVID if I am not vaccinated. Also, it shows my chances of dying from COVID are significantly reduced with a second shot of the vaccine (taken two months ago) at 1 in 21,000 compared to 1 in 5,400 without a vaccine, so about four times the risk of death according to this chart. Anyway, what this all goes to show you is that the Pfizer vaccine is truly a medical wonder and an amazing product! It should be noted that the calculator we just looked at hasn’t been updated for over a year, so perhaps the data is a little bit dated. The most recently updated calculator, however, updated 27 February 2023 (so only a couple of weeks ago), is the Pfizer for Children calculator. Let’s take a look at that and find out the results for a five-year-old girl. So what is my child’s chance of having inflammation of their heart muscle (myocarditis)? According to this chart, it’s less than 0.0001 out of a million, and in case you don’t understand what that means, they’ve explicitly stated “extremely rare”. Lastly, let’s take a look at the third calculator just for completeness, the AstraZeneca Calculator, noting that it was only updated about a year ago. What’s my chance of getting rare blood clots? Well, for the vaccine, it’s 1 in 50,000, and I guess unsurprisingly to most of you, rare blood clots are a lot less rare when you catch COVID at 1 in every 2,000. So there’s 25 times more chance of getting rare blood clots from COVID infection than there is from the AstraZeneca vaccine. Another amazing product! MUSIC Allégro by Emmit Fenn ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZwYDMq9Ols

In this video, I run through a simple scenario of what a true free market economy might look like. How would it play out? Imagine that all the cronyism and government intervention disappeared and the market became truly free. Pure capitalism as some might describe it, or Laissez-faire. Would this fix all of our problems? Would monopolies form? Would prices go up? Would competition be stifled? Many proponents of capitalism say that although our current system looks a little bit like capitalism, it really isn’t in that businesses with lots of money can essentially buy government favours, that is, they can “lobby” the government to give them an unfair advantage in the marketplace. This is often in the form of subsidies, grants, tariff protection, tax breaks, and so on. Whenever you hear somebody say, “The market is rigged!”, this is typically what they are referring to — so called “crony capitalism”. Technically, most of us live in what we call a mixed economy, an economic system with some elements of freedom, but one which is heavily controlled and regulated by the government. Just look at any of the tax laws in your country — they’re unbelievably complex. They incentivise some industries while penalising others. It’s certainly not a free market. In this environment, it’s only natural that businesses try to manipulate the government through lobbying, and so on, to acquire some kind of advantage in the marketplace. Crony capitalism is just an inevitable consequence of the system that we have set up. BOOKS ON THE FREE MARKET Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government ▶ https://amzn.to/2S9RVKr The Economists' Hour: How the False Prophets of Free Markets Fractured Our Society ▶ https://amzn.to/2tWfgXC The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets ▶ https://amzn.to/38KzzpH MY GEAR Rode NT-USB Microphone ▶ https://amzn.to/2OjhgB4 Lenovo ThinkPad Edge Laptop ▶ https://amzn.to/2TKMdB5 IMAGE RIGHTS Noam Chomsky 2017 by Σ, retouched by Wugapodes [CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)] OUTRO MUSIC Fortress Europe by Dan Bodan (https://www.youtube.com/user/danbodan) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uJHQcofErI