ANDREW BOLT|Old Dog Thoughts |
News Corporation employs Andrew Bolt and provides him with a platform ensuring the inequality of speech. Bolt's Blog not only advocates conservative, right wing and Tea Party views it moderates out most opposing opinions which he is entitled to do. However Andrew Bolt simply lies when he says he provides an arena for fair and balanced discussion in a no spin zone. He doesn't it's all spin.
Sunday 5 April 2020
Fighting Fake News with REAL 5/4/20; Fox News is being sued for Journalistic Malpractice and misinforming on the Coronavirus. Why isn't it happening here? The UK certainly hasn't even begun to win the war; Big Pharma and Fake News; Bolt pushing against what he sees as Socialism. What don't people understand about a Global Pandemic?
The role of Fox as a mass media broadcaster in encouraging people to
dismiss the threat of the novel coronavirus and to continue to mingle
socially for months as the virus spread around the country silently is
akin to genocide, since their bad advice and outright lies will kill
large numbers of Americans– far more than al-Qaeda ever dreamed of
polishing off. That’s right, the new terrorism on steroids is the far
right and its mass media. Even if the Wahslite suit fails, there is plenty of ammunition for a
a multi-billion-dollar class-action lawsuit against Fox by survivors of
the people they will have killed.
How is it the same isn't happening here where we have even stricter laws on media? Andrew Bolt has regularly that the bans on social mixing are an overreach and encouraged them to be ignored and laughing at what he calls panic and alarmism. He runs counter to all the experts telling people that coronavirus is little more than virulent flu. The only people that need to be concerned are the elderly and Indigenous Australians. How responsible is that? He's calling for people to go back to work.
The Ruby Princess is facing an investigation and a class-action suit for misinformation encouraging people to board and travel. Hasn't Andrew Bolt been doing the same?
This shows our social-distancing is working and should keep at it!!
The Chaotic Response to Coronavirus Mirrors the Failures of 1914 Slogans before Action UK goes it alone
“Lions led by donkeys,” was the phrase used to condemn the waste of lives by incompetent First World War generals and their political masters. The same words could be used again today: once the shortages were of machine guns and artillery shells while now they are of ventilators, surgical masks and testing kits. The common feature is that in both cases the shortage will kill or disable a proportion of those who do not receive essential equipment. why British political and scientific leadership has been visibly worse than almost all other developed countries. From the beginning, the authorities underestimated the gravity of the crisis: only five-and-a-half weeks ago, on 21 February, a meeting of government scientific advisers concluded that COVID-19 posed only a “moderate risk” to Britain. This was well after the epidemic had swept through China, where there were already 75,465 cases and 2,236 deaths and was spreading to South Korea, Taiwan, Iran, Italy and France.
“Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system?” ~ Tony Abbott, 20 December 2010
If there was ever a man who proved merit is a myth...it was this moron.
A study of websites offering advice about antidepressants has found widespread misinformation and widespread backing by drug companies. As people are flocking in record numbers to get their medical advice online, thanks to the coronavirus, it is time to expose the risks. Dr Maryanne Demasi reports. Our study demonstrates that there is widespread public misinformation about antidepressants online, including websites from trusted and authoritative sources which emphasise the benefits of antidepressants and downplay or misrepresent their harms. Failing to fully disclose the harms of antidepressants is denying people the option of viable alternatives like psychotherapy, which causes less harm and is often superior to SSRIs in the long run. Given the ever-increasing dominance of the Internet in providing medical information, trustworthy health advice has never been more vital. As the numbers of dead and unemployed grow, Trump looks and sounds smaller | Richard Wolffe | Opinion | The Guardian
Why can't Andrew Bolt get is data right? 28 deaths are wrong Andrew Bolt. Globally our trading partners aren't doing well so our biggest Industries won't either. Who does Social-Distance specialist Andrew Bolt suggest goes back to work and in what order?
PRIME MINISTER HINTS: BANS MAY NOT LAST SIX MONTHS
Good news. We've slowed the spread of the coronavirus to (on Friday) just 4 per cent. That's had the Prime Minister dropping hints that some bans could be eased sooner than six months. But I repeat: we can't ease them before we step up quarantine, protection of the elderly and isolation of Aboriginal communities. My editorial from The Bolt Report.
Australia's leading social distancer someone who practised it most of his life, Andrew Bolt has all the solutions does a lot of barking without expansion on the execution and logistics of his ideas in a privatised world. Don't socialise is the first principle at any cost.
He's like the genius that walks into a Patent office and says "I've invented a plane that goes 10 faster than the speed of sound and runs on kero."
"Wow," the attorney says "show me your specifications."
He's handed a childish drawing of a plane with the word Zoom attached to its tail.
"So where are the specifications? The attorney asks again.
"I'm here to patent the idea I didn't say I know how to executed it."
NO, I DIDN'T QUITE SAY THAT
This, in the Sun-Herald, is not quite true: "Andrew Bolt... pointed to the flattening curve as justification for ending the current 'home imprisonment'." As I've said every day for a week, that cannot happen until we do a few things first: "Let's step up testing, enforced quarantines and protection of the old and vulnerable."
Let's do! Let's do! Lets, do! How Mr Bolt? How do we begin your herd immunity?
'ROWS OF EMPTY BEDS': SURGERIES CANCELLED FOR THE PEAK THAT NEVER CAME
The rate of spread of the virus is now just 3.7 per cent a day, with only 198 new cases. I suspect the number of people sick right now is falling. A prediction in the Medical Journal of Australia that we'd run out of emergency beds by today is confirmed as alarmist. Elective surgery was banned to free up space yet ICU wards are almost idle.
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During WW1 lions ran the war and sent men to fight it. Australians should know they died, and Bolt celebrates their death. They were totally underprepared. Here is Bolt now being WW1 lion declaring our error of battling an unknown virus but being overprepared. He'd prefer we were under it seems and suggests we need cut back and turn to a herd immunity approach rather than lockdown. However, he fails to call it what it is because it hasn't proved to be successful in either Sweden or the Netherlands.
If Australia has strengthened its position, does it mean the battle is won given we still don't know enough about the virus? That we are still underprepared in so many areas and that our economy won't simply bounce back as Bolt hopes News Corp will.
230 MORE CASES, BUT GROWTH RATE JUST 4.4%
We keep getting new cases of coronavirus, which is proving very stubborn. But it's down to just 230 more in the past 24 hours for a growth rate of 4.4 per cent, after going as high as 35 per cent. The death toll still stands at 28. Models used by experts to predict we could run out of emergency beds by tomorrow now seem very wrong.
04/04/2020
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Bolt doesn't know what a global crisis is or even the meaning of a pandemic. Shhh, let's not talk about America, the UK, Italy, Spain, France, and what is about to happen in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. We have flattened the curve and can get back to work.
Unfortunately, he doesn't really specify what work that would be what exports are essential and what domestic work will thrive given the unemployment rate will Sky Rocket if the global economy has crashed. Bolt's a social distancer as long as News Corp and Sky still thrive and aren't threatened everything is alright with the world.
The problem is they aren't alright News Corp closed 60 local papers due to lack of advertising. Businesses won't spring back and his concern he will be regarded as dead weight.
NO, BOB, CONSERVATIVES STILL BELIEVE IN FREEDOM
Bob Carr on the coronavirus crisis: "If capitalism is so good, why does it need socialism to save it every decade?" Actually, if socialism is so good, why does capitalism keep replacing it? And Carr confuses temporary with permanent: "It’s conservatives themselves junking Bill Clinton’s 1996 observation that 'the era of big government is over'."
Capitalism doesn't "keep replacing" Socialism Oligarchs have never lost control and globally America with commando forces in 144 nations and intervening to flip governments in others is what ensures it still exists. America's war budget is not simply defensive. Currently, during this global crisis, Cuba, Russia China are offering assistance as foreign aid to countries in trouble America is offering none. If conservatives believe in freedom, why is it that America has the incarcerated people in the world?
Capitalism is no longer simply the battle of classes but rather a battle between Oligarchs and largely the rest of society. The rush to Socialism is merely a rapid response to salve a problem; it can't control not solve it.
HOW CAN WE LACK FRUITPICKERS NOW SO MANY ARE UNEMPLOYED?
It's bizarre. Hundreds of thousands of Australians are losing their jobs, yet we still need to change rules to get foreigners to pick our fruit: "Overseas employees working in agriculture will be able to extend their visas to keep living and working in Australia during the coronavirus pandemic." What happened to the mutual obligation in this crisis?
04/04/2020
Apparently Social distancer and elitist Andrew Bolt, who has practised social - distancing that its second nature doesn't find it necessary for farm workers and fruit pickers. At 4.4% contagion, he believes they can practice herd immunity and the contagion rationalised as simply collateral damage and an economical cost they need to bear themselves for the luxury of the job. Mind you they'd need to pay for the constant testing and the quarantine staff required to keep them safe. Maybe under Bolt's plan, the fruit pickers can become the virus testers and be sent to protect the elderly and indigenous Australia they can fan out across Australia with the testing kits we don't have and become privatised corona mercenaries. Dream on!!!
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