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Even so, about 80 per cent of those who get it have mild to moderate illness and only 20 per cent have a severe to critical illness. Most people who aren’t elderly and don’t have underlying health conditions won’t become critically ill.
Disruption to the economy is unavoidable, but the danger is that hour-by-hour reporting of efforts to slow the spread is frightening a lot of people and will lead them to overreact to the risk of infection, closing businesses and purses and making everything worse than it needs to be

 What strikes me is that in all extremes it's the very young (babies) and the very old who suffer the most. Wars, refugee camps, recessions extreme weather conditions and pandemics have repeatedly harmed these cohorts generally more severely than most. Panic doesn't appear to improve things for either group.(ODT)

It will take time and pain to get used to the coronavirus

Even so, about 80 per cent of those who get it have mild to moderate illness and only 20 per cent have a severe to critical illness. Most people who aren’t elderly and don’t have underlying health conditions won’t become critically ill.
Disruption to the economy is unavoidable, but the danger is that hour-by-hour reporting of efforts to slow the spread is frightening a lot of people and will lead them to overreact to the risk of infection, closing businesses and purses and making everything worse than it needs to b

Incomes are 'evaporating overnight': Why casuals need help to ride out the pandemic

George Morgan

 If past patterns are anything to go by the Morrison government would prefer to deliver funds to small business people rather than directly to precarious workers. While the former are undoubtedly suffering, the personal and family crises the latter group face are much more severe and may require some right to public assistance without relying on their employer.

 

Far-right extremists still threaten New Zealand, a year on from the Christchurch attacks

In the hours after the Christchurch mosque attacks on March 15 last year, I wrote that I hoped New Zealand would finally stop believing it was immune to far-right extremist violence. A year on, I’m not sure enough has changed.
I’ve researched far-right extremism for decades – and I would argue it remains a high-level threat in New Zealand, not just overseas.
My assessment is that there are about 60 to 70 groups and somewhere between 150 and 300 core right-wing activists in New Zealand.
This sounds modest alongside the estimated 12,000 to 13,000 violent far-right activists in Germany. But proportionate to population size, the numbers are similar for both countries. And it only takes one activist to act out his extremism.

Does anyone monitor Ray Hadley's Andrew Bolt's and Alan Jones's fan clubs the individuals who monitor and follow them? Bolt for one ha explicitly said he admired the conviction of terrorists like those in Barcelona and he wished Youn White Western Christians had that sort of commitment. Surely that alone makes him dangerous? (ODT)

 

Fake News 

I WOULDN'T STAND THERE

The last place I'd line up is with people who think they've got the coronavirus: "At least 50 people queued along the footpath outside the Royal Melbourne Hospital on Tuesday afternoon and Sydney’s Royal Prince Alfred Hospital also saw about 250 patients concerned they had been infected by the virus." And why are pedestrians walking past them?

Andrew Bolt is 1) neither a scientist, 2) a medical professional or 3) and an expert in Public Health. Yet he has a microphone in hand bellowing advice against that of professionals. Bolt it seems wouldn't attend the Royal Melb Hospital be responsible and be tested if he showed any symptomatic signs. Yesterday he was letting us know just how inaccurate our stats on the illness are as well. The man is a direct danger to the community and should be stood down for issuing inappropriate advice without a licence or authority to do so, helping to generate confusion. The man is a media disaster. He encourages chaos. Isn't that what terrorists do?  Shut him down and put him in quarantine.

EUROPE FENCES OFF ITALY. TOO LATE

The borders go back up: "Austria on Tuesday announced a ban on all Italians seeking to enter the country without a special medical certificate. Later in the day, Slovenian authorities announced they were following Austrian example. The island nation of Malta, to the south, has suspended all flights and passenger ships between itself and Italy." 

29m ago 

This is little more than Bolt yelling "I told you so" he is a man of borders, lines them and us and hates an EU without them. The man is a nut case who insists illness can be prevented by borders.  Should Australia's States, suburbs and streets need to be fenced? Not a great change as far as Bolt's lifestyle is concerned. He's already fenced himself off from Australia and Australians. 

Sorry Bolt even declaring yourself an independent country wouldn't have ensured the virus would not have spread. Many Australians would, however, love to see Andrew Bolt totally isolated from them.

 The fact that Italy has been hit so hard and so fast is 1) it is the EU's primary tourist destination 2) it is also the country with the oldest population in the EU which might account for its deaths and critical cases. 3) There is no guarantee that other EU countries won't get or will curtail the spread of the virus if they had the same demographic. 4)It's easy making factless, and ignorant comments from the bleachers and Bolt has always been known to do. He's a leader in that vain and of no help whatsoever.

THE GREAT ELECTRIC CAR FRAUD

Bjorn Lomborg: "An electric car with a 400km range and charged with electricity produced at the global average will have to be driven 60,000km just to pay off its higher CO2 emissions in production. That means a new electric car driven the average 11,200km each year will have paid off its carbon debt only after five years."  

  

Apparently, fuel operated vehicles don't have any carbon emission expense in their production cost or their running over the 5 years. So many costs EVs don't seem to be left off Lomborg and Bolt's spreadsheet. The resource used to fuel them according to Bolt doesn't emit any CO2 in its supply and usage. The man is a danger to IQ, information and the use of data and facts to run an argument.

WHO EVER PREDICTED TRANSGENDER FASCISTS?

Transgender fascists attack a meeting of women: "[They] set off smoke grenades at the Grenfell Tower memorial in an angry protest over the Labour party's policy." Thugs: "They apparently think it's fine to turn up to protest outside a women's meeting wearing a balaclava & a flashing penis & filming women while asking for our names & where we live."

1h ago 

Apparently in the act of protest where the only people hurt were the feelings of some right-wing women Bolt has amplified outcry as terror by "thugs". Strange that British Law didn't quite see it in those exaggerated terms. Transgender Fascists is actually an oxymoron used by a moron to describe people demonstrating for equality and a sense of safety given they are the most likely group in the world to be assaulted or murdered. That social statistic alone justifies their right to protest.

PIERS WRONG, KELLY RIGHT AND THE ABC A DISGRACE

Liberal MP Craig Kelly is abused by a warmist as he correctly tells Piers Morgan that Australia is getting more rain, not less. But worse is the ABC. Our bloated and biased national broadcaster shows it's a menace to our democracy, as its fact-checking unit twists reality to falsely declare Kelly's point "flawed". From The Bolt Report.

1h ago

Andrew Bolt is an embarrassment to media commentary and more so journalism in Australia. 60 years of scientific data collection has increasingly shown that an Indirect correlation exists between man-made global warming and extreme weather conditions. It includes record-breaking and extreme weather conditions of which floods are just one. Kelly is an extreme denialist and is regarded as such by his own Party who he blackmailed into remaining an LNP MP or he would run as an Independent and vote against the LNP. Bolt's support of Kelly places him in the same camp as Kelly independent denialists rather than simply sceptics. Both have transitioned to be exceptions to what is now regarded as common knowledge rather than exceptional. They, on the other hand, are today's new flat earthers.

DRUGGED, DUMBING DOWN AND GLUED TO FERALS

What does it say about Australia when: education standards are falling, including in science; people freaked by the coronavirus brawl in supermarkets for toilet paper; our favorite viewing is Married At First Sight to watch the marriage tradition trashed by ferals; and we spend $11.3 billion a year on serious drugs? My editorial on The Bolt Report.

2h ago 

What is the one word that describes the growth of such tawdry pleasures in Western and English speaking societies and the loss of standards? Capitalism the drive for profit as any cost over and above any notion or culture of a common good.  Laws can't stop the drive for or the demand for drugs. If legalised, all the big Corporations have already registered patents and brand names for legitimate selling. The $11.3 Billion shows it's no longer a small business that runs the supply and distribution networks of these drugs and the amount also indicates it's not an underclass activity only.

Trash is turned into product and ratings guide it's sale. Bolt's complaint is that of an aloof non-populist who while working-class believes he's not simply because his hands aren't dirty. It shows just how backward he is but not shy of coming forward. However, he's just a well-paid worker who works for Murdoch nevertheless.

The falling standards of education simply show that opportunity is becoming scarcer. It was never what you know, but who and Bolt's social mobility is proof of that. He married up the ladder and certainly didn't raise any bars of merit when it came to education. In fact, he's grooming his son, not with skills but his contacts in the IPA and no doubt News Corp for unadvertised opportunities.

Competition, fairness, and diversity have been driven out of the market and been replaced by mass marketing, false promises and drugs to make you feel good. Bolt just happens to get his kicks being a snob pretending to be of a class he not really it's his drug of choice.