Taiwan Is Beating the Coronavirus. Can the US Do the Same? | WIRED
It seems Trump can only call it the China virus yet it's America that is it's greatest exporter.
— from Alternet
After continually downplaying the Covid-19 pandemic for nearly two months, President Donald Trump dramatically changed course this week and has shifted his tone to reflect the dire circumstances. But as he pivots his public relations strategy, he’s also clearly and deliberately trying to rewrite his own history to claim — falsely — that he knew it the outbreak was bad and has been working hard to stop it.
“I’ve always known this is a real — this is a pandemic,” Trump told the media on Tuesday in the White House press briefing room. “I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
» article continues...After continually downplaying the Covid-19 pandemic for nearly two months, President Donald Trump dramatically changed course this week and has shifted his tone to reflect the dire circumstances. But as he pivots his public relations strategy, he’s also clearly and deliberately trying to rewrite his own history to claim — falsely — that he knew it the outbreak was bad and has been working hard to stop it.
“I’ve always known this is a real — this is a pandemic,” Trump told the media on Tuesday in the White House press briefing room. “I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
World will enter recession, unemployment will hit 7 per cent: S&P
The world will suffer a global economic recession because of the
coronavirus pandemic, ratings agency S&P Global has warned with
Australia's unemployment rate likely to push to the highest level since
1988.
One could well ask whether the extreme measures applied by China in closing the nation down and now followed by the majority of the world isn't an overreaction driving the world into recession. Had a herd immunity approach coupled with the social distancing and isolation of the most vulnerable been enacted be the same? It seems a case of panic over reason.
Let's face it labour and consumption wouldn't have been stopped dead in their tracks. Escalation of debt less severe. Yes major corporations and the Stock Market would feel the impact but not to the same extent small business and the workforce less impacted. What we are seeing is the bailout of Corporations and AG Christian Porter's comment and refusal to bail out individuals who will suffer the most and constitute the labour force. He is it seems quite happy to see our Public Health tested to the max allowing the Labour States to deal with it.
Let's face it labour and consumption wouldn't have been stopped dead in their tracks. Escalation of debt less severe. Yes major corporations and the Stock Market would feel the impact but not to the same extent small business and the workforce less impacted. What we are seeing is the bailout of Corporations and AG Christian Porter's comment and refusal to bail out individuals who will suffer the most and constitute the labour force. He is it seems quite happy to see our Public Health tested to the max allowing the Labour States to deal with it.
The fact is Capitalism is the least effective means by which Public Health can be administered. Health a right and not a privilege to be earned bought, sold and gauged for profit which is what is happening in America and who Morrison is intent on following for "the best advice"
We need to name and shame those taking advantage of this crisis eg selling $1.10 petrol for $1.65, or hoarders that will be selling product on ebay and social media scalping. Opportunists seeking political advantage in face of a global and national issue.
After the Global Recession, we had WARS. Trump wants a WAR to ensure a second term but will he get one? He's allowing the spread of coronavirus in Iran, Palestine and other countries on which he's applied medical sanctions.
FAKE NEWS
After the Global Recession, we had WARS. Trump wants a WAR to ensure a second term but will he get one? He's allowing the spread of coronavirus in Iran, Palestine and other countries on which he's applied medical sanctions.
GREEN BANS ARE SO PRE-CORONAVIRUS
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This coronavirus panic will kill lots of jobs. So our politicians must at least end the green madness that’s stopping big projects from starting up and hiring. Many projects have been held up for years by government regulations and activist courts, often because of absurdly
hysterical fears of global warming. Isn't global warming so yesterday?
‘We’re headed for the worst financial crisis of our lifetimes’ Whoever said this must be as wealthy as Andrew Bolt because the majority of the world has been living their worst financial crisis from the cradle to the grave and it is called their Lifetime. Indigenous Australia is living proof and been doing it for 200 years suffering the Eurovirus.
So the Coronavirus is destroying some peoples economy and it's the Greens fault according to Andrew Bolt. He sees the coming of the Coronavirus as a political opportunity. It's surprising he isn't calling it the Greenvirus as Trump is calling it the Chinavirus everything political nothing medical politics the cure.
The economy can only be saved no, coal and fossil fuels can only save us support the jobs that promise the release of more carbon into the atmosphere drop the regulations and restrictions because t increased warming will kill the virus. This is Bolt calling for a short term action a fix that he said could never work in reverse altering the climate. Today he's back to telling us that warming is good for the planet and the opportunity is now.
Universal Health and Capitalism run cross purposes the goal of human health as a right can't be achieved under Capitalism. To recognize this is to recognize that adversarial politics in inefficient in a crisis. The LNP and the ALP need to formulate a common purpose during this crisis and not one that's merely mimicking America. The Dutch seem to have arrived at the conclusion that closing their nation down is an overreach. So an entirely different approach needed but unfortunately the entire EU that doesn't share their strategy that too will ensure a collapse unless borders are closed. Common purpose is just that and unless one can be found and found quickly shutting a country down will do more long term harm than allowing it to run to achieve herd immunity.
Coronavirus may not be a cold or flu however we know its selective in it's targets and the Italian stats indicate there's merely a one year gap between those dying at age 81 and the average life expectancy of an Italian at 82. The public health system can't cope with treating all those in their 80s but it can focus on prevention and protection of them and the other few minority that are vulnerable leaving the majority of the pop to carry on as normal.
This all or nothing approach will do as much harm as does Bolt's political opportunism which is little more than a grab with no thought to any common good,Adani executive Lucas Dow talks up bigger coal mine in leaked video at LNP fundraising event - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
YOU ARE STUCK AND GOING NOWHERE
Taking us back to when travel was rare and difficult:
"Qantas has announced it will ... halt all international flights until
the end of May." And: "From midnight, Friday 20 March, all non-essential
travellers departing for Tasmanian will be required to quarantine for
14 days."
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