Friday 20 March 2020

Fighting Fake News with REAL ,20/3/20; The Sky was falling in for 10 years; Media is calling for medical policing;












Andrew Mackie: ' This morning, I experienced peak absurdism, as while Scott Morrison asked as to stop coronavirus panic buying, I was at Woolworths, witnessing a woman justify the twenty-four bottles of lime juice in her possession, drowned out by the man with an armful of duck pâté, claiming that his five-year-old’s birthday dinner will be carrying on regardless.
One tends to wonder how we’ve got to a stage where we’re trading blows over toilet paper while pretending not to ...

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Today, Scott Morrison told us to stop panic buying and not succumb to fear. In the last fifteen years, the message has been the exact opposite.





With the spread of coronavirus now global, arbitrary travel bans such as those implemented by the Australian government are ineffective and nourished by old xenophobic anxieties. The solution to this crisis can only be a coordinated, international effort.
 The virus has now spread across the globe, rendering arbitrary travel bans even less effective in countries where domestic transmission has already accelerated. The states now showing the most success in slowing transmission, such as Singapore, Hong Kong, and South Korea, are focusing on mass testing, treatment, and self-isolation within each country, supported by (comparatively) well-resourced public-health infrastructure.
As Shan Windscript has pointed out, racism and dehumanization will not defeat the coronavirus. The best long-term method to deal with this and future pandemics, as Mike Davis argues, is the establishment of a genuinely international public health care system. Covid-19 cuts across national borders, and our solidarity with those affected needs to cut across these borders too.

We are still waiting for these broader procedures to even begin. How long has it been?

 Australia’s Coronavirus Travel Bans Feed Old Fears 

 
 Failure to change course could prove catastrophic. Now, more than ever, the most vulnerable sections of the US population need an opposition willing to defend their interests decisively and without hesitation. This would necessitate a more confrontational and overtly political posture toward the incumbent administration and its many glaring failures. But it would also require a more adversarial attitude toward big business and other constituencies keen to put their own interests ahead of the general public’s as the situation worsens.Continued refusal to act more decisively will put ordinary people at risk. But it will also cost the Democrats politically as key races for the House, Senate, and presidency are held across the country later this year. The Republican Party, chaotic and destructive as it tends to be, has historically proven adept at politicizing tumultuous occasions to gain advantage and further its agenda. As in 2009, centrist Democrats are letting a crisis go to waste — and potentially handing Donald Trump a major victory in the process.
 Dealing With Coronavirus Requires Bold Action. The Democratic Leadership Won’t Take It.

 
The current pandemic expands the argument: capitalist globalization now appears to be biologically unsustainable in the absence of a truly international public health infrastructure. But such an infrastructure will never exist until peoples’ movements break the power of Big Pharma and for-profit health care.
 Mike Davis on Coronavirus: “In a Plague Year”

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CORONAVIRUS SHAME: POLICE USED AGAINST FERAL SHOPPER, NOT TO CONTROL INFECTION

What a disgrace. We have to send police to control feral shoppers and profiteers, when we most need them to stop the spread of the virus by enforcing the quarantine. Our lack of community spirit could literally kill. My editorial from The Bolt Report.
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Bolt is literally calling for the policing and surveillance of citizens for illness. It wasn't that long ago he was mocking the Chinese for exactly that in Wuhan. He's now promoting what he was mocking.
We saw it before when the disease was being Jewish, Gypsy, Japanese, and German. There was a cry to separate people back then too for the health of the State. Denmark, Taiwan, Singapore certainly don't have  "feral shoppers" or "profiteers"? Bolt not so long ago was suggesting they were wiser than most of us but then seemed to walk back on that because he was the one promoting panic. Now he's promoting Public Health as a need for policing all areas of out social reality. Why does Murdoch allow such an irresponsible commentator air such right-wing views? Should citizens asked to isolate be tattooed?

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