Note, Bolt turns to the minutest areas on the planet where Coronavirus exists to make his generalisations from that Australia. He doesn't compare Sweden Denmark and Japan does he? Japan is experiencing a second wave as is Taiwan. Sweden has been practising what Bolt suggests but it's not working well compared with Denmark or here. Bolt nevertheless claims we need to follow their example. The Dutch have and they haven't broken any records either. Actually, all Bolt is doing is being partisan with Fox News USA.
If he really wants to impress Rupert and Lachlan he ought to mirror them and give up his salary. Which he'd never do he'd prefer to take that to his grave.
Yesterday Bolt was comparing two models that were really unrelated in an effort to make a point they were contradictory. He was trying to compare a bike with a truck as if they were the same simply because they are forms of transport. In NSW it was posited that if the ban on, I can't recall but for argument's sake say it, sitting on park benches were lifted there might possibly be 700 extra cases of the disease. In short, that ban saved us from 700 extra cases.
The model he said, that was contradictory, was the one that projected that if there were no bans whatsoever there'd be some 36.750 extra cases. Andrew Bolt called them a contradictory and false. Yes, the bike is different from the truck. We all see that. What on earth was Bolt trying to prove?
Who would you take advice from 1) Science and medical researchers or 2) Scott Morrison who claims going back to school is safe because he doesn't want his kids at home.
It doesn't matter, does it? Of course, it does Australia under any conditions isn't safe unless we had sufficient testing equipment in place to regularly test people for the virus. We haven't even enough influenza vaccines to protect Australians from the coming flu. Combine that with the fact that the symptoms of both are similar to how the fuck can Andrew Bolt say we have sufficient testing equipment available for everyone to go back to work? He can't! He just believes as long as he's safe alls well in the world and others can carry the load and risk. Bolt's calling for Australia's Productive Labour to go back to work. He's not but is just a parasite whose entitled to stay at home.
IS THIS RISK REALLY WORTH TAKING, JUST TO SAVE YOUR JOB, YOUR SAVINGS, YOUR HOME, YOUR SANITY?
Yesterday your chance of being one of the people newly infected by the coronavirus was about 1 in 4 million. SO DO NOT LEAVE
YOUR HOME!!
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Andrew Bolt rarely does leave home out of paranoia that he just might be seen and abused like he incites others to do to Muslims Africans and now the Chinese. The risk isn't catching Covid-19 but the spread rate when and where social distancing is simply allowed to be an individual choice.
Bolt is echoing Murdoch media's Trump partisan approach throughout the Anglosphere. The USA currently runs a semi-voluntary program and is drifting to one resembling Sweden's "herd immunity" efforts to combat the disease. Sweden's lack of success, however, isn't mentioned nor is China's Taiwan's and Japan's report of a second wave beginning.
Bolt's greatest failure is to demand "end the bans now" while we haven't sufficient testing equipment to even test our frontline medical staff on a regular basis to ensure their safety. All his protests coming from the safety of his own isolation. Advertisers are just as irresponsible for sponsoring this dangerous shit.
The ALP deserves far more attention and praise for their more considered approach to the medical advice we are being given us daily. Let's face it Murdoch media was encouraging us to take Hydroxychloroquine a not fit for purpose medication to beat Covid-19. Their Trumpster justification "what have you got to lose" People have already died and research has indicated that their advice if followed would increase not decrease deaths. So after weeks of promoting it they seem to have backed off since being threatened with possible lawsuits.
VIRUS OF THE MIND: A GREAT SICKENING IN OUR UNIVERSITIES
I pity even academics who lose their job. But Tony Thomas's
account of a university-funded seminar on tree humping,"white
fragility" and "honouring" soil suggests some jobs won't be missed:
"Melbourne University’s Hacking the Anthropocene was ... 'challenging
the toxic and corrosive logics of racial and extractive capitalism.'"
UPDATE: Link fixed.
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Pity Bolt has no pity or empathy for academics the majority who have no tenure and whose education has left them in debt and with not casual jobs but "precarious" jobs. Jobs that have become increasingly precarious as universities became businesses rather than the places of free education they once were. Even when education was free Andrew Bolt couldn't manage to graduate. He's been anti-tertiary institutions ever since.
The sickening of our universities has been their increasing privatisation of them and the efforts of people like The Ramsay Foundation and Tony Abbott's government to interfere with the running of courses within them by less than a legitimate process of appointment. Politicisation by third parties that lobby and support governments are the Great Sickness
Bolt really does deflect from the very central issues of the spread rate of a virus that's never been seen before and the lack of capacity to carry out testing for all. It's well and good to be an expert from your lounge room Bolt but the execution needs clarity. How do you choose to test an ever-increasing volume of people on a regular basis when the front line workers can't even be tested.
Rudd didn't order a shut down because the rate of spread didn't require it. Trump didn't and by the time he did it was too late and now the US has 33% of the worlds infected cases and the highest number of deaths more than 25%.
Given there were no ventilators stockpiled by the economic rationalists who claimed it was a waste as they did the desalination plant applying the same logic but not so wheat and wool subsidising private enterprises but not public given now second and third waves are predicted is idiocy in the extreme. But it's the logic Bolt always supports bailouts for the private and tax cuts for the public.
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