Fighting Fake News with REAL,2/4/20; LNP in Perspective; A Much Bigger Problem; Trump and Pence; Fake News; Humour,

It needs to be said that, even though the Coalition displayed not even a scintilla of bipartisanship during its relentless criticism of the Labor Government's performance during the GFC, the Anthony Albanese Opposition has afforded the Morrison Government support during this time of crisis, as it should, of course.
Finally, since in this time of real and present danger, the mainstream media is once again ignoring this Government's grave failings, it is incumbent on us to highlight that this really is a dishonest Government, focusing on political point-scoring at every opportunity instead of governing for the common good.

Broken mirrors: 7 years bad luck under the ATM (Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison) Govt

 

Beneath news of virus and slump there simmers an even bigger story. The planet keeps warming. And there’s no guarantee the rate may not pick up alarmingly.

Beneath the virus lurks a bigger emergency, but the world is distracted from the climate threat

The officials asked not to be identified because the report is secret, and they declined to detail its contents. But the thrust, they said, is that China’s public reporting on cases and deaths is intentionally incomplete. Two of the officials said the report concludes that China’s numbers are fake.
Coming out of the White House is
 1) More attention on China than on the Coronavirus why is Trump Politicizing the virus?
2) Scapegoating  has been Trump's practice since 2017 not any errors in judgement
3) Trump's definition of Fake News has been "Hidden Sources" How hidden are the sources of what they call  a "secret report."
4) Trump's own standards this is FAKE NEWS, but he doesn't care as long as it Divides Opinion
5)Why is Ch9 not reporting this for what it is but giving it such undeserved attention?
 (ODT)

Intentionally incomplete: US intelligence says China concealed extent of outbreak

 

Coronavirus pandemic

The US is on coronavirus trajectory similar to Italy, Mike Pence says

The US Vice President said the White House's models for the coronavirus pandemic show the country on a trajectory akin to hard-hit Italy.

But it's not our fault  it's China's, It's the impeachment, We have prevented it from being twice as bad (ODT)

FAKE NEWS

THIS DANGER IN PERSPECTIVE

 NSW is the state hardest hit by the coronavirus. Chance so far of having died in NSW from the virus: 1/754,400. Chance so far of having caught the virus: 1/3457. Chance so far of having caught the virus in Australia: 1/9100. Chance so far of having died if you caught the virus: 1/218. Chance so far of having died in NSW if you are under 70: zero.

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The problem this is coming from a man who has practised self-isolation for decades has moved house when alarmed by an internet troll. It's advice by a man who holidays out of the country and when in his only friends are magpies and members of the IPA. He has no expertise bu sell himself as one on climate change and now the pandemic.

Without the testing, he said went on in Taiwan and inability in this country to be Taiwan Andrew Bolt is trying to build up the case that life should go back to normal not for everyone but workers and businesses. 

News Corp's 60 publications have stopped due to the fact that advertising has caught the Covid-19 virus and has stopped the odds of it affecting the majors has shortened. The odds of News Corp jettisoning the unwanted from their papers other than real news could be getting greater. Who would be the first to go in that circumstance Andrew Bolt, of course, he wants you to stop social distancing get out to work and share your sweat because he works from home but his arse is on the line if you don't. His perspective TUNNEL VISION

TELL US THE EXIT STRATEGY FROM THESE DISASTROUS BANS

COLUMN There is no way we can go on like this for six months. When will Australians be allowed to leave their homes?  Scott Morrison talks of these restrictions lasting six months until this coronavirus crisis ends, but he can’t be serious. How does he measure that end? When not one more person dies?  He must tell us his exit strategy now.

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The exit strategy ARE the bans dufus. The bans are buying time to fully understand the virus Scientifically, medically the capacity to deal with it. All things Australia can't and hasn't the capacity to do since economic rationalists like John Howard and the LNP let the emergency services run down. If we were Taiwan, maybe it would work, but we aren't. The Swedes and the Dutch have tried to go down that path rather than the total lockdown, and they aren't faring better than the Chinese and are in the top percentile of countries affected. 

Bolt's exit strategy is to run around blindly not listening to the world of experts but only listening to the sound of his own voice and talking to the few that agree with him, not he majority that doesn't. He's not practising what he preaches others should do either. 

The US recorded 884 coronavirus deaths, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University. It has also confirmed more than 213,000 cases of the disease.

In the UK, a further 563 people died from COVID-19, in what Prime Minister Boris Johnson described as a "sad, sad day". In Spain, an additional 864 people died.
Globally, about 933,000 have been diagnosed with the virus, and some 193,000 have recovered. Nearly 47,000 people have died from the disease,
MAGA

PRINCE CHARLES SURVIVES VIRUS, RECORDS MESSAGE

Prince Charles is 71 - right at the most vulnerable age for dying from the coronavirus. But he had no underlying health issues and has recovered from what he calls "mild" symptoms. He's now recorded a message.

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 I had the money and the resources to do what 50% of the nation couldn't

WHY WE ARE NOT DYING LIKE ITALY

COLUMN  Why aren’t Australians dying from the coronavirus like the Italians are? The question is important because it was Italy that really made our politicians panic. They saw hundreds of Italians dying each day, and even this week ABC health presenter Norman Swan warned, “We are going to be where Italy was.” Wrong. 

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Given your druthers whose advice would YOU take Andrew Bolt's who hasn't YOUR benefits at heart or Norman Swan's who has everyone's including Andrew Bolt's? Australian workers Bolt says wages have at best-FLATLINED business profits surged note  Bolt's not offering any incentives for workers to go back only threats and alarm that Capital the 1% will lose their gains. 

CORONAVIRUS AND THE DICTATOR SYNDROME

This coronavirus panic is making politicians lose all sense of proportion. It's also making them all too eager to ban stuff than needs no banning at all. My editorial from The Bolt Report. 

Does anyone get the feeling we've heard all this before but then it was about Climate Change. That Bolt doesn't care that it's pandemic as long as his little corner on this planet his suburb his street no his house is OK. It's the "me fuck we" syndrome he's always suffered from. The one that for 30 +++ years made him not identify as an Australian the one that we are supposed to believe that he 's CHANGED and does now. The one that makes him retain his dual passport and dream of a barge in Amsterdam pretending he could write a book.