Finding a job isn’t just hard on the young. Brett Flower’s story shows how many older qualified and experienced workers end up jobless once they turn 50. As part of our Boomers & Millennials series, this story shows how career struggles are not merely the upshot of age and government policy but of corporate and personal circumstance.

 Norman Swan

 The World is listening to the ABC and the Government cuts and cuts it's budget 

The ABC’s health editor, Norman Swan, is not just ubiquitous in Australia, he’s gone global.
When his daily podcast addressed the topic of farting and the coronavirus last Friday the world’s media found it irresistible, with some failing to catch the tongue-in-cheek tone of Swan’s original remarks, when he said a fart could spread the virus because it was aerosolised and that we should ban “bare-bottom farting”.
“Luckily, we wear a mask, which covers our farts all the time,” Swan said referring to the fact we usually wear pants when around other people. The Late Show with Steven Colbert 

ABC coronavirus podcast becomes the fart that was heard around the world

FAKE NEWS

MCCRANN: USING DUD MODELS TO UNLEASH THE BULLIES

Terry McCrann on the new tyranny of virus experts: "Our elected leaders and accompanying self-defined 'experts' have seized with relish and gusto the responsibility — more accurately, the opportunity — to release the inner authoritarian; to rule over us, effectively by fiat, like some medieval monarch surrounded by acolytes and activists."
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Andrew Bolt knows fuck all about statistics so he promoting his mate  McCrann to talk "expert" However, when you read the prologue you immediately realize McCrann speak sounds exactly what he's complaining about. A self-defined "expert" with nothing to say but tows the global Fox Corp/Trump line hoping to incite the likes of America's Proud Boys here to get back to work and "liberate" the stock market. The individualism of herd immunity should allow us to do what we want.  Yes, we can take chloroquine, inject disinfectant into our eyeballs, drink Dettol or stick ultraviolet lights up arses if we want to protect ourselves but save the economy first.
John Roskam of the IPA conferences with Bolt and McCrann no doubt over Zoom telling them his shares are down so everything has to be done to ensure we go back to the old normal where a business decides the important stuff like work and he believes we need to go back to and now.
 Like Climate change they count the numbers but ignore the global nature of the crisis, the rate of spread or that it's not just local. Their idea of the big picture is I'm alright Jack but my cotton portfolio is suffering get the slaves back to the plantation. I've suffered too you know and threaten to lose more than the labour mate. However, if you become terminally don't say I pushed you!!
You morons really had the common good at heart they'd start with a UBI so a worker had the power to choose, then ensure there was Universal Health housing, free education and retraining. So job flexibility was there. Basically, get rid of the debt system of entrapment of real and productive labour.  



VIRUS TYRANNY: WE'VE BEEN TURNED INTO THE RULED

The virus panic has created an authoritarian state which divides us into the rulers and the ruled - and politicians seem unwilling to surrender their new power. Brendan O'Neill:  "We’ve been forced out of the public realm, atomised, reduced to spectators watching experts decide when we’ll be allowed out again." UPDATE: A petition demanding an end.
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No mention that Singapore, Japan and China are experiencing second waves of contagion is there? That Sweden is having second thoughts as it doesn't look too flash. They are silent on the UK and America who are out of control and haven't a clue even what the numbers are. Their counts have been underquoted. Taiwan is concerned about a second coming as well but there is nothing to be concerned about here in Australia our little planet away from it all mate. 
The rich are perfectly safe to choose to work from home or their holiday house which at the moment Bolt can't get to in fear of being busted by the medical police.
Fortunately, the majority of Australians so far support the government safety regulations in place, unlike the roaring mouse Bolt trying to stir things up for the IPA. As they are at the Australian, News Corp and Sky after Dark. Murdoch must be bleeding money not just here but globally scared their advertisers won't come back.


 REALITY

 No gowns, gloves: Medical stockpile to be reviewed; Victorian COVID-19 cases rise overnight by three

No gowns, gloves: Medical stockpile to be reviewed; Victorian COVID-19 cases rise overnight by three



Andrew Bolt simply ignores all of this.
Health authorities will review Australia's national medical stockpile after it emerged personal protective equipment subject to shortages - including gowns, visors and goggles - were not among items put aside for a crisis.


Singapore thought they were beating coronavirus. But they had a blind spot 

  1. While Singapore was being praised for its meticulous coronavirus containment strategies, some argued that initial measures failed to address a key area that has now led to a spike in cases. Here's what happened.

 FAKE

VIRUS CRAZY: 96-YEAR-OLD DIES, BUT POLICE CHASE SWIMMERS

The latest dead: "A 96-year-old woman at the Newmarch House aged care facility." Yet the virus police meanwhile chase the young and healthy: "Police were forced to close fences and move people off Coogee, Clovelly and Maroubra beaches." No, they weren't "forced" to do something so useless. 
How many young and healthy people is Bolt hugging these days? Is he encouraging James and Dom to get out and party with their friends? What about his daughter? Is he inviting them all to party at his place? Nobody laughs at god in a hospital, not even Bolt. But here he is telling you the rate of spread has stopped it all under control. Rest assured it's bullshit and he isn't encouraging his children to be reckless and he wouldn't be complaining that the police closed StKilda down if they were on the beach with strangers.
 The police aren't encroaching on the rights of the reckless they are protecting the rights of the majority not to be afflicted by a yet unknown contagion that has the capacity to spread faster than the Spanish flu with as yet unknown long term consequences. Let Bolt catch the virus be a volunteer show us the first-person experience. Be a spokesman like Derryn Hinch was on the matter of child molesters when he stood up for what he believed. He gained respect Bolt certainly doesn't practice what he preaches others do.