Fighting Fake News with REAL,6/4/20; The Oligarchs and Robber Barons want their Rights back; Bolt is begging on their behalf; Societal Racism is Amplified by the pandemic; Leadership Failure is Patently Evident;

A Serf in the time of plague ...

Greetings, and salutations on vellum even, to my fellow manorial slaves. There…

 
 

“If the current approach of telling everyone to stay home is to be lifted, widespread and faster testing will be needed to identify infected people for isolation. Easing stay-at-home orders in the absence of sufficient testing would risk reigniting the outbreak.”
The question is: Where were WHO, NIH, CDC, health ministers, prime ministers, presidents? Why did the leadership of the Western World sit on its hands for three months? Has history ever experienced a worse and more complete failure of leadership?
Leadership is absent, because the West has been organized to serve private selfish interests with agendas inimical to the public interest. The People accepted lies and deception, and now we are paying the price.

 A Failure of Leadership, by Paul Craig Roberts - The Unz Review
 

70 Percent of People Killed in Chicago by the Coronavirus Are Black

 

BORIS JOHNSON IN HOSPITAL WITH VIRUS

This is troubling: "Britain’s prime minister Boris Johnson has been admitted to hospital for tests, after suffering coronavirus for almost ten days." Precautionary, they say. But it's clearly not a mild attack. 

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Lawsuit Says Fox News Shared False Information on ...

www.thewrap.com › fox-news-coronavirus-lawsuit

1 day ago - Fox News is facing intense scrutiny for its initial coverage of the coronavirus pandemic and a lawsuit filed in Washington is asking a state court to bar the network from sharing false information about the pandemic. The top-rated network was sued Thursday by the Washington League ...
 Some Fox News Media opinion hosts have been dismissive of the dangers of the coronavirus, especially in the virus’ earlier days in America. Former Fox Business host Trish Regan, for instance, described it as another effort to impeach President Donald Trump. She and her network parted ways at the end of March.
Fox News — which Thursday gave $1 million to Feeding America in a joint donation with Facebook designed to ease the strain of the pandemic — began implementing work-from-home strategies for employees in mid-March, ramping up efforts to keep employees home as the virus spread. Hosts who still appeared in the studio started sitting six feet apart and the tone of coverage started to change as Fox News added two additional doctors to its roster of contributors.


via Fox News Moguls Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch Stockpile Attorneys Against Coronavirus Lawsuits
 ‘BIG BAD FOX’

After one non-profit org sued the network for pushing coronavirus misinformation, the network is readying to go to war against more such lawsuits.

Shouldn't Andrew Bolt be? Here we have even stricter laws why are News Corp and Sky feft alone to misinform us?

FAKE NEWS 

PLEASE ACCEPT SUCCESS: VIRUS DOWN TO CRAWL, EMPTY BEDS

COLUMN Who can now deny it? The worst is not happening with the coronavirus and our politicians must tell us their exit strategy. Three weeks ago newspapers declared: “Australia prepares for 50,000 to 150,000 deaths.” Two weeks ago, they shouted: “Australian ICU beds to run out by April 5.”  But look 35 deaths as of this morning and lots of empty beds.

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Please accept success planet Australia is now safe the government can let go and we can now go back to the privatised normal we once had. Pity about the planet Earth we are on. There is no "back to privatised normal" Andrew Bolt' Going back today can be readily seen as" abnormal". The abnormal that allowed us to witness the fact the planet is suffering a pandemic and the West and Capitalism can't cope on a large scale and Australia is just a part of it. The planet is burning and Bolt talks as if he's no "we" are not on it. 

The 1% of Oligarchs lost control and they and their association the IPA want it back to the pre-pandemic control of working Australia it would seem. If we all went back to work and lived Bolt's and their dream our economy would be saved halleluja.

Which industries do he and the IPA regard as essential to go back to? How many workers do they need? their executives or their serfs?  Why do they believe they won't have been and won't continue to be affected by this global pandemic causing a halt to world trade? Furthermore, is Bolt suggesting companies to employ all the workers laid off or let supply and demand choose?  How many will be called and how many remain unemployed. Bolt has certainly been living in "isolation" hasn't he? In a dream world divorced from reality that things will go back to the "abnormal" and as they were. He and his association with the total want of the IPA is certainly a voice from Cloud Cuckoo Land. No logistics simply give business private control back and stop this unwanted government interference and over costly socialism expansion interfering with the previously "rigged" system. He's even begging.

12% FALL IN VICTORIANS SICK RIGHT NOW AS VIRUS SPREAD SLOWS TO 2%

So when can we discuss an exit strategy from these devastating bans?: "As at 6:00am on 6 April 2020, there have been 5,744 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Australia. There have been 109 new cases since 6:00am yesterday." That's just 2 per cent more new cases.  Take away recoveries, and Victoria now has 72 fewer sick people than last Wednesday.

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How pushy is Bolt with selective facts taken out of context while he works from home? How may times a week has Bolt been comprehensively tested or even the medical staff on the front line? How many Australians have been tested? Bolt asked that question once to prove how little COVID death there is in Australia and that we don't know! Now he selling a tale that tests aren't really necessary because he has the evidence to extrapolate what's unknown.  News Corp has laid staff off and is practising Social- Distancing. Bolt isn't accusing them of overreach. But he is demanding everyone else needs to drop bans set by this suddenly dangerous expanding Socialist Government. Is he frightened he'll be shut down on a show that can't be run or secure on failing advertising and an NBN that can't cope? 
What this pandemic is a realisation of is the Oligarchy's shit scared of losing ground. It reveals Privatisation simply can't deal with the common good only self-interest. Self -interest, in this case, was the well laid out 75 point plan set down by the Oligarchy and presented by their Association the IPA. The policies developed with Howard then adhered to by Abbott and the LNP when they came to power. They adopted that 75pt plan with the full backing of  Murdoch Media and the financial power so obvious in that "miracle election" of $80 Mill vs $20 Morrison won.   How the fuck did that happen it wasn't a "hallelujah" that's for sure.

Global? There is nothing global about anti-internationalists and assimilationists like Andrew Bolt. Australia isn't a separate planet. There is nothing that unifies the common good globally than a pandemic and more so Climate Change and the planet-warming. There is no greater threat than economics run by an International Corporate Magi of tax avoiders. Get back to work their current cry but even that today doesn't even mean everyone. If we do see an unemployment spike after a return Bolt will become the voice of the apologist for why people had to lose their jobs, the overreach.

 News Corp and Sky will have been changed they won't escape self-examination but changed for whose benefit? Will they really need Andrew Bolt? They are already being sued in the USA as they once were in the UK for misinformation and irresponsible and fake journalism causing harm. Do they need the IPA as Fox needs Citizens United? Or does the LNP need them both as donors and propagandists? To grab the Australian narrative they need to rid us of the ABC and they have been working on that for over two decades.

No mention here as to why the epidemiological certainty of the age group affected by COVID is changing that younger people are contracting the illness. Nothing about the failure of logic and the practical inability found efforts of herd immunity to solve the contagion now advocated by Andrew Bolt in order to loosen government controls. No mention of a News Corp staff revolt against the practice of social- distancing at Murdoch Media. While Andrew Bolt's advocating the opposite for others to stop. It's called media hypocrisy in the service of profit. Don't do what it is you expect others to.
WHAT IS OCCURRING NOW BY THIS LOCK DOWN IS THE EXIT STRATEGY ANDREW BOLT