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  American bastardy continues Trump praised Wikileaks release of documents and then turned on him declaring "he knows nothing" Yet he's pardoned more criminals than any other President and would love to do it to other domestic information news publishers. (ODT)

  Julian Assange

  Babies on board in Assange US extradition tussle

  The coronavirus is the latest threat facing Julian Assange as he battles the full might of the US legal system.

   

  If they are Chinese or just Asian attacked and abused how would Australian's feel if it were their children abroad?(ODT)
  

  'We feel abandoned': international students in Australia facing coronavirus alone

   

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    The exit strategy: how countries around the world are preparing for life after Covid-19

   

  Three conditions for easing restrictions

  The prime minister, in an expansive press conference, outlined the three key criteria that will guide Australia’s path back from COVID-19.
  

  • An increased capacity to test and a more extensive “sentinel testing” regime, which means testing rapidly and widely, including people who are asymptomatic, to understand just how widespread the virus is.
  • Contact tracing “lifted to an industrial capability”, in the words of the prime minister, to find and isolate all of the contacts of a known infection. A key part of this will be encouraging Australians to download to their phones a tracing app, currently in production, modelled on Singapore’s TraceTogether App, which uses Bluetooth to alert users when they come into contact with a confirmed case.
  • Strengthened “local response capabilities” – essentially the ability to lock down hotspots where outbreaks occur, such as the one in north-west Tasmania this week. This will include multiple layers of government agencies, including, potentially, the military.
    
    
    

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    BEACH BAN CUTS VIRUS DEATHS LIKE IT CUTS TIGER ATTACKS

    Banning people from going outside - even to the beach - means not a single Australian has died of a tiger attack. It works! It's also cut the coronavirus deaths by the same logic, given this Chinese study of 7000 cases: "We identified only a single outbreak in an outdoor environment, which involved two cases." Or check the Australian deaths.
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    First, you're not banned from being outside Andrew Bolt.  I walk 7kms every day with my son. Second I've never seen Andrew Bolt "outside" and I'd give a 1$ for all those that have. He is the ultimate isolate telling others what they should do in a storm. 
    Tiger shark attacks aren't contagious but apparently, Andrew Bolt thinks otherwise in conflating the two. It's his pissant attempt at sarcasm that brans him as an idiot. If Bolt has bye the bye found some obscure study in China the nation he tells us we can't trust but Trump's America we can why is he promoting this obscure study. One sandwich doesn't make a picnic. Why try to convince us it does? The man truly is a Yo-Yo. 
    How many times have we seen Bolt make vast generalisations from singular events to stereotype Muslims, Africans, Lebanese, the Chinese, or use singular events to try to destroy and negate wee studied ones?
     His disparagement of statistical modelling does away with all the theoretical sciences, the work of actuaries, in fact, any disciplines researching and looking for explanations in the physical world, and or any of the social sciences Bolts comprehension is zero any wonder he has never graduated from anything. The amusing thing Satre said "hell is other people" and we are for Bolt. Some people really want to be fascists and the majority of us simply watch their efforts. We really need to do more to prevent them by not buying his sponsors message.
    Unfortunately, Bolt is simply a tool. A hack in the employ of billionaires who do associate and do it secretly and we'll find them in the IPA and among the sponsors and lobbyists of the LNP and their voice can be heard through the mainstream of privatised media like Murdoch's.

    NSW BANS SAVED '700 LIVES'. WHY YOU CAN'T TRUST SUCH MODELS

    Claim: "Secret state government modelling has revealed coronavirus would have claimed as many as 700 lives by today had NSW not forged ahead with tougher lockdown measures." What about the modelling that once suggested 60,000 people in NSW would die? And does this new modelling prove that every ban - even on sitting on a bench - saved lives?
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  •  By flipping the meaning of and the use of modelling Bolt thinks it makes him sound as if he has his finger on the pulse. He has but has no pulse it's News Corpse's model applied to Climate Change as well now to this pandemic their model based on opinion alone is it's an alarmist overreaction. Don't talk about the world or you just might see how narrow their interests are.
  •  60,000 death had nothing been done is an actuarial statistic based on evidence. Well, something was done so that model transitioned as a yardstick as things were done. Even Bolt spends his day to day life modelling the worst scenarios in this country if we don't do what he says. Bolt's modelling, however, is total political fantasy and has no basis in reality so can't even be regarded as a model. How does Bolt think actuaries actually work mapping out trends? They aren't like him pulling rabbits out of a box.
  • Bolt offers no light on the 700 lives estimated saved other than his criticism of course. He doesn't offer even a scant idea of how it was come by but nevertheless, it's wrong. His ignorance of models and their use is profound. That they are theoretical constructs against which reality is tested and are discarded as time moves on but still help in better understanding the reality of the unknown escapes him. They are heretical as far as Bolt is concerned. They are of no use in understanding the spread of the contagion. What does Andrew Bolt have to offer in understanding it?