I rarely agree with Malcolm but he does make some good points this time.

Good old Malcolm King: starts off by denigrating most Australians - the quiet majority, Morrison's people, but expects to be listened to. We are all "malignant" and "selfish". Then he gets stuck into business, and refers to taxpayers as "victims".

Who are you 'agin' Malcolm: the quiet majority - ordinary Aussies - or business? You call business "bastards", but they are bastards we couldn't survive without; and it's the government that is throwing taxpayers' money around. Big, bad business can't just help themselves to it.

Black swans are the norm in Australia, by the way. The term black swan event was coined by a foreigner unused to black swans. Let's keep it local.

After caning business, King does get back to the "pea brain" (such love for his fellow Australians) hoi polloi, lambasting them for panic buying and hoarding. But, are panickers and hoarders in the majority? It is always the few who bugger it up for the majority in Australia. And at present, they are being fired up by a panicking government and a mob of 'experts', as well as the media - all of them telling us we will all be 'rooned', and how it's getting worse all the time; rising grafts and frantic TV presenters night after night. Then, there is the certain group that is stripping the shelves for profit and export to a nameless country. Mustn't talk about that, though; blame the Aussie.

We've all heard the old cliche, 'with friends like that we don't need enemies'. But, I'm not sure that people like Malcolm King and the rest of his lefty media colleagues could ever be called our friends.

Why not? It's been a good example and preferred by our ruling masters, as they patently profited from allowing it to move in, elbow decent Australian icons, with the usual, out of the way pipsqueak.

The local corner store that we need right now! sacrificed, for big money shopping centres where instead of half a dozen, reasonably separated at any one time, getting service, we push in, in the hundreds, like tinned sardines! SOCIAL DISTANCING ANYONE!?

At every turn, it has been obvious that foreigners with deep pockets have been allowed to move in, buy what they couldn't conquer? And means all those Anzacs that paid the ultimate sacrifice! Did so in vain!

When a new enemy arrived, our first response was to try and protect privilege and wealth, given real action would see some of these forced to close completely for a couple of weeks.

Instead, we are slamming shut stable doors well after the horse has bolted all while doing a marketing campaign about what wonderful compassionate, Christian leaders we are? As we go to vote?

Me? Done already and on my Pat Malone as an early bird! But then what we should be doing to avoid election day crushes! And take care of our fellow Aussies!
Alan B.

For better or worse the "quiet people" or the so called silent majority are very much like a unconscious herd of sheep. They have been programmed, even brain washed into being faithful consumers by TV. To go to work, eat junk food and watch TV. To stay "tuned" for the latest news or the advertised product/entertainment to be excited about, and to dutifully purchase it.

In another sense our modern (unlimited) consumer society, which is not in any sense a real culture, is like a gigantic Cargo Cult or religion, with the giant shopping malls being the bright shiny temples/cathedrals where the faithful consumers go to buy their bright/shiny/colorful cargo which somehow, as if out of nowhere always magically manifests at the local temple/cathedral.

Advertising in all of its forms , but especially TV, being the now 24/7 equivalent of the church bells calling the people to the Cathedral to pray or feast upon the very worldly host (consumer product).

And of course the faithful consumers are never ever asked to even begin to question the hugely enormous amount of environmental destruction, and the equally enormous amount of human blood sweat and tears that it takes to produce their bright shiny cargo (plunder),

And of course, quite naturally, the faithful consumers get very frustrated and angry if their (unlimited) consumerist fantasy land gets interrupted.

Which is not to dismiss the very real hardships and problems that almost everyone is confronted with via the Coronavirus melt down - and not just here in the land of Oz.

Greed and fear reign in Oz
No sane person would dispute that statement !

I saw a very encouraging incident in Hornsby today at the chemist.
After a long wait this elderly gent only had cash to pay with. EFPOS ONLY.
A lady standing by offered to pay for him with her card and refused his
offer of the $10 note he had.
He tucked it into her carry bag.
So all is not lost !