Hi Runner,

Sorry for the delay: the four-poster rule.

You cogently remark: "'Thanks to lock-downs, Australia has hundreds of times the death of Taiwan. "

I think you mean, " .... hundreds of times the number of Covid-19 deaths in Taiwan."

Perhaps not hundreds. But aren't you glad that Taiwan didn't follow the Fairweather-President's rule of 'Pass the Buck to Whoever You Can' - if they had, they would have had fourteen thousand Covid deaths - so far - instead of seven. A differential of two thousand times: one death in Taiwan for every two thousand in the US.

Do you reckon Trumpf will ever mention Taiwan in any of his rants ?

Someone is doing something right, and it clearly ain't your Marvel-comic hero, with his near-two-hundred-thousand deaths. And counting. I wonder if it's not too late for the US to learn from Taiwan. Or from Mr Morrison here in Australia, for that matter.

Joe

one day Joe you might get over your tds and realise the virus came from China, was sent throughout the world by China and more than likely escaped from a Chinese lab. That is why it is so amusing that you ignore Nancy's invitation to Chinese new year feasts and ignore your namesake calling Trump racist and xenophobic for cancelling flights from China. No doubt Biden would have no memory of this or for anything he said yesterday. At least your contradictions are consistently dishonest Joe.

Sorry, Runner, what's your point ?

Trumpf has presided over 200,000 deaths from Covid-19. Here in Australia (I don't know where you write from, but I guess there are plenty of caves in Wyoming, make sure you've got plenty of toilet paper), Morrison has overseen less than a thousand. In Taiwan, she has presided over a tiny handful.

If Trumnpf had learnt anything from the Taiwanese president, and organised a nation-wide co-ordination of governors and mayors (like Morrison did here), he might have kept the death numbers down to fewer than a thousand. So, 199,000 Americans have died needlessly - so far, because of Trumpf. QED.

But as you claim, if we can pinpoint the cause as a virus originating in China, then we can reverse all that, bring people back from the dead, and everything will be all right.

Sorry, no, I don't think so.

Joe