Dear thinkabit,

Did he really say that? "If it wasn't for an hysterical media, we wouldn't know about every virus that popped up. The interest in this one will last about a week, then the ABC and other leftist scaremongers will have to find something else to bellyache about."

Wow. I don't read his stuff so didn't pick it up. It was pretty well the crap most of the right wingers were touting here. I tried pulling mhaze up on his insistence that travelers from the US were not the primary source of infections entering Australia but he wouldn't have a bar of it. Now they lead the world in infections.

What a savagely pompous and ignorant president Trump is but these guys are still on their knees in awe. He really can do no wrong. I see many news outlets in the US are not streaming his briefings live because they so often need serious fact checking. Apparently the US will be back in business straight after Easter.

What a moron. Which is probably why so many fellow travelers here on OLO find him so irresistible.

Speak of the devil, and up pops SteeleRedux, snarling at hasbeen for something he posted three days ago.

Hi thinkabit,

Conservatives are okay people to have in control when things are going great, but soon as a crisis hits they are, by their very nature at a loss. Morrison needed to be proactive on the coronavirus from the start, but like a true conservative he chose to take the easier but somewhat disastrous "wait and see" reactive approach. The experts offer various alternatives for consideration, its the leadership that has to make the decisions. The big test for Morrison and the state and territory leaders is how well they are able to flatten the curve, in other words keep the outbreak to manageable dimensions, and thus save lives.

Perhaps if, as Geoffrey Luck writes in today's Quadrant Online, " …. the medical advice had been given in private, as it should have been, Greg Hunt, a competent minister would have been in a position to require an immediate and continuing evaluation of the statistics as a basis for policy."

And if it hadn't been implied that what had happened in China and elsewhere was a dead certainly here, we wouldn't now have an artificially created recession that has shut down half of the country's economy, and seen billions of dollars thrown to the undeserving, created a stock market rout and induced an economic collapse. Only people put out of work should be getting compensation. The rest is Keynesian economy trashing, the silliest being $750, or whatever it ends up being, to pensioners. And I stand to get the payment!

The government should have looked at the panic buying it helped start before it started slinging money around. It's not very comfortable wiping your arse on banknotes.

yep Paul we certainly need the regressives in power at this stage banging on about the gw fraud and identity politics. They have no other policies.

thinkabit,

If you don't like it being hinted at that you are undermining your own country like William Joyce or the Norwegian Vidkun Quisling don't do it, even theoretically and safely, as you do here.