Apparently there has been concern around the traps that the totally unqualified ABC's Norman Swan is putting out information on the China virus and what should be done that directly contradicts the advice supplied by the Chief Medical Officer. Swan is not even a practising physician, having been an ABC activist since 1982.

Sinclair Davidson, not unreasonably, asks " If ordinary Australians are being asked to make extraordinary and, quite frankly, astonishing sacrifices can we really afford to keep the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on a business as usual basis?"

"Apparently there has been concern around the traps" Yes ttbn, from the hard right media, led by the Murdoch gutter press.

The coverage of the pandemic from the ABC, like its bushfire coverage, has been first class. It leaves the misinformation and sensationalism from the private media for dead. Doctor Norm Swan has articulated strong advice from the outset, and it has been sound advice, unlike the muddling messages, supposedly coming from medical experts, from the likes of ScumO' and Big Nose Gladdys! BTW, 2 dead and 100's with the virus all over Australia so far from the 2700 people those clowns let off the 'Ruby Princess' cruse ship in Sydney.

Dr Norman Swan is known outside Australia. He has been the Australian correspondent for the Journal of the American Medical Association and the British Medical Journal and has consulted for the World Health Organisation in Geneva. He is also a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Glasgow. Just as you attack Dr Swan as being unqualified in pandemics, you could attack Australia's CMO Professor Brendan Murphy on the same grounds, but why would you

Paul1405,

I enjoy reading your comments. It is good to see that there are people like you who see the world for what it is and are not afraid to call a spade a shovel.

We need bodies like the ABC to help us prevent certain types of people from perverting truths and manipulating our social institutions to their advantage. Do we want to see a Hitler or a Putin or a Xi or a Kim running the country? We need the ABC to expose the evils that pop up from time to time.

Dear FireballXL5,

It is pretty standard fare for you lot isn't it. Dishing it out but when it comes back at you you bleat on about how unfair and disrespectful it is.

Solution? Don't engage in it in the first place.

Mr 0,
If you look at that Wikipedia article you linked to, you'll find the rate over the last few days has been much lower than a week earlier. That's what the PM was referring to.

More laughs from SteeleRdux, who is incapable of practising what he preaches to an newcomer, who was right onto his rubbish as soon as he arrived.