Dear runner,

No leaping to the defense of Boris then? Well he isn't your president then is he.

loved the fact he got Bexit done Steelie especially after so many said it was impossible. I don't like many of his other policies. I do pray he finds repentance before anything to bad happens to him.

Trump must have plenty of faults. Just that regressives need to continually make up lies to hide their hatred. Just makes me like him more.

Covid looks like killing no more in one year than a bad flu. We can't blame pollies for wanting to cover their arses so far, but as the numbers roll in you'd hope they'd flip to the exit strategy sooner rather than later.

We have no choice other than herd immunity, as expeditiously as possible. There's no vaccine for colds so to base public health policy in an expectation of one for covid is a strategy based in fear and hope.

I'm struck with the parallel of expecting science to come up with a breakthrough on storage to make renewables viable. Meanwhile we back them up with fossil-fuels, or just burn fuels because storage isn't viable (note Germany, Japan). Faith based policies have no place.

Here's some interesting COVID-19 stats:
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=ArcGIS+CSSE

Choose the Top Search Result
'Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) - ArcGIS.com'

Going by those numbers:

Queensland, Australia
Confirmed: 953
Deaths: 4
Recovered: 345
Active: 604

Victoria, Australia
Confirmed: 1,228
Deaths: 12
Recovered: 736
Active: 480

New South Wales, Australia
Confirmed: 2,773
Deaths: 21
Recovered: 4
Active: 2,748

QLD - Over 1/3 recovered
VIC - 60% recovered

** NSW - 4 out of 2773 recovered **
- with 21 deaths

4 recovered - 21 died;
That means right now in NSW you're over 5 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than recover.

Armchair Critic,

All that calculating must be making you thirsty! Care for some good old-fashioned Wuhan bat soup?

Just as with the bushfire crises, its reasonable to question if conservative governments in Australia are equipped to deal with crises in the order of magnitude presented by the cornoavirus. The Morrison government was certainly slow out of the blocks, but did manage to make up some ground, late but luckily. Morrison was mainly concerned with the economic issues rather than the more important health consequences, more or less, left health as a states responsibility, count our blessings on that one. The Berejiklian LNP government in NSW has been left behind, with its medical response, the inept handling of the 'Ruby Princess' debacle shows how incompetent the Berejiklian government really is, the voters should punish that incompetence severely at the ballot box.

The last time Australia faced a crises of the magnitude of the coronavirus was World War Two. The federal government at that time was a conservative one led by the Nazi sympathiser and apologist, the founder of the Liberal Party 'Pig Iron' Bob Menzies. Shown to be inept and lacking the fighting qualities need, the Menzies government collapsed, and another short lived conservative incompetent in the Country Party's Arthur Fadden took over. A no-confidence motion seen Fadden arse holed from government, and the outstanding war time leader, Labor's John Curtin took over and guided Australia successfully through the dark wartime years.

Is Morrison a Menzies, possibly not. Is Albanese a Curtin, certainly not.

The Queensland Premier clearly believes that it is not "all for nothing" with the very wild statement that the lockdown and inconvenience to everyone has saved 30,000 Queenslanders' lives. No evidence, of course