Not ones to let a crisis go to waste, the anti-smoking lobby has called for a ban on the sale of cigarettes because smoking 'kills more people than the China virus'. Fat chance. The projected rake in from smokers is projected to be $17.2 billion for the coming financial year. That money will be needed to help pay off the huge socialist spend up.

I wonder if the anti-smoking fascists know that another fascist, Adolf Hitler, was founder/convenor of the world anti-smoking movement.

Hey ttbn,

"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"

It's hard to say how bad things might've been if they didn't act to prevent uncontrolled community transmission.

If you take a look at the charts in this article, you can see how the measures taken over the past two weeks have most certain;y averted a major crisis.

We're not out of the woods yet but at least we're now in a position where hospitals should be able to cope with any further influx of cases, hopefully.

It doesn't mean more people aren't still going to die, but it does mean hospitals should cope, that infected patients will receive a high standard or care rather than being quarantined in their homes and left to die alone.

I'm satisfied that Australia's response has had a positive impact on the pandemic and safeguarded many people in the community, but it has cost a hell of a lot of money.

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

We know now that virus has been engineered, which means it didn't come from bat feces in the market, though I'm fairly sure Coronavirus does come from bats.

From what I understand, Glycoprotein GP120 (related to HIV) is the way in which the virus gets past your immune system.
This was not part of any of the previous strains of Coronavirus and had to be inserted into the virus with a gene splicer.

It seems to me they muddy the water that much in the beginning to make everyone confused and already believing one thing, so that when the truth comes out later, everyone's already formed an opinion based on the previous bs they feed them and they can continue to control the narrative with doubt, confusion and a genuine lack of concerted effort to inform the public of the facts.

News is not about informing the public on the facts.
News is about making up your mind for you on any given topic.

“You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.”

ttbn, what did you spend your $750 govvy welfare gift on? Fags and booze! Seen one welfare wombat on the telly saying when he got his 750 bucks the first thing he was going to buy was 8 boxes of VB!

How's this ttbn,

CAPITALISM'S backup plan is SOCIALISM.
LIBERALISM'S backup plan is AUTHORITARIANISM.

Thought that was cute. but true.

Are you still clinging to The Donald, and Buggy Boris as the savours of the Free World?

Armchair,

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

Your source is wrong. Last time I looked the NSW figures showed over 1000 had recovered.

Paul,

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

Is Paul an historian. Absolutely not. His understanding of the 1939-41 Menzies government is laughably wrong. Just more Marxist myths about the past that Paul absorbs without the slightest understanding.
But there was one big mistake Menzies made in those years. He should have arrested and interred for the duration of the war all those union leaders who were taking their orders from Moscow and seeking to destroy the war effort in 1939-41. Australia's preparedness would have been immensely improved had he done so. But he was too much the democrat.

SR,

"Brix has nothing to do with the Health Data site. She is from the White House team while the site is independently run from donations by the Bill and Melinda Foundation."

Birx is the main contact between the modellers and the White House. As such she is intimately involved in and aware of the changes in model outcomes. She has said that the original higher forecasts already had the social distancing built in.
Therefore any further fall in forecasts is due to other factors. See my previous posts for details on that.

The Institute of Public Affairs has stated that the government will have to cut spending to repay the China virus' cash splash. Before the current crisis, the interest on government debt was $16 billion per year. The IPA estimates that the post crisis interest rate will be $30 billion per year.