Credit to the PM for talking about self-sufficiency after the Chinese virus. Let's open that there is enough money in the kitty to kick it off following his economic overreaching.

Japan, as part of distancing itself from China economically, is spending $3 billion to get Japanese manufacturers to back out of China set up back in Japan. Fifty American companies returned to their own country last year.

If we have the money to spend what we are spending now, we should be able to follow suit. And we have 700,000 unemployed, plus those thrown out of work by the Chinese virus, to put to work

Queensland police have issued 450 plus fines for Chinese virus related transgressions, realising over half a million dollars for the state. Ironically, many businesses are going broke over the enforcement of these very same restrictions people are being fined for breaking.

Education Minister, Dan Tehan, his $365, 250 salary including perks still coming in, is making smartarse remarks to people with no income thanks to the Chinese virus and his government's heavy handed closures of workplaces - "If life gives you lemons make lemonade". Their new-found powers are emboldening politicians to show more contempt for the electorate than ever.

ttbn,

Please stop using the term 'Chinese virus'. It is racist and uncalled for and you should be ashamed of yourself. The proper term is 'Wuhan virus'.

PS have you seen the videos of people masquerading as Chinese in order to get preferential access to baby formula at supermarkets, which they can then sell in China for a huge profit? There should be a law against people masquerading as Chinese. It's disgusting; it makes Chinese look like parasites.

Hi Steele,

In good times the world can afford the luxury of a bubbling bubble brain like Donald Trump. A "leader" to be scorned, lampooned, ridiculed, nothing more than the butt of many a joke, that's 'The Donald'. Unfortunate in a time of cries that's no longer the case. Countries look to their leaders for guidance in these troubling times, the world needs great leadership to take it through the catastrophe and guide it to safety. Sadly America has 'The Donald, Britain has bug ridden Boris, a couple of conservative nincompoops, and one only has to look at the results in those countries to realise that these "leaders" are no longer a joke, they cost thousands of their citizens their very lives.

Yet even on this Forum, 'The Donald' has his disciples, who see him as some kind of savour, the new messiah no less! As another ding bat closer to home would say; Please explain.

Hi Paul,

Yes, I agree that Trump's incompetence may cost hundreds of thousands of lives in the US. Still, they voted for him so they're stuck with him. Very cruelly, Lenin is supposed to have said that people get the government that they deserve. Even the Yanks, I suppose. Of course, Francis Fukuyama did put a question mark at the end of his book title: ".... The End of History ?"

Their exponential is still way above 1.0, their growth curve is not flattening: two thousand deaths each day seems to be how it will all go for the next week. Epidemiologists and statisticians must have some sort of measure in which - in this case, for example - the growth in cases of infection outruns the capacity of the health system. I have great fears that that will happen in Africa, India, refugee camps all over the world, particularly in Bangla Desh, Africa and the Middle East.

I don't understand the policy of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua to ignore the whole problem. Maybe they think it's a Yankee plot. Well, no, and even if it were, it would still impact on their population with devastation. We can only hope they get some sense before that runaway point is reached.

Cheers,

Joe