Dear runner,

You at the coolaid too?

This happened in June

“ The Food and Drug Administration on Monday said it had withdrawn an emergency approval for use of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a Covid-19 treatment.
Almost since the beginning of the novel coronavirus pandemic, President Trump and other world leaders have touted hydroxychloroquine as an effective treatment based on scattered anecdotes, not reliable scientific studies. But the FDA said Monday that the drug, along with chloroquine, is “unlikely to be effective in treating Covid-19,” and highlighted “serious side effects.”

What do you know that the rest of us don't?

I realise that to you Trump is little shy of the authoritarian saviour you have been clamouring for most of your life but to be making him your GP too would seem a step too far.

Dear Jbowyer,

Mate, here is a word to the wise, if you don't like being called idiotic then don't call people idiots.

SR, mate, here is another word even wiser, just because someone calls another an idiot, does not automatically follow that they themselves are idiots; is this where he calls YOU an IDIOT?

The latest from Dangerous Doctor Donald. When delivering his Independence Day speech on stolen Native American land at Mount Rushmore.

The Donald claimed "No nation has done more to advance the human condition than the United States of America."

Ahhhh! Dispossessed and murdered hundreds of thousands of Native Americans, enslaved millions of Africans. Created the Great Depression which forced millions into poverty and death. Started wars than killed millions!

He wants to set up a "vast outdoor park" filled with more statues of America's heroes, those named Donald, Donald Duck, Ronald McDonald, and of course a gigantic statue of The Donald himself!

Also claims Cornavirus is harmless for 99% of Americans, he forgets about the 130,000 dead in his country, partly due to his total incompetence. Has Trump set a a new target of 3,300,000 dead Americans? He did claim 100,000 would be a success, well past that number now.

back from the 'summer of love' Paul and with your life intact!

SR,

You are as tediously predictable as you are illogical. You conveniently forgot to address the 10 000 people at the BLM rally for which Disease Dan made no effort to stop.

As for the tennis comparison, viruses are very seldom transmitted by sweat.

The simple truth is that in spite of the most economically damaging lockdown in Aus, Victoria has nearly 10x the infections of the rest of the country put together. If that is not a neon sign of incompetence nothing else is. Disease Dan has earned the title of Australia's Trump.

Daniel Andrews is now clearly the worst-performing, most unsuccessful premier or territory leader in Australia in managing the COVID-19 outbreak, despite being the most authoritarian.

The Victorian government’s failure is damaging for Victorians and for the whole of Australia.

All the way through this crisis, Andrews has spoken in the most melodramatic terms about the life-and-death consequences of everyday decisions.

If you go out shopping, people will die, no pair of shoes is worth a life, etc. And he positively excoriated golf, apparently the devil’s own pastime.

Yet when faced with managing a group of people — international returnees going into quarantine, the ­Andrews government chose the least-trained workforce it could possibly imagine for the job.

This is staggering incompetence. Anyone familiar with the security industry knows how meagre its general training is. Guards were given 30 seconds training, meaning they just signed a form saying they’d read a piece of paper, or sometimes three minutes training, for the hotel roles. And this on the watch of the Premier who set up a regime that fined ­people for going to Bunnings when Bunnings was legally open.

Now in its customary politburo style, the Victorian government has decided it doesn’t need to answer a single question, nor accept a single iota of democratic accountability for this debacle until an ­official inquiry reports, presumably when the heat has gone out of the issue.

But there were political failures too. The Andrews government was happy to name all sorts of institutions with breakouts when it suited them politically, even a school linked to an inactive case to support the government’s then ­desire to keep schools shut.

But the Cedar Meats abattoir — Labor donors and full of Labor mates — had their identity protected until it was dragged out by the media. This turned out to be a very significant outbreak.

Dan's efforts to get people not to attend the Black Lives Matter demonstrations were pitiful. If you go shopping, people will die, never translated into: if you go demonstrating, people will die.