We are continually being told of Victorias escalating number of coronavirus cases, but we re not being given any idea of the seriousness of this.

Are these cases of very ill people presenting for treatment, or is this a matter of the discovery of a high rate of infection discovered due to much increased testing. Does Victoria have a lot of people requiring hospital treatment, or a lot of mildly effected, with many asymptomatic people only found due to heavy testing?

The whole thrust of media reporting indicates approaching armageddon but is this simply hype?

With the current media treatment of Trump, global warming, & the great barrier reef to name a few subjects it is impossible to believe anything you see reported unless you can find corroboration elsewhere. In other words should we all cut our wrists now, or is there some chance we could still live happy lives, despite this thing.

Wasn't it great 40 years ago when we could actually trust what the media was presenting was close to the truth, rather than something so spun by activists media that the truth was the last thing you could expect.

93 year olds don't die of old age anymore, it's COVID-19 now !
Just look at the Demographic of these 'Hot-spots' with mass gatherings as if there was no COVID-19.
If only COVID-19 only attacked morons all'd be good !

Gutless politicians allowed deviants and marxist to take over the education system Hasbeen. As seen this week with the New York times that you need to go along with the lying hateful narrative to keep your job. Its been like that at the abc for decades. Noticed a 5 year old boy raped by 3 under 14 in the last few days. The lying regressives who say blm's could not give a stuff. Generally the prostestors were dumbed down self entitled (many white) who know activist judges will let off even if arrested for violence.

After being caught out for corruption and lying for 3 years about Russian and then Ukraine collusion we now have the lying liberal media and democrats causing and promoting as much violence and chaos possible to try and prevent Trump being re elected.

Personally I think they have done enough damage to the Western economies to bring them down. Here in Victoria we had the CMO writing a paper on climate change and a fool of a woman tweeting about Captain Cook being like a virus. When you have such ignorance and arrogance in Australia's worst performing Government what hope is their for the sane?

You are right in saying news 40 years ago was closer to the truth. The reality is that people were closer to wanting the truth. Today they are happier with the lying narratives no matter how devoid of facts. Look at the fools who swallowed the gw hoax. Certainly no humility as they double down of their lying narratives.

The situation in Victoria is very bad indeed.
That is because the Victorian premier is a sadist who from the beginning of this epidemic has demonstrated how he enjoys punishing his subjects and seeing them suffer, that much that now they have no goodwill left, would not obey his orders and as a result get infected by droves.

Yuyutsu,
The Vic Premier is on TV everyday to tell people to stay apart & what did they do ? Demonstrate & gather by the thousands !!
It's not the Premier's doing, people are spreading COVID-19, stupid people !

Dear Individual,

Yes, The Victorian premier was on TV everyday since March and his face-expression shows that he is enjoying every bit of it, that being able to order people around somehow gives him satisfaction and otherwise-missing confidence.

It is not the message itself which other premiers also sent, but rather the punitive unempathetic attitude in the way it is being said. People see it and lose hope, believing that the situation is hopeless anyway, that the premier would punish them anyway whatever they do or don't just because he likes it, so there is nothing to lose and certainly no motivation to make any personal sacrifices.