What will 2021 be like? Probably like 2020 or worse if the political class keeps on the way it has this year. Now that they have seen how easily their "subjects" have accepted draconian lock downs and surveillance, we might never get back to what we have always considered to be normal. Powers and taxes. Once they get them in, they don't give them up. There's no indication that the China virus is going away, despite all the tyranny, and they have even announced a 'new strain', even more communicable than the old one. Even before there is a proven vaccine, they are threatening us with action if we don't submit to the needle. That the survival rate for those contracting the China virus is 99.85% doesn't get a mention.

And, the source of the China virus will be an increasing problem. When your biggest single trading partner is also the biggest threat to your security, there is not much to look forward to. And, of course, we still have the same sorts of fools in Canberra that we have always had, not to mention a docile population that really doesn't deserve the democracy it takes for granted, even as it is gradually being taken off them. It's a cliche, but Australians are just like the frog in the slowly boiling water.

Australia will continue to be ruled by decree, not by Parliament, as has been the case since the China virus first struck.

ttbn: Why do you keep saying crap like this "That the survival rate for those contracting the China virus is 99.85% doesn't get a mention."

As has been told to you before by others and me the virus kills way, way more than that.

The following is a cut-and-paste repeat of a section of a previous comment from me to you about this. But this data below is now out of date since it is now worse at 0.2151%.

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"Here are the numbers for the USA : http://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

If you locate the New Jersey entry you will see that is has already killed more than 0.1% (0.1851% actually) of the state's WHOLE POPULATION, not just those who've contracted the virus. And no-one anywhere that I've read has suggested that it is anywhere near herd immunity levels in NJ.

The current New Jersey number of 0.19% puts it in the same same league as the 2nd and 3rd worst flu* pandemics of modern times: the 1889-90 pandemic was 0.10 to 0.28% and the Asian flu of 1957-59 was <0.2%. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_pandemic). But remember, this virus can still potentially kill a hell of a lot more people in New Jersey before it reaches herd immunity or a vaccine is found so this number is just a minimum.

China invades Australia.

thinkabit,

Why do you keep believing lies and crap?

ttbn:
Here's a link explaining how the web-site's statistics I gave is sourced and compiled: http://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/about/

Perhaps you could give us a link to the source of your data? (But I strongly suspect you can't because you just made it up.)

thinkverylittle,

One sentence, which frankly is irrelevant to what will happen in 2021, and you go off the deep end without any comment on what you think next year will be like. You have made no contribution whatever.

Mr. Opinion,

Probably not in 2021, if ever. We may very well be involved in an armed conflict with China; eg if they go for Taiwan: in which case America will have to to step in if it is the retain any credibility, and we will be expect to join in. I might be wrong, of course: Xi Jinping and the CCP are an unknowable bunch of lunatics.