Mr. Opinion,

Do you ever have the feeling that you are casting pearls before swine?

Ttbn,

To you, it may be pearls (after all, you assume that Trumpf talks sense), but I suspect that the Village Idiot is casting something else at every other OLO contributor from on top of his wall.

Joe

Mr O, in the continuing cycle of human development, tomorrows generation will be presented with problems, no less than the problems that the previous generation bequeathed to todays world. What you speak of are real, but not insurmountable problems, when those of progressive thinking and action set the minds and deeds to arresting such ills. I the forever optimists.

Unfortunately we will have to suffer the eternal pessimists, the do nothing, worst still, stuff it up conservatives of this world. This clueless bunch will hopefully one day be consigned to the dust bin of human uselessness, joining their folk hero, Dangerous Doctor Donald.

ttbn,

When it comes to the likes of Foul-Mouth, shadyminister and members of The Forum's pro-China camp I think it might be more a matter of me feeding strawberries to pigs.

On the first day of the new year, even the AdMan conceded that the China virus is not going away, and border closures will continue. When the PM stops bullshiting and tells the truth, all those naifs thinking that everything is going to be fine look even more unrealistic. To paraphrase Game of Thrones, winter is coming. All we get from Morrison is, "I can understand the frustration". When even the NSW Police Minister recognises that we are a nation state "not a collection of states", there is not a lot to be said about the 'top man' in the country, who is going off on holiday again. He has been reminded by Labor that this is the second time he has slunk off in a crisis.

Jobkeeper and jobseeker payments were slashed as of the 1st. January. There will be no quicky vaccine. There is not one positive. Australia is rooted, not because of the China virus, but because of our greatest ongoing hazard, politicians, who are clearly not up to scratch - the ones who blew our island status away, and who are still letting people enter Australia while making life hard for everyone else.

Meanwhile, in WuHan, revellers were packed like sardines celebrating the New Year, and bars, restaurants and businesses are going gang busters.