So far Australia’s death toll from the coronavirus is just 13. It will rise, but is much less than we were led to expect. Was the danger – real enough – wildly exaggerated? Here are the most alarmist predictions that helped to panic our governments into burning down the country in order to “save” it.
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On The Bolt Report on Sky News at 7pm: The Morrison Government finally starts to fix our main source of infection – all returning travellers will be locked up for a fortnight. But an Australian just back from Taiwan tells how shockingly slack we are. And good news today suggests we’ve overreacted dangerously. Let Australians get back to work!
Joe Biden about Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser: “For a woman to come forward in the glaring lights of focus, nationally, you’ve got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she’s talking about is real.” So must we now believe Biden’s accuser?: “He went down my skirt but then up inside it and he penetrated me with his fingers.”
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On The Bolt Report on Sky at 7pm: four more people dead, but what we’re doing seems to be slowly working. Shame on some journalists – and Labor – for spreading panic today by claiming we’re failing. And Ray Hadley scapegoats a health official. Plus a psychiatrist on the mental damage and why people are behaving badly. And some laughs.
Terry McCrann: “New Zealand has just shown exactly what Scott Morrison… should have done on Sunday… NZ will now pay all businesses and all employers — no matter how small and no matter how big — a cash subsidy for every single one of their workers they keep on staff if they have been hit by the virus and the policy decisions taken to fight it.”
Now is not the time. Now is when we stay home to save lives. But Australians will soon ask: is the risk of catching the virus worse than the risk of going broke? We already risk death when we drive to work or go on a building site, operate heavy machinery, serve in the police force or fire brigade, run a farm or work under high stress.
The bad news: three more Australians dead from coronavirus, bringing the toll so far to 11. The potential lesson: this virus remains highly selective in whom it kills. The latest victims are a 68-year-old (some reports say 69) man who had “serious underlying health issues”, and two other men in their 70s. Which suggests a better way to fight this.
Greta Thunberg, the goddess of global warming, is back in the headlines, saying she’s sure she’s got coronavirus, although the symptoms are very mild and she hasn’t got a test. Rowan Dean wonders if the real thing making her ill is a lack of relevance now that the world has got a real crisis to worry about.
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