NSW is the state hardest hit by the coronavirus. Chance so far of having died in NSW from the virus: 1/754,400. Chance so far of having caught the virus: 1/3457. Chance so far of having caught the virus in Australia: 1/9100. Chance so far of having died if you caught the virus: 1/218. Chance so far of having died in NSW if you are under 70: zero.
There is no way we can go on like this for six months. When will Australians be allowed to leave their homes? Scott Morrison talks of these restrictions lasting six months until this coronavirus crisis ends, but he can’t be serious. How does he measure that end? When not one more person dies? He must tell us his exit strategy now.
Prince Charles is 71 – right at the most vulnerable age for dying from the coronavirus. But he had no underlying health issues and has recovered from what he calls “mild” symptoms. He’s now recorded a message.
Why aren’t Australians dying from the coronavirus like the Italians are? The question is important because it was Italy that really made our politicians panic.They saw hundreds of Italians dying each day, and even this week ABC health presenter Norman Swan warned, “We are going to be where Italy was.” Wrong.
This coronavirus panic is making politicians lose all sense of proportion. It’s also making them all too eager to ban stuff than needs no banning at all. My editorial from The Bolt Report.
Tell us the news.
When politicians saw hundreds of Italians dying each day from coronavirus they panicked and thought we were headed the same way. So what explains the dramatic difference in the death toll between Australia and Italy, asks Andrew Bolt.
On The Bolt Report on Sky at 7pm: still just 20 deaths, the latest 95 years old. What’s the human cost of locking up everyone, rather than detaining the infectious and protecting the old? And have we lost our heart – trying to turn away a ship? Have we lost our mind – banning couples from visiting each other? And why a pay rise for public servants?
Terry McCrann says the Prime Minister can’t keep these coronavirus bans for long: “The idea that the economy can go into ‘hibernation’ – the word seems to have been marketed first by the prime minister… – for six months is very, very disturbing… [It] would utterly and irreparably destroy Australian economic functionality.” An exit strategy now.
Sick: “Queensland’s 224,000 state public servants are set to receive pay rises totalling more than 3 per cent as others in the workforce endure static income levels, wage cuts, reduced hours, unpaid stand-downs or lose jobs because of the economic impact of the coronavirus.” If this government has spare cash, give it to workers doing it tough.
Original URL: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/journalists/andrew-bolt/page/170