The media Left is now dangerously deranged by hatred of Donald Trump, who promoted a drug now being trialled around the world to fight the coronavirus. But here’s CNN’s take: “Nigeria records chloroquine poisoning after Trump endorses it.” The Guardian tells a falsehood: “Arizona man dies after attempting to take Trump coronavirus ‘cure’.”
We didn’t close our borders until too late. We didn’t screen all passengers for temperature or force them into monitored self-isolation. Then this: “Australian Border Force officials were responsible for a catastrophic decision to release 2700 cruise ship passengers… one of the largest single sources of coronavirus infections in the country.”
Is Trump right – this cure risks being worse than the virus? Watch the debate between Cory Bernardi and Steve Conroy here.
On The Bolt Report on Sky at 7pm: the news is grim, with coronavirus cases in Australia still exploding. But there were also three signs of hope today – with a mass trial starting tonight of a drug that’s claimed to be a cure. Hear it from a man who took it. Plus: if you’re losing your job in this crisis, here is what help you can get.
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On The Bolt Report on Sky at 7pm: How China is exploiting the coronavirus – urging Italians to “hug a Chinese”, then blaming the US for the sickness; now gearing up its exports. Plus Madonna says what’s “wonderful” about the pandemic. Also: we can’t keep fighting the virus like this for long. Look at the jobless queues already.
So far this coronavirus has killed just seven Australians. But three years ago we kept partying as 1255 died from a flu. I’m not saying we’re overreacting now. But I am saying we should prepare eventually to change tack in the devastatingly expensive way we’re fighting this virus today, and the way we protect the elderly from flu in the future.
The warming scare helped leave us lethally exposed. Last year the UN’s World Health Organisation declared “climate change is one of the defining issues of our time”, as the UN collected for its $100 billion Green Climate Fund. There was no such fund for combating viruses, and when the coronavirus roared out of China WHO denounced border controls.
The coronavirus has sure left one issue for dead — global warming. After once dominating the headlines, climate change has been overtaken by COVID-19 — which shows us what a real crisis looks like compared to a fake one, writes Andrew Bolt.
When a severe bout of flu killed more than 1200 Australians three years ago we didn’t panic and crash the economy. We can’t fight the coronavirus this way forever and must rethink how to protect the vulnerable.
Original URL: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/journalists/andrew-bolt/page/175