Having heard Fran Kelly berating Health Minister Greg Hunt this morning I have a question: If shutdowns included ABC staff losing their jobs, would ABC staff be so aggressive in demanding more? And for the rest of the country, this question will start to be asked: at what stage would we rather risk getting the virus than going broke?
Here’s why they say WASH YOUR HANDS. From a new study on how long the coronavirus survives on a surface: “[The virus] was identified on a variety of surfaces in cabins of both symptomatic and asymptomatic infected passengers up to 17 days after cabins were vacated on the Diamond Princess but before disinfection procedures had been conducted.”
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.
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