He really doesn't remember the Mutiny on the Bounty story. Where Capt Bligh was set adrift at see and the mutineers lived happily ever after with Tahitian women
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He really doesn't remember the Mutiny on the Bounty story. Where Capt Bligh was set adrift at see and the mutineers lived happily ever after with Tahitian women
I keep on thinking about how Australians would react if our PM tweeted something like this
Donald Trump - the world’s oldest toddler. Doesn’t get what he wants, or the attention he thinks he deserves, he chucks a huge wobbly
Only because he's got the attention span of a goldfish.
How about today - reading out a long list of American companies and CEOs. Why? Who the *smile* knows.
If Hollywood had come out with a movie five years ago about a rogue president who behaved like Trump, it would be dismissed out of hand as unrealistic and simply not believable that Americans would ever elect a president like that.
Same in UAE. Dubai is in lockdown bc of it. We're in that 300-400 per day for the last week too.
China held the director-general post of the WHO for 11 years up to 2017 through Dr. Margaret Chan. Shortly thereafter they "softened" their stance on TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine).
Had to laugh just before. Some people are above the rules. We’ve seen people fined for seemingly frivolous reasons by the cops in Victoria the past few days in regards to social distancing. They’ve also said no unnecessary travel, do not visit other people’s homes even if family, if you don’t live there. On a couple of the news services tonight they had stories about the return to school today. Many kids are learning from home online. And there were the reporters, cameramen, sound people etc doing reports inside other people’s homes to report on it. Is it deemed necessary or is it covered under any of the other criteria to visit others homes? Wonder if the cops will fine them?
The Simpsons had Trump as president about 20 years ago.
Watch it, its become one of the great tragic-comedies
out of interest, is this thread the fastest to 150 pages in PRE history?
Dusty, for example, took 15 months
surely relegated Richard Tambling or Liam McBean?
Excellent dashboard available in .pdf format at https://www.health.gov.au/sites/def...virus-covid-19-at-a-glance-infographic_12.pdf
Case count excluding China (updated 11pm)
2,018,629 cases
132,706 deaths (6.57%)
51,014 severe (3%)
1,389,212 mild (69%)
445,697 recovered (22%)
2,018,629 cases
132,706 deaths (6.57%)
51,014 severe (3%)
1,389,212 mild (69%)
445,697 recovered (22%)
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The blaming of WHO for all this is not really justified. They have a budget of about $3 billion p.a. of which less than 1% is dedicated to pandemic monitoring, let's say $30 million p.a, it is very small. The argument has to be that if the international community wants a strong body to monitor these types of things then it needs to make sure that it is properly resourced. I have been told by others close to the issue that they were staggered at how little resource the WHO had to understand the problem back in December/January. They may or may not have been hoodwinked by the Chinese but it is a result of countries all over the world not valuing what a properly funded organisation like the WHO can provide.
There has been plenty wrong with the WHO response to this pandemic and other UN agencies' response to many things over the years, I am not blindly defending its performance, but the expectation of them is ridiculous from some.
In terms of actions on the ground countries like Australia don't rely on the WHO but underdeveloped countries do. They are doing an enormous amount of work on response in Africa in particular but also in parts of Asia.
We need them to monitor what is happening across the world with the pandemic, rich countries fund their own response
Trump is going to demonise the organisation but whatever their failures they don't explain why the US has 30% of the world's infections and more than 26,000 people dead. It is a dangerous deflection
There has been plenty wrong with the WHO response to this pandemic and other UN agencies' response to many things over the years, I am not blindly defending its performance, but the expectation of them is ridiculous from some.
In terms of actions on the ground countries like Australia don't rely on the WHO but underdeveloped countries do. They are doing an enormous amount of work on response in Africa in particular but also in parts of Asia.
We need them to monitor what is happening across the world with the pandemic, rich countries fund their own response
Trump is going to demonise the organisation but whatever their failures they don't explain why the US has 30% of the world's infections and more than 26,000 people dead. It is a dangerous deflection
Trump is right to criticise WHO to a degree & criticism is definitely justified. Removing their funding during a pandemic isn't that smart though I would have thought.
WHO's early performance in this crisis was more focused on saving Chinese Face & their economy than protecting the rest of the world.
They were slow to recognise the seriousness of this disease & tiptoed around it.
China however is far more at fault here for their lies & coverups & clearly kept the WHO in the dark.
It's China that deserves the most blame here for the disaster the world is facing.
That said Trump is clearly exaggerating WHO & China's failures purely to take the focus off his own failures to act during February that put his country at risk.
He's right to be copping a heap of criticism for that but it shouldn't excuse China & the WHO's failures. Not one bit.
WHO's early performance in this crisis was more focused on saving Chinese Face & their economy than protecting the rest of the world.
They were slow to recognise the seriousness of this disease & tiptoed around it.
China however is far more at fault here for their lies & coverups & clearly kept the WHO in the dark.
It's China that deserves the most blame here for the disaster the world is facing.
That said Trump is clearly exaggerating WHO & China's failures purely to take the focus off his own failures to act during February that put his country at risk.
He's right to be copping a heap of criticism for that but it shouldn't excuse China & the WHO's failures. Not one bit.
Course it isn't because he's doing it purely to take the focus off his failures.
the WHO thing is a joke. sure, they're not perfect, but they are badly needed in poor countries. i still believe americans are stupid enough to re-elect him.
Gotta say I find it strange that Victoria has tested less than half as many people as NSW and even less than QLD. Also our total number of tests isn't even double that of SA and there'd be around 4 times as many people in VIC as SA.Excellent dashboard available in .pdf format at https://www.health.gov.au/sites/def...virus-covid-19-at-a-glance-infographic_12.pdf
Victorias testing per capita is extremely low in comparison to other states; what's going on with that?
It's more than "not smart" it's dangerous.
He would be pulling money from efforts like the eradication of Polio, TB , Malaria and other Infectious diseases which makes up the vast majority of the WHO's budget
But Trump doesn't care
