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Coburgtiger said:
Scomo has been over simplifying/misleading about schools from the beginning.

In his first messaging, he actually said closing schools would make the spread of the virus worse.

:rolleyes:

We started to get a handle on it once school holidays started.

Forget that there's a thousand plus kids at a lot of city schools. You could even forget that there's a hundred plus staff members (not just teachers - ES staff are normally forgotten in all this).

One of the big benefits to having schools closed is the reduction in all the subsequent travel. Parents dropping kids off, kids on public transport, high school kids travelling far and wide during lunch times/free periods/after school etc.

Plus there's the big one: attitude. As soon as schools open, there'll be a lot of 'Well if I can be around a thousand people at school, surely I can hang out with my ten mates afterwards.' And it'll be hard to argue with that.
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If they open schools then as Ezy said earlier I will be relaxing my social distance measures too. Can't have your cake & eat it.
 
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Tigers of Old said:
If they open schools then as Ezy said earlier I will be relaxing my social distance measures too. Can't have your cake & eat it.
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Agree. The schools is one area we haven't quite got right as a county.. I think Dan might be on the money on this one.
 
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Interesting isn't it, Scomo was very reluctant to "interfere" when the bushfires were happening "it's a State Govt matter" etc. Yet with the Corona virus situation he's sticking his nose in when he shouldn't be.

Why?????
 
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The Big Richo said:
I'd love to see a fly-on-the-wall documentary behind the scenes of the Trump Administration.

See Trump walk through the door after his press conference and the discussion around where to go next.
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“Mr. Trump rarely attends the task force meetings that precede the briefings, and he typically does not prepare before he steps in front of the cameras. He is often seeing the final version of the day’s main talking points that aides have prepared for him for the first time although aides said he makes tweaks with a Sharpie just before he reads them live. He hastily plows through them, usually in a monotone, in order to get to the question-and-answer bullying session with reporters that he relishes.”

www.nytimes.com

Home Alone at the White House: A Sour President, With TV His Constant Companion (Published 2020)

As his administration grapples with reopening the economy and responding to the coronavirus crisis, President Trump worries about his re-election and how the news media is portraying him.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
 
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The Big Richo said:
I'd love to see a fly-on-the-wall documentary behind the scenes of the Trump Administration.

See Trump walk through the door after his press conference and the discussion around where to go next.
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I think you'de see exactly what you imagine you'de see.

a disturbing smorgasbord of personality disorders fighting for ascendancy and creating unfathomable random outbursts of very dangerous, deluded incompetence.

a few scared, ambitious sycophants would acquiesce. The odd one who had a better job lined up would call him out.

I have no doubt what you get is what you see.
 
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Tigers of Old said:
Doesn't seem like he relishes them atm.:mhihi

https://twitter.com/x/status/1254168730898173953
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Spoken like a true leader. One that’s needed in these troubled times. :rolleyes:
Manages to make it about himself again when talking about record ratings. Complains about ‘hostile’ questions when in reality most are just questions. Complains they don’t report what he wants them to report. He Probably thought that as a leader he could control the media ( like Stalin, Mao, Hitler could).
Guess he’s now panicking about his re-election chances now he’s exposed as the complete and utter imbecile that he is
 
Coburgtiger said:
If teachers are saying schools shouldn't be open, it's not because they think that's the easier option.
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Absolutely agree. It's pretty tough for them trying to maintain a a decent curriculum and keeping their students involved. Every teacher I know would rather be back in the classroom than doing this, safely of course
 
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Sintiger said:
I saw a clip of the chief scientist’s face when Trump suggested she study the detergent thing. Barely disguised horror at the man’s sheer stupidity
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There is plenty of Trump-splaining going on in the conservative media. In his defence, and Birx's, I suspect he was briefed on early studies suggesting UV has a detrimental effect on the virus in a petri dish and it was dumbed down to "shining light on it" for Cheeto Benito. Ditto "disinfectant". That to me explains Birx's face. It's the "that's not what we said" face.
 
The Big Richo said:
Same, I really don't see what people are worried about.

If you carry or use a smart phone then your privacy is stuffed anyway. A mate of mine is a senior Melbourne Detective and he tells me every second crime now is solved using data from smart phones.

The Jill Meagher murder for example was entirely solved by tracking the smart phone movements of likely offenders, placing one at the scene and then seeing where he went.
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Yeah I'm board with the app. Can't see the fuss.
 
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LeeToRainesToRoach said:
Good to see the ABC is still capable of conducting itself in the national interest and in an unbiased manner.
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*Written, Spoken and Authorised by Greg Sheridan, The Australian, on behalf of the Roman Catholic Church Pty Ltd
 
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TT33 said:
Interesting isn't it, Scomo was very reluctant to "interfere" when the bushfires were happening "it's a State Govt matter" etc. Yet with the Corona virus situation he's sticking his nose in when he shouldn't be.

Why?????
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You do understand he is following medical advice?

it doesn’t really matter what he does the left wing will crucify him.
 
YinnarTiger said:
That can happen when you start cherry-picking medical advice.
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Are you across all the medical advice the federal gov't is receiving? You do understand states are acting independently on a range of matters? Are they cherry-picking medical advice or??

The federal gov't will cop criticism from left wing nutjobs no matter what they do (and right-wing nut jobs as well for not relaxing measures quick enough) and the state labour gov't's will cop criticism from right-wing nutjobs no matter what they do. It's how people generally operate.

It's been funny watching/reading left-wing types battle to offer faint praise to sco-mo. They are getting sick of it so get ready for an avalanche of criticism as soon as he releases the brakes. Same goes for Andrews. The right-wing brigade have had enough.

Whilst I disagree with some state based rules in general both the federal and state gov't's have done well. But the party faithful are restless so don't expect to read too much bi-partisan support soon. It was nice while it lasted though.
 
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