Touch of hyperbole on my part, but plenty of business owners wouldn't shed a tear.
If he resigns or jumps off West Gate, it's the same result for most. And there are plenty calling for him to resign.
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Touch of hyperbole on my part, but plenty of business owners wouldn't shed a tear.
If he resigns or jumps off West Gate, it's the same result for most. And there are plenty calling for him to resign.
Wishing that anyone commits suicide, particularly a bloke who is putting heart and soul into his work is beyond the pale in my view.
Don't recall anyone on here wishing that on Morrison either.
Not on here, no.
FWIW I don't think it's helpful that Andrews resigns at this point. He wields tremendous power and if he can't recover the situation, it's likely no-one can.
So get down on your hands and knees and scramble, Dan.
I agree. There have been many experts who have said that the infection rate in places that have high infection level already is probably much higher than reported. Part of that is what is actually reported as a case or a death ( as an example not reporting aged care deaths because they didn't actually get diagnosed) but it's also in lower socio-economic countries where the data is probably really poor.
If somewhere has no community infections reported for a month or more it's very unlikely for there to be actual cases not reported given that not everyone is asymptomatic. Even if there was that possibility it would be less and less likely over time.
In places like Mexico, Egypt, Bolivia, Afghanistan there is 40%+ positives which says the infection counts are much higher than the official figures. Sweden 12%; US 8%; UK, Spain, Italy under 5%; Malaysia 1%. Australia 0.3%.
We're still getting off very lightly... to this point.
WHO inquiry won’t visit Wuhan lab
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is under fire from scientists over indications that its planned mission to China to investigate the origins of Covid-19 will not visit a secretive laboratory that researches coronaviruses in Wuhan, the city at the centre of the outbreak.
Questions about the activities of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a renowned centre of coronavirus expertise, were raised by an Insight investigation in The Sunday Times last week.
It revealed that a potentially deadly coronavirus that is the world’s closest known relative to Covid-19 was analysed by scientists from the institute after traces of it were found in an abandoned copper mine in 2013 in southern China. The alarm was raised after six workers called in to clear bat faeces from the mine fell ill with a mysterious respiratory disease; three of them died.
Yet to the dismay of some scientists the WHO indicated that its mission, being prepared by two of its experts who flew to Beijing last week, would look only at “the zoonotic source” of the outbreak. This was an implicit acceptance of China’s preferred theory that the virus jumped naturally from animals to humans from part of a market in Wuhan selling exotic animals for meat.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is under fire from scientists over indications that its planned mission to China to investigate the origins of Covid-19 will not visit a secretive laboratory that researches coronaviruses in Wuhan, the city at the centre of the outbreak.
Questions about the activities of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a renowned centre of coronavirus expertise, were raised by an Insight investigation in The Sunday Times last week.
It revealed that a potentially deadly coronavirus that is the world’s closest known relative to Covid-19 was analysed by scientists from the institute after traces of it were found in an abandoned copper mine in 2013 in southern China. The alarm was raised after six workers called in to clear bat faeces from the mine fell ill with a mysterious respiratory disease; three of them died.
Yet to the dismay of some scientists the WHO indicated that its mission, being prepared by two of its experts who flew to Beijing last week, would look only at “the zoonotic source” of the outbreak. This was an implicit acceptance of China’s preferred theory that the virus jumped naturally from animals to humans from part of a market in Wuhan selling exotic animals for meat.
Bus driver dies after attack over mask-wearing rules
A French bus driver who was badly beaten by passengers after asking them to wear face masks in line with coronavirus rules has died, his family said, sparking tributes from political leaders who condemned his “cowardly” attackers.
Philippe Monguillot, 59, was left brain dead by the attack in the southwestern town of Bayonne last weekend and died in hospital on Friday, his daughter Marie said, after his family decided to switch off his life-support system.
“We decided to let him go. The doctors were in favour and we were as well,” she told AFP.
Two men have been charged with attempted murder over the attack and prosecutor Jerome Bourrier told AFP that he would ask for the charges to be upgraded following Monguillot’s death.
France’s prime minister Jean Castex led tributes to Monguillot. “The Republic recognises him as an exemplary citizen and will not forget him. The law will punish the perpetrators of this despicable crime,” he tweeted, describing the attack as “cowardly”.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, who was due to meet some of Bayonne’s bus drivers on Saturday and discuss the security situation, labelled it an “abhorrent act”.
A French bus driver who was badly beaten by passengers after asking them to wear face masks in line with coronavirus rules has died, his family said, sparking tributes from political leaders who condemned his “cowardly” attackers.
Philippe Monguillot, 59, was left brain dead by the attack in the southwestern town of Bayonne last weekend and died in hospital on Friday, his daughter Marie said, after his family decided to switch off his life-support system.
“We decided to let him go. The doctors were in favour and we were as well,” she told AFP.
Two men have been charged with attempted murder over the attack and prosecutor Jerome Bourrier told AFP that he would ask for the charges to be upgraded following Monguillot’s death.
France’s prime minister Jean Castex led tributes to Monguillot. “The Republic recognises him as an exemplary citizen and will not forget him. The law will punish the perpetrators of this despicable crime,” he tweeted, describing the attack as “cowardly”.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, who was due to meet some of Bayonne’s bus drivers on Saturday and discuss the security situation, labelled it an “abhorrent act”.
Probably because it was a positive article. All I hear from he is bagging the other side.
He was asked on 1 of the news shows (may have been the Project) what he would have done differently, and he bumbled and mumbled and didn't come up with anything coherent. Even in hindsight he couldn't say what they'd have done differently (this was before the hotel quarantine outbreaks came out).
He's the epitomy of the negative politics agenda that we seem to have all too much of these days. It seems O'Briens strategy is constantly bag the other side and hope the electorate choose him in the lesser of 2 idiots type of scenario.
parasite is close i reckon MD.. she kind of derives nutrients at others expense ... and yep she's toxic!
Yep, the premier in charge of the worst performing state should be at work. The PM is in the state that didn’t handle it as badly so gets to go to the footy.
NSW has double the deaths of Victoria, and given the virus is showing signs of community transmission in NSW right now I would have thought social distancing and masks might be a good idea for the PM to model, but hey.
Dude, the point was we are not out of this by a long way. Vic is in the crap now and I hope NSW doesn't fall back into it. We need good leadership at all levels now.
So the photo of comparing Scotty and Danny was to illustrate “we“ are not out of this by a long way? Sure, I’ll go with that.....
But certainly agree we need good leadership right now. 100%.
