On August 10, I wrote about a potential health disaster looming for Victoria, Australia, following a statement made by its premier Daniel Andrews about mandatory self-isolation. You can find that article here:
Tagged: Covid-19, Detention, Quarantine, Victoria, Wave 2
They just won’t go away. The Covid-19 hoaxers. The anti-mask libertarians. The conspiracy theorists. Then there’s the media pragmatists who take a salary to promote the policy of letting Covid-19 take a Darwinian path through society.
Tagged: Covid-19, Eradication, Herd Immunity, NewsCorp, Sky News Australia, Vaccination
As Melbourne, the capital of Victoria enters its second week of an unprecedented Stage 4 Covid-19 lockdown and night-time curfew, a problem keeps appearing.
Tagged: Covid-19, Detention, Quarantine, Victoria, Wave 2
There’s a scene in the epic movie “Patton”, where the namesake’s character walks along the plains of the ancient battlefields of Carthage in Africa and says, “I was here”, believing himself reincarnated as a great leader.
The phrase “Covid-19 Wave 2” is now official in Australia. It began in the south-eastern State of Victoria three weeks ago as a result of allegedly negligent community transmission of the virus through security breaches in the hotel quarantining of returned overseas travellers. Victoria is reaping the impact of Covid-19’s Reproduction Number—its R0—a figure I wrote about in March.
Tagged: Covid-19, Eradication, Scott Morrison, Wave 2, Wave 3
A unique press conference took place in Melbourne the capital of Victoria, Australia, today. One worth noting not just because Covid-19 questions relating to masks, testing, intensive care units, hoaxing and controlling the virus came up but its participants—a state premier and his chief heath officer—allowed themselves to go off the cuff and show some emotion.
Tagged: Brett Sutton, Covid-19, Daniel Andrews, Journalism, Leadership, Scott Morrison, Wave 2
A headline in this morning’s Melbourne The Age newspaper ran, “Not a single call or email”. It was a piece bemoaning Australia’s lack of enthusiasm for their politicians’ announcement the day before of the country’s latest $20 billion job protection program in light of the economic hardships borne by Covid-19. Apparently, no one had called their local representative to say thanks.
Tagged: Covid-19, Global War on Terror, Leadership, Weariness
You’ve come across them on social media, cable media and the traditional media itself. The hoaxers, the manipulators, the conspiracy theorists, the religious extremists, the Karens and Ians. All claim that Covid-19 doesn’t exist or if it does, there’s no need to fix it.
Tagged: Courage, Covid-19, Fear, Gaslighting
This is a Covid-19 message for Melburnians—and any other Australians or people around the world who wish to listen—because there’s another 18 months in this pandemic fight to go, and it doesn’t matter where you live.
Tagged: Covid-19, Dunkirk, El Alamein, End of the Beginning, Masks, Winston Churchill
Outside China and Russia, the United States of America is unique in the tension its population holds to revolt against its leader. Whereas China and Russia are quasi-dictatorships, the USA remains a free democracy.
Tagged: Covid-19, Politics, Trump, US Election 2020
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