Hmm, awkward age dilemma for lizard Oz readers.
Go with doddery old Gra Gra or turn to doddery old nattering "Ned" ...
How could the pond resist putting out a special late afternoon edition of reptile speak, especially as it featured nattering "Ned", and so could ensure a sound sleep for everyone in these troubled viral times ...
It seems "Ned" has turned Killer Creighton in his thinking, a strange turn for an old fart, who, with the first whiff of the virus, would likely be off to ICU, a ventilator and death, but there you go, we must all embrace the thorn and drain the blood, so that the pure redness of the Murdochian empire might shine out like a Wildean rose (remember, we are all socialists now, and a rose red is the preferred colour of socialists sucking on corporate teats, and if a few Hayekian ideas must die, so be it) ...
Well as this is an afternoon edition, and "Ned" is himself never at a loss for words, no need to stand in his way ... he is, after all, and it goes without saying, an expert epidemiologist, as well as a firm believer in the right of everyone to run wild and free, spreading the infection as they like, and with a bit of luck, in the offices of News Corp and Sky News ...
Seriously diminished? But surely we're already expert in credible ways to speak?
Sorry, as everyone, or at least nattering "Ned" knows, it's all the fault of the states, even if SloMo made it all the responsibility of the states ...
Bit as everyone knows, you can win the blame game ...
But back to "Ned", still brooding about the unfairness of it all, and worried that Killer Creighton might be facing a losing battle ...
Good luck with that! That's the spirit, what this country needs is some tough love ...
Yes, vulgar youffs suck it up, because the pond has done the hard yards and there's only a small gobbet of "Ned" to go ...
And having endured all that, how lucky that the infallible Pope should return with a cartoon that would surely please nattering "Ned " ...
And so to a bonus.
The pond realises that nattering "Ned" was more than enough for a sound sleep, but the pond couldn't resist an insight from an IPA type ...
Things are going so spiffingly well in Tory land that the pond wanted to seize the moment to run a couple of Rowsons.
Sure they can be found at the Graudian here, but the pond just wanted to remind Jimbo that the notion that the pond was old mates with the Tories is a stretch too far ...
By golly that's grotesque, but we all remember the acknowledged source ...
And these days we're all slaves to the logarithm, and must learn to be socialists, and share the corporate wealth, and naturally Jimbo is keen to share the good government of Britain with lucky dinkum down under types ... (by the way, share our values could be so easily mistaken for sharing Anglo-celtic white Ramsay centre values, but never mind, we must preserve old statues while tearing down Hayekian thinking and replacing it with corporate socialist sharing) ...
Yes, it's just more of the Brexit fall-out delusion, but speaking of grotesque, what about this Rowson?
The pond isn't going to debate the Jimbo delusion, the CANZUK dream, which will somehow shore up the Tory nightmare, and the Brexit sinkhole into which the UK will descend by end of year ...
There's no need, you see, the pond has a Rowe at the end which will evoke an alternative reality ...
And so to that alternative reality evoked by Rowe, with more Rowe evocations here.
And the moral of that alternative reality?
Dear Poms, if you really want to get on board the CANZUK gravy train, please learn to drink even more Australian piss. Why not get out a bottle now? Finished that bottle? Please start another immediately. And while sozzled, could you please fill out your order for dinkum Australian beef, plenty of lamb (none of that crap you make at home), and a substantial order of iron ore for the cutlery manufacturers of Sheffield ... and don't forget the coal. Clean, dinkum pure Oz coal is urgently in need of a home, and we know you've endured frightful heat this summer, but let's face it, you're fucked, so you need all the help you can get, right?
We are of course only motivated by our concern for your best interests, and not because we can feel the screws tightening ... and so to the alternative reality by Rowe ...
A mere two days ago the Major was berating activist journalists regards the NewsCorpse Corona narrative and how their most senior rangers, Clennell, the Bro, Shanaham and Neddy were strong supporters of the lockdown.
ReplyDeletePlus Neddy whinges about politicians as police enforcers while Parliament has basically been in lockdown since the last election to instead be replaced by a PM’s cabinet of 5 mining magnates..... not one medically qualified member amongst them. The recent Wilcox cartoon should be on billboards all across the country.
These new wave economic rationalist socialists are like corks bobbing around in an ocean of testimonial pandemonium.
And I must agree DP... it is the youth of today that will suffer beyond measure, regardless of who is right and who is wrong. Cheers.
CA.
CA - I meant to follow up on your comment earlier today about the feelings (if we can use that term for him) of Leak Minor when (if) he views the work of Pope, Rowe, Wilcox et.al. - then Dorothy added the work of Fiona Katauskas (above). We are truly blessed with great cartoonists, who should be thanked for their benefit to our mental health.
DeleteChadwick.
If it wasn't for the cartoonists, the pond would have long ago given up Chadders, and note, CA, how coy the reptiles have been about their newly discovered love of socialism and their rejection of Hayek ... yet somehow imagine they continue to live in a neo-libertarian hall of freedom fighters ...
DeleteThen may I state my total hope that the cartoonists go on and on - about another, oh, say 8 years should do to see me and my cat join the great immanent space-time-matter convolution of the universe, thanks DP.
Delete" and "Ned" is himself never at a loss for words..."
ReplyDeleteAin't that just the truth, DP, and he shows himself off with this bleat: "These premiers [Qld, WA, SA, NT] strut the stage as populist strongmen and women - political leaders as police enforcers. They impose rules as they like, boast about their enforcement and justify everything in the cause of health protectionism for a grateful public."
Well, we've never, ever seen anything like that ever before, have we.
I notice that Tasmania was missing from that list, so surely that must mean that Tas is fully open for business ? Or maybe not: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-18/coronavirus-tasmania-borders-closed-till-december/12569504 but at least the Tasmanian borders are a bit porous - unless you come from Victoria.
But back to Nullius Ned: "While Annastacia Palaszczuk and Mark McGowan would deplore much about Donald Trump, they follow in his footsteps - this is "Queensland First" and "Western Australia First" in a local version of Trumpian "America First" border politics."
So what does he recommend they do - put themselves last ? And so good to see that in reptile eyes, everything always comes down to 'Trumpian' ways.
The pond is always reluctant to drag Tamworth into such discussions GB but, re the Spanish flu ...
ReplyDelete“The dislocation of interstate traffic is quite unavoidable,” commented the Tamworth Daily Observer on January 31 1919, “as naturally the clean States could not be expected to continue communications with the infected.”
And so on, here ...
https://theconversation.com/how-australias-response-to-the-spanish-flu-of-1919-sounds-warnings-on-dealing-with-coronavirus-134017
That Conversation article was posted back on 22 March, DP and I did lightly read it back then, I recall. Noted was the mention of Tamworth's Daily Observer. It's sad seeing the faltering and ignorant way the flu pandemic was treated, and the death count was very high for a population back then about the same as NZ's now. But of course, the medical science and hospital facilities were quite a bit more primitive in those days, so if you got it bad, you most likely died from it.
DeleteThe infection rate was high in Aus (about 40%) and also in NZ, which may just have led to 'herd immunity' in both places, and the infection and death rate was (and is) particularly high amongst the indigenous population in both places - ie without long infection histories to have built up a level of inherited personal immunity.
But one way or another, it's unlikely that such a high percentage of the population will be infected this time, so even in Sweden the hoped for 'herd immunity' doesn't appear to be emerging. And in that case, what alternative to comprehensive and rigid exclusion and quarantine is there ?
Though we might have managed that just a little more intelligently, perhaps. Maybe next time.
Oh joy, joy, happiness:
DeleteSweden records highest death tally in 150 years in first half of 2020
Covid-19 caused about 4,500 deaths in six months to end of June as Sweden opted against strict lockdown
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/19/sweden-records-highest-death-tally-in-150-years-in-first-half-of-2020