Oh so they go after the top advisor to the White House coronavirus taskforce because he’s “not an expert” and “pushing a theory that would kill millions of people” but CNN is allowed to employ someone as a commentator? Talk about a double standard!
I mean obviously referring to 1000 deaths a day as “almost nothing” is the worst thing he says here but everything else he says is also very bad.
“If you want the latest data on the COVID pandemic go to my Instagram” said one of the main surrogates for the President of the United States.
Btw I checked his Instagram page. He’s added a link to his data source, which says explicitly that the data is delayed.
The low death numbers in the last two weeks are because are they haven’t finished counting the dead yet, as is pointed out at the top of the page he links to.
I can’t believe I just fact checked Don Jr. What am I doing with my life.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
5 years ago I started doing a segment at 6:45am on the Australian current affairs radio show @RNBreakfast about global news.
The point was to cover stuff that was breaking during the night. It was sometimes serious but often light, weird news. In mid-2016 it started changing.
Donald Trump started to dominate it, as he was doing a shocking thing each night.
To make sure I could cover him and what he was doing to America each day at short notice I started a research project that I thought would take a few weeks. It’s now been going for 4 years.
The result, apart from around 400 Trump-related segments on @RNBreakfast, is 44 episodes of the Russia/America, If You’re Listening podcast.
So, with 4 days until the US Election, here’s my list of 15 moments of the Trump era, (so far) which everyone should understand.
#RUSSIAREPORT THREAD
Okey dokey, let's take a lookie-loo at the Russia Report from the Intelligence and Security Committee of the UK Parliament. For reference, see all of Season 3 of Russia, If You're Listening, but episode 5 in particular: abc.net.au/radio/programs…
"It appears that Russia considers the UK one of its top Western intelligence targets ... witnesses have suggested that we would sit just behind the US and NATO in any priority list"
Hm. Seems like a big threat. Hope Downing St and MI5 are taking it seriously!
So... here's my rundown of the most chaotic 18 hour period in Australian public messaging in living memory... please correct me if I'm wrong. <<THREAD>>
Yesterday afternoon, NSW and Victoria announced they were shutting down "non-essential activity" over the next 48 hours, excluding supermarkets, banks, pharmacies and other "essential stores" like petrol stations and convenience stores. The ACT follows suit.
So in the nation's capital and two largest states, everyone RIGHTFULLY assumes that it means most business activity will cease. Who would define Myer, David Jones, Harvey Norman, JB Hi-Fi, Bunnings, clothing stores, car dealerships, etc as "essential"?
People still seem not to be getting the point of acting now on coronavirus, saying it's not that bad, it's just a flu, maybe it'd be better if we all just got it now, etc, so here's a little story about a flood that might help. <THREAD>
In early March 2012 there was a major flooding event in NSW. 188mm of rain fell in the city of Wagga Wagga, the Murrumbidgee River broke its banks and inundated part of the town. It was the 4th of March. 526km downstream, the town of Hay knew that they had two weeks to get ready.
There are floods pretty regularly on the Murrumbidgee, and towns downstream of Wagga can reliably predict how much water will arrive and when, depending on how big the flood is was in Wagga. Based on the data, they expected the river would peak at 9m. The levees are 8.1m high.
This dreadful fire in South West Sydney is near the town of Thirlmere. Here's a little story about Thirlmere which may interest you.
Thirlmere is home to the World Heritage-listed Thirlmere lakes, which formed 15 million years ago. Here's what they looked like from the air in 1983.
Thirlmere has lots of coal deposits. Until 1987, the nearby Tahmoor Colliery used bord and pillar style mining to extract the coal - which is (by coal mining standards) less disruptive to the surrounding environment. In 1987, they switched to the more-destructive longwall mining.