The Australian reports the latest Newspoll has Labor’s two-party lead widening from 51-49 to 52-48 since the previous poll three weeks ago. Both major parties are down on the primary vote, the Coalition by two to 38% and Labor by one to 35%, while the Greens are up one to 13% (equalling their best result since 2011) and One Nation is steady at 4%. Scott Morrison’s personal ratings are unchanged after the hit he suffered in the previous poll, at 37% approval and 59% disapproval, while a spike in Anthony Albanese’s ratings last time has failed to completely stick, with his approval down three to 43% and disapproval up three to 40% (compared with 40% and 41% in the poll before). However, Albanese maintains the lead on preferred prime minister he opened up in the last poll, which is out slightly from 43-39 to 43-38. The poll was conducted Wednesday to Sunday from a sample of 1510.
Molan just harvested a mocking laugh from the audience by bullshitting about when the Feds entered the fray.
Mayor of Bega Shire getting stuck into Molan.
Mann must be wondering when he is getting a turn to say something sensible.
Boerwar:
Which one is the Bega Mayor?
It’s the Jim Molan show.
Molan does the typical RWNJ thing: interrupts Mann with an attempted gotcha.
Gets blowback from Mann with the facts.
Mann gets an enthusiastic clap.
Molan insists on a fact check.
Mann trashes Molan in this one.
It’s a pity he’s as dumb as dog shit.
ItzaDream @ #910 Monday, February 3rd, 2020 – 9:23 pm
2019-nCoV (nCoV19) is an enveloped RNA virus with physical properties very similar to SARS- & MERS-CoVs: it is very susceptible to drying and hence alcohol (though this takes ~ 30sec to work). nCoV19 seems to be shed (apparently more efficiently than in SARS or MERS) from the human respiratory tract (mouth, nose, sinuses, airways & lungs) in the form of infectious droplets – and possibly as airborne viral particles though we don’t yet know this for sure. Like SARS, it may also be shed in faeces (shit happens – it was a major vector in the Amoy Gardens outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong).
Most transmission seems to be by contact of the mouth, nose or other mucous membranes with hands (or fomites) contaminated by viable viral particles in droplets that have not dried out. Surgical masks work mainly by preventing contact with the mouth and nose, not by filtering out airborne virus, which is why most do not need fit-tested N95 or P2 masks – unless one is engaged in an aerosolising proceedure, like intubation or NIV.
Decontamination with alcohol based gel works well, provided one does it every time one touches a surface and waits the 30 seconds for it to dehydrate the virus (more if in mucous or shit) before touching ones mucous membranes. This is difficult to maintain. Gloves have to be removed or decontaminated before touching mucous membranes. Hand washing with soap & water is better for removing mucous (or shit), but takes longer (>60 seconds) to dry.
TL:DR – just like the anaesthetic bay: gel & a surgical mask (and not touching ones mouth) are much more practical than gloves.
nath @ #747 Monday, February 3rd, 2020 – 8:46 pm
Your gotcha is that Shorten had a girlfriend while in the midst of his divorce proceedings? You’ve only got him on a technicality, if so. And a mild one at that.
Certainly from the coalition.
That was poor form from Molan. Making this into a partisan political event when there are 300 people in the audience who want freakin answers.
Lynchpin @ #767 Monday, February 3rd, 2020 – 9:59 pm
Love the pink tie.
Lynchpin @ #767 Monday, February 3rd, 2020 – 9:59 pm
What’s the green button, anyone?
Someone asking the P1 question now.
Businesses who have lost business but who have not been burned down.
Constance amplifies the question. He does a devastating commentary on the Fed ‘assistance’ of debt assistance and $50,000… which you only get if you have burned out.
P1 experience amplified by shop owner in Cobargo.
How much dollar assistance had she had.
Zip.
She had made 20 calls.
Di nada.
Confessions, the one on the right is Andrew Constance, the member for Bega. I don’t think the Mayor is on the panel.
ItzaDream @ #963 Monday, February 3rd, 2020 – 10:02 pm
A medal for turning up to a Nats caucus.
Nath mentioned earlier that some of his posts did not appear.
There is a red bin with a “request deletion” message on my home computer next to all Nath’s post.
Others may have been endowed with the same facility (similar things have happened from time to time) and may have made the request. I have not.
But that may be the cause of his problem.
rhwombat @ #770 Monday, February 3rd, 2020 – 10:00 pm
Ta. Was just tossing it about.
Blog watch 3/2/2020 dd/mm/yyyy
It would appear that the BBC and the Guardian get their act together!
It is an article in the sacking of Claire O’Neill. Written in standard climate denial style. I can’t work out the thrust of the argument.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2020/02/02/claire-perry-gets-the-boot/#more-43270
Coronavirus fears cause outbreak of PC idiocy
In the wake of the catastrophic bushfires PC lefties have complained that ScoMo should be decisive and show leadership in the face of the (non-existent) threat of climate change. Because he’s been restrained and rational in his response to this issue they’ve shrieked up a stor
It you’re into content free crap, this is for you.
http://www.matthaydenblog.com/2020/02/coronavirus-fears-cause-outbreak-of-pc.html
Climate Delusion: Washington Post Claims More Plant Growth Is Bad
Climate change is risky business,” the article’s first asserted example of an ongoing climate crisis is, “The [National Climate Assessment] says there is at least a two-thirds chance that your asthma or hay fever will get worse because of climate change.”
OK, and what is your problem with this being pointed out?
https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2020/02/02/climate-delusion-washington-post-claims-more-plant-growth-is-bad/
Stinks: Slow WHO let CoronaVirus run. But Ethiopian WHO chief was part of China’s debt trap diplomacy
Does the nonsense this women write have any sort of bounds. If your into conspiracy theories, this is for you.
http://joannenova.com.au/2020/02/stinks-slow-wmo-let-coronavirus-run-but-ethiopian-chief-was-part-of-chinas-debt-trap-diplomacy/
Will Humanity Ever Reach 2XCO2? Possibly Not
I have always assumed that we are on track for a doubling of atmospheric CO2 (“2XCO2”), if not 3XCO2 or 4XCO2. After all, humanity’s CO2 emissions continue to increase, and even if they stop increasing, won’t atmospheric CO2 continue to rise?
Well I’ll be, something on a denial site worth reading.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/02/02/will-humanity-ever-reach-2xco2-possibly-not/
New nonsense. Take you meds and visit if your into anti-green nonsense.
http://antigreen.blogspot.com/
ABUL RIZVI: Does Australia have a temporary migration problem?
On 5 December 2019, the Senate established a Select Committee on Temporary Migration to “inquire into the impact temporary migration has on the Australian economy, wages and jobs, social cohesion and workplace rights and conditions”.
And lots more stuff worth reading.
https://johnmenadue.com/
The statistical significance of focus groups
I’ve generally taken a pretty dim view of focus groups, which seem to be used mostly to detect and amplify unthinking prejudices. But, I have to admit, that probably is due at least in part to the fact that my prejudices aren’t very close to those of the median focus group participant. So, it wasn’t until I saw focus group results matching my own thoughts that I paid any attention to the question of whether the results actually meant anything.
Given the age couldn’t bring themselves to publish the newspoll results this is an important article ( in my view).
https://johnquiggin.com/2020/02/03/the-statistical-significance-of-focus-groups/
What Auschwitz means for the modern state
The death camps of the Second World War remain inimitable on some impossibly cruel level. They were designed to liquidate and vanish an entire race of people, part of a broader racial war waged by the Third Reich. Others were also designated for a state-enforced disappearance: the Romani, political dissidents, homosexuals. But the language of Auschwitz-Birkenau, its desensitised approach to suffering, its rendering of suffering as inconsequential and bureaucratic, remains its most enduring and callous legacy.
https://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/what-auschwitz-means-for-the-modern-state
China completes 1,000 bed hospital in 8 days – time lapse photography is amazing
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/02/china-completes-1000-bed-hospital-in-8-days-timelapse-photography-is-amazing.html
Join our campaign to make Sarah Hanson-Young Greens leader – hours of entertainment
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/02/join-our-campaign-to-make-sarah-hanson-young-greens-leader-hours-of-entertainment-.html
Turnbull’s toxic tome targets Mathias Cormann with plenty more attacks on his colleagues to come
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/02/turnbulls-toxic-tome-targets-mathias-cormann-with-plenty-more-attacks-on-his-colleagues-to-come.html
South Australia to be energy island for two weeks, four wind farms sidelined
The loss of the towers north of Colac, on the Moorabool to Mortlake and Moorabool to Tarrone transmission lines, has effectively closed the main electricity highway between Victoria and South Australia (the Heywood Interconnector).
New photo. Worth a look. It came down with bang, none of this wimpy bending stuff.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/south-australia-to-be-energy-island-for-two-weeks-four-wind-farms-sidelined-30929/
Heat pushes QLD Scheduled Demand within 214MW of the all-time maximum level on 3rd February 2020
http://www.wattclarity.com.au/articles/2020/02/3rdfeb2020-qldscheduleddemand9838mw/
Climate change opportunists aim to hijack Australia’s bushfires crisis
The experts who reviewed the Californian fires say ‘20% to 25% of the wildfire damage resulted from climate change’, and ‘75% is the way we manage lands and develop our landscape’.
More burn the shit.
https://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=20721
Season 1, Episode 5: Professor Dennis Roy McDermott
My guest for Season 1, Episode 4 is the incredible PROFESSOR DENNIS ROY MCDERMOTT.
https://blacademia.com/2020/01/29/season-1-episode-5-professor-dennis-roy-mcdermott/
If this does not wake the Morrison Government up, nothing will.
They are habituated to fucking over ‘leaners’.
They cannot help themselves.
But these ‘leaners’ are their major political target: small business.
Good news about Bloomberg offering up to a billion dollars.
Concentrated into the key states and towns that’s going to be massive. Saturation of ads to the extent of making it hard for Trump to get airtime. Yes.. please..
(This is what Palmer did and it actually worked)
PeeBee:
Thanks, I knew Constance and Molan were the politicians, but wasn’t sure about the others.
Fess
Kristy McBain, Mayor of Bega Valley Shire, is on the panel and the person who took on Molan.
I gather from my blog watch survey, Bob Brown has resigned.
TPOF:
Thanks!
Jim Molan is the guy who got his daughter, Erin, to interview the dirty old man who tried to kiss the young lady in Cobargo without permission, for her Channel 9 Roadshow to the bushfire affected areas.
Molan has brought nothing to qanda exept ignorance and arrogance. Hasn’t bothered to study the facts at all.
I’m not watching (not up for it yet) but to the credit of NSW Govt, I received a personalised phone call from a Rural Assistance person who by whatever means (fire map I suppose) knew we had been burnt out and was offering help with taking care of stock – feed, infrastructure, etc. She then sent a text with her name and number to be forwarded to anyone I knew who was needy.
rhwombat
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
Is there any evidence from this that the rate of infection has slowed down?
Molan thought he was there to do last year’s Q&A: fighting the political gotchas, running the scripted lines, winning the politics.
It has more or less blown up in his face.
Most of the discourse of the Q&A is on a completely different plane.
I was just thinking the exact same thing.
Itza,
Do you have any idea what the NSW government is doing about the native animals that have had their habitat destroyed by the bushfires? You said the Rural Assistance lady offered help with feed for stock, but what about the native animals?
I wish QandA was live streamed. It’s just a replay of The Drum on my computer.
Molan being consistently upstaged by the Indigenous guy and by Constance.
Polly talk is not exactly a drug on the market, ATM.
C@t:
I’m watching it live via ABC Sydney.
Molan has his confidence dented. Ammming and arhhhing while bullshitting about the government want to listen to indigenous fire management.
When have this mob ever wanted to listen to indigenous voices.
Jim Molan literally failing the laugh test.
Wow Molan being laughed at!
Tries to deflect, but Hamish brings back to the question.
Hamish handling Molan well on the scientific view
Molan does a bit of climate denialism.
He has an ‘open mind’ on whether humans are causing it.
Well not bob brown, RDN, I though he had a plan to be next PM.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/greens-leader-richard-di-natale-quits-leadership-will-leave-senate-20200203-p53x6a.html
Can we have Molan on more often. He is doing a great job for Labor.
Molan just made a 100% idiot of himself.
‘I am not relying on information
This is why my mind is open’
Okay I’m not upset anymore this is just hilarious!
Molan is a walking advertisement for the numpties inside the coalition.
What a great line from Mann. Don’t have your mind so open your brain falls out.
‘guytaur says:
Monday, February 3, 2020 at 10:29 pm
What a great line from Mann. Don’t have your mind so open your brain falls out.’
Mann completely lost control of the narrative the nanosecond he made that insulting comment.
Good question about restoring funding to the RFS.
C@t
I’m watching the SA livestream. It’s near the start.
Look on iView for the South Australia live stream