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Selfish, over-entitled paranoiac.

You could dismiss her with an eye roll if she wasn't making decisions that put her colleagues in danger, unknown to them. If I were her employer, I'd also be furious with her endangering their probably already delayed project.

Trump's US pandemic outcome is objectively bad when looking at any metric. It deserves criticism and pressure for Trump to do better is thoroughly merited.

@guest2 Why does it all have to be a big conspiracy orchestrated by the WHO to drag down Trump?

"5. Michael J. Fox ended up chocking himself"

Er, MJF did something that sounds a little deviant to himself?

In the US, the buck stops with Trump, as much as he'd like you to believe otherwise.

@guest2 The WHO isn't very relevant to America's pandemic response, nor is China. Both just smokescreen that Trump tried to spin. If you find that you're having to do backflips and point to side issues to defend a politician on an issue, isn't that revealing that they're not really directly defensible on that issue?

If a shark swam under the bridge just then, I'm pretty sure this show just technically jumped it.

@rush Haha. Oh dear. Absolutely. A little similar. Thanks for sorting me out.

@rush I was trying to wryly understate it.

I think that there's no point pursuing an engagement where fidelity didn't even last a month, not someone whom I'd marry. To move from the high of engagement to relationship-ending and internationally public humiliation, in just over three weeks, would be devastating.

@cat In the absence of a vaccine, COVID-19 could tick along the way it is for years. I'm more in favour of a widespread testing response and contract tracing to respond to these low levels of infection. I think that economics of the situation will inevitably push us towards this solution.

Permanent tax cuts to families that can afford childcare without assistance and temporary tax cuts to the lower income families that can't easily afford childcare doesn't even approach to helping out with childcare.

@guest2 The WHO has no executive control over the way individual countries control their contagion. China was rigorously taking measures against their contagion while Trump was attempting a political solution to a medical crisis. Criticism of Trump had a chance to reduce deaths, criticism of China at that stage was too late. Trump sat on his hands, even now, and American deaths continue. China isn't sitting on its hands.

Lachlan should be embarrassed by Fox's antics, but it's rumoured that he's ideologically further right than his Dad...who most will have read, astonishingly had a bust of Lenin and ties to the Oxford Communist party while at university. What a turn around.

I've spent the past year reading Fox News and what they do in carefully curating facts to effectively create a fiercely slanted narrative through omission and emphasis, is antithetical to a healthy democracy. Fox opinion columnists write "Here's the Dem's socialist agenda and what they want you to think", where they project any motive that they can come up with on to prominent Democrats that is aimed to galvanise their right-leaning readers. There are law and order pieces that seem to make subliminal suggestions about race.

I don't want a propaganda arm like Fox to arise in Australia - The Australian is an attempt, but unlike the US Fox, it's poorly subscribed (behind a paywall) and loss-making.

So, I was an enthusiastic signatory to the petition calling for a royal commission into Australian media concentrating under the Murdochs. Bit cynical about outcome, though. Fingers crossed. Healthy democracy should be a bipartisan objective.

Oh dear, engaged for just over 3 weeks. That bodes abysmally.

That's an awkward conversation.

@cat Fair enough, but I can only opine on childcare alone, I'm not in a position to defend or agree with every line item in the Budget.