Bulletin points for Today, Good Friday:
- Don Harwin resigns NSW Arts ministry after copping a $1,000 fine for going to his holiday home on the central coast ahead of the Easter holidays, in contravention of a public health order to stay home to prevent virus spread.
- Boris Johnson, British Prime Minister, has been released from an Intensive Care Unit but remains in hospital recovering from COVID-19.
- President Trump plans economy turnaround in May while number of deaths keep climbing. He can’t fake empathy. 16,500 deaths in the US. 16.8 million Americans have lost their jobs in the last three weeks. He is also dispensing pharmaceutical advice, recommending dosages of hydroxychloroquine in contradiction of US public health advisers. As he hasn’t put in the 10,000 hours to develop this expertise I’m inclined not to trust him on this.
- Italy reported the death of 100 doctors.
- Australians are told that, as our virus growth factor is below 1.0 at 0.84, we are on the cusp of COVID-19 dying out. For the present, we are strenuously urged not to venture from our homes over the Easter holiday break.
- Today the stats news is 100 new cases nationally, totaling 6,204, with 54 deaths. For NSW, 49 extra for a total of 2,822 cases and 22 deaths. The grim global totals are more than 1.6 million cases and over 95,700 deaths. It may well be that many nations’ incidence are under-reported.
Awesomely Astute 