19 Apr 25 ABC: Trump
administration redirects COVID-19 sites to webpage
supporting lab leak theory, criticises Joe Biden -
"Websites such as Covid.gov and Covidtests.gov were formerly
government-run websites where Americans could receive
information on long COVID, vaccine options and testing
resources. But as of Friday local time, the administration
redirected those seeking out the websites to information
critical of former top US health official Anthony Fauci and
the World Health Organization ..."
31 Jul 21 The Canberra Times ($): Govt
delays reports on COVIDSafe effectiveness 15 months after
app release (The
Saturday Paper
has this summary: "more evidence of extravagant ineptitude
in the
setting up of the COVIDSafe app, where $10 million was paid
to private
contractors. It is still costing $60,000 a month to keep
running.
Despite heavy redactions, the report found the app
identified just 17
close contacts since its launch in 2020, in situations where
the
contact was not identified by manual tracers. That’s $1.5 million for every
contact it uncovered..." (see the concerns a year ago)
31 Jul 21 The Saturday Paper ($): The
political forces inside the anti-lockdown movement.-
"... military man handpicked by Scott Morrison to run the
vaccination
program launched a savage broadside against New South Wales
Premier
Gladys Berejiklian."
24 Oct 20 The
Saturday Paper ($): “COVIDSafe is considered widely
one of the finest tracing apps on the market.” - Stuart
Robert - The
minister for Government Services defends the much-maligned
COVIDSafe
app. Six months since its release, the app has helped
officials
identify a staggering number of Covid-19 cases – 14 by the latest count.
13 Sep 20 Macrumours: England
and Wales' Contact-Tracing App With Apple and Google API
to Launch September 24
- "The first version of the NHS contact-tracing app...used a
centralized tracing solution rather than the Apple and
Google API, and
was later scrapped entirely...Scotland has already launched
its contract-tracing app using the Apple and Google API.
5 May 20 The Saturday Paper: Palmer’s
snake oil - "The
worst part of madness is that it hurts other people. These
are the
kindest words that can be said about Clive Palmer’s
newspaper ads,
claiming he has bought 32.9 million doses of
hydroxychloroquine to
treat Covid-19".
Author of Hitchhikers
Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas
Adams, wrote
"The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to
pass through
three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival,
Inquiry and
Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where
phases. For
instance, the first phase is characterized by the question
'How can we
eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the
third by the
question 'Where shall we
have lunch?" - we have now stepped back from Phase
3! (he also predicted
computer viruses in 1982)