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)