On other matters
On the Cairns Convention Centre possibly not being ready for Taipans games next season. If they can’t find somewhere to play why don’t they hire one of those circus tents that can fit a couple of thousand inside? Put it at Fogarty Park or dosed up on cold and flu medications to suppress symptoms in case we were doing health checks at arrivals. We weren’t.
The virus reached Australia in January so our hospitals should have been swamped by late February. They weren’t. Why not? COVID-19 couldn’t spread under Australia’s hot, clean conditions.
Check-out operators were our litmus test. They handled the same groceries and breathed the same air as the Wuhan escapees. They worked straight through the pre-lockdown and lockdown periods.
How many check-out operators got sick and died? None. If the virus had been what was claimed hundreds of retail staff would have caught it.
Sorry, but our governments and their experts saved us from nothing. Our hot climate, clean environment, good health and default hygiene saved us from the Chinese flu.
The net effect of government intervention was to increase our debt burden, steal our cultural celebrations (Easter, Anzac Day, Mother’s Day, birthdays, etc), and reduce our trust in government.
Very few of our sitting MPs at state or federal level deserve to be re-elected due to their panic-stricken mob mentality. Peter Campion, Tolga
Commonsense has to come with the rebuilding of the convention centre until after the NBL season has finished.
If the Cairns Taipans don’t play 2020/21 season in Cairns, a lot of businesses will fold like our NBL team.
David Richard Clapham, Woree 1869: Charles Sturt, the English explorer who led several expeditions into the interior of Australia, dies.
1963: The first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, is launched into orbit from a base in the Soviet Union. 1974: The first Beer Can Regatta is held
in Darwin’s harbour.
1980: The High Court of Australia building in Canberra (above) is opened by Queen Elizabeth II.
2009: Declaring North Korea a “grave threat” to the world, President Barack Obama pledges the US and its allies will aggressively enforce fresh international penalties against the nuclear-armed nation.
2011: Victoria’s chief police commissioner Simon Overland resigns hours after the state ombudsman found he was responsible for releasing misleading crime statistics before the last state election.