I commend this beautiful treatment, recorded online during the pandemic.

Hey Nancy, Joe and Kamala.

Keep it up guys, you're doing great.

Democrats don’t want you to see this.

They’re scared that I’m exposing what life is like in Democrat run cities.

That’s why I’m running for Congress
Because All Black Lives Matter
Baltimore Matters
And black people don’t have to vote Democrat
Help us win https://t.co/CSOjc9aQlS pic.twitter.com/XnEDTaDDIG

— Kimberly Klacik (@kimKBaltimore) August 17, 2020

In the United States, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial hosted this joint New Zealand and Australian Battle of Long Tan Memorial service over the weekend.

Lest We Forget.

No Socialist-Distancing, no masks, no restrictions or lockdowns at the epicentre of the virus.

Meanwhile in the world's most liveable city......

Forget flattening the curve, protecting our most vulnerable, or safeguarding the health system's capacity.

The first paragraph of this letter sets out the Government's new target for Chinese COVID virus:

These updated recommendations will help us to meet the NSW Government's aim of achieving no community transmission in New South Wales.

A system designed to reach a target of no community transmission?

That's an incredibly high bar - and it carries with it immense direct costs, huge damage to a closed economy and intrusive impositions on our freedom.

Read what kids and other sports groups are being asked to cop.  It's horrible stuff.  And for what?

This virus is here in our world.  It's a fact of life.  

How long do the bureaucrats running NSW plan to cut our community off from the rest of the world?

We won’t allow this to happen. That’s why we stopped the last administration’s radical social-engineering project that would have transformed the suburbs from the top down. We reversed an Obama-Biden regulation that would have empowered the Department of Housing and Urban Development to abolish single-family zoning, compel the construction of high-density “stack and pack” apartment buildings in residential neighbourhoods, and forcibly transform neighbourhoods across America so they look and feel the way far-left ideologues and technocratic bureaucrats think they should.

We reject the ultraliberal view that the federal bureaucracy should dictate where and how people live. We believe the suburbs offer a wonderful life for Americans of all races and backgrounds when they are allowed to grow organically, from the bottom up. That’s how America’s suburbs are today — except those that have already been ruined by poor planning and policies.

Every American has a stake in thriving suburbs. The shameful days of redlining are gone, and a majority of the country lives in the suburbs, including majorities of African-Americans, Hispanic Americans and Asian-Americans. America’s suburbs are a shining example of the American Dream, where people can live in their own homes, in safe, pleasant neighbourhoods. The left wants to take that American dream away from you.

In spite of this remarkable success, a once-unthinkable agenda, a relentless push for more high-density housing in single-family residential neighbourhoods, has become the mainstream goal of the left. For eight years under Obama-Biden, HUD pressured Westchester County, New York, to change its zoning rules. Although Westchester was never found to have discriminated against anyone, HUD used the threat of withholding federal money to pressure it to raise property taxes and build nearly 11,000 low-income, high-density apartments. Other liberal-run cities and states have also taken up the cause. Minneapolis abolished single-family zoning this year — a few months before it voted to abolish its police force. Oregon outlawed single-family zoning last year. For the past three years, the state senator who represents Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco has led a push to abolish single-family zoning in California.

Liberals even believe this unprecedented federal disruption of the suburbs is required to battle climate change. They say the suburbs are a problem because of unacceptably high levels of greenhouse gases generated by a family with its own house, a yard, two cars and a dog.

The Biden-Sanders unity platform calls for reimposing the Obama-Biden dystopian vision of building low-income housing units next to your suburban house. Some leading Democrats want to go even further. Senator Cory Booker and congressman James Clyburn have introduced a bill that would hold hostage more than $US12bn ($16.7bn) in federal grants to states for safe roads unless local politicians agree to densify the suburbs. As far as the White House is concerned, this bill is dead on arrival.

America was founded on liberty and independence, not government coercion, domination and control. It would be a terrible mistake to put the federal government in charge of local decisions — from zoning and planning to schools. Our founders understood this was the path to tyranny.

Americans of all walks of life have voted with their feet and put down roots in the suburbs. Across income segments and demographic groups, households have higher rates of homeownership in the suburbs than in urban centres. Decades of liberal governance have tragically made many urban cities unaffordable and others unlivable, unable to provide for their citizens’ basic needs in housing, public safety and education.

While we fight every day to restore our cities’ greatness with innovative means like opportunity zones, the left opposes us on rebuilding the economy, on law and order, and on school choice. We won’t let them export their failures to America’s suburbs. We will save our cities, from which these terrible policies have come, and we will save our suburbs.

Donald Trump is US President. Ben Carson is US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

The Wall Street Journal

AFP is a reputable news organisation - and this photo story is presented as just that, news.

I've been unable to confirm for sure that the photo is recent - but if it is a real picture of what's going on now in Wuhan I think people in lockdown in Melbourne are entitled to feel a fair bit pissed off.  

Or more pissed off.

UPDATE

This was published on Saturday night by the Chinese official newsagency's rag Global Times.  It provides confirmation that the Playa Maya Water Park in Wuhan was indeed operating and packed.  The complex includes the wave pool shown above.

Great to see the Chinese out enjoying themselves, free of social distancing or other restrictive measures.

Pity their victims in Australia.

First Lady Melania Trump did not take President Trump's hand while walking down the steps from Air Force One along with their son, Barron.

Latest news from the US here: https://t.co/mZeFbm2fmP pic.twitter.com/QDea9YsTB6

— SkyNews (@SkyNews) August 17, 2020

UPDATE

This public statement aimed at the Sky News airheads comes from Sky News commentator Rita Panahi.

Seriously?

Are you arseclowns high?

Perhaps she was holding down her skirt in the wind as her other hand was on the rail?

Perhaps it was the handbag in her hand?

Perhaps you should stop posting asinine content?

Magnificent work.

Look out for Sky News giving equal prominence to The Trumps a short time later.

As our reader Mirovini said, whatever it was, they got over it quickly!

#NEW! President Trump, Melania and Barron on their way back to Washington after spending the weekend at Bedminster, NJ 🤍✈️ (August 16, 2020) pic.twitter.com/Lotz9BNubO

— The TRUMP PAGE 🇺🇸 (@MichaelDeLauzon) August 16, 2020