In all the noise and alarm over the Chinese Virus it’s easy to miss that one notable din has gone suddenly quiet. Anyone heard from the Krazy Klimate Kult lately?

While we’re all locking ourselves indoors, we might have missed that there’s a sudden dearth of blue-haired land-whales and effeminate milksops glueing themselves to roads. While trying to keep up with what’s locked down, who’s infected and what we’re gonna wipe our arses on, we could be excused for not noticing that the incessant yammering about a “climate emergency” has suddenly been stilled.

But, just when we need some light and relief in these dark times, we have been mercifully relieved of the sight of pig-faced teenagers screeching, “How dare you!” and stamping their little feet.

Typical, really: just when a real crisis hits, these know-it-all brats have disappeared faster than a teenager at washing-up time.

What happened to Egg Boi? The school kids who marched against Morrison, have you seen them? And of Greta, what news? The complete absence of young people from the international conversation on coronavirus is conspicuous.

For some years now we have become accustomed to our media outlets informing us on a regular basis of the thoughts of today’s celebrity youth on our various faults and failings. The ridiculous sight of Greta lecturing grown men and women had come to lose its shock.

Now, her absence from serious debate on a crisis facing humanity comes as something of a shock itself. Indeed our newsfeeds now seem to have completely abandoned youthful spokesmen and women altogether.

Are we not taking our lead from people who have their breakfast made for them anymore? The more accurate question might be ‘were we ever?’

Perhaps we ought not be too hard on the kiddies. After all, adolescence is a time of life when arrogance and ignorance reach their peak confluence. It’s up to adults to, gently or otherwise, remind these overgrown children that they really don’t know as much as they think they do.

The only problem was that, in the absence of anything genuinely serious to worry about, the self-appointed ‘gatekeepers’ of public discourse shamefully fawned at the feet of vain, moronic brats.

It is a shame and a shameful inditement [sic] on our media sources that it has taken something as devastating as the coronavirus outbreak to return their viewers eyes and ears to informed judgement. But here we are.

One cannot hope a child to understand the impacts of over-dependence upon globalist beliefs. It will soon seem bizarre to us that we once thought a child could understand the equally complex issue of climate change. But there we were.

The coronavirus outbreak will change many things in ways we can not yet predict. The media’s focus will be one of them.

Well, there’s one thing about the media which we can always rely on, as sure as night follows day: whatever it is, it’s Trump’s fault.

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Punk rock philosopher. Liberalist contrarian. Grumpy old bastard. I grew up in a generational-Labor-voting family. I kept the faith long after the political left had abandoned it. In the last decade...