14 Feb 2022

State Fire Services Are Used To Prop-Up The Coal Industry

Morrison And Joyce's Biggest Crime Yet

As bushfires get more catastrophic the cost of controlling them gets more expensive. We know the fossil fuel industry is radically changing the climate but who carries the cost of climate change? Not the fossil fuel industry, it's you and me. 

In Tasmania ratepayers pay a fire levy that goes to the Tasmanian Fire Service (TFS). Every year the TFS are forced to plan for bigger fires and do more controlled burns. They work hard but many Tasmanians are unable to connect climate change with increased fire severity. This scenario is reproduced across the Australian landscape in all states. State fire services are used by corrupt politicians to provide publicly-funded subsidies to the fossil fuel industry. In turn the politicians main donors are the fossil fuel industry. They use the donations to get themselves elected.

New Homes Much More Expensive In Rural Areas

Hidden subsidies to the fossil fuel industry are obvious in the cost of new home builds throughout Australia. In Tasmania this means fire-proof water tanks and full access for fire brigades. Roads have to be put in to fight fires at landowners expense. The costs of climate change are passed-on to you, fully.

No Wonder Morrison Drank Cocktails While Australia Burned

We all know Morrison's disgusting holiday from hell but the truth is Morrison is being paid to ignore climate change and has been for decades. Here is a link to 'Beetroot' Barnaby Joyce's donors. The Nationals are completely coal-dependent and have Australian blood on their hands. The Liberal's full donor list is here and the fact is the Libs are getting millions from the fossil fuel industry, particularly from Woodside. Labor also accept donations from the fossil fuel industry. 

A Tasmanian Tragedy

A very sad day for Northern Tasmania

Today, a fire-fighting helicopter crashed at Lebrina Northern Tasmania killing the pilot. By Wednesday the pilot had been named as 41 year old Andrew Kerr. Inside Tasmania regard this as an absolute tragedy. Extreme heat from these mega fires is probably damaging the aircraft control and servo systems. There will be a full inquiry that always clears the government of any responsibility. The fire was lit by a landowner with a valid permit.

The fact is, the government's promotion of fossil fuels is killing Australians and we all know it. Every year the firebreaks get wider and the 'threat' gets worse. Why aren't more indigenous people doing controlled burns with the TFS? Why isn't the bushfire-climate change nexus being managed by scientists rather than corrupt, self-serving politicians?

Some responsibility must be accepted by Premier Peter Gutwein. Lebrina is in Gutwein's electorate yet he continues to ignore the science. Researchers say bush fires are getting worse in part because government-owned logging company STT clear-felling is drying out tall wet eucalypt forests. The bulk of the logging by size is for the Chinese wood chip market. This is an entire industry that Gutwein and the Chinese Communist Party have tried to cover-up. It's time for Peter Gutwein to own-up about our pulp wood exports to China. Do Liberals Guy Barnett and Peter Gutwein hate Tasmania enough to destroy it's ecology for ever?

Scott Morrison is the number one coal exporter, number two LNG exporter, largest CO2 emitter per capita and largest methane gas producer on Earth.

This was a 1660 hectare bushfire
Where Are The 7 Gutless Members For Bass When Somebody Dies Defending Their Electorate?

Not counting 12 senators, their are 5 members for Bass in the Tasmanian lower House. Premier Gutwein (Lib)  Michael Ferguson (Lib)  Jennifer Houston (Lab) Michelle O'Byrne (Lab) and Sarah Courtney (Lib who never came back from holidays). 

Bridget Archer (Lib) represents Bass in Canberra and Nick Duigan (Lib) is the member for Windermere in the Tasmanian upper house. So far none of them have offered any public condolences on the death of the water-bombing helicopter pilot who died defending part of Bass and Windermere during an out of control bushfire. SHAME!

Corrupt Representatives, Corrupt System

This highlights that in Tasmania, electorates are just squares on a monopoly board for the career politicians who represent them. The many representatives don't know what happens in their electorates and don't care. We even have ex-TV personalities who have never been interested in politics but enjoy the lifestyle. At least they are better than a previous member for Braddon who was elected with criminal charges over his head and was subsequently found guilty.

10 Feb 2022

The Battle To Manage Australia's Trillion Dollar Debt

Why We Call Scott Morrison 'Evil'

In a nutshell, Morrison replaces actual cause and effect with imaginary cause and effect. 

Morrison claims to accept climate change yet still promotes fossil fuels which have a direct causal link to climate change. On the other hand, Morrison claims to be religious, yet has zero proof that a certain god will cause someone to end up in a certain heaven.

Notice Morrison prefers unsubstantiated 'belief' over proven fact?

Scott Morrison claims he practices 'the laying of hands'. This is a technique used by pedophile preachers like Frank Houston to sexually abuse their congregations. The Pentecostal 'speaking in tongues' is really a translation error from old texts that actually means 'speaking in different languages'. 

Is Jenny As 'Evil' As Scott?

Scott Morrison now looks like a caricature of Scott Morrison.

Jenny Morrison belongs to a church founded by serial homosexual pedophile Frank Houston. Frank Houston has well over 1,000 victims. Jenny was able to criticise the victim of another pedophile, proving Jenny has no empathy for the victims of pedophiles. Frank Houston's son is before the courts so we will not be posting links that prove what a prolific pedophile Frank Houston was. Note Frank Houston is not before the courts because he is dead. 

Interesting Jenny's life-long friend is an alleged QAnon follower, given the Hillsong Church is founded by a pedophile. We think Hillsong is a front-group and has nothing to do with spirituality and is actually based on evil. Jenny Morrison must be corrupt to tolerate the ultra-corrupt Scott Morrison.

Morrison Kicks Religious Discrimination Own Goal

Notable even by Morrison standards. The PM who taxes small business while most multinationals pay no tax at all, spent all night passing a bill that doesn't appear to do anything. The Christian lobby condemned it for no longer protecting their 'right' to abuse gay students.

The religious discrimination bill passed shortly before 5am – despite a last-ditch attempt from the government to defeat its own legislation. (10-02-2022) In the early hours of this morning, the most corrupt government in Australia's history realised they had kicked yet another 'own goal'.

 

An election is never framed in the context of debt management but that's all it is in 2022. They used your taxes to get themselves elected and they are still doing it. The majority of Australians never realise how far from reality they have been led.

Stephanie Tran has done an excellent job of showing how corrupt the National Party is over at Michael West Media.


 


8 Feb 2022

Morrison's Prejudicial Speech On A Current Criminal Case

Morrison Digging A Very Deep Hole For Himself

We were surprised to hear Morrison tell parliament “I am sorry. We are sorry. I’m sorry to Ms Higgins for the terrible things that took place here. And the place that should’ve been a space of safety and contribution turned out to be a nightmare,”


The 'terrible things' and 'a nightmare' took place in an office of his own government. He is referring to an alleged sex crime currently before the courts. The accused has pleaded 'not guilty' which means Morrison has prejudiced the trial. The alleged victim Brittany Higgins was in the public gallery at the time Morrison gave this speech.

Morrison went on “I want this to be a place where young Australians … young women in particular, can follow their dreams, and not be crushed by brutality.” Those are strong words that compromise the presumption of innocence of the accused in the Defense Minister's office rape case.

Those of us who have observed Morrison for some time would not be surprised by his prejudicial comments. He appears to have almost no legal understanding although he puts himself forward as a legislator. Previously, Morrison displayed a total lack of understanding of 'conflict of interest' when he recommended Gladys Berejiklian stand in a federal election while awaiting the outcome of an ICAC hearing.

If you look back at the 'parliamentary rape case' you can see how it was covered-up by the government for 2 years and the media were told to suppress the alleged rapists name for unknown reasons. Imagine if a sitting Prime Minister had apologised to Cardinal Pell's alleged victims from the floor of parliament while Pells' case was before the courts? 

Morrison Apologises For His Apology

Sure enough 3 days later Morrison attempts to 'clarify' his apology after Bruce Lehrmann's lawyer Warwick Korn slammed Morrison's speech. "the behaviour of our prime minister and others in this past 24 hours truly beggars belief,” Korn said.

5 Feb 2022

Not Watching The Communist Winter Olympics On Channel 7

Stokes Big Lose - viewers tuned out. TV ratings for the Totalitarian Olympics collapsed. Maybe because the Communist slime steals Tibetan children? We hope Kerry Stokes love affair with Chinese Communism is over.

Kerry Stokes has the Australian TV rights to the 2022 Winter Olympics held in the Marxist-Maoist dictatorship of China. 

War mongering fat head Vladimir Putin attended the opening ceremony with expanding dictator Xi Jinping. Putin is threatening a major war in Eastern Europe over an issue that doesn't exist, and Jinping has offered him Chinese support. Channel 7 are almost broadcasting World War 3.

Brutal murderous dictators Lukashenko of Belarus and Kim Jong Un sent their congratulations to Emperor Xi on such a 'great victory'. The Belarus 2022 team has a Wikipedia page.

Beijing 2022 is a gold medal for dictators so anyone who claims the Olympics is above politics is lying.

Papua New Guinea's PM Marape will be attending but mainly to sell LNG to the Maoists. Feb 7 - he went home with COVID.

Kerry Stokes Support Of Communist China


In 2020 Kerry Stokes asked Australia to go soft on an inquiry into the cause of COVID and defended 'wet markets'. It appears Stokes can't visualise an Australia not totally dependent on China. Is our 'democratic' system so dysfunctional it has to be economically supported by totalitarianism? If Kerry Stokes supports China why doesn't he live there? At the very least he could have his ski holidays in the Peoples Republic rather than Aspen Colorado.

Stokes doesn't seem to realise Australia is never going to 'pay down debt' while we are printing money and holding interest rates at nothing. Essentially we have already financially collapsed and COVID was a major cause. Channel 7 should be suing China rather than pandering to them.

China uses slave labor and has armed the Myanmar military junta. Please think about that if you tune into the blatant totalitarian propaganda on Channel 7.

Channel 7 Do Not Cover Human Rights Abuses In Tibet

Chinese government hackers do everything they can to stop you visiting sites like https://freetibet.org/  Actually, Chinese government hackers have compromised almost all Australian government websites over the years.

When you think about it Kerry Stokes and Andrew Forrest have much to answer for.


2 Feb 2022

Australian Aid To Tonga - What A Disaster

We reported how Australia launched a 'sightseeing mission' to Tonga to provide video footage of damage from the huge volcano to pro-Liberal news networks at taxpayers expense.*

ADF photo HMAS Adelaide 'stranded' at Vuna Wharf Tonga

Then Australia sent HMAS Adelaide to Tonga carrying disaster relief and COVID.
The ADF confirmed Adelaide has had 51 COVID cases, with 23 active and 43 isolating onboard. (02-02-2022)

Unbelievably, Australia's largest battleship the Adelaide is now stranded at Vuna Wharf in Tonga after suffering a 'massive' electrical power and communications failure. Remember three years ago when the Defense Minister was struggling to cover-up an alleged sex crime in her own office? Looks like the Liberals really are unable to defend the country. Then again, Morrison has already let all of our enemies into the country, selling Darwin Port to the Communists and making sure people who throw stones at a big rock in the Middle East are 100% tax-deductible. Morrison supports brainwashing children and then wonders why his country is bankrupt?

Two Tongan dockworkers contracted COVID and infected their families leading to a complete lockdown in Tonga.

The ADF is scrambling to plead innocence saying a visiting Japanese ship also has COVID.

Channel 7 And Border Security

* If you have ever watched Border Security on Kerry Stokes Seven Network, you may have realised your taxes paid for all of the footage. This appears to be a convenient arrangement for a Liberal donor and the 7 network. Was the Border Security access offered in an open tender process?

It shows Border Force are totally incompetent in our view. At Australian airports they carefully sort through bags of food items rather than declaring all food a bio hazard and destroying the lot. Why is the Australian taxpayer funding this time-wasting? 'Oh birds nests with insects crawling around, in the bin they go' WTF? Compare this to how the Australian government treat people in retirement homes? They lock them in solitary confinement.


29 Jan 2022

Hillsong Logic

 


Dumb Market Researchers Only Call Landlines

We live in Tasmania and have had many calls from market research companies in the last week. They never call mobiles but only landlines. This is not market research, this is parasitism of Australia's democracy. They are not getting real voting intentions but just the opinions of mostly elderly people who still use landlines.

Whats worse, an election has not even been called. Political market research is a scam.

24 Jan 2022

Brian Houston's Next Court Appearance March 3 - Will It Affect The Election?

Brian Houston's case of concealing his father's sex crimes appeared for mention today (January 27). The case was adjourned to March 3 2022. The Murdoch press is now actively linking the sex crime cover-up at Hillsong with Scott Morrison. Check the video on that story to see what we mean. This could be extremely damaging to Morrison's election prospects. Unlike the Lehrmann case, Morrison appears unable to control the Houston legal process.

By comparison, Peter Costello's Fairfax is suppressing the Houston-Morrison sex scandal. 

When Has An Australian Prime Minister's Mentor Been Charged With Covering-Up Pedophilia? Hardly Ever.

Didn't Tony Abbott visit George Pell in prison? He did. Is this a Liberal 'rites of passage'?

It's as if the legal system has realized the Hillsong Church is on trial and Brian Houston and Morrison are just baggage dragged-in to the vortex of Frank Houston's sex crimes against at least 9 children.

Brian Houston runs the Hillsong Church conglomerate with wife Bobby.

Houston is Scott Morrison's mentor and the man Morrison tried to get invited to the Trump White House.

Another high-profile case, that of Bruce Lehrmann was 'tentatively' deferred to June 6 2022. 

The two cases are unusual due to their relationship with the Morrison government. When the Houston trial begins will be interesting relative to the possible election dates. (below)

full list is here  

The last possible election date is May 14, so we are predicting Houston's court date will be set for after that day. Morrison may hold a snap election earlier but he really needs to push these cases off into the future.

Morrison in Overdrive Censoring The Internet

Morrison is trying as hard as any Middle Eastern dictator to cripple the flow of information on the WWW. Ultimately, Morrison is wasting his time but his motivations are interesting. 

Morrison's father John was the chief police inspector for Woollahra-Waverley between 1987 to 1992. Exactly the same time as the systematic murders of gay men in the Marks Park area of Bondi. Later, Morrison's parents joined a break-away sect after the Uniting Church voted to ordain gay ministers. Is Scott Morrison prepared to talk openly with the Australian people about his parents attitudes to gay people?

Scott Morrison along with fellow Hillsong-Pentecostal Alex Hawke abstained from voting on the same sex marriage proposal that ultimately passed Australia's parliament.

Grace Tame Braver Than The Religious Nutjobs Running Australia

On Australia Day, Pentecostal Morrison wanted to press the flesh with everybody during a pandemic. No wonder Albo refused to shake his hand? Of course Australian women are angry but so are Australian men.

Scott Morrison has racked up a trillion dollar debt while he forces Australian taxpayers to fund delusional religions. Australian taxpayers are funding thousands or religions that all contradict each other. These religions routinely sexually abuse children and create poverty and homelessness. Then they pretend to be 'charities'. Another reason not to shake Morrison's hand.

Religious charities are a scam because none of their promises and dogma is scientifically verified. How many people with COVID did religion save? None. Morrison's Pentecostals also sexually abuse children. If Australia is going to survive we need to return to a secular (non-religious) state.


21 Jan 2022

China's Economy Has Collapsed

We are seeing the end of the largest financial bubble in history as the Chinese property market collapses. This video goes into some detail about why China's market got so big and how the Evergrande collapse bought an end to China's boom.


So Communism Didn't Work Right?

The main driver of the China property boom is authoritarian control by the CCP. They prevented the population from investing in anything other than real estate.

China has tried to walk on both sides of the street, realizing that Russian communism had collapsed because it was too insular, they globalised their economy and searched for weaknesses and markets in the capitalist system.

An equilibrium was reached in the late 20th and early 21st centuries as both systems exploited each other to mutual benefit. Meanwhile corruption and self indulgence prospered around the globe. Populations were lied to and happily accepted it. Lobsters were air freighted to China on a daily basis from Tasmania while the locals never saw them. Chinese monopoly money flowed into Australia, inflating our property market and putting houses beyond the reach of young families. This is an environment where corrupt politicians flourish and they did.

The Australian Liberals developed a migration scheme based entirely on wealth and targeting rich Chinese. Chinese investors could only buy new houses in Australia, not old ones. The Australian property boom is an offshoot of the Chinese property boom. That means it will also fail.

dictator for life holds video with WEF

Proof China's economy is failing is dictator Xi Jinping this week lecturing the WEF about the critical importance of low interest rates.

So we have a Marxist battling to hold down interest rates so his debt-driven pseudo-capitalist, pseudo-communist empire doesn't go broke and the proletariat lynch him? The irony. None of the WEF cares about Xi because his bat virus has already crippled their economies. Why did Xi imprison doctors warning of the pandemic and then cover it up while it spread around the globe?

Unlimited Growth - Where Crony Communism and Crony Capitalism Agree

Free market capitalists think the Earth is an unlimited sewer with the ability to absorb every bit of toxic waste, mass scale exploitation and degradation of it's climate and ecology. They are dumbphuks but so are Chinese dictators. 1.4 billion aspirational, wealth-driven Chinese is too much for the Earth to bear. China's environmental footprint already takes-in much of the globe but fake 'leaders' like Scott Morrison are paid to not notice.

Our Collapse

Economically, it's going to go bad in Australia but we have an Aboriginal culture here that outlives them all. ATM we have a property boom but empty supermarket shelves and inventories. Look at this amazing quote from US fund manager Jeremy Grantham. 'crazy investor behaviour indicative of a late-stage bubble: meme stocks, a buying frenzy in electric-vehicle names, the rise of nonsensical cryptocurrencies such a dogecoin and multimillion-dollar prices for non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. This checklist for a super bubble running through its phases is now complete and the wild rumpus can begin at any time,'

In Liberal-run Australia, there is no planning, just endless crises immediately white-washed by the PR-driven government. 'Let her rip' eh, even the stockmarket? Australians have learned how to survive the insanity of their own elected government. Lets see whose DNA survives and whose is terminated in 2022 and beyond?

20 Jan 2022

Check-Out What Peter Costello's Fairfax Didn't Want You To Know

Peter Costello Is Flogging A Dead Horse Trying To Get Morrison Re-Elected

Peter Costello, ex-treasurer under John 'War Criminal' Howard is now chair of Nine Entertainment, who owns Fairfax Media. We will let the screengrabs do the talking because Costello obviously wanted this story covered-up.

Wednesday January 19



17 Jan 2022

Jacinda Ardern Should Be Prime Minister Of Australia And New Zealand

 

After the massive volcanic eruption on Saturday January 15 Australia scrambled an RAAF Poseidon aircraft to carry out sightseeing. NZ sent an Orion reconnaissance aircraft and a Lockheed C-130 carrying fresh water and supplies. Water supplies on Tonga would be impacted by ash. Marise Payne and Scott Morrison are so deeply involved in buying an election they are waiting for Tonga to ask for help. Why would Tonga want COVID-infected Australians in their COVID-free islands?

                     An RAAF Poseidon takes-off from Amberley Qld.
 

The Australian government are the psychopaths who thought drowning Pacific islands using climate change was funny. Australia is so alcohol-dependent and disconnected from reality that psychopaths and crime figures are re-elected.

Here is a reminder of Morrison's climate change track record.  

Scott Morrison is the number one coal exporter, number two LNG exporter, largest carbon emitter per capita and largest methane gas producer on Earth.

The Morrison team think their 6 month long election campaign is about tax cuts? Its hard to come-up with something Morrison hasn't totally stuffed. He sold Darwin Port to the Maoists, he invented Robodebt, he though coal seam gas would stop the pandemic, he armed the Chinese army with iron ore, the list is almost endless. Fair-dinkum, the guy is a total liability for Australia. How did we get so corrupt?

Ulterior Motive

We watch the Pentecostal Liberals closely and we may know where video footage of destruction in Tonga will end-up. We recon the RAAF will give it to Kerry Stokes Seven West Media for the 6 o'clock news and also to Peter Costello's Nine Entertainment. Natural disasters are big money makers for media and most of them are Liberal-aligned media barons. Morrison is 100% crony capitalism and has bankrupted his own country. See if we are right?

Next Day. (Jan 18)

Sadly we were right. Watched a Channel 7 news bulletin and they had air footage from Tonga sourced from 'the Australian and New Zealand airforce'. We wonder if this disaster footage is provided for free to the media networks that keep Morrison in government?

16 Jan 2022

Brian Houston Ordered The Deportation Of Novak Djokovic

No Separation Of Church And State 

 

Australia's borders are notionally controlled by PM Morrison and Minister Alex Hawke both of the Hillsong Church. They are both disciples of Brian Houston. Hillsong doesn't believe in science but Houston uses it selectively when it suits him. If God created viruses why should Brian Houston believe in vaccines? We would love to see a spreadsheet of Brian Houston's brain. Maybe a flowchart that goes round and round like a vortex into irrationality.

* Hillsong co-founder believes unvaccinated star shouldn't be allowed in Australia
* Brian Houston hopes 'Australia will learn from it and toughen up the rules'
* Sparked divided reacation when he weighed into Novak Djokovic visa saga
* Footage has since gone viral of Hillsong followers singing and dancing at camp


Houston tweeted this on the day of the first Djokovic hearing January 10

Compare that to the Djokovic timeline.

Houston is a man currently charged with concealing sex crimes, Why is he advising the Australian Prime Minister and Immigration Minister on border security? Will Morrison ensure the court is lenient? Only in the Pentecostal Fascist dictatorship of Australia.

Hillsong must be taxed at the corporate rate, so the rest of Australia can move beyond the $trillion crippling Liberal debt. Debt inflicted by complete idiots locked in a Neanderthal version of reality.

 

Liberal Donors Can Skip Hotel Quarantine

Things would be very different for the World number 1 if he had donated to the LIberal Party of Australia. More from here.

Morrison used the World number one to spin a 'tough on borders' fairytale and as a distraction from the fact he failed to order rapid antigen tests.

Morrison is as tough on borders as Mary Poppins. He let in the Ruby Princess. He let in the FedEx Delta strain air freight. The person 100% responsible for Australia's borders is Scott Morrison. Two months ago Morrison allowed the Qatar Air carrying Omicon to land in Australia after pretending to shut the borders. Scott Morrison's borders are as porous as his non-existent moral values. Morrison thinks he will dupe the alcohol-dependent Aussie voters with a fake tough on borders stance by arresting a tennis player?

 

A Flaw In The Morrison Government Logic

Djokovic could have legally entered Australia with just 2 shots of the Astra Zeneca vaccine in use since late 2020.

Instead Djokovic caught COVID-19 last month (December 2021). The government maintains an old vaccine that is only 61% effective against the Delta variant, is superior to natural immunity conferred from having caught the virus 4 weeks ago.

The governments position is that immunity or 'fully vaccinated' is only possible with a manufactured vaccine, and not from a recent viral infection. Doesn't that prove COVID was engineered in a lab? 

This is huge 'own goal' for the Morrison government. The have been China's slavish supplier for decades and have failed to act on all or any human and animal rights abuses in the dictatorship.

12 Jan 2022

COVID Chaos - Australia Has Surrended To The Virus

Tasmania Community Contact Tracing

Here is a link to a community implemented spreadsheet on COVID check-ins.

I can see many supermarkets are transmission sites for days at a time. The Liberals want everybody to catch it but I don't want my summer spoilt by some bat-eating virus from the Liberals closest trading partners.  

According to Morrison's National Cabinet, now that COVID has mutated into Omicron we can open everything up. Somehow the virus evolved into agreement with the tourism, entertainment and sports industries. This happened in December 2021.

Tasmania Has Stopped Contact Tracing

Above. A screengrab of the last Government list of Tasmanian exposure sites  made on January 3. At time of writing Tasmania is getting over 400 cases a day.


Too Bad If You Have A Compromised Immune System

In December, the highly-mutated Omicron virus, arrived from South Africa as extreme right-wing Trump fanboy Dom Perrottet became Premier of NSW. Along with Morrison, they decided to ignore the fact there were now two different viruses circulating in the community. They chose to only focus on Omicron and 'let it rip'. Too bad if some of our relatives must die.

The Contradictions

If Omicron really is a less dangerous virus then why do we all need booster shots? How long will Delta keep circulating and does anyone really know?  

Why did politicians change 'close contact' to 'contact for 4 hours' when they said Omicron spreads much faster?

Throughout the pandemic, catching COVID and recovering was never regarded as a vaccination that gives immunity. Why?

We are cutting back on PCR tests due to the system overloading, but now we don't know how many cases there are. Is this a Morrison-Perrottet strategy?  

Morrison told people to do their own rapid antigen tests even though they are not available in the country and he failed to buy them. Again.

Why is the proportion of Delta cases being ignored? 

If exposure sites are not being recorded then why are we still using check-in apps on our phones?

How High Will It Go?


3 days later and Tasmania's COVID cases have more than doubled. No wonder businesses are shutting down to protect themselves.