South Australia's chief health officer has given the ideal advice to football followers going to the Adelaide Oval for the Adelaide versus Collingwood game: "do not touch that ball." This is not about coronavirus. It's about Collingwood supporters trying to steal the ball.

This is another Lego brick in the fragile Italian banking wall. However, the EU will never allow Italian banks to fail en masse, as the largest creditors of Italian banks are French banks. Far easier to kick the Italian banking problem down the road than to have oeuf sur Français visage.

It had to come. If you employ thousands to walk the streets of then empty Melbourne with bottles of Spray and Wipe to clean traffic light buttons, sooner or later the bills will overflow.

The bad news is that you have to pay back the good news.

Never in the field of human endeavour has so much been wrought to so many by so little. One moment a bacterium in a petri dish in Wuhan, Empire of China; the next destined to kill 3,247,557 humans, and counting.

Biden doesn't get entertainment. The proof is in the pudding: Fox Network stations are losing viewers to tractor pulling competitions. Yawn.