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Don't start talking logics and common sense smurf, that went out the window 20 years ago, these days you get a medal for not having any.
Don't start talking logics and common sense smurf, that went out the window 20 years ago, these days you get a medal for not having any.Agreed but my thinking is summed up by a question: What is so different about this virus which has prompted the response it has received?
It's not the first virus to emerge in the past few years so what has prompted such a massive response to this one?
The only answer I can come up with is that someone, that is government, either knows something or at least thinks they know something which warrants the response received. Something to the effect that it doesn't simply kill a few people who were at the end of their lives anyway and which warrants spending $ trillions to avoid.
Why no such response with SARS, MERS, bird flu, swine flu and so on?
What prompted an immediate all out response to this versus basically no response to any other virus?
I won't claim to know the answer but I can only assume someone does and that's the reason.
The other option would be simply blocking all movement, no exceptions, in and out of the two big cities until things are sorted there.
The other 60% of the Australian population can then resume life as normal and after a few months those in the closed off area will be fed up with it to the point they'll do whatever it takes to bring it to an end. That's when we do a proper lockdown in Sydney and Melbourne and eradicate it
That doesn't sort out the international situation but it sorts out the domestic one if it could be done.
I agree but we are still facing the fact that when the international borders reopen it will start all over again.
Do we then close Oz down for another 6 months, incur another load of debt that the future generations have to suffer to repay.
There is no easy answer, there is not even an obvious answer but the truth is that we cannot afford to stay in lock down.
What a load of crap. Even the people who actually die have an average age of barely below the average life expectancy.
Yea, but you've seen the stats. Saying everyone is very old that dies is not true.
From Worldometer: So far there has been 1 death every 1,166 people under 65 years old (compared to 1 death every 358 people in the general population). And 89% of the times, the person who died had one or more underlying medical conditions.
Agreed but my thinking is summed up by a question: What is so different about this virus which has prompted the response it has received?
It's not the first virus to emerge in the past few years so what has prompted such a massive response to this one?
The only answer I can come up with is that someone, that is government, either knows something or at least thinks they know something which warrants the response received. Something to the effect that it doesn't simply kill a few people who were at the end of their lives anyway and which warrants spending $ trillions to avoid.
Why no such response with SARS, MERS, bird flu, swine flu and so on?
What prompted an immediate all out response to this versus basically no response to any other virus?
I won't claim to know the answer but I can only assume someone does and that's the reason.
Actually not true for the thousands of medical staff that died world wide!
Very very true, if you remember, I was in the alarmist camp initially as i witnessed first hand the Chinese reaction and was buying my masks in january.Agreed but my thinking is summed up by a question: What is so different about this virus which has prompted the response it has received?
It's not the first virus to emerge in the past few years so what has prompted such a massive response to this one?
The only answer I can come up with is that someone, that is government, either knows something or at least thinks they know something which warrants the response received. Something to the effect that it doesn't simply kill a few people who were at the end of their lives anyway and which warrants spending $ trillions to avoid.
Why no such response with SARS, MERS, bird flu, swine flu and so on?
What prompted an immediate all out response to this versus basically no response to any other virus?
I won't claim to know the answer but I can only assume someone does and that's the reason.
I agree but we are still facing the fact that when the international borders reopen it will start all over again.
And my opinion has changed from serious human threat to a pretext scam based on facts and a love of figures vs brainwashing.Well frog, it is either one or the other, thats for sure.
How it all plays ouf is out of our control, we have to work with what we have and try to make some money and enjoy what freedoms we have, untill this period blows over.And my opinion has changed from serious human threat to a pretext scam based on facts and a love of figures vs brainwashing.
I am contrarian by nature
Similar to the my researches on CO2 GW but here we have clear figures of total deaths
have leftand enjoy what freedoms we have
have left
I have always been a traveller and people may find it hard to believe but i really feel trapped and prisoner of my own country.
Can not even realistically leave Qld.
I went FNQ after lockdown, West in March and obviously around SEQ but really due for a change of country.this will really change my perspective on where to live and the relative importance of home/ real estate.
Those of us in NQ would prefer if Southerners stayed at home in Southeast Queensland.Why don't you go for a holiday up to Port Douglas? See the Daintree and reef: or Airlie Beach/Whitsundays.
Was in magnetic island Townsville Whitsundays mackay etc last month..Why don't you go for a holiday up to Port Douglas? See the Daintree and reef: or Airlie Beach/Whitsundays.
Those of us in NQ would prefer if Southerners stayed at home in Southeast Queensland.
It's getting more than serious.
Economics have been trumped by safety and the containment of the Coronavirus.
If people from SEQ want a a water or tropical experience I suggest they put on the kettle, have a cup of tea and google "North Queensland Travel Experiences" and tap on the video drop down.
gg
I have been to Magnetic Island, very friendly folks there.Was in magnetic island Townsville Whitsundays mackay etc last month..
So i do as much as possible but still
Found a latin cafe nearby..helps a bit but hard to shake the idea of being trapped.
Well, don't come.Was in magnetic island Townsville Whitsundays mackay etc last month..
So i do as much as possible but still
Found a latin cafe nearby..helps a bit but hard to shake the idea of being trapped.
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