Good point. We are nearly cashless in Australia, but this has gone that extra step, with places refusing cash and advice is to not use cash at all. Use CC at all times, basically.
@siniang I am not trying to punish you, hurt you, cause you distress or anything else against you. The facts are that things are not adding up. You jumping to China's defence when the evidence clearly does not support that, and blaming your country leader, is just not what the facts are showing. I'm not saying your country's leader isn't making mistakes... they all are IMO, some may more than others, but things are not right.
How does China with a population exceeding 1 billion, a population with immense poverty compared to other Western countries, contain the virus with so few deaths when other countries following suit cannot? Lets not confuse countries where they had even more time to prepare and action things. Australia is one of those, in essence, compared to Northern countries. Being so far from the rest of the world is the only thing that has kept our numbers low, and now slowing as a result of measures which were absolutely implemented too late, but worked quickly nonetheless.
I think this entire thing will change the world forever, in that countries are going to have much stricter, faster, reactions to even the "public health emergency" warning that comes out of WHO. Countries will close borders entirely before getting close to pandemic status I reckon. Well... if they learnt anything from this, they will in the future.
I hope so too. Were this is headed is scary, especially with the media manipulating things through sensationalising the negatives and leaving out the consequences (which they save for later reporting as though they are innocent in causing them.)
