I have done two months worth of reading, video watching, scientific paper reading and so forth. I am not a medical person
^You need to regulate your reading.
^ You are not an authority on the pandemic miss spock and reading for months will not make you one. Much of what you say is regurgitated crap from unspecified sources and unfortunately if you believie everything you read, it's confirming you own bias. Some critical analysis would go a long way imo. And it's making you upset. Spreading your version onwards is doing nobody any favours either.
Murphy kept agreeing with Morrison like he was lackey of Putin or Kim Jong-un or Saddam Hussien/
^That's an insulting and ridiculous comment! He may not be a world authority & he's not claiming to be. But he's got a tough job and he seems to have the people of this country (Australia) at heart and he's loyal to us and our prime minister.
^You find fault with everything and everyone.
He is going to cause a generation of Australians a terrible lot of pain
^No the pandemic, specifically covid19 is. "He" is trying to limit the extent that it does. Stop blaming people who are trying to help us. They may not be perfect and they make mistakes. They are human.
This virus is quite sophisticated in it's capacity to begin it's infectious stage in a host without overtly alerting the host to its presence. I cannot imagine what pressure in the evolutionary sequence that must have occurred to make it evolve as it has. I suppose somebody will track it backwards and discover how that may have happened.
Taiwan spent 16 years preparing for this so yeah their schools can stay open but no kid would ever take their mask off or touch anything unless they had a wiper to wipe it down.
^Taiwan did not spend any time prepping for
this particular virus. Nobody knew
this was coming until it did. Even though there were various people that issued warnings that we were due for a pandemic.
Taiwan learned from it's experience with SARS and MERS and had various plans sitting in situ. As soon as they knew covid19 had jumped into the wild they enacted their plans.
^^Children and adults in Taiwan DO NOT HAVE TO WEAR MASKS. They can if they want to but it is not mandatory, not law & not standard practice.
The wearing of masks is a contentious issue because of everything
@Chris-duck has already commented on. It's best to leave the masks for those on the front line.
You say you are walking around your house in PPE suits or similar, disinfecting your own home, the same place that nobody but you & partner have been in. Why?
The virus cannot walk. Who is touching your doors and gates when they too should be at home? Why would you bother disinfecting them?
You say you have enough food and supplies to last 12 months or longer? Then you say you're wiping & disinfecting your shopping? Were you one of
those people who were
stockpiling because if you were then you are the reason
ordinary people cannot get
reasonable supplies to sustain themselves.
Visitors & tourists have been asked to go back to their own countries while we try to grapple with this virus.
Backpackers & seasonal workers all must undergo the mandatory fourteen day quarantine before moving from one region to another.
Borders have closed to all but permit holders.
Schools & childcare centres remain open here and are
safe to attend. There is nothing bad about that. Some people need their children to go to school because they are first responders and have NOBODY at home to educate or care for their children. The PM has made it plain that is the main reason he's keeping schools and childcare centres open for
now.
I have relatives and nephews, nieces that work or attend
private schools. They have the resources to go online. They have the money to rapidly change to online.
Public -run of the mill- schools do not necessarily have those resources nor do some families. Keeping schools and childcare open helps to keep people working and learning. That's not bad imo.
^^Schools have soap! There is no shortage of soap!
This is an ever changing dynamic environment. Consider yourself so lucky miss spock that you can do all of those things that you've repeated several times in this thread, to keep yourself safe. Some people are not so fortunate but it's not the governments fault. Catering for everyone's needs in such a specific event like this is completely new. For all of us.
@LuckiLee - there is no
need to have 'spacers' (actually there is no such thing for humans??) at centrelink lines. Well I suppose you could have somebody going along the line and telling people to stand six feet apart? But really??
The people who lined up outside of centrelink did not adhere to the
social distancing guidelines that were advertised constantly.
They were also told that if they had a tax file number, medicare number or any other government link they could use the online portals to register. Once the portal's capacity was expanded, because it did crash at one point, those lines of people substantially diminished. I've not heard of a cluster of infections that have been attributed directly to lining up at centrelink. Not like the cruise ship passengers at least.
We all live and learn as this proceeds. Stay safe everyone. :hug:
