Corona Virus: How has the Aus Government handled it

I wouldn't go as far to say its a 'blessing', because that would be an insult to those who've died, but COVID19 has been a an important drill for the world when the big one hits...something with the lethality of Ebola or Hendra (or worse) and the virulence of C19. Hopefully we've learnt some lessons and will do the right and smart thing before and when it happens.

 

Most probably because they'd laid out thousands of non-returnable dollars and decided the risk was worth it - apart from the cruise company not refunding money, I'm pretty certain travel insurers won't pay if you've decided you don't want to go on a cruise that is being operated. If the government had put a ban on the cruise departing, those who went wouldn't have had to make this call and would have got their money back.

 

It'd be interesting to know if the cruise company was issuing refunds or credit vouchers - surprised that hasn't been reported/investigated yet. Or maybe it has??

 

We did well. Now we need to get business back and get our economy on track and if you are in the vulnerable group..... stay home

 

A couple more weeks, no slip ups, widespread testing everywhere with the cases in Sydney and Tasmania stamped out. Then I would agree, vulnerable can continue to self isolate and the economy can start to turn.

I'm neither young or old but I do think the burden of this is being worn mostly by the younger generation in casual or graduate positions. These positions the are the first to go.

 

I agree. Those of us who have been working a long time tend to not have the retail or hospitality roles but a lot of younger people have these more vulnerable roles. They also tend to have less savings/assets than anybody middle aged or older, so they really aren’t in a good position.

As to COVID-19, I think we are doing very well here in Aus, I think we can start to work as normal soon (avoiding any large crowds/gatherings I would suggest, I think that still needs to be banned), and we just can’t let people from outside Australia bringing it in and spreading so we have to protect our borders. 14 day quarantine for anybody coming into Australia till we are certain that the people from overseas are not a higher risk to us than anybody else in the general population.

I would love if the Australian states would open borders, so even if we can’t travel overseas, then at least we could travel within Aus.

 

Interesting that NSW govco want to get the Ruby Princess out of Port Kembla ASAP

Even though there is an investigation going on........

I know the result, the ship leaves, they are found guilty, but the company would have started bankruptcy steps and already sold all assets (to their new company) for a song

So no fine will be paid, there won't be any reimbursement of the costs to hospitalize or quarantine so many people, the suppliers of food/fuel in Aus won't get paid, the promised refunds won't happen..........

They just want to let those millions owed sail away !!!
I say impound the Ruby Princess

 

I think so far so good

however big test for government now is if they can save the economy

everyone should now be concerned about this

economical health, we are in survival mode

 

I'm no expert but I can't think of a developed country other than NZ thats had such a low infection and death rate

It seems early action, stimulus, and politicians pushing the agenda hard had done wonders

The economy might be stuffed but at least we're alive

 

Taiwan did amazingly well. .. they have a population of around 24mill on a small island, and only a handful of deaths. They are an island too, I think they learnt what to do after SARS.

 

I thought Singapore had it under control until a few weeks ago being a small island, but maybe not now

 

But NZ has a population of 5 million, we have a population of 25 million. Need to compare apples with apples

they went into lockdown stage 4 overkill?? So how will business go after this?

 

No idea to be honest
Was just referring to the human cost/ benefit

Apparently they're thinking of opening certain states of USA and uk up, which I think is nuts from a peoples perspective

 

I'd be inclined to include the UK as not doing so well nor is Belgium along with a few others.

And there is also the thought of what would have been the situation if the Federal and State Governments hadn't taken they actions they have.

 

Great article - thanks. Always interesting to see how we're perceived from an outsiders point of view

 

38.8% voted a bad job.......

We smashed it, not good enough

I am more concerned on how economy goes over next 12 months and how this is managed

 

yeah, ecstatic to see the article saying we smashed it

and as much as there is another article every day about people who ignore the rules, I wonder how much damage the minority of ignorers did