Corona Virus: How has the Aus Government handled it

Remembering that the majority voted around a month ago - when cases where shooting up due to borders being closed late and infected people being let willy nilly off cruise ships.

Yes, they've pulled their socks up since then. A month is currently a long time in this pandemic

 

There is an option to change one’s vote. I think the Morrison government’s response has improved incrementally over the past 6 weeks.
Where to next is the question.

 

Not much. This pandemic is pretty binary...you either do it or you don't.

It would appear that we did it.

What the news reports aren't talking about are the 25 million other people who are working together as one, regardless of race, religion or politics to get this job done.

To get this far really is an incredible accomplishment and something we should all be very proud of.

 

Agreed - but I think of the poll as a snapshot in time ... of the time

 

We think Scomo handled the bushfires really badly.

But I feel the Government has handled Corona well, apart from letting the Ruby Princess cruise passengers off the ship (this maybe the Border Force/NSW Government and NSW health's fault, I don't know whose responsibility.. maybe all 3). But really, in hindsight the passengers shouldn't have been allowed on the cruise in the first place because there was some evidence of Corona infections on its previous sailing, and that was the fault of Princess cruises.

Other than this, I think the Government has handled Corona well. One thing I would change, I wish we could have non household gatherings of more than 2 here... even say 4 people would be good.

 

Pretty difficult to have a booming economy if we are all dead .

 

exactly

 

So many things you cant control in life so why worry about it. We are doing well

 

For all those Aussies who aren’t happy with how Australia has handled COVID-19, why not emigrate to say USA .

Ok, you can’t because they have closed their borders .

 

I think Scomo deserves more credits than given since he saved Aust and LNP on too many occasions. Without him, Dutton would be likely the PM and might have lost to Labor then all the NG and franking credits would have been gone by now. On top of that the mining industry likes him and also the Aust Conservatives like Murdoch & Alan Jones etc

Scomo did pray for rain and bush fires stopped. Miracles happened on the last election and again on the fires. How good is that?

If we did not lock down dont think we would be all dead more deaths but not all dead

 

I wonder if his poor handling of this improved his response to the virus.

 

I think he learnt a lesson in it, most certainly.

 

I think a lot of what we went thru with the bushfires, somewhat prepared us for covid

 

My friend emigrated to Florida yesterday as her fiancee lives there. I don't know how she managed to fly there, I think she's crazy given the situation there, but they've been apart since December. She's on some sort of temporary visa so the borders must be pretty porous.

 

I think the poll was asking about the federal government's performance, at a time when the response was clearly being lead by the states and the commonwealth was being reluctantly dragged along. I think they are fine with that, because the national cabinet gives them political cover to distance themselves from certain measures. You can see that going on with schools and Victoria at the moment.

I'm just thankful that we had strong leadership from the states to fill the federal vacuum and make the hard decisions (I'm talking about health measures here, not the economic response).

 

NSW announced today the bringing forward of 20- something major government infrastructure projects.

Take my hat off to the State's

 

Is anyone else as confused as I am about why Twiggy Forrest needed to buy testing kits?

 

I gather he used his inside contacts within China to get hold of them - he then gave them to the Australian government, but the government has said it will pay him back the cost over time

As to whether there is an ulterior motive - no idea - I suspect not with Twiggy as he's not a Gina or Clive

 

It gets weirder:

Coronavirus Australia: Chinese consul-general crashes Greg Hunt’s press conference