Pandemics are caused by infected folk infecting others and through simple lack of proper hygiene. A sneeze leaves the nostrils at over a hundred miles an hour! And the droplets can spread over thirty metres.

We can buy cough and sneeze suppressing medications over the counter so as to continue to go to school, work, play or recreational activities. Yet nowhere in Australia is the wearing of surgical masks practised by the community and sometimes in an operating theatre, none or with the nose uncovered.

In no way is the Australian community prepared. Nor indeed most of the rest of the world who value working while sick far more highly than general community health and massively counterproductive!

If those sick were compelled to stay home until no longer contagious, There'd be far fewer work days lost.even more so if folk were taught (quaint and old fashioned) basic hygiene as applicable to contaminated bed linen and attire.

Mattresses, for example, should spend a day in full sunlight. Bedlinen and personal attire should be boiled then sun-dried. And rooms should be steam cleaned floors windows and walls along with any items of furniture and bric-a-brac.
Alan B.

These authors should try harder. It is known that flu virus continually mutates which is why some strains attack different age groups. The 1919 version so overwhelmed the body that it proved fatal to the most able bodied with the strongest reaction to the virus. That's also the reason the first wave was milder, because it was but it then went back into the vector of pigs and came out slightly altered but far more deadly!
These things are being continually monitored but Alan B there is probably as much to be said against our hygiene practices as for them. We need to be tested daily for our natural defence to work especially children. Rather than putting them in cotton wool. Yes old people will be killed but as I am 71 I think I have skin in that particular game. I intend to live forever, so far, so good!

Nay. Nothing that a liquid Thorium injection won't cure today.

Aye?

Plantagenent I do not think you are approaching this in the true spirit of OLO!

Ever since over-doing hygiene, peoples' immunity has deteriorated. Particularly those living in the ultra hygienic environments of city apartments & offices, are very susceptible to the slightest exposure of the more natural environs. Up here in the North it's the locals who cop all the latest deceases when the public servants return from xmas holidays. In return, the newcomers get the usual symptoms of sores & ulcers from simple sandfly or Mozzie bytes.

Oh JBowyer

Have you not heard that, with a few elementary steps, Thorium can power all cars, towns, cities and pets in Australia?