This author plus the New York Times fake news equals a hodge podge of nonsense. He wonders why people are sceptical well Peter have a think, a big think! When idiot medico's and scientists make up a scare and then when it doesn't eventuate claim they solved the problem. The original claims of a Brazilian deaths to frighten us as we are all stupid unlike you and the Uni idiots you mix with. Then expect some sort of accolade when you get it all wrong? I expect the government to attend to debt reduction by massively punishing the education sector and Universties (They cannot claim to be part of education, surely) and effecting real savings for a change. We have wasted more and more money for less and less effect for fifty years, take a chain saw to the whole rotten mess!

New Zealand is hanging around for a free ride, as usual. As the other Anzac country, it does squat towards defence of the region, sends it's crooks and no-hopers here, is anti-American and super-socialist. And it's Prime Minister goes out her way to insult us and whinge about us. We don't need NZ hanging around our necks.

This has been a lesson for the whole world and needs to be learned and kept as the template going forward, if we are to survive! And even though a truly remarkable result! We are far from being out of the woods but must remain vigilant and reopen the economy, for now, in confirmed by rigorous testing, covid free bubbles. Easiest in remote towns and villages were the roads could be partly closed to all but essential freight! Ditto underused rail? And with few exceptions have access to unused industrial estates, power and water?

How many startups and new co-ops could we create out there and how many former businesses could restart from the homes of connected employers and employees And allow some of our congested roadways to become less so!

Schools also need to partially transition to part in school and part in home learning. the latter presided over and provided by the older cohort of teachers so as to alleviate genuine fear of transmission.

No reason the older cohort need to man the classrooms, but rather the keyboard and the video screen for the occasional video-conference for a face to face electronically assisted tutorial?

Finally, we need to once again whip the money changers/robber barons from the temple/economy. Least they and their self-serving, selfish imperatives (ME<ME<ME) FIU again!
Alan B.

The Political lessons so far is that people are ignorantly blind if they can't see Fauci, the WHO and Gates Foundation don't have an agenda and that the world has been conned by these fraudsters. Governments have allowed this mob use fear, fake data to bring economies to their knees. Of course any one pointing out the obvious will be lablelled deniers and more than likely lose their jobs just like with the gw fraud.

"Australia, a nation of 25 million people that had been on track for 153,000 cases by Easter, has recorded a total of 6,670 infections and 78 deaths."

Sadly, the author apparently accepted the highly-alarmist virus case projections used by the so-called health experts to prescribe that large parts of the economy be closed down.

He is indifferent to the plight of many hundreds of thousands of Australians who subsequently lost their livelihood, and consequently will probably lose their houses and their health, thanks to the gross over-reaction of the health experts and government authorities.

The economy will take years to be restored.

As Will Rogers famously said "Never ask your barber if you need a haircut". These medical fraudsters have come up with a mountain of fear and false prophesies and all for their own enrichment. Sack them all to save our economy and have a cap on all public service salaries and pensions.
Alan B, sorry but what you are suggesting was comprehensively rejected nearly one hundred years ago. This Shangri Lah you envision is really wooly thinking. Stout peasants, Junoesque peasant wives, waving wheat fields and ballet in the evenings? Come on Allan, watch the movie "I'me alright Jack" and lets hear no more of it.
I congratulate all posters now as I have been delighted, amused and cheered up in these trying times, thank you, one and all!