This author thinks too small.

It is the World Health Organization that must be rise from being a passive stooge of China.

The World Health Organization must become an instrument of World Government.

All zis to create a new Aryan Germany.

And in doing so the World Health Organization must re-engineer the Trump-Bot's Brain from the evil loser that he has become.

To lead us to a New Age. A New Dawn.

TRUMP-BOT LIVES! OK?

Vatch this video. Trump ist der one vith zie back-packen http://youtu.be/dKjCWfuvYxQ

Pete
(SomeVere in Hitler's Hideout)

There'll be many more Viruses plaguing humans until they wake up & curb their willy-nilly breeding & willy-nilly travelling !
The real dilemma is how to find an alternative to the lucrative Travel Industry.

We got it right in the past with island quarantine and the boiling of our linen and attire, etc.

But back then we had pragmatic bipartisanship and newspapers that printed validated facts! With opinion pieces, we all knew was just opinion left to the reader input commentary and the editorial page.

Now we have a P.M. that needed to talk to his wife to enable empathy for a rape victim, holidaying in Hawaii as the nation burned and he first in the queue for an antiviral/covid-19 vaccine followed by all the (couldn't in truth, care less) federal and state parliamentarians.

While those in the regions might have to wait until October or perhaps the 12th of never?

At every turn, we have been in the hands of a self-serving, incompetent, political elite, who took every political advantage? To politicise a pandemic? With cage-rattling right-wing shock jocks spreading Fake news and blatant BS front, left and centre! And numbskull anti-vaxers adding their ignorant crap to the mix?

None of which helps or gives confidence that we joe public matter in the minds of the aforementioned privileged? One ray of hope has been the emergence of a new code of (eliminate fake news) practice among the online media?

Unfortunately, this code will never stop the right-wing shock jocks from filling the airwaves with their blatant BS! And spreading dissent and division/conspiracy theories etc, i.e., their modus operandi!

In a pandemic, the truth is our major weapon and we need to close down those who quite deliberately spread rumour, gossip and downright mendacious mischief!

Not for nothing is it writ large, that the first casualty of war, is the truth!
Alan B.

I thank Peter for his very lucid review of the history of mankind. It does put the present situation in perspective, and warns of the dangers of climate change. As custodians of planet Earth, we need to respect the fragility of life and our environment, especially as we now possess weapons of war, which could destroy much of what we cherish. Of course, the ongoing change in our climate due to rising temperature, becomes the major challenge we face. It is a 'war' which all of the world faces and so, must act collectively to change the way we live, otherwise our extinction would follow.

The travel industry and universities operating as business models can and must be replaced!

First, with strict month-long, offshore island, mandatory quarantine that is installed as a permanent feature for all inbound for the foreseeable future! Followed by the production of virtually free bismuth 213!

This will result in a 2 million or more strong annual medical tourism, that if we are finally intelligently led by competents who actually give a rats? All of it directed at the regions and rural Australia!

This will require of us to build and roll ut MSR thorium and with that, enable the world's cleanest safest, cheapest energy to underpin a giant wave of re-industrialisation in the areas of dense population! MSR thorium is not the cheapest option, but also carbon-free MSR, nuclear waste burning is!

Given we could be paid annual millions or billions to become the world's premier repository for this material? Which in reality is just mostly 98%+ unspent nuclear fuel!

Nuclear fuel we can burn around 93% of to power energy dependant high tech manufacture and affordable recycling of everything, for thousands of years!

[With this virtually risk-free pragmatic paradigm installed, we will require every able-bodied/mentally competent person to be employed in high reward fulltime employment and then some!]

The finally depleted product, absolutely unusable in nuclear weapons but eminently suitable as very valuable, long-life space batteries. That stabilise in around thirty years, then burn up with reentry!
Alan B.

I am predicting that this virus a mutant hew strain that is vaccine-resistant, will one day not too far ahead in time, wipe off of the face of the planet around two-thirds of the population of the world?

And in those areas not able or willing to install mandated quarantine for all incoming arrivals! I also predict that the no mams land alongside mutual borders will be mined and have heat-seeking, self-actuating metal storm weaponry that eliminates any who avoid the mines?

While this may seem over the top right now? It will not iF my predictions come to pass? Given this may well be the only way to eliminate illegal border-hopping by infected and highly contagious superspreaders? N.B. I predicted this would become a pandemic, that the USA would become the epicentre, that it would claim more lives than 2 world wars and mutate!

[Ignore my predictions if you want? I am a lone voice in the wilderness and almost beyond caring. And a disrespected old fool for caring at all!]

Where vaccines are not doable? Purging the lungs with a mixture of oxygen, helium and disinfecting ozone in three atmospheres in isolating hyperbaric chambers might?

Ozone may also be found to be useful as low-pressure treatment of, antibody resistant, cervical STD's?
Alan B.