Heard this morning of a young female from our village going to Bali last week despite being advised not to. Apparently, her answer was "I want to go to Bali & nothing is going to stop me".
I just hope our Govt won't let her back until she is cleared at her own expense !

She will have to go into isolation like everyone else when she returns. No brains.

Another economist, Peter Smith, says that "We are apparently in the hands of medical experts who want to flatten the curve of those needing hospitalisation. But this means the whole thing will be dragged out and cause misery for many thrown out of work. Surely the better strategy is to concentrate on protecting the most vulnerable and to go onto a contained war footing in producing additional medical equipment, drugs and beds – managing spikes that way – and allowing everyone else and every business to get on with life."

The world is full of armchair experts who are Masters of hindsight. This pandemic lies firmly at the feet of China, its acceptance of life wild animal markets and attempts to silently contain the disease allowing to spread around the world on aircraft and ships before we even knew it existed.

On the Global scale, Australia is doing well. Few of the scoffing pundits who attacked Dutton/Morrison strategy of using Christmas Island and isolated Army bases. Where is the media and left-wing brigade now... why no praise for their foresight? Hypocrisy rungs deep in them! If Shoten, Wong, Gillard or Rudd had been in charge, we would be in a very much worse state of affairs, and facing the demise of Italy etc.

AS for experts, they can be flawed, but compared to the rest of us, they are surely more likely to have solutions. As for the Pollies, no matter what they do they will be wacked. I have no love for our pollies, but fair is fair, what can the real do? Sure this should be a wake up call. This (just like Sars, Mers etc) whole issue needs to be assessed and prepared for in the future to prevent forthcoming pandemics. Borders, travel, vaccinations, general health status, disease control must he given serious thought by governments, and not left in the hands of inefficient, bloated and often corrupt international organisations like UN/ WHO

Its time we "know it all armchair critics" looked at ourselves and realise that we have created this situation by pandering the globalisation/ free border brigade who most likely are now at the front of the que of every supermarket, with trolleys of hand wash and toilet paper!

Alan B: You say "Coulda, shoulda woulda. doesn't help! Neither does 20-20 hindsight and Monday morning expertise."

Yes, but the thing is is that for me I've been onto this for a *couple of months*. Unlike most here I could see from a very early time that this was potentially extremely serious.

In fact here is a topic that I raised on this very forum way back in JANUARY where I was asking for people's opinion about the safest place to be:

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=9061#299007

As you can see way back then I was planning about what I can do to personally protect myself from the oncoming crises!

For over two 2 months I've been getting ready for this!! I was making sure that for me at least I won't be saying "woulda coulda shoulda" when it all goes pear shaped.

But here's the important thing, if an individual with just personal resources can see this coming thundering down the tracks and prepare for it then why the hell didn't the government! Especially since they are now claiming that they have been "preparing" since January. So I'm asking: what the hell did they actually achieve with their preparations?

Anyway, you just keep with wiping down you mobile phone daily and writing uncountable post about how Thorium would save us from all the world's evils because that's really going to help you isn't it?

one small positive of the Cornovirus it that it has pushed the idiotic made up global warming fraud to the back pages. Won't take to long for some fool to make a link.