3,000 people a week? ABS stats show that 3,302 people died in Australia in one YEAR (2018). A typo I presume.

What a load ofC.R.A.P! and shovelled by the shipload!

They are talking about it genius! And acting on the best advice of the experts, genius!

If you can't help or help yourself? GTF out of the way!

Enough already of the vexatious mischief

Go pul your head in.
Alan B.

yep, i am sure the Morrison govt and health experts will reopen the economy when they are confident the time is right.

I heard some of the sky commentators last night raving on about opening things up, hilarious stuff.

Good thing Morrison will not listen to them.

Surely I can't be the only one who has noticed that some of the medical profession are reveling in their new found importance.

I am not talking about the GPs or the nurses, but chief medical officers & academic medicos are having a high old time. Nightly TV appearances, lots of interviews, with the population hanging on every word.

There are too many differences in their opinions of the right action for them to be totally relied on for wisdom, & some appear to want to extend the heavy handed restrictions to maintain their importance for as long as possible.

Fortunately unlike the global warming fraud academics, who are allowed to kick the can further down the road every time their forecasts prove wrong, we will find out pretty quickly which medico was talking sense.

Personally I would like to know which Einstein came up with the idea that the clown down the road can ride his push bike all over the place, but his neighbor is only allowed on the same road on foot, or in his car, if he is going to get the bread, or to the doctor.

There would be a lot less resistance to the restrictions if they had been better thought out.

Has been.. Spot On. The fact that Dr Kerry Chant ( much less brassy/confident than 3 weeks ago with her Ipad and coffee that the Premier nearly tripped over).

She represents the worst of Health Bluffocracy, and probably has spent a lot of time travelling to " important' negotiations with WHO.

Time to wake up children, the idiots, sociopathic lunatics have taken over the asylum... and its up to us to call them out..,, otherwise "so long and tanks for all the fish" (D Adams, "Hitchikers Guide to the Universe")

Hasbeen,

probably because very few people, as a proportion of the population actually get out and ride their bike, even through bike sales have risen, but everyone needs to get food from the shops

Is anybody aware how difficult it is riding a push bike on the footpath with people ambling all over it?

People should stop walking on the footpath and leave it to push bike riders.

Bike riders unite!

Dan

Did you notice the name of the thing Diver, "FOOT" path, not wheel path.

Bikes should be banned from any footpath.

They are a menace on the public road, built & paid for n=by the motorist with huge fuel taxes. They should be banned.

Most come from china, so are probably virus carriers. They should be banned from import.

People who ride bikes wearing Lycra are usually sweaty often smelly & antisocial, they should be banned.

Bike lanes are proliferating everywhere, paid for by the long suffering motorist, they should be banned.

Anyone notice I think all bikes are an implement of the devil, designed to scratch nice cars, & should be banned.

I think Dan was joking, hasbeen. But, I agree that bikes and pedestrians don't mix; and the so called bike lanes are just a painted lines on the road - no protection at all. Anyone riding alongside traffic is taking a huge risk that I would not be prepared to take.

I agree with Hotel Bravo, the things are a menace on the road/FOOTPATHS! N.B. FOOTPATHS and so are the lycra bound fools, who peddle them! There are bikeways built exclusively for unlicensed riders riding unregistered uninsured bikes!

And that's where the should only be allowed. Given the only folk, they can damage there? Are their own cohort and each other along with their infernal machines!
Aan B.

According to the ABS, mortality in Australia in 2017 and 2018 was as follows:

http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/mf/3302.0

i.e. around 160,000 each year. Or about three thousand each week. Very roughly, about the same as the number of births. i.e. without immigration, our population would barely rise at all.

Thanks to Morrison's firm policy-making on lock-downs and prohibitions on international travel, he has kept COVID-19 deaths down. But it may still be too early to lift restrictions.

Of course, dumb-arses (see above) aged between 20 and 50 may think that

* they won't get the virus;

* even if they did, it hasn't occurred to them yet that they might be able to pass it on to other, more vulnerable, people;

* those other, more vulnerable people are old anyway, so what does it matter ?

It's amazing how close some of us are to fascist thinking.

Joe

Open up the parliaments and all of the government offices first. Start herding all the politicians, bureaucrats, along with their staff, into the buildings.

Keep them doing this for 4 weeks and if there are no Wuhan virus cases arising amongst them then I stay give it the all clear to get things back to normal.

I'm sure the politicians won't mind being part of the first test bunch to go through. All for a good cause!

I was joking too.

I wasn't!
Alan B.