The reminder that our useless politicians have been relying on mass immigration is pertinent while our borders are still closed. When the panic is over, we can learn to do without polluting the country with more people and keep the borders closed to Third World immigrants.

Of course the economic disaster per Morrison was avoidable. Our Asia-struck PM could have copied Taiwan - similar population, similar result on China virus deaths, but with an intact economy coming out of it. And, the Fortress Australia policy, derided by the left-luvvies, is exactly what should have been applied. Nobody, Australian citizen not, should have been admitted to Australia after the virus alert was first sounded. With all the tosh about 'Aussies' returning, there was TV footage of Asians swarming into our airports.

The whole thing has been an utter balls-up by a one-man-band Prime Minister who never expected to be PM, never wanted to be PM and is just no good at the job. We will be paying for his incompetence and reliance on equally incompetent advisors for a long time.

One of the reasons why Australia did not close its borders with China earlier is because of the dishonesty with which China passed on information about the Covid 19 visus which, as at early January, was still largely confined within China.

I'm a member of the Centre for Independent Studies and happen to totally disagree with their reassessment in hindsight of what Australia's response to the virus should have been. In my view, our response was as good as it could have been, considering the uncertain circumstances surrounding knowledge of the virus in the early days of the epidemic.

I think this ex Public Servant should have checked a couple of things but being ex PS would not!
First check the Italian and UK statistics as to who caught it, who was diagnosed with it and who died from it. Loads of people got it and were caused no obvious ill effects, others would have been tested and those in the previous category would have been put in the scare us shitless category by the Australian PS. Some people were sick and some were very sick and some died. With the deaths they were invariably people over 80 years old with other health problems. Most were in God's waiting room for sure. So we are just talking about another disease that has killed about or less than the average annual flu.
The author is right about the money wasted that our Grandchildren will be paying back. We will never do this again because we will be in the middle of the 21st century depression caused by our politicians and public service.
Here is an idea, what about we focus of ripping off all their benefits! Salaries and pensions, all reduced, across the board with absolute limits for one person or couple. This would reduce the debt much quicker than otherwise. It might also teach them about actions having consequences.

Self-inflicted!? Perhaps? But only if you accept it was Australian tourists indulging themselves in pleasure pursuits that brought covid-19 back with them and shared quite generously!

I get that you are one of those folk who seriously believes, that we should have just let it rip and kept the economy going, come what may?

But a minority view not shared by the wider public!

That said, the milk has been spilled and no amount of after the event, crying, is ever going to unspill it!
to
Therefore, the goal and emphasis has to be, the intended and maximised recovery! TBC.
Alan B.

The annual flu has a death rate of around 2% worldwide?

Covid-19 is about a 20% kill rate with some of the so-called mild cases needing to be hospitalised and only being back around 80% of lung functions many months after discharge.

And the deaths were often caused by blood clots that were caused by covid-19.

No annual flu, as far as I know, comes with viral phenomena or pulmonary embolisms!

If the extremely ignorant, whose combined IQ and or actual medical knowledge, would struggle to equal the ambient temperature, think otherwise? It's is because they are pig-ignorant lame brains?

If there's another explanation? Well? Waiting! Still waiting! Need a couple of days, do we?

So there is no comparison, save in the eyes of the aforementioned, intellectually challenged, fact-free, lame brains!?

You'll have a nice day now, y'hear.
Alan B.

Thanks for share high valuable and informative article with. I hope peoples are love this.

Constitutional lawyer, Professor David Flint, states in an article of 13th. June that the panicked actions of our “morally corrupt” elites’ completely unnecessary limitations on the common-law rights of millions to carry on lawful business, to unlawful home detention of the population, suspension of elective surgery, and other burdens, is the “greatest misfeasance in public office in the history of this Commonwealth.

Ministers were “recklessly indifferent” both as to their powers and as to the massive damage they would do with the lockdown. Their indifference has also included the “granting of exemptions to demonstrators”; their last minute introduction of the JobKeeper program, so poorly organised that it “now encourages casuals not to return to work.

The perpetrators of this misfeasance, including the main man, Scott Morrison, will escape personal retribution, while the rest of us pay.

Alan B Insulting people is not very productive and you misunderstand so much. The average age of people who died was 80 years old and all had associated health problems. Ever been in an aged care facility Alan? God's waiting room mate!
As for the majority they have been scared witless by unscrupulous politicians and medicos. The CMO' have never enjoyed so much attention or got so much wrong. They are a disgrace matched only by the usual lamestream media who never question these CMO's actual qualifications.
This has been the greatest sabotage of any country ever and we will be paying for it for fifty years, well our Grandchildren will!

Recovering covid-19 patients often need to undergo extensive rehab, to normalise often lost motor skills the rest of us take for granted. It's not the high death rate that troubles me, but the brain injuries that have lifetime consequences for those who recover?

JB. Those who make medical commentary that they know nothing about! Will never ever be spared by me. God's waiting room? Never been in one, intend to stay away from these gulags for old people as long as I am able. And those of my family who could one day decide where I end my days, will ensure, it's not an aged "care" facility!

The government needs to be congratulated on two fronts. one their timely action in locking us down and two in listening to the medical/scientific advice/expertise! Much to the annoyance of the pig-ignorant, anti-vac crowd of (me, me, me)detractors.

As for the demographic that are those most likely killed? I get your OK with that given it's somebody else's mum dad, grandma, grandad.

You know the folk who built this country and sacrificed and put themselves in harm's way to protect your rights, freedoms and lifestyles!

You'll have a nice day now, y'hear.
Alan B.

Alan B, I set my trap and you fell into it lol! I am 73, overweight with various health issues and have your aversion to aged care. I would be in the firing line if the virus really took off.
The CMO's are mostly not epidemeologists and even if they are why all this new thinking? Pandemics every so often and rarely are lock downs ever considered. In Africa when one of the haemogorric fevers strike villages isolate themselves but that has a 90% kill rate.
The cure is one hundred times worse than the disease for us, prepare for a spike in suicide and cancer deaths to say nothing of the discomfort caused by deferred "Elective" surgeries.
This has been a real boon, the adulation (MSM only) and respect shown to the total dimwits in politics and the medical profession. At some stage we will have to open our borders then more will die. What will you do Alan? Personally I could not give a Continental!