ALAS ... the author is speaking common sense. Unfortunately there seems to be little of that about due to our feral media, in particular "her ABC" and Dr Stormin Norman Swan who continues to hype the luvies who hang upon every word of misinformation and anxiety he puts out on air and via his podcasts!

Even worse the media blame country leaders like Trump, Johnson and Morrison for mis-handling, yet it is the state level of government ( NI, Scotland and Wales in UK case) that have control over the resources. The ABC loves Lady Gladys, yet she covered or Health Minister Hazard over the Ruby Princess in NSW, and Chairman Dan gets regular popularity awards for his willful mismanagement of hotels and dictatorial abuse of freedom in Victoria. As for the Queen of Queensland, that states lockdown.

The one thing the author failed to mention was the pandemic of epidemiologist that is spreading at a rate faster than Covid itself! They, just like their climate change cultists, will do even more damage than Covid pandemic should we allow them to control future pandemics which are now more likely due the attention they have received this year.

Excellent analysis, Rhys, putting it all in proportion with well-researched analysis and data.

Well, Dr Jones, we all get that you're alright Jack! We also get that you're not a doctor of medicine but a number cruncher!

That we do not yet understand all the long-term complications and health outcomes of succumbing to this virus! Leave the medical advice to those not clueless. We are not numbers and raw data, Sir!

Not everyone has a chopper parked on their back lawn and a entire hospital dedicated to them!

We also get that you think anyone over fifty is past its use-by date! Demonstrates a level of calloused indifference that we've not seen since the Wiameir Republic

We have recently developed a reliable three-minute test that we have yet to deploy.

The wearing of masks, social distancing plus good hand hygiene among compliant populations has resulted in vastly reduced cold and flu infections and a consequent vastly reduced death toll from the flu!(Bugger!)

That self-isolation when you are sick, prevents much cross-infecttion/allows the healthy to remain largely uninfected, more productive!(Bugger!)

If we want to change how we deal with this pandemic, for that is what it is!

The British P.M. will dispute your caviler anyalis of how deadly this virus really is!

That said, if we deployed the recently developed, reliable three-minute test at all important entry/exit points/borders, we could identify who is infected and quarantine that cohort behind wire until they test negative!

Many will claim their civil rights are being abused! But the healthy cohort will thank us for reducing the chance they can become infected!

This virus lives much longer on some surfaces than previously thought!

Infection in apparently healthy young folk may have long-term deleterious consequences. including seriously shortened lives, damaged hearts, lungs, kidneys, the brain!

All of which may not be immediately apparent to the, comparably healthy victim!

But may well be, if they develop early onset Parkinsons or require several heart valve replacements or a kidney transplant/enduring dialysis, develop debilitating fatigue syndrome!

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

Thanks for your comment Alan. Aside from the personal insults, is there any aspect of the article that is incorrect? Just to return the ad hominen attacks and assumptions:, you are clearly not a small business owner who has lost everything you have worked for over a lifetime; you are clearly not a school student who has missed the best part of a year of schooling; you are clearly not a school leaver who is now unable to find a job and will start their working life with a year or two of unemployment; you are clearly not a grieving relative who has been unable to attend a loved ones funeral; You have clearly not been a spouse who has been forced to let their wife die alone in isolation; you are clearly not a young person who has been unable to celebrate their wedding with friends and family; you are clearly not a young person who will spend their tax paying life dealing with a public debt in the hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars; you are clearly not a person who values their civil liberties.
You have been a victim of the scare mongering campaign orchestrated by politicians, public servants, the media and other vested interests.
Unless you are a nursing home resident, and I suspect you are not, then you have little to fear.

Our dumbed down community being led by the 'experts'. The same ones who said dams would no longer fill on the east coast and that the 'science' is settled. That is what happens when gutless conservatives protect their backsides by allowing putried leftist propaganda to be taught as science in schools. The loonies are literally in charge. Oh for a Trump to stand up to this facism.

Those morons at QIT ganging up on our PM this morning, are a typical crowd that demonstrates against the so-called mishandling of the Virus. Yet here these utter idiots are crowded around the PM's car screaming & yelling like the idiots they are spreading the virus !
Talk about stupidity ! All I can say is Labor, you're welcome to these morons !