They looked after you rather well! A private room with a balcony! And as they looked after you and all the other itinerants/visitors/returning Aussies, they looked after all other Australians! As for the political leaders, some understood, that in order to have an operational economy, you need both a healthy workforce and healthy consumers not afraid to venture forth! Others playing a pandemic as a political football for all they were worth, clearly could think past the economy/their own little tinpot enterprises? And would have visited similar outcomes on us, the buffoons in the UK and or even worse, the USA on us!

Joe, Pete, well said and on the money!

That said, we'll have to forgive ttbn! After all, to be a Trump supporter? One needs to live in cloud cooku land? Hey ttbn, I got a really, really powerful torch for Christmas. How about I shine the beam out of the sixth story window and you can make your escape by sliding down the beam?

I promise I won't switch it off when you are just halfway down. He, he, snigger, snigger.
Alan B.

Thanks Alan B. Too true

So it seems this author flew from the UAE into Australia. He admits he received good and caring airport and quarantine treatment.

Yet for all that the author appears to question Australia's Covid Quarantine laws and regulations that have MINIMISED COVID here and SAVED 1,000s of Australian lives.

By comparison might the author prefer the US's Uncoordinated Optional "We have our citizens' rights" Covid legal "solution" which has resulted in the deaths of 1,000 times more innocents?

Odd.

Pity those who catch the coronavirus.

For some - the elderly and sick - it could be a death sentence.

For everyone else, infants, in their teens, or middle-aged, getting the virus will destroy part of their body. And progressive contact will destroy even more, leaving their health worse with each contact. A 20 year old is made a 30 year old and then a second contact will make him a 45 year old an so on. Get the picture.

The real cure: Don't get the virus in the first place!

I can't disagree with you on that one MOpy.

Translatioin: Tonto say you speakum truth!

plantagenet,

Unfortunately most people are not aware that the virus will permanently damage their organs debilitating their general health and reducing their expected life span.

They think it is like getting a cold or flu.

It will be interesting to see if the vaccines can eradicate the coronavirus thus providing long term safeguard against a recurrence.

Might depend on whether it was a natural or an engineered virus. And the scuttlebutt I have is that it is engineered by Mr Opinion's favourite group of people.

Mr O. Given their icy reaction to the idea of an inquiry, one might be forgiven for agreeing with your take on your favourite people.
Cheers, Alan B.

Though MOpy

COVID NATURAL OR MAN-MADE

China (wet markets and all) has had a long tradition of naturally originating and/or accelerating various bacteria and viruses over hundreds of years http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics .

Having the most people, eating the greatest variety and total number of animals, in the dirtiest conditions, increases the chances of bacterial and viral mutations turning nasty.
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TRUMP

Off topic. I think TRUMP either had:

- false positive COVID

OR

- a totally made up story of having COVID and then "conquering it" for election campaign gain.

After all, it is written that the main thing Trump hated about the COVID Pandemic was that is shifted the limelight away from him. "Having COVID" shifted much limelight back to him.

A NEW YEAR’s CAROL

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson Britain’s Poet Laureate (1850-1892) wrote more than "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1854).

Prolific Tennyson also wrote an earlier poem "Ring Out, Wild Bells" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_Out,_Wild_Bells (published 1850). Now days it rings out the old year and rings in the new, on New Year's Eve.

The words http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_Out,_Wild_Bells#The_poem have deep meaning.

Also bringing the poem to life is a sad and moving musical version by Canadian singer Alana Levandoski http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alana_Levandoski.

Alana sings it here http://youtu.be/dbnsIydaYYg .

The sad tone has special poignancy for a year of bushfires here and COVID everywhere.

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.

Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.

First Verse/Chorus

Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes
But ring the fuller minstrel in.

Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.

First Verse/Chorus

Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.

First Verse/Chorus
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Have a much happier 2021 everyone.

Pete

Alan B.

It's not my take on the virus that it is engineered. It is the scuttlebutt I got.

The reason for it being engineered instead of natural has something to do with the way researchers were finding it was mutating (this was about 6 months).

Apparently they were finding that it wasn't mutating in a manner expected from a natural virus.

And right at this present moment we now have a number of different strains popping up around the world. So my scuttlebutt might just be right.

Problem is we know the Chinese are responsible for the virus but nothing will happen to make them liable and bring them to compensate the world for the enormous damage they have caused.

The wealth mongers of the world will let them off the hook because the smell of money is so much more powerful than the smell of death.