"reliving that world again"? Only a couple of days ago I read that current lockdowns are the first ever! Who is talking BS this time, I wonder. History won't reveal another ballsup like this one visited on us by political idiots. The rotters are softening us up for the Great Reset, and stupid citizens are thanking them for it. Even as a world class cynic, I have been stunned by the gutlessness and malleability of the Australian public. How they can go on thinking of their political class and police forces the way they used to is unbelievable. Talk about heads in the sand and taking it up the backside.

Agree with most of this and just how ineffectual the economy first response has been, which has so dramatically failed!

As has the garbage propaganda, of just having to live with this virus.

Imagine if we'd responded to polio, or smallpox or tuberculosis with that rubbish mindset? Or failed to build/man hospital ships during times of war?

We are at war with a totally implacable inhuman invisible enemy!

It doesn't have guns or artillery, but has already chalked up more casualties and a death toll greater than two world wars and Vietnam.

The keystone cops that are charged with protecting a nation, Have rejected island quarantine (the best) on the grounds there are no nearby hospitals that are fit for purpose! Well, they have had two years or thereabout to remedy both!

But have quibbled over cost after throwing nearly a trillion at the economy instead! When what was always needed was a hard/fast response at the get-go/then only allowing in folk who had tolerated island quarantine

With our borders locked and bolted, our economy has not shrunk! If we had but used the brains we were born with!? Most of the trillion we blew! Could've been directed at nation-building infrastructure,i.e., a still doable, very fast train down the eastern seaboard!

Only thing missing, is/always has been, the political will!


Would've served as a safer option to transport fully vaccinated tourists up and down the line! I mean, if a sleeper train been made available, it could have avoided cramming in the infected with the non-infected in small, by comparison, planes!

The, I believe, rigidly recalcitrant, blame-shifting, duck shoving, rabbit in spotlight, bean-counting, incompetent Morrison government have railed against closed borders etc. Which to date, been the only measure that has prevented us from becoming India.

Moreover, the gold standard does not start with the Ruby Princess! Then relying on dumb luck/a super compliant population for a hallway decent outcome? Look at the debacle created when the non-compliant are allowed to flout the, these are not for us, rules!
Alan B

ttbn at top of this page is spot on.

What ttbn actually knows about infectious diseases, could be written on a passage stamp using a crowbar dipped in tar as the pen. Those who think he is spot on? Probably know even less?
Alan B.

JF Aus

Thanks. The old buffoon AlanB's petty response proves us both right.

It was only a few years ago that the thought of Bird Flu had some people very worried and near-misses with MERS, HIV and SARS and various Flu pandemics have made the world complacent. I suppose there were no votes in spending money on PPE or quarantine strategies. Even an Infectious Diseases Hospital was shut down in Victoria years ago and certain leaders kept insisting this outbreak was a hoax or would just "go away" in the warmer weather.

Scientists have been saying we were overdue for a global pandemic event yet we remained unprepared. This one is spread by those wealthy enough to travel the world but typically it's the poor who will suffer most.

Even during the Spanish Flu - before we even knew what a virus was - there were official government restrictions and mask-wearing in place.

Looking at India, the USA and now Indonesia I can only imagine how devastating things would have been without taking steps to identify and isolate outbreaks let alone develop vaccines.

Otherwise rather than rage against the only options we have at our disposal, "suck it up, Princess".

Far more dangerous than the virus is the daily harping about numbers, the fear-mongering, the 'advice' from quacks and, the political class that we have allowed to take control of our lives.

The most dangerous virus to come from China recently is not COVID, it’s “socialism with Chinese characteristics” with its siren call of unrestrained power for large sections of our political and economic elites.

Rather than us changing China as the greedy and naive thought we could, it is China that is increasingly changing us.

Regarding island quarantine; how do we get people to the island?

It can’t be a fast train, so it will have to be a crowded ‘plane or a slow boat.

ttbn is foremost amoung equals at giving quackery advice. And based on an abundant knowledge of a massive amount of SFA! If we listen to him and his equally ignorant cohort? We would look like India or new york with the mass grave and a larger death toll than two world wars! Suggest, if you think I'm talking C.R.A.P. You head for the western suburbs of Sydney. Then take a casual toll meeting and greeting as many folks as possible.

Moreover, being fully vaccinated will probably protect you from a serious illness but not your possible capacity to be a super spreader.

And as long as any demographic remains unvaccinated this killer virus ould further mutates into ever more viralent variants, some of which will infect the vaccinated and indeed kill or seriously harm many of them. The delta variant has claimed many young victims some of who are seriously ill or even number among an increasing number of dead! And no, no amount of diabolically dumb ignorant abuse Will shut me up or deter me from speaking the truth! Or calling out those who don't or won't.

Simply put, this killer virus should never have been allowed in and wouldn't have been if we but had island quarantine backed by testing all who cross any border. Moreover, those same borders should remain closed to all but essential travel and that cohort would need to be repeatedly tested before being allowed to proceed, to ensure they do not become super spreader carriers as well! And if that remains our response? We can get the internal domestic economy fully reopened ASAP!

N.B. This virus spreads with the movement of hosts! Shut down that movement for a full 28 days all across the nation, which should have been our first response! Then that would have been the one and only shut down needed, if also accompanied by the referred to, island quarantine, with no exceptions! NONE!

We cannot learn to live with this virus but to die in ever-increasing numbers, indefinitely!
Alan B.

Alan B, wrong again…

Some facts:

“ The EudraVigilance database reports that through July 3, 2021 there are 17,503 deaths and 1,687,527 injuries reported following injections of four experimental COVID-19 shots:

COVID-19 MRNA VACCINE MODERNA (CX-024414)
COVID-19 MRNA VACCINE PFIZER-BIONTECH
COVID-19 VACCINE ASTRAZENECA (CHADOX1 NCOV-19)
COVID-19 VACCINE JANSSEN (AD26.COV2.S)
From the total of injuries recorded, half of them (837,588 ) are serious injuries. “

Try again

Excellent article. I completely agree with the author.
How can we work to reduce fear in the community?

Fear of covid can be overcome by understanding facts.

http://www.afr.com/politics/federal/facts-on-covid-19-politicians-won-t-tell-you-20210705-p586za