Shadow Minister,

I get the impression that you believe what China is reporting, that it has beaten the epidemic and is clean apart from incoming infections.

The story I heard was that a woman fishmonger in the Wu Han wet market fell ill, was tested, inaccurately, and returned to work, where she infected all and sundry. The woman is still alive and kicking.

If this doesn't jolt our Govt into restarting our own manufacturing then we might as well call it a day now.
The unions need to take a rest in isolation so Govt can redesign the wages structure in order to get the ball rolling !
The first step is to reduce the above 200 Grand/year Public Service salaries which are a major drain on the coffers for no warranted reason. Industries & service can keep moving albeit at much reduced cost to enable our economy to become sustainable. There is no alternative anyway !
Our dependency on Chinese manufacturing must be quelled as quickly as possible. If we play our cards right the Chinese will be depending on us more than we depend on them now !
All we need to do is knock our home-grown greed on the head !

individual,

I reckon a lot of people are thinking along the same lines as you.

It will be interesting to see what historians and sociologists have say about this catastrophe.

It is said that every cloud has a silver line, the China virus included. Malcolm Turnbull's memoir launch tour has been cancelled, and the book's price reduced by 30%. Greta Thunderpants claims to have the virus although she admits that she hasn't been tested. She is more likely to have the relevance-deprivation virus since she and her climate nonsense have been swept from the media

SR,

Thanks for reposting my entire post. I've always thought that this site would be immeasurably improved if my posts were issued twice. It seems you agree.

And by showing my entire post people can see that you are utterly wrong when...you said I'd insisted " that travelers from the US were not the primary source of infections entering Australia".AND I DIDN'T.

Thanks for playing.

Sadly, even a cat playing with a mouse victim finally gets bored with it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97v3-GrMd2M) so I'll leave your idiocy unremarked from now on and move on.

Trump is doing wonderfully well in this crisis and that's reflected in his poll approval numbers. In the face of China's and WHO's bastardry, Trump has faced the problem and pulled all the right strings. To be sure, like everyone else on the planet, they've been hampered by disinformation from China/WHO and have consequently made some mis-steps. But overall, the US should be an is thankful that Trump's in charge.

OTOH, as more and better information comes in, it may well be that the best reaction would have been to treat the Wuhan virus as just another flu. But no nation did that, although the UK initial considered it. We'll see over the next few months.

Its also been interesting to see how easily and uncomplainingly Australians have given up fundamental freedoms.