"I (Hasbeen) believe this cure is likely to be a lot more devastating than the disease." Tell that to the average New Yorker and many others. In fact its the very measures being taken, testing, quarantining, social distancing, etc, in countries like Australia that is having a huge impact on the spread of the virus, and consequently the number of deaths. Donald Trump is a prime example of a dill brained politician who failed to act with any degree of expedience in relation to the virus, and now his country is suffering horrendous consequences because of his inaction. Hassy your simple rabid right perversion with money matters is dangerous in the extreme. Yes lets hope the cure is more devastating than the disease, because the devastation the disease is capable of is far more horrendous than any simple money implications can ever be.

BTW you say you are coming up "21" that means you have spent most of your life thinking as a child, and it shows.

Hasbeen,

If you hadn't been born in a leap year does that mean you wouldn't have been born at all if it didn't happen in a leap year?

SR,

"...what looked to be a very mild season has been taken off the rails by the Coronavirus."

Do you need a hand moving those goalposts?

Nowhere did I suggest that the Wuhan Virus didn't cause deaths merely "a strange lack of increase in overall deaths in Europe".
The current deaths rates as per the site in question shows that they are no worse than death rates in other flu seasons. Yet we didn't close down the entire society during those severe seasons.

"Basically mate the whole premise of your first post has sunk from sight "

Assert (a claim without evidence) what you want SR, but the fact is that there is nothing in my original post which I'd change now despite every expanding data.

It remains my view that the early (incorrect) data about the virus panicked medical bureaucrats, who in turn panicked politicians who were anxious to avoid being saddled with the deaths and that the closure of economic life turned out to be unwarranted. If we could go back to early February knowing what we now know about the virus, this would have been done very differently.

Dear Hasbeen,

Oh come on old cock look on the bright side.

Families once virtually estranged because of brutal commutes and savage working hours are now betting to spend time together, in some cases really getting to know each other for the first time.

The nearly 40 million dollars per day Australians were pumping into pokie machines is now still in their pockets.

We as a society have got to learn what the essential things in life really are.

And what should please you more than anything: the smashed avocado, latte sipping set that you so despise are no longer a thing with all their trendy cafes having been closed down.

All those arty farty galleries have been shuttered, all those highfalutin ballets and orchestras cancelled. You really should be feeling like a pig in mud but still you are on here grizzling away.

Some people are never happy.

Dear mhaze,

Slippery as a butcher's dick mate. Oh well having you concede even an inch was never going to happen was it.

As for this “The current deaths rates as per the site in question shows that they are no worse than death rates in other flu seasons.”

Not in the countries that had been caught out early. In those places this has been far worse that any flu season shown on that site. The only reason it has been kept low overall is because of the very mild flu season and the fact that EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES HAVE BEEN PUT IN PLACE TO CONTAIN IT”S SPREAD.

Why is this so difficult for you?

Misopinionated,

Did you mean:

"If you hadn't been born in a leap year does that mean you wouldn't have been born at all ... ?"

Or conversely,

"If you hadn't been born in a leap year does that mean ... it didn't happen in a leap year?"

Is English your second or third language ? Does logic play any part in your small thinking repertoire ? Are you somewhere along the autism spectrum ? Or perhaps only about fourteen ? And only part-way through your TAFE environmental sociology diploma ? Or all of the above ?

But I suppose, as a village idiot, you dress for the occasion :)

Joe

Only 44 cases in the last 24hrs, great news everyone.