I agree Tony.

Sure we get to see the flaws of many high profile people in key professions, including corrupt politicians and poor health practitioners and so on, but i am pretty confident to state that the majority of professionals are competent.

Having said that, having worked in academia, and for a parliamentarian, i would have to say that only a minority of so-called elites go well beyond what is expected in terms of setting or upholding a very high standard.

But this reality would also apply to virtually all professions.

Paul- I don't think it takes an expert to understand a bell curve. All it takes is to watch "The Devil Wears Prada" and know that fashion and markets and pandemics have a life cycle and there are milestones along the way. The value of the experts is to highlight the milestones. Some have said that we should teach statistics rather than calculus in High School- I'm not sure- but they have a point.

On a per capita basis Australia is doing better than most countries of the world. I'm surprised given 30k Chinese arrived in Melbourne from China after the embargo and ships were allowed to port in Sydney. I'm unsure if this is due to management or due to other factors.

The US is doing fairly well on a deaths per capita basis.

# Country "Cases/1M pop" "Deaths/1M pop"
1 San Marino 19279 1209
2 Belgium 4796 784
3 Andorra 9851 660
4 Spain 5950 593
5 Italy 3735 529
6 UK 3632 513
7 France 2757 433
8 Sweden 3010 366
9 Sint Maarten 1798 350
10 Netherlands 2577 332
11 Ireland 4908 314
12 Isle of Man 3942 282
13 USA 4667 277
14 Channel Islands 3190 248
15 Switzerland 3538 218
16 Montserrat 2204 200
17 Luxembourg 6318 171
18 Canada 2069 155

World 624.6 40.9

The US appears to be doing better than Italy, Spain, UK, France, Sweden, Ireland. If this is proof that Trump is a bad leader then he has a lot of company.

How many of you have looked into the biographies of these 'experts' to see which of them has training in viruses and epidemics?

The Queensland Premier was reported as saying, "Had we not united in our health response we could have seen over 30,000 Queenslanders lose their lives". 30,000? I wonder which 'expert' fed her that figure.

Paul confuses experts with politicians, and tells us how well our government has done. Let's talk about that government:

Constitutional lawyer, Professor David Flint, regards the 'National Cabinet', which has wrecked the economy, as being unconstitutional. The cabinet represents an "unconstitutional seizure of power", never agreed to by the people.

It makes the claim about how our Constitution cannot be changed without the consent of the people sound hollow. The Morrison government has just ignored the people and done want it wanted. Anyone interested can find many instances where Australian governments have acted unconstitutionally in all matter of areas.

Flint says that there was "never was an emergency which justified the use of such extreme powers".

Bad Dog !

Yeah ! I'm pissed off that the Chinese have developed this so-called 'virus' to target the US while ignoring Australia like we're nothing.

The US is handling the situation with great success, more success than any other event in history, enormous success - so how come we can't have 92,000 deaths like the US under the current masterful leadership, while we have only a piddly one hundred ? Are we just too insignificant to worry about ? Why aren't we following the US's lead on this ?

Every day, Australia has barely one death while the US manages successfully to have more than a thousand - around 1,600 yesterday alone. What's wrong with our health system ? Why can't it keep up ?

In fact, we're falling further behind with every passing day. We're likely to have fewer than two hundred deaths from this virus by, say, the end of this year, total failure, the worst failure in history, while the US could successfully have two hundred THOUSAND deaths by election day ! Not only that but they'll re-open their economy to growth and fortune far earlier than our pusillanimous 'leaders' dare to do.

Do we need Scaredy Cat 'leaders' shielding behind their 'experts' ? NO ! We need Captain Marvel leaders, bold, the boldest in history, to lead !

Joe

TDS