mhaze,

The MSN News item I cited above says earlier than October.

Mr O just for you.

Based upon my reading on this, my guess is that the virus escaped from Mhaze's house. Mhaze was knocking up a batch of his famous Bat Soup. Before Mhaze could add the tiny taters, and diced carrots, his pot boiled over. Mhaze was off watching telly at the time, re-runs of Huckleberry Hound cartoons. Several viruses escaped out the back door where they caught a cab to Wuhan, they booked themselves into a research laboratory, mistakenly believing it was a rest home for old virus. At the home a fiendish Lithuanian doctor who was also staying at the same laboratory, his name escapes me, but you can read all about him in the link I will not supply did naughty things with those poor little viruses. The rest is now history!

Paul,

I used to be in a group where that kind of writing was considered the height of wit and sophistication.

Then I graduated to Year 3.

If the Victorian resurgence of the virus can be stopped, OK open state boarders, but only if it is stopped.

Meanwhile lets jump on the movement by government to give the elite academic sector a new chance if reinfecting the country, by allowing a new influx of over seas students. This must be stopped. Time for the academics to join the dole queue, like the little people in hospitality & retail among others. Morrison will start this rort again at his peril. There is no way he or his government will survive if a single case is reintroduced.

Even more important is the complete stop to any form of immigration for the foreseeable future. It is probably too late to save the once great place Oz was, but we can at least making it worse.

Phil,

We need to open all the borders especially the international border in order to start bringing in all those millions of cashed up Chinese we need to restart the economy.

Dear mhaze,

You write;

"Based upon my reading on this, my guess is that the virus escaped from the Wuhan research labs."

Reading what?

World class epidemiologists virtually to a tee say this was not a manufactured virus so it must have existed in the wild prior to being in any lab.

And what about this hyperbole?

"The Chinese could never permit such a truth to come out - it would be the end of the regime."

If events like Tienanmen Square fails to end a regime it is hardly likely any heat on the Corona Virus would do it.

Try an stick to the facts young fella, you and Armchair Critic will be besties soon if you don't watch it.