I can see from the ravings of the hard right, Il Duce is at it again, that following the medical advice was the wrong thing to do. Without the slightest evidence they promote the nonsense of herd immunity. Jumping onto the Trump bandwagon, they are supporting Trump's stupid notions on the virus, taking disinfectant, a bright light shone up the clackker, unproven malaria drugs, at least that one had a bit of a medical attachment.

With statements like "200,000 (dead) is a reasonable number" one can see the hard rights total lack of concern for the lives of their fellow man. Il Duce says; "the death of a few compared to the devastation of the many" In Trumps America the few is now over 128,000 with hundred more dying every day, case numbers are out of control.

Claims that "do nothing" is the best policy for the economy is not supported. In Britain where the Conservative government of Bug Ridden Boris took a haphazard approach to dealing with the virus, the results, both medically and economically, have been a disaster.

Il Duce believes; "trying to save their most treasured possession, the house" No Il Duce, their house is not their most treasured possession,THEIR LIFE IS!

Just to add; Australia owes a debt of gratitude to Professor Brendan Murphy who finished as our Chief Medical Officer on Friday. Professor Murphy has been a leader in the medical response to Covid-19, and in no small way its his, and his teams advice, which has helped guide Australia a relatively safe passage through the pandemic. WELL DONE BRENDAN MURPHY.

The people who think lock down is so good can continue! Announce yourselves! No travel and I do mean no travel and what about a sack cloth burkha and bell to ring whilst shouting out "Unclean, unclean"? Happy now?
The rest of us can take our chances and all the facts will eventually come out and you will ignore them as you will look so stupid. Brendan Murphy the new chief of the Health Dept will still get his pay rise and a magnificent and monstrously unearned pension. No chance of any punishment for that dolt! The man should have a statue erected as the dumbest and most destructive pest in Australian history. Plus not being any kind of a doctor.
Time will sort this out with no repercussions for any of the perpetrators. You fools will be paying as much as me so well done to you too!

Paul, if your going to criticise me or my comments, at least have the guts to quote me properly.
Adding your little bits of irrelevant deflection, only make you look foolish and desperate, that you can't find enough justification and conviction in your response without the need to twist or manipulate the original text, content or intent of my original message.
If you don't want to be seen and remembered as an embarrassment, for all the obvious reasons, I would suggest you try again only this time read my comments and respond to them without adding your particular twist or flavour in an inane attempt to win/make a point not worth making in the first place.
To explain it to you as one would to your 5 year old grandson;
Leaving people to get on with their lives will not have changed the fact that those people who were going to die from the virus, were going to die.
Sure, my way it would have been sooner than later.
But that aside, as there is NOTHING that could be done to stop them from dying, it left the rest alive.
Had the living been left to carry on as usual, they would not have been affected in any way, and would simply get on with their lives, instead of what is happening now.
What's got your goat is the fact that you are afraid to die.
I'm sorry, but if your number is up, it's up, isolating is just like being a fugitive from the law.
Eventually they will catch up with you, hiding only prolongs the inevitable.
Now if you can't see the reasoning or point I'm trying to make, then you are just being stubborn and petulant.
I think I would have a better chance asking your 5 year old grandson, I'm sure he will see the logic in what I am saying.

https://www.facebook.com/An0malyMusic/videos/3066508396728989

just for you Joe in case you would like to be a little open minded

Bazz,

I don't think it's "sad" that people have a go at each other instead of just being content express an opinion; I think it's a stupid waste of time to be arguing the toss with people you know will never change their minds. If people don't like what I say, that's fine; if they have a go at me, that's fine, too. But I am not required to respond to them, and I will not respond to them - with the exception of Joe, often a great source of amusement. Actually, I generally only read the posts of people who have, more or less, the same opinions as my own. It's better to concentrate on people like ourselves than to stress over people who are not - in my opinion, of course.

When you don't rise to the bait often enough, or not at all, even the thickest of nagging posters eventually give up. There is one exception here, a sociopath who can't take a hint.

Most of us have been enjoying OLO long enough to know what we all think about everything. If we still think it's possible to change anyone's mind just by arguing with them, there are mindless branches of social media better suited to that futile activity.

Thanks for that six-week-old video - isn't it amazing what we can learn from our policy miscalculations ? Is Cuomo still doing that ?

So now that Cuomo has learnt how to properly handle this crisis, perhaps he can give some advice to Pussy Man, and some of the Republican governors where case-rates are now at all-time highs.

Will they take it ? Nah.

Joe