'As millions of Australians feel the pain of losing their jobs, and the financial hardship it brings, a bunch of LIBERAL POLITICIANS in South Australia have been cough with their hands in the taxpayer till. '

shows how deep the entitlement culture as gone. Certainly this mob would not come close to Chairman Dan's bunch of incompetent and dishonest marxist but a disgrace all the same.

SR, you opined,

"As to history supporting the lockdown it is becoming clear how much high death rates have impacted economies. It will all come out in the wash but I doubt history will look kindly on the more open approaches if a vaccine is secured within the year"

Please direct me to any study showing a causal link between death rate (fatalities per thousand, say) and economic impact. The fact is something less than 2 deaths per thousand population will accompany reaching herd-immunity and I doubt this would have a significant economic impact. Meanwhile, dreams of a vaccine (by year's end?!) in hope of the elimination position being upheld should not be the basis of policy.

Watched '60 Minutes' and a couple of old codgers telling us how character-building the coming depression will be for younger folk, almost as if lockdown is doing them a favour when in fact it's the old codgers receiving the immense favour so they can get on with their lives as normal (or so it seemed until Victoria, Covid will keep coming until herd-immunity is reached.

A friend, prefacing her comments with the fact she has no children, told me, "if lockdown saves one life it will have been worth it", and, "the debt of previous generations has 'always' been carried by the next" (BTW, I'd distinguish between avoidable and unavoidable debt, with what we are imposing through parking the economy fitting into the former category). This injects ethics and philosophy into the discussion and to imply folks are almost eugenicists for opposing waves of lockdown with life and death impacts is simplistic nonsense.

The economist Gigi Foster (60 Minutes) points out that ALL pathways have economic and therefore life-span impacts. Of course they set out to paint her as a heartless bitch, good Sunday fodder, but we have to have a more sensible discussion than a simple emotive one, one based on data and facts. Again, SR, studies please.

solar01,

I hope you are not using this medium/forum to advertise in, because it's not allowed, and what we have found is that anyone who flaunts this rule usually gets punished by negative public feedback and criticism.
If the adjudicators don't get to you first and remove it, I suggest you beat them to the gun, unless you want to be a marked man.
There's a good lad.

In the state with the highest unemployment South Australia, another LIBERAL has been caught with his snout in the taxpayer trough. That makes it 5 in a week, and more to come!