In the Wars they had it worse. Rationing, check points, national service, martial law. The military have advanced protocols for dealing with bio-weapons we should use some of them. To be honest I would trust them more than the police if they are the same as I remember. Nurses should go on a list and asked to report to hospitals in their home zone. Rip the bandaid off and fix the problem. Get the economy working again by working from home- mobilize the telcoms, and other resources to facilitate telepresence, etc, etc. Kick out the useless touchy feely creepy socialist communist idiots running the bureaucracy and put capable military officers in charge.

Run the companies under martial law for 6 months to pay off the debt.

Problem solved.

Things get done more quickly when you do some actual work. Ayn Rand

The fact that pre-Covid the Libs managed to double the debt without the excuse of the GFC really showed just how inept they were in dealing with this crisis.

Diving for 'historical tax cuts' in a vain hope it would reduce debt levels was pie in the sky trickle down economic at its finest.

This lot are clowns and I would much rather have the opposition getting us through this right now.

I cant see how tax cuts will be much of a solution either.

I hope I am wrong.

So ironic those pressing for the most draconian lockdowns, supporting the marxist propganda of the abc at a billion a year, cheering on the renewables scam, supporting the spreading of the virus through protests, now want to pretend they care about economics. You certainly could not make this stuff up.

I guess it was always going to happen.

Those who were most gung-ho for the total lock-down, those who were utterly cheering the closure of businesses willy-nilly to 'save' lives, those who chanted the mantra that we're all in this together, those same are now shocked, shocked I tell ya (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPY6Pp4kmxQ) that the economy has tanked and will take years (decades?) to repair.

We used to lament that governments couldn't think beyond the next election. We now have governments and, it seems, a majority constituency who can't think beyond the next scary WuFlu pronouncement.

The really sad part is that it was all so unnecessary.

It's all part of a bloody political struggle.