Dear Cossomby,

I also am under specialist care at present - I'm a work
in progress. And am also finding great medical care and
support. This has been on-going for quite a few years now.
We are lucky to be living in this country. Our medical
care overall is outstanding.

Paul,

I don't think you understand about health. It is what it is, so yes, we're all going to die some time.

So here's an idea: what if only acute medical problems were treated in hospitals, like broken legs, fractured skulls, etc. and everything else, the minor stuff, was simply 'let go' since the patient, i.e. the whinger, was going to die sooner or later. After all, you and I are still alive so why should we worry, to cite the brilliant philosopher Alfred E. Neumann ?

Think of the billions that we could save that way ! Far less tax to be paid ! Fewer hospitals and those loafing health 'professionals'! And - the bonus - fewer people to clog up our roads.

Abandon this namby-pamby health system, I say. Let those who are living, live life a bit fuller.

Joe

Hi Joe,

There is all kinds of perverted logic. Why bother with car safety, after all, road trauma was once a real problem in Australia, but not any more, its now down to a "manageable" level, no longer a problem. Seat belts, airbags, speed limits, breath testing etc etc why bother with all that necessary nonsense? Like covid-19 in Australia, more people die from breast cancer according to one bod, so why worry about it.

News Joe,

Two new moko's one niece in Sydney baby girl on 27th, her sister baby boy yesterday in NZ. That makes, I don't know how many moko's now. Last month a moko, gave us a grand-moko, we have some real breeding stock in our family. The son and his partner, due Xmas day.

We won't know how many people died of the disease and ancillary reactions for a while yet. Methods of counting are so different across countries, states and jurisdictions that immediate comparison is fraught.

Recently the UK reduced its official WuFlu death toll by 5000 by redefining its counting method. Even then its still more open than that applying in Germany, which is different to Italy which is different to Spain. Equally there are numerous ways of counting deaths amongst the various US states. Remember how New York changed its methods of counting in order to reduce the official nursing home death rate.

Here, also, its unclear if counted WuFlu deaths includes people who died of or with the virus.

So we await the official calculations of total national deaths from all causes to determine the actual WuFlu effect.

In the year so far, less than 1 million people (830 thousand) have died from the China virus, but in the same period:

5.3 million people have died from cancer,
8.5 million from communicable disease.

Even alcohol-related deaths beat the China virus - 1.6 million.

Yet, there are no breathless, alarmist, daily news reports and earbashings on these deaths, that have been occurring prior to the China virus - deaths that will continue occurring after the China virus fades into history.