Now you have me really worried rache, if we expect Governments to get us out of this we are really stuffed.

You only have to look at WW11 to see disaster when governments make choices. Those that had freedom of choice stuffed up winning positions to lose totally.

Oz is a prime example. Could there ever have been a more ridiculous decision than Canberra? Moving the huge number of bureaucrats to a separate city, where they can incestuously go about their business of stuffing everything they touch, unmolested by the public much more completely than amidst a city of tax payers could not be more stupid.

As I have said before, god help us.

"In the end we can only be saved by governments"

Well, given that it was governments that got us in this mess, I rather doubt the governments can save us. Its like saying the only way to stop a drug addict from ODing is to give him more drugs. The only way to save the patient from cancer is to pump more cancer cells in.

The only way governments can save us is if they get the hell outta the way. But governments don't and can't do that. Apart from anything else it'd require the current leaders all around the country admitting they were wrong from the outset. And that's never gunna happen.

So we'll continue to circle the drain and they'll eventually move on to BHP directorships, or university sinecures or plum jobs with the UN, returning occasionally to the ABC to tell us none of it was their fault.

T'was always thus.

Read up on THE GREAT RESET and Covid and ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT. The Scripture predicted it 2,000 year ago and various Nations have attempted it, but only with World economic collapse of small business will this allow one wealthy nation to rise above all others. Whose assets belong to the State and whose economy is not dependant on small businesses.

Come off the grass Paul, It was only the injection of capitalism into the business & financial sectors that saved China & Russia from their communist disasters.

Ronald Reagan said that there is no problem that governments try to fix they haven't caused themselves in the first place. Or words to that effect.

If government can't do anything, care to nominate how the capitalist system alone will fix this?

Maybe Gerry Harvey could offer a free vaccination to his customers with every purchase or you could order them on-line via Amazon or click-and-collect your Pfizer from Bunnings?

For those too squeamish to inject themselves maybe Pizza Hut could offer an injection home delivered along with each garlic bread?

Other than profit, what would motivate a business to help anyone but themselves?

Also it was capitalism that eagerly outsourced it's manufacturing and many of its jobs (and emissions) to China and not the other way round. It looks to me that China is beating the West at it's own game.
Lenin said 'When time comes to hang the capitalists, the Capitalists themselves will sell the rope for that.'