CV and mad panic behaviour

[Baggers]

[member=61]Baggers[/member]

Baggers I take the view that either we a fighting a serious and life-threatening pandemic or we are not. If we are, then the government's obligation is to take all necessary steps to enforce the measures they have deemed necessary. If they aren't prepared to do that then just stop their bleating and wear whatever the outcome and be judged on that. All else is just hot air imo. Let's see what stage 4 may bring?

And therein lies the quandry.

The govts have medicos telling them one thing (lockdowns etc) to save lives and prevent flooding ICUs and economists telling them the dire cost if they go down that road too far and/or for too long. And the balancing act is proving precarious. The only nation that seems to have gotten it 100% right (aided by a smaller population) has been the Kiwis and they opted for the hard lockdown over an extended period and virtually shutting their borders. Result? Virtually no C-19. And we now have states here following suit, especially the closing of boarders to prevent all those diseased Melbournians and Sydneysiders.

Getting pollies and businesses to go hard either way as you say in your first sentence is a very reasonable but a polarising view. Because, ultimately... committing to one approach or the other, totally (a la NZ and now many of our states) either stops C-19 in its tracks but results in a massive financial burden/loss, or results in higher fatalities but is better for business.

So far I've tried to see it from both sides and to reason why the govts are doing what they're doing and I believe their approach is understandable (Fed & State) with only one fatal flaw in their strategy - trusting the general public to adhere to instructions to limit/prevent the C-19 spread. Maybe it's time to go much harder with quarantine rules, much harder.