Hydromann said..laceys lane said..
From what i can see in the paper this morning they will not lift restrictions until they have 7500 ventilators nationally.
So looking at that they dont think they can stop the virus, they just delayed the rise until they were up to speed medically.
Discuss
If the virus ran screaming through us like in NY 7500 would not be enough.
Besides it has been proven that ventilators can cause more harm than good by forcing the virus deeper into lung tissue under positive pressure.
So that excuse is simply that, an excuse.
It would be much more cost effective to round up everyone with a positive test and enforce isolation for six months.
And to ensure that anyone at high risk due to an existing condition is also isolated for six months.
Meanwhile the rest of to population can keep the country running and practice good hygiene and social distancing awareness in what would essentially become a virus free environment.
Any further outbreaks could then be identified and controlled systematically.
Oz is in an ideal position to do this and to recover economically.
Without the economy recovering we will cause knock on effects that will cause more damage than the disease.
And yet all I see is a population being controlled down to allowable social interactions by fear.
I can't speak for others but I would be happy to risk contracting and even dying due to this virus than give up the hard won freedom that our grandfather's father's fought and died for.
To me it seems that we are all more scared of possible loss and casualty than being willing to protect what people willingly gave their lives for in the past. FREEDOM.
WE HAVE ALL BECOME A BUNCH OF SOFT COCK PUSSIES.
Selling out universal freedom for personal nanny state safety.
And yes I get the tragedy of loss attached to this thing. But as out illustrious leaders point out we are at war, a war where they would sacrifice freedom and not allow the personal choice for us to fight to protect it.
Talk about setting the stage for tin foil hatter's to come up with all sorts of theories!
I can appreciate this post and the guts to say it.