The NSW shut down has been fairly hard and swift, all the other states have done similar or better (or worse, depends on your view) to restrict our movements and living in general.
The Federal Government is using Doctor Brendan Murphy (he is the Chief Medical Officer of Australia and the Secretary of the Department of Health, he specialises in Nephrology which is the kidneys) for delivering advice to all us plebs, so hopefully with all this social distancing (SD) and grog drinking we will have healthy kidneys with all that liquid flushing.
The advice about SD is that it is the best way to avoid the Covid-19, that is until you get it. The reality is that the advice is there to slow down the rate of infection so our health services can cope with ICU cases, which is mostly older plebs. Like every other flu, this beauty will infect a lot, kill a lesser amount, and become a seasonal fixture like all the other flus.
The Government has gone in so hard it is like the frog in a pan of tepid water that is raised to boiling and the frog gets used to it and dies from roasting. Except in reverse, the pan is boiling and we have been dunked in it, so any decrease in temperature seems like heaven.
So go in hard and go in early, turn the screws of confinement up so tight that when the authorities release them slightly it will seem like freedom is on us in spades.
Sweden and Taiwan et al are trying a very different approach, more of a sensible distancing let 'er rip attitude and hoping that again the spread of Covid-19 will be slow enough for society to cope with it.
Time will tell but based on history, this is a 1 in 100 year virus storm which will dissipate, Spanish flu after all still does the rounds continually.
The worry for the free world is whether the bureaucrats, who have their hands on the wheels of power, will give the wheels back to society easily, I think not.
Enjoy the isolation.
No comments:
Post a Comment