Tim Drayton wrote:Paphitis wrote:Yes but they have a catastrophe in the making in Victoria. The way things are going, if the spread isn't somehow reduced from current levels, Melbourne is well on its way to being a global hotspot. Not quite there yet. A month ago, they were getting single digit numbers. Now, 700 per day. All in the one city of Melbourne.
Restrictions or no restrictions, you want want to take precautions getting out of your front gate.
Over the borders, COVID has virtually been eliminated or in single digits.
What else do you want them to do?
All because seven people died, three aged in their 70's, two in their 80's and one in their 90's?
They have had something like 100 deaths in 10 days. Exponential growth in Melbourne right now. In fact, it’s gone ballistic. Melbourne’s numbers are worse than what they were for all of Australia in the first wave.
It’s definitely a big concern.
But I understand the other side of the argument. Another 250,000 people will lose their jobs. That aside from the 250,000 previously. Lives will be destroyed. People’s futures wiped out. People losing their businesses, homes and who will fall below poverty. This is the other side of it which scares me more than the virus itself.
Just the other day, I heard a statistic on Sky News. This is Australia’s Fox News. They are not typical of the normal media. For starters, they seem to be Trump supporters. Talk about going against the grain. I watch them because they inform on matters the MSM will not dare.
In the month of April, Australia had 500 more deaths. About 20 of those were from COVID. The other 400 odd, were suicides.
They went on to say that Australia’s suicide rate will increase by 1500 people. But no one talks about it apart from non mainstream outlets. We have only had about 250 actual COVID deaths, but we have more due to suicide.
So yeh, that’s the other side of it. And because of this cost, I don’t like restrictions. But this is the path Australia wants to take so we have to cooperate and stop the spread like we have done before. If we can’t, then I’m afraid, life has to go back to normal for everyone, and go down the herd immunity path.