Booney wrote:@Psyber, interested in your thoughts on :
The response by Morrison at a Federal level -
The response by Marshall at a State level -
The way SA Health has handled the event -
COVID-19 and the risks it poses to the community -
If you could offer 1000 words or less I'd appreciate it.
TIA.
Personally, looking at it from a purely medical viewpoint, I'd have leaned toward an earlier and tighter response locking things down sooner, but I can see (from the people I know I've seen ignoring the policies) that there is a need to play on human Psychology and sell the community the requirements a bit more gradually.
I don't know enough about national Economics to be sure about the financial policies, but it makes some sense to try to prop things up in the shorter term in the hope of a quicker bounce back. However, I think things being fine in 6 months is a bit optomistic. Morrison seems to be handling the selling of reasonable compromises gradually well, but Marshall has been a bit on the back foot compared to the Victorian and Tasmanian Premiers. Still he is not a very outgoing personality, though pleasant enough to talk to, and he may be wise to let his Ministers take the spotlight. SA Health is doing reasonably well given we have not been prepared for a possible crisis for a long time, with successive governments pruning the health budget for years and assuming nothing can go wrong.. go wrong...
COVID-19 is a serious concern given its capacity to spread rapidly even before symptoms are manifest, and the lack of any endemic immunity in the community, though its fatality is relatively low in most of the population compared with some of the new virus strains over the last few years - obviously as someone in the vulnerable age group I'm taking it seriously, and I note even children are dying in some locations.
Singapore has done a good job.
