Here in Melbourne we have had a curfew for a number of weeks from 8pm to 5.00am and that allows the individual 1 hour of " freedom " so long as you don't traverse more than 5km from your home to shop but you can't visit anybody other than your intimate partner if he/she resides elsewhere.
The reason is to give police a break from their door knocking of covid positive homes during the day to confirm that they are still at home (LOL).
We have 1800 active cases in a population of 5.5m with 90 per cent of the 650 odd deaths to date in nursing homes or residents transferred to hospital with co- morbidities.
Our economy has been trashed in 7 months , 10's of thousands of businesses gone to the wall never to reopen , over 1 million living on welfare , suicides and premature deaths from other diseases not diagnosed from much younger individuals that will skyrocket and dwarf the deaths from and with covid.
Anybody who has lived in Melbourne would pick it over anywhere in the old dart for many a reason but not any more.
Economy and a business is not just a job and the esteem and dignity you give to those that work in that business it is family , social activity , structure and compliments your reason for living.
Our politicians from all sides by and large have no idea how to involve themselves in a public health response other than to stuff up life as we know it.
Notably all those bureaucrats and public servants have given up nothing financially throughout the pandemic.
if they cut their salaries by 50 per cent and more than many other in the private sector have had to endure the draconian response would be much different.
99 per cent of cases are mild and if managed well you protect the elderly and vulnerable and let the rest get on with their lives.
Be interesting to note that Sweden has had no more deaths this year compared to last year.
Wonder outside China bullying Taiwan and wishing they were no longer a free democratic society , how Taiwan is going these days.
