Good luck in finding any supplies of masks here. The government says it is prepared for this pandemic but there's no way our health system will be able to cope with this huge problem. The number of cases is increasing and we don't know how many other cases of people who are infected and have not reported to health authorities. There was one case in NSW where the police were called in to get an infected person hospitalised because the infected person refused to do so.
"self quarantine" here is a joke. My cousin at USYD says one student came back from Italy and went to class after being told to "self quarantine"... Few days later had fever than went and got a positive test. Now all the students that shared the same lecture or tutorial classes have to be asked to stay away from school and "self quarantine"... Wonder how many of them will go hang out in the malls next
Young people are still kissing in Hong Kong !
Risky already for going there in the first place. You know what the risk so do at your own risk.
What is the point in wearing a mask and you kiss - drop lit. Do it at you own rick.
You can't blame people for panic buying, even the Chief Medical Officer of the country Brendan Murphy is advising people to have 2 week's worth of food supplies at home, go figures !!
Anyone noticed that our PM is a dead set follower rather than a leader ??
Firstly , the Diamond Princess evacuations: too complicated, can’t be done! But as soon as the US had sent chartered planes to pickup the Americans onboard, suddenly, yes we can !
And for so long we were ( or at least some of us !) urging the government to take decisive actions to close our border or stop incoming international travels , no , too hard and it will hurt the economy!
But as soon as the Kiwi PM Jacinta made her announcement! Within 24 hr, our PM follow suit !
Well, it’s still better late than never ?
Just reminded me about the performance between the CEO of Macau who had been doing a brilliant job in leading the region to combat the virus from day one vs his very ordinary counter part from Hong Kong.
Scomo is a follow look at Wuhan evacuation Very hard to do then countries like Thailand/Malaysia/Japsn/uncle Sam/uk can do it faster then we can. He is just too relax and comfortable. She be alright mate attitude. Only the fire burn his ASS! Than he move. My feeling his Chief medical advisors are useless. I don't follow their advice anymore. I just learn from taiwan/Singapore/HK/China advice. Advice here is slow and the government is not proactive. Always wait and see.
If he had better advisers he would be more proactive and not be a follower. He can't act on his own. He listens to his advisers and they are letting him down when the government should be taking action immediately.
His call and action are not up to standard in time of crises and emergency. We want him to led not to follow and waiting for advice. Is a judgment thing either you have it or you don't. He fail during the recent bushfire and now this covid19 a disaster is waiting to happen like italy/France/spain/uk/USA. We are an island nation quarantine and isolation is the best defense and take control of the crisis.
I was at 7 Cowper St Granville today. The owner Linda said that business is down 50%.
Is it a bird, is it a plane, no its Punterman. Always seeking out good value bbbj, DFK, DATY for $150 hr in the Western Sydney brothels.
He doesn't want to piss the voters off, so watch and wait , the problem is his teams of advisors, like when we had the fires, I bet his team were saying, stay and enjoy Hawaii it is under control, "she be right".
And why didn't the state get active more, no they left it for federal because they didn't want to upset anyone.
A good team should have stepped in till he was back, no senseable leadership anywhere in our system, and now same thing, leave it for the big guy to look bad
The government and the PM have to take into account what is also in the best interests of the economy. By closing all borders and not letting anyone in, they claim such move will make our economy crash. Therefore, it is better to let people get infected and eventually some people will die then let the country's economy collapse. They are not willing to do what China did that is tackle the problem head on with all resources and immediately.
To be fair, he was always a follower until he accidentally became leader thanks to yet another of our Great Aussie Traditions, namely the Great Aussie PM Switcheroo.
It's not, like, anybody voted him into power or anything. He just got it because he was there and there was nobody else better for the job in Liberal.