@TheSpaniard ...."
everyone else should be out there keeping the economic wheels turning."
This type of thinking is rife through the community, and tends to not want to look at reality..
There are many businesses that are closing down voluntarily, not because of some government mandate. WE have OH&S rules in this country, so that if you operate an unsafe workplace there a re penalties, and/or you could lose your protection under insurance. Plus there is the minor detail of many employers actually caring about their workforce.
Then the added effect of hospitals becoming overrun with sick people that were not supposed to be in the 'vulnerable category'. (There have been teenagers dying of this disease in the UK). We also have the effect of people seeing their workplaces have sick people turning up for work, and others knowing the hospitals can't care for them if they get sick, will just not bother coming in. WE have already seen evidence of this with the coronavirus case in a Sydney aged care facility, where half, yes half the staff called in 'sick' the following day.
Do people that subscribe to the 'let it rip' through the community approach, to 'save' the economy, really expect people will 'matyr' themselves to save the economy??
Realistically this virus was going to crash the economy anyway, no matter what the government did with new rules to limit the spread. Isn't it better that whatever destruction happens, it is in a more controlled manner instead of chaos and death all over the place??
