Covid cases down to 5 in Victoria, page-27

Also a la Wuhan, and many other nations around the planet.

SARS and MERS were lethal on a large scale. the world hadn't prepared to deal with it. Had everyone been prepared there may have been lockdowns. But SARS and MERS both mutated quickly, as viruses do, to become harmless to humans. Theres a probability that SARS-COV-2 will do the same.

The lockdowns were necessary to stop the virus from spreading. In this what Andrews did was right and has proven effective. Would you prefer to see the virus run rampant through the community and do to Aus what its doing in France, US, UK where adequate lockdowns haven't been done? the death rate would be, as estimated by some, 20 x higher, and by others 200 times higher.

When SARS became harmless there was pressure on vaccine researchers to drop their research so the vaccine was not developed.