what I don't understand is that we certainly had lessons - valuable ones, but, we haven't acted on them
we haven't acted on things which are so basic, were so glaring, in our face and aren't all that difficult to fix.
two things really stand out to me as glaringly obvious - just examples - for future epidemics or pandemics -
for the first - for any state or national disaster -- and that is
1. EVERY Australian shoulld be registered with centrelink and they should be made to keep a current active bank account registered with the organisation - why?
so that in the event of any kind of emergency - the government can get funds to people - one click and it's done ------------------- how is it possible to misunderstand the need here when we had queues of people stretching from the doors of centrelink along the street and around the corner to register for assistance?
Then, there are multiople examples such as this -
building standards ---
2. that all public dunnies - in shopping centres etc - have no doors (barring cubicles), or at the very minimum have the door at the exit AFTER the handwash area - to open outwards, so you don't have to grab a handle to get out
For the future when we do get epidemics where contagions spread by touch - it's a given. It's also a common sense given for everyday normal public health, even without epidemics
these things are so simple to enact --------- but, --------- not a squeak
why?
- Forums
- Political Debate
- COVID review
COVID review, page-2
-
- There are more pages in this discussion • 132 more messages in this thread...
You’re viewing a single post only. To view the entire thread just sign in or Join Now (FREE)