There are issues with the suggestions in this thread of moving to some more stringent lockdown designed to beat the virus.
1) Suggesting a 'total lockdown' is not useful unless you define what that means. At the moment it could be argued we are in total lockdown, where people aren't allowed to go outside except for essential reasons. I suppose schooling and exercise might be able to be shaved off that definition, but what else? Define your 'total lockdown' in its entirety before going on to describe how much better it will be for us, because 'total lockdown' means different things to almost everybody unless it's clearly defined.
2) Nothing I have read has suggested that Australia can prevent Covid-19 from having a rolling presence in the community, whether we move to more stringent measures or not (prior to a vaccine that is). It's easy to say 'close the borders, that will keep covid-19 out', but we simply cannot do that. It is physically and practicably impossible.
Respectfully, it is pretty out on a limb to suggest that randos off an investment website would have better insights than the entirety of the medical and governmental leadership teams in charting the best course here. Do you really think in your wildest dreams that a Government such as our Federal team, who is acutely allergic to spending and welfare, would go for the long, drawn out approach which slowly peels the bandaid off over 6-18 months, when a short, sharp, VASTLY cheaper, VASTLY more manageable and VASTLY more popular solution was so simple that a handful of unqualified anonymites that posts on this website could see it, but they couldn't? That is, unless the powers that be don't have one eye on their ideology or self-interest, but posters on here do.
I'm not suggesting that we should swallow what our leaders (medico/political) are telling us blindly. But everything I've read from sources that aren't obviously self-serving supports the course being charted here by our leadership. Moreover, the way we are going, I can see the entire planet going over the Aus-NZ response to the crisis to develop their own blueprint of how to do it next time, so impressed have I been with Prime Ministers Morrison and Ardern relative to their overseas peers. I suppose time will tell if we have gotten it right.
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