Which is the greatest threat to Australian society?

Originally posted by pintohoo: ↑

just a point on the covid carry on with all governments --

what a tremendous failure for government ----------- any government - almost all nations -

just plain vanilla government FAIL

after thousands of years of evidence of epidemics etc. After about 100 years of one of the biggest disease pandemics in well recorded history. After SARS --

why, in the name of god didn't every single national and state government have SET procedures - or a range of procedures - written up and in place ready to go - which people would have public access too freely

there was NOTHING mysterious about Covid in so many ways which made it all that new --

it was a respiratory disease
it was spread in the air and fomite
it was rapidly transmitted
it was clearly dangerous
it killed

well, hello ------------- we should have already known to a degree - what to do. We should have known that we would far more than likely - lockdown, wear masks, engage social distancing,

there was actually very little new from the Spanish flu --------- barring vaccines and tests

so why - for heavens sake did we fluff about for months - like children who just discovered fire?

All I see really is government failure - and, I see now - that we are STILL making the huge mistake of lack of preparation - for serious ISSUES that we know came up - a couple of years back -

ISSUES that demand fixes - fixes that are really very simple - yet - we have not enacted them..

An example would be in Australia - where Centrelink didn't have the immediate setup to get money out to all of the Australian public -

all it requires is for everyone in the country to be registered with Centrelink and to maintain a current bank account which can accept emergency immediate payments --

this is a requirement which a blind man on a galloper can see will be needed in future - for any number of natural disasters etc..

There has been over 2 and a half years to get this done ---------- yet, it remains undone.

So, the next disaster we have - flood, fire, earthquake, flying zombies ---------- we will again have Aussies on the street lined up to go in and register ----

what a monster FAIL that is for a government -------------- a KNOWN requirement - preparation - very simple to enable - and yet ------------------ zip.

we have something missing in humans and how we run the place

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yes, there is something missing - we ain't poifect!

we but human, frail and fallible.

but we keep getting better at doing things, and better at deciding what it is needs to be done.

note that very few nations suffered from the rejection of the AGW science.... and here it is only a few percent. the same with covid.

lets not stress too much about it.