Since the corona virus pandemic, the public is so "well" looked after by the government, it deserves to look at this good care. That care seems to focus primarily to get people to adhere to rules that should prevent the spread of the virus. The prime minister even considers more police control to enforce adherence. Money well spent, or not?
An expert on TV last night talked about herds and how impossible it was to prevent a virus from spreading. You can only "flatten the curve" of the spread, statistically speaking. Lucky us, it's not Ebola, isn't it? Anyway, it is too high a cost for what actually is achieved by these current interventions, trying to curb the spread. Regardless that the numbers of the critically ill are far less frightening than the government makes it out to be, it, by all means, is a concern. Particularly because the health system cannot cope, having been stripped of funds for a long time, stretched out to cause even for day to day work problems as we all know too good. Any extra demand on the system brings it down to its knees, of course! Good health care it is not, it just covers the basics. Cost cutting was ordered by the government to fix the budget that was suffering from a previous spending spray in the face of a depression. It is alarming to think about what pain future budgets will bring. However! This current urge for prevention is sure a great strategy to cover up governmental mismanagement. But the public laps it up as if the politicians were the most honest and trustworthy people in this world. In fact they sell you their grandmother for a vote! And then there is Scott, the Moron jumping at the corona virus with gusto, giving him the opportunity to make good on ground lost in the bushfires and come back as the knight in shining armours to safe everybody's life from a deadly virus. But he has not your health and your life in mind. He is only concerned with his own image. To emphasise on the seriousness of an unknown virus threat makes good sense but to blow it out of proportion provides the best opportunity to distract from a faulty and financially starved health care system, the scheming politicians and, let's face it, the dependence on China economically. As evident now, goods desperately needed to fit out health care workers and hospitals in the eye of a health care crisis (though every year influenza threatens to system too), nobody in the country actually manufactures the items in demand. But scoffing at people who hoard-buy and do not obey orders that is what our PM does really well. And yes, the body language is consistent with someone just coming back to the high grounds after wiggling in no-man's land for a while.
And guess who actually pays the scientists who warn of the pandemic? Research is mostly government funded, so the majority of scientists are government employees and the ones who are not, belong to industries and organisations related to either/or, or even both. Independent research is hardly an option, as research is costly. How do you think it possible that experts contradict each other and scientific information gets twisted and bent like the reeds in the wind? Because they serve the lobby that pays them and all too often their ego as well. And who is then on the media as expert? The ones who serve the government! But because they are experts, the public can hardly dare to be critical. No wonder they fall for the smoke screens, having little knowledge about scientific data or what to do with it. They get swept up in their emotions and blindfolded they are the willing herd to hail their leaders. Heil Hitler! Another mass hysteria! You say that is soooo different! No it isn't. Hysteria follows its own rules, it does not matter who caused it and to what purpose.
Last but not least, there is another point to tough rules which I'd like to dissect. People want the ones who behave irresponsibly punished. Unfortunately every society has its criminals, irresponsible characters and, hoodlums, but does that justify that the whole society should be punished? In the case of the pandemic, the public has to endure a lockdown of a devastatingly enormous extent, because a few don't care about themselves and certainly not about others? But why should society lose a healthy economy and many their jobs, their business, their livelihood due to some miserable characters who give a dam? That is a disservice to them. Particularly, when the danger to their life is the financial ruin, which is for most more detrimental than the corona virus infection.
I conclude that killing the economy does not kill the virus and the money spent to keep business alive is better spent on the health care system so to help the ones, who actually fall sick.