@Sharon1014 Thank you for your unsolicited and uninformed commentary - particularly with regard to my personal listing situation. It requires a response and I will address each statement in turn:
1 Aussie is in lockdown.
There is a great deal of confusion as to what this term should actually mean - as your response demonstrates. At the time of writing my response to Ria, lockdown was certainly not the case in Australia. While international airport travel was being restricted (much too late) movement between states was not and states have been left - even now - to decide how much social distancing is implemented. Visit theconversation.com for a clearer picture of what this looks like NOW. Further, what was coming was pretty clear to anyone with the ability to analyse and track the emergence of the global SARSCoV2/COVID19 pandemic.
Leadership here has certainly been inadequate. Action should have been taken at least a week ago to close state border traffic and to implement quarantine measures (there are several local examples in SA of where the supposedly self imposed isolation of infected or possibly infected was not working). Government advice has been coming in dribs and drabs and no united front - even now as the true picture is beginning to emerge, the rules vary from state to state. Federal response has been inadequate. The true danger to the Australian community of this virus is as yet unknown as the rate of infection continues to increase exponentially. I will stop there but could go on - the evidence is clear, go figure.
2. And we were never warriors.
I did wonder if my words would be taken literally by someone without imagination. To clarify, the concept of warrior now encompasses a number of forms and scenarios. I apologise for the confusion. What I meant was, in my opinion, we were once a braver nation, with the courage to stand for the needs and rights of others as well as ourselves. We've certainly had leaders that represented this part of our national psyche.
3. All politicians are cut from the same cloth.
Now there's a perfect copout statement for the apathetic and uninformed. Really no excuse in a country with access to good education and literature. Australian political and social history has many good examples of how false your statement is. Read it - start from the late 1800s and be enlightened by the emerging nation we were, the bravery of citizens and the politicians that stood in their interest - willingly and not so willingly at times, that's true but good people acted for the common good. Many citizens made sacrifices to give us the human rights that made Australia stand as a good example and global citizen. Many countries have since adopted them. Early examples such as our suffragette movement and the vote for women (NZ beat us to the post but we were second in the world), workers unions to protect and give us rights against bad treatment by employers.These were enacted into our parliament by political leaders.
More recently Whitlam gave us free education and healthcare...and havent we stuffed that up? (Hows your private healthcare looking when the best emergency care we have is in our public hospitals? and the continued lack of funding to public universities since Howards leadership - the same universities that at as a result of Whitlams legacy gave us some of the best medical researchers in the world). SAus was the first state to give our indigenous people the vote. We citizens marched to give voice and demand political support for anti-nuclear status. Politicians also. And we got it. We also marched against damming the Franklin And Hawke stopped it. Sadly, in my opinion, the last 30 years have seen a sorry continuous decline as we become a nation overrun by greed and self interest. Our recent political history is an indictment on the nation - we once were...
4. And I notice your listing has disappeared, not the action of a "warrior".
Really? I take it you are an expert on how one should proceed given current circumstances changing as I write this response to your uninformed comment?
I came upon this forum and made the comment to which you so politely responded, while I was trying to find up to date information from Airbnb administration as to the next best step to keep my guests, intending guests and my family safe, as COVID19 literally goes viral in Australia. After considering the limited amount of information available here I made an informed decision that the best thing I could do in my situation was to snooze our listing until the picture becomes clearer. My background as a Health and Medical researcher, means that I have come to the INFORMED decision that - for now - snoozing the listing is the best way I can ensure the safety of my guests and my family. I understand that each person must make their own INFORMED decision on this and that it is not easy.
I take it you do understand how contagious this virus actually is? You do understand it can live outside of the host for 9 days? You do understand that we can scrub our little hands off and still not eliminate all signs of virus - given the different areas and surfaces in our homes? I cannot be certain that how ever much I clean my guest accomodation between guests, and it is spotless, that no contaminant remains. And of course, you do understand that it is not yet clear if the virus can be spread before any sign of infection? You also understand what the term infection rate means? And transmission rate?
Please do your own research and figure it out for yourself - or find out what the real health experts are saying, theres a novel idea - and unless you actually have the information to support your comments to others, perhaps it is best left unsaid.
