@Fred13
We are on the same page Fred, but you don't keep an economy running in the midst of a pandemic by trying to keep it running. All you are doing is dragging out the solution, which in the long term will hurt the economy even more!
The only sensible option is to alleviate the problem as quickly as possible...... and then get the economy running again.
Each state here has had Covid escape into the community at times. Last week it was Brisbane's turn in Queensland. A Cluster of 17 cases was uncovered in Brisbane and the entire greater Brisbane area (2.4 million people) was put into immediate total lock-down for three days.
That was Monday last week, contact tracers and QR codes isolated that cluster and all those who came into contact with it from the community, and this week the whole country is back to business again. Here is yesterdays figures.
Last night (Good Friday) 40,000 fans attended a football match here at the Adelaide oval, they all paid to attend, they all ate or drank something, staff got employed, the wheels of business went around. Adelaide dining is running at full capacity, there is no compulsion to wear masks in public.
The Adelaide 'Fringe' festival which runs from 19th Feb to 21st March sold $16.4 million worth of tickets with more than 500,000 people going though the gates for the month.
Today more than 30,000 people are attending a horse racing event at Oakbank in the Adelaide Hills not far from where I live.....no masks, no restrictions. All over Australia life is virtually normal. Sydney's 'Lyrics' stage theatre last week opened the live stage production of the American stage show 'Hamilton' to packed houses.
At times things do get cancelled or postponed due to Covid but these are isolated events and are not having a major effect on the economy
Business is back to usual here Fred because the authorities will take what ever steps are required to stop COVID-19 getting into the community, our economy is firm and Australia still has its AAA credit rating with S&P and 'Moody's'
The country is still taking our cap of 4,000 returning nationals per week but they go into immediate quarantine and have no effect on the community. It is these returning expats who are bringing the virus with them at a rate of about 100 per week....but they are being suitably controlled and isolated.
We just need the rest of the world to catch up Fred and that can't happen fast enough for us.
Cheers........Rob