Perhaps those who can most afford to contribute will pay in proportion:
Or maybe not. GST is viciously regressive.
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We’ll probably have less local media. Not all of the publications that suspend printing will resume.
I am reading a lot about the benefits of natural vitamin C as a guard against loads of health issues including virus. I think it would be a positive thing if all suburbs undertook to plant in their front verges any type of (small) citrus so that all families could reap the health benefits of ample and free inclusion in their diets.
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Any bailout offered should be predicated with a negotiation of government ownership. If tax payers money is spent propping up a corporation it must end up with a stake in that entity.
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I like the way you think 
Unfortunately certain ideologies are full on to privatise profits and socialise losses with no questions asked and few requirements included beyond ‘cashing the cheque’; Tweedledee and Tweedledum seem to do similar dance steps more often than not.
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Or to ensure that business avoids losses. It’s difficult to judge, but it seems to me that a business whose financial position is as fragile as some suggest is probably insolvent or close to it. If the private sector fails (and the business is essential) then perhaps the function should be drawn into the public fold.
It does seem that industrial relations and labour markets will be substantially different after COVID-19.
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It looks like we’re in for less freedom of information:
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Looks like I’m not alone in making that observation:
We’re in for an interesting time.
We asked our Council if we could plant fruit & veg on our verge (leaving a walkway & room for the Postie) in a cul-de-sac a couple of years ago. Emphatic NO! And, anything that we do plant would be subject to removal without notice.
Maybe after this pandemic attitudes may improve?
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Gardening Australia did a piece on that years ago:
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I agree that vitamin C is important as part of a balanced diet and that if you have dietary deficiencies it increases the chance of having a depressed immune system. A deficiency of vitamin C will surely make you sick. That doesn’t mean that taking vitamin C in excess of your body’s need will do anything about health issues. The idea that if some is good then more is better does not apply.
I have not seen good evidence that (other than in requisite amounts) vitamin C does anything specific about virus infections. Where did you get this information?
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What will the future be like when a vaccine has been developed and this Pandemic is under control. I think more people will be working from home and less cash will be used. I also wonder if cricket players will be banned from spitting on the cricket ball to give it some shine to assist the bowlers. People have short memories so in about 1 or 2 years social lifestyles will have gone back to normal and the Covid-19 pandemic will just be a memory like the Spanish flu. I would hope that Governments have learnt from this Pandemic and will support research into corona virus research and that wet markets are closed or if not closed then as a minimum bats and other animals that carry virus’s are banned from wet markets. Governments also need to have health legislation in place should another deadly virus evolve and legislation should be in place to prevent profiteering during national shortages of essential items and food. WHO especially needs to sharpen its view and act far more quickly than they did during this Coronavirus and not wait until it has become a pandemic.
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Not surprising, but we can do better.
An article regarding free trade and the global economy.
Surprising or not? Australia had a head start more than ten years prior to the current pandemic.
It looks like a dropped ball, a missed opportunity in hind sight. All the more amazing given Tony Abbott was the then a Federal Minister for Health, prior to becoming PM in 2013.
The positive in this, if there is one? We may have a greater depth of knowledge and understanding of what to do, because of what was done more than ten years ago.
We can live in hope.
That we are responding successfully to the circumstances. A good outcome for all, including all our leadership.
I’d not hope for a poorer outcome, or to see Australia revert to the ways of Ancient Greece. Ancient Greek society was far removed from what most Australians value.
Or did you mean something else?
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It will be interesting to see what the impact on interest rates and inflation will be. Nobody will have much money to lend, while governments (in particular) will be under pressure to borrow, to kickstart their economies. This would tend to push interest rates up.
Meanwhile there may be less demand for consumer credit, with so many people out of work and businesses closed.
‘We can live in hope’
“The Prime ministers inconsistency of message, the contradictory measures and an approach that too often seems only semi-committed”.
If you are part of the entertainment industry, the part time workers group, the disabled or indigenous community you may not be so congratulatory. If you are a family that was affected by the bushfires - no joy there either. We may never get the true COVID19 statistics but in my opinion a lot of hasty decisions have caused a lot of grief, uncertainty and fear.
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There might not be a “post-COVID-19”.
We might just have to learn to live with SARS-CoV-2:
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