COVID-19 updates comments and concerns

[Autocon]

The results of an independent review into Australia's handling of the covid-19 pandemic:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/frac...18-p5bqso.html

I am surprised to see lockdowns given such disdain here. Intuitively, they seemed like the right move, but according to the panel it should only ever have been an initial response and not something we kept relying on.

There were no medical people on the board.

[mikeyc7m]

Yeah seems like petty hindsight handwringing when one considers the number of people dead overseas. If the feds had bothered to secure vaccines sooner we would not have needed so many lockdowns.

The big benefit of a lockdown is the economy can bounce right back when it's over - if there was no lockdown all the sick/dead would have stalled the economy anyway, and for a long time after the emergency is over too.

[Tha_Phantom]

If the feds had bothered to secure vaccines sooner we would not have needed so many lockdowns.

The report said this.

“Many lockdowns were avoidable,” the report found. “Some were the result of failures in our quarantine systems, our contact tracing systems, a sluggish vaccine rollout and shortcomings in our communication with key parts of our community.

[GoktimusPrime]

"Health expert" sounds like a broader term than "medical expert." All medical experts are also health experts, but not all health experts are medical experts. Dietitians, personal trainers, Chinese herbalists, counsellors, physiologists are all health experts but not medical experts. It would be helpful if the article told us who these health experts were. Governments were acting on the advice of medical experts like Dr. Kerry Chant etc.

This article is also loaded with emotively biased language... so much for professional journalistic neutrality. I wouldn't even write a toy review with this level of bias, and quite frankly, if a student ever tried to use this kind of language in a persuasive writing text, I would have to give them a pretty low score (as they're trying to use emotional bias rather than objective evidence or logic to persuade the audience).

[Autocon]

They have a name. Virus pathogen people. Only heard the word on the news when it was in the media

[Tha_Phantom]

There were no medical people on the board.

What are "health experts" then? Genuine question.