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Well, investigate medical errors and reduce them. That's normal medical practice (or should be).
Another normal medical practice should be disease prevention.
Or don't you agree ?
"A recent Johns Hopkins study claims more than 250,000 people in the U.S. die every year from medical errors. Other reports claim the numbers to be as high as 440,000."
Lock.
It.
All.
Down!
How many times do I have to put the phrase "risk vs reward" in my posts?Well, investigate medical errors and reduce them. That's normal medical practice (or should be).
Another normal medical practice should be disease prevention.
Or don't you agree ?
In an Australian population of 25 million a 1.5% death rate would result in 370,000 deaths and probably 600k -1 million people with long term heath consequences. That was the scenario facing the Australian governments in March.
I can't believe that after nearly a year people don't understand they're being played.
Why the effing hell would a fiscally conservative government do this unless it was necessary ?
Because they are not fiscally conservative, they are arse covering, like the rest of them. Easy to spend other people's money.
They failed, they used Covid as an excuse, the never would have balanced the budget.Really ? They just spent the last 9 years trying to balance the budget and almost achieved it.
You miss understood my post, I was posing questions, I have said since the beginning I think it is something best avoided.200k + in the US and rising.
Are you saying that all those deaths are of sick people and their passing will be a relief to the health system because they won't need treatment any more ?
We could say that for cancer patients surely ? Let 'em die so we don't have to spend money on them.
I don't see the point you are making. A large number of those deaths in the US would have been preventable if proper precautions were taken.
FEARa lockdown could be enacted at any time, there has to be a reason.
Exactly what I was wondering.Being played for what ?
A Conservative government in Australia has shelled out billions and got us into debt for decades to stop this thing.
The government is controlled by business who definitely don't want their businesses destroyed.
Why the effing hell would a fiscally conservative government do this unless it was necessary ?
There are essentially two types of governments in the world – those that trust their citizens and those that do not.
Either you believe that the people you govern are responsible adults who will act in a reasonable way, follow reasonable rules and make reasonable decisions or you believe that they are somehow infantile or incapable of rational thought.
Which is which, Horace?There are two types of people in society.
One are responsible adults who act in a reasonable way.
The other are infantile and incapable of rational thought.
The former has to be protected from the latter.
While respecting posters attachment to democracy and a free press it is my belief that during a pandemic such as Covid-19 these are ineffectual instruments to deal with the situation in which we find ourselves today.
A good outcome would be for a minimal decrease in quality of life years and an economy capable of a rapid recovery.
Posters attachment to the common sense ( if one can measure this ) of the Australian people ( if such an identifiable entity exists in 2020 ) is admirable.
It is widely misplaced however and in fact dangerous.
The press are controlled on the one hand on the right by an ageing American/Australian of Scottish heritage with no loyalty to anyone but himself and on the other on the left by a mob of peahens of disputable gender and intelligence with no sense of the real world as it affects workers.
In the political realm Australia is a barnacled boat drifting without a captain or crew after a cyclone.
A firm hand, decisions decided and enacted, changing course rapidly if found to be the wrong decisions, is needed.
Bugger Democracy.
Bugger a Free Press.
gg
Which is which, Horace?
Bugger Democracy makes several assumptions which you may not have accounted for GG.While respecting posters attachment to democracy and a free press it is my belief that during a pandemic such as Covid-19 these are ineffectual instruments to deal with the situation in which we find ourselves today.
A good outcome would be for a minimal decrease in quality of life years and an economy capable of a rapid recovery.
Posters attachment to the common sense ( if one can measure this ) of the Australian people ( if such an identifiable entity exists in 2020 ) is admirable.
It is widely misplaced however and in fact dangerous.
The press are controlled on the one hand on the right by an ageing American/Australian of Scottish heritage with no loyalty to anyone but himself and on the other on the left by a mob of peahens of disputable gender and intelligence with no sense of the real world as it affects workers.
In the political realm Australia is a barnacled boat drifting without a captain or crew after a cyclone.
A firm hand, decisions decided and enacted, changing course rapidly if found to be the wrong decisions, is needed.
Bugger Democracy.
Bugger a Free Press.
gg
On the face of it I agree but what's reasonable?Those who listen to the advice of medical experts and follow reasonable precautions are the former wayne.
Democracy certainly has its faults and rather than dirwct democracy we probably should be or focusing on the principle of representative democracy.
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