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By Situation Theatre 17/3/2020
The best way to stop millions becoming infected is to wait until thousands are infected.
We’ve all heard the saying that “prevention is better than cure”.
It’s the kind of bogus philosophy we heard from Bill Bowtell last night on Q &A, who accused the Government of squandering the 10 weeks they’ve had to properly plan for this escalating coronavirus crisis.
This so-called Adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales, who supposedly led Australia’s response to the HIV/AIDS crisis in the early 1990s, savaged Federal and State authorities for failing to launch a public education campaign for so long, for failing to mobilise the people in preparation, for failing to sanitise and disinfect the transport system, for delayed and inadequate social distancing measures, for learning little from the calamities of Italy, France, Denmark, and Austria, and even less from the successes of South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore.
What a load of rubbish. Prevention is for snowflakes and minimising the potential devastation caused by coronavirus is actually about mastering the art of delayed reaction.
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— ABC Q+A (@QandA) March 16, 2020