Via Terry McCrann today:
One thing should be clear cut — especially at this point of peak uncertainty.
Think very carefully about the range of possible consequences of decisions; they could so easily and dramatically backfire.
Letting in Chinese students and/or tourists too quickly could end up damaging the very people and businesses that are being worst hit in Australia — Chinese and other Asian restaurants.
What is most likely to cause people to stay away from them — and the Chinatowns in the major cities more generally — is any suggestion that a fresh group of possible carriers have arrived.
The warning bell rung by Italy and South Korea is that a dormant carrier can erupt potentially some weeks after entry.
It would take just one in Australia to be extremely damaging to confidence about the virus’s spread.
Self-evident. Not to mention the many more elderly dead.
