Via News:
Australia should close its borders, shut schools and universities and cancel mass events or risk facing a “complete and utter coronavirus epidemic”, an expert has warned.
Grattan Institute’s chief executive John Daley called for Scott Morrison to follow Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore by introducing radical social distancing measures to curb the spread of COVID-19.
Mr Daley said while some approaches to the outbreak have impacted their economies, they had been successful in reducing virus cases.
“One option is that we can introduce very significant social distancing now and also potentially close the airports to foreign travellers. The consequence of that would be you would probably see the number of cases in Australia drop to zero,” he told The Australian.
“The second option is that you keep doing what we are doing at the moment. At some point it is likely that we will start to see significantly more person-to-person transmission in Australia.”
Mr Daley warned if Australia keeps up its “non-stringent measures like Italy”, our cases would climb “pretty quickly” and the fatality rate would skyrocket.
Bloody oath. If we get the virus count down the economic damage will be less.
