Economics and politics come before human health

Politicians in Australia and elsewhere are more concerned about the political and financial implications of Covid19 rather than the health of people. Fears resulting from the latest pandemic go back centuries and demonstrate that we are largely incapable of dealing with reality. Sacred texts revealed the panic experienced during the plagues of Egypt in the old Testament book of Exodus. The Plague of Athens from 430 to 426 BC during the war with Sparta killed off more people than the war itself. Plague in medieval Europe took millions of lives when travel was very restricted. National populations were decimated in the 14th century. Across millennia, cholera, smallpox, typhus and other diseases have changed history. leprosy, measles and malaria have been followed by swine flu, avian flu. Sars and Ebola. Now we are confronted with Covid19. As a race, we don’t seem to have learned much, recent examples of selfishness and panic epitomises the human condition.It seems that most people have the intellect of retarded cockroaches. Sooner or later we will wipe ourselves out.The Australian Government has a strange concept of quarantine which is supposed to mean that people are isolated from others in the community, but here, people supposedly quarantined are allowed to travel on public transport before reaching a quarantine address and anyone with them at the quarantine site is allowed to travel freely.