A virus cluster at an Auckland school has Australian parents worried. Should they be?

Posted to The Age (30/4/2020) on 3/5/2020 at 9:34 AM
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It is a numbers game, the more people tested, more cases discovered.

The question is whether the number of children tested is in the same proportion as the total number tested so far.

From overseas researches so far show that infected children are asymptomatic, which means they can be carriers to infect the teachers and others instead of the other way round.

Thank you for reading.

The money or our sovereignty: China leaves us no choice

Posted to The Age (1/5/2020) on 1/5/2020 at 8:47 PM
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The world is getting more and more dangerous to live in, and is facing complete destruction caused by aggressive, undiplomatic, self-centred, power hungry politicians.

Australia, with reasonably low fatalities in this pandemic, unless the second wave strikes hard, can become the world leader of peace and humanity, but its government chooses to be the Deputy Sheriff and know-tow not to China but to the US.

Printing money or keep borrowing are not the ways to get Australia out of financial wows after the pandemic. Australia is not the Gilligan’s Island, and needs injection of foreign investment and having other countries to buy its coal, iron ore, wine, education and tourism.

India has more coal than Australia and Russia holds the second largest reserve. As for iron ore, Brazil is still a very large exporter despite its production has fallen to 4th place in the last quarter.

If schools are allowed to reopen

Posted to The Age on 27/4/2020 at 9:44 AM
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The rate of infection in children is small, because the number of testing on children is small.

Statistically, children tend to be asymptomatic but that does not mean they can’t be carriers or spreaders / transmitters.

School children do take home “library books” to read as after school activity. Books cannot be disinfected easily, and there is a chance that books can become a medium for transmission.

If schools are allowed to open to all, then the rest of the community should be able to go on their daily activities. Teachers and students should not be the only one exempted from physical distancing.

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