I'm not a fan of politicians but I personally won't bag them out in this current crisis. The stress they have on their shoulders is intense, overwhelming and constant and I really wouldn't want their job right now (or ever)
If they really did their jobs properly this Virus would have been contained, after china they should have studied the data and outcome for a possible attack on their nation but the way things are handled they are just so reactive.
I would have told Airline companies to sterilise their planes before every takeoff. ( Still nothing about that, and yet from Point A before take off ppl are fine healthy. Then Land and get the virus don't take much to figure that out)
Cruise ship cases happen and as we know in ships there isn't much air flow happening in them, and the best place for a germ infestion to occur, yet there was nothing about containing them, isolating them for 2weeks. And Sydney got the brunt of that one. Too bad
Schools around the world every nation closed their schools down to cut the spread from 1 kid to a whole class and then back to their families. Yet in Aus it's ok for kids to still be going to school, we'll quarantine ppl if it gets to that and the school.
Notify the state the moment the cases of the virus started happening and did a lock down then not now after it's in the 2000s.
Even with ppl coming back from overseas now, there isn't much security in that department. I would have got them off the plane and in Isolation then released them to their families. Cause we all know we can't trust ppl to self-isolate now can we, seen that happen and the spread got worse.
And there are so many more but I won't harp on about them.
Atm the politicians are running around like headless chooks and stressed cause they have to keep the profit margin, argue about what to do instead while keeping their seat interest in mind, go through voting and waste time instead of a unified front on what's best for the nation. And by the time a voting has passed it's already late in the process, and they need to decide on another thing cause they were late in deciding. O yer tough job indeed.