.......You can really annoy me sometimes with your “outback” prejudice.
What do you mean “it just turns out”?
Like it’s some sort of surprise that someone other than Israel had some good ideas?
It just turns out we don’t skite about what we do. We just get on with it.
As for advice. I trust our medical advisors. It’s all we have. so back of just a bit. I’m not in for a fight. Just to be heard and not scorned by your bigotry.
Well Tom,
First, to Christine, we wish her a speedy recovery!
To your above rebuke: Yes! It was indeed a surprise as the work in Melbourne was not generally known and certainly not in the USA.
In fact when I discovered the scholarship from the Aussie University I used it as my core report for my recommendation to City managers planning response here in Southern California.
I had first looked to the UK for guidance, but they are stuck in a fight between ministers who feel that the British will get exhausted with early strict distances and scientists who simply want to get on with it.
It turns out the South Korea and Singapore, together with the ideas from Melbourne’s are the best the planet has produced outside of China.
Israel has simply followed suit with the distancing practices and draconian losses of privacy used by China, South Korea and Singapore.
I mentioned Israel since they are a major source of pharmaceuticals and protective gear outside of China.
The key role of Melbourne is known to vaccine researchers who share data.
I would have thought France and the U.K. would have ranked far higher in leadership, so I was, indeed, very surprised.
My view of the “Outback” is limited to your independant voice. Of course I know you are not the governor of the region, but Darwin is not Melbourne nor Perth!
If I am prejudiced, which likely I am, it’s only in admiration of the guys who fought and sacrificed with us in every war and have produced some of the best artists and movies of the 20th Century!
Here in the USA, a lot of the local world class advances in Australia simply don’t reach us as we invent and then bulk-produce it in China, the Philippines, Taiwan and India if it isn’t cheaper from South Korea or Japan!
Australian wine reaches here but not a lot else that is generally known! The frozen lamb and beef that come to us are not necessarily marked as such! Your ores go mostly to China, South Korea and Japan.
Only about 6% of your exports are to the USA. Australia is more known for resilience, honest talk and hard humor than from products we use!
But we all know do little about the actual internal structure of your industries.
So to discover the leading role of Melbourne academics in tackling this novel coronavirus, (over so many other countries), is really news!
Asher