Spent the last six months meticulously organizing our annual moto ride around Tas. Six days of accommodation booked.
12 friends & family coming....mostly from the mainland. Day One was this Monday.
Ain't gonna happen now. But we will postpone it rather than cancel. It's a first-world complaint compared to others' situations.
Have a family holiday booked to Queensland in late April.......see above
I have mixed feelings about all this fear shit. I just can't buy into the exaggerated "crisis" crap in the main stream media.
I understand action must be taken because the virus is spreading......but fuck me, the economic damage (and therefore social) is going to be terrible for so many hard working people.
It has taken so many years to get Tasmania's tourism economy to where it is now....
Is the virus really that bad? Am I even allowed to ask that question without being shouted down?
Will the shut-downs/isolations ultimately prove futile?
Nothing in this world is black & white (no matter how bad people want things to be)....but are we overreacting on a macro level, when you consider the long term collateral damage? If you just go ultra-hard on isolation & take the worst-case projections as gospel, have you lost perspective?
I guess we just don't know enough about the bug yet, huh? (well, I don't anyway)
Way more questions than answers.
It's also interesting talking to people/friends/family. Those of us that are glass-half-full by default have pretty different views than the normally glass-half-empty peeps. I know the virus doesn't care how you feel about it - but there is an intangible and significant effect/result of attitude that manifests in behaviour.....and therefore outcomes.
(I expect some of you will now dismiss most of my musings with hard science, graphs, data & a thinly veiled lecture. That's cool. I'm just musing, not proclaiming or stating. Like I said, mixed feelings indeed)
