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Joe Hildebrand: ‘The real cost of the coronavirus’
This is the cost of fighting corona and it’s a bill the poorest among us will pay. And there are other harsh realities we have to face.
Joe Hildebrand @Joe_Hildebrand
news.com.au
March 22, 20207:12am
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A woman uses a face masks as a preventive measure against the spread of the new coronavirus. Picture: Raul Arboleda Source:AFP
OPINION
There is an easy way to stop the coronavirus: Stop the world.
Football matches, festivals and concerts are banned. Shut down schools, offices and shops. Travel is cancelled. Touching is cancelled. People are confined to their homes and if they leave them they are penalised and forcibly returned.
By now you’re probably reeling back on your isolation lounge and yet these are all measures that are already imposed in Australia or elsewhere or under active consideration. Soon we will be left to wonder if there is a society left to save.
Of course the government is right to take measures to slow the spread of the virus and of course we should all take precautions as individuals but there will eventually come a point where we have to decide whether the cure is worse than the disease.
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And so the key, as always, is balance. We have to make sure that in our desperation to kill off a global virus we do not end up killing off the host – which is to say all of us.
The aviation, tourism, hospitality, sport, entertainment and arts sectors are already beyond crisis point. Farmers may not be able to get enough backpackers to pick their crops. Universities are being starved of funds from foreign students. Many small businesses will never recover. Workers are already losing their jobs and many could lose their homes.
In short, even the bare minimum we need to do to avoid the collapse of our health system is going to choke our economy and push people to breaking point. Further measures – like shutting down all schools or shops or gatherings or transport – would crash it altogether. The mass catastrophe of that – even down to the number of lives it could cut short – may well make the coronavirus itself seem merciful by comparison.
But none of this is to say that we should do nothing because life is cheap. On the contrary, life is the most precious thing on earth and we need to make sure that by stopping the virus at all costs it doesn’t end up costing the lives of even more people whose deaths will go silently uncounted.
Joe Hildebrand is the editor-at-large of news.com.au and co-hosts Studio 10, 8.30am weekdays, on Network Ten | @Joe_Hildebrand
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