indigohex2
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Firstly, I must acknowledge that COVID-19 is a very serious issue and is not to be taken lightly. At the current time, more than 10,000 people have died from COVID-19 with many more testing positive. In my home state of Victoria, Premier Daniel Andrews declared a State of Emergency on the weekend. This is how serious the issue is. I urge you to check out official websites that has useful information such as Australian Government Department of Health for those here in Australia or the various Health Department websites in your State or Territory (http://www.health.vic.gov.au for those who live in Victoria) and not conspiracy websites which are spreading disinformation and have no idea what they are talking about (unlike official channels)
That being said, we have seen people "panic buying" or being greedy by bulk buying toilet paper, and a couple of weeks ago, I was in Caroline Springs and I saw a man with several boxes of bottles of Coca-Cola (each box had 8x2 Litre bottles). And there is no pasta or hand sanitizer. But I saw an article on The Conversation that was published today that I urge you to check out (I shared a link to it in the thread about COVID-19) and there has been cases of people protesting this greed that has been promoted by the media (and in particular commercial media) by giving away toilet paper, such as a resident of Richmond here in Victoria (which you can see in the accompanying article).
I believe that disasters brings out the best of humanity (such as the bushfires that occurred in Australia over the summer here) in which people helped out those who suffered (I donated money and some food) and I feel that COVID-19 will bring out the best of humanity, but this time on a global scale.
Do you think COVID-19 will bring out the best of humanity?
You can check out the article I have been speaking about at the following website: How a time of panic buying could yet bring us together
That being said, we have seen people "panic buying" or being greedy by bulk buying toilet paper, and a couple of weeks ago, I was in Caroline Springs and I saw a man with several boxes of bottles of Coca-Cola (each box had 8x2 Litre bottles). And there is no pasta or hand sanitizer. But I saw an article on The Conversation that was published today that I urge you to check out (I shared a link to it in the thread about COVID-19) and there has been cases of people protesting this greed that has been promoted by the media (and in particular commercial media) by giving away toilet paper, such as a resident of Richmond here in Victoria (which you can see in the accompanying article).
I believe that disasters brings out the best of humanity (such as the bushfires that occurred in Australia over the summer here) in which people helped out those who suffered (I donated money and some food) and I feel that COVID-19 will bring out the best of humanity, but this time on a global scale.
Do you think COVID-19 will bring out the best of humanity?
You can check out the article I have been speaking about at the following website: How a time of panic buying could yet bring us together