Journalist

I have often wondered what it was like to be in the trenches during war, knowing that tomorrow morning you have got to go over the top and that you might die and what a surreal feeling, in addition to fear, that might be.

Most of us would be happy with one big idea implemented in our lifetimes.

You don't want your family to be another cluster of COVID-19.

When a prevention campaign works, nothings happens!

Kids need other kids, they need school. But we also don't need an epidemic.

So chlorination, essentially bleaching, does work for SARS CoV-2, it does kill the virus. But the question is whether there's enough chlorine in the pool water to do that, and of course it's very diluted.

You see, your nose is the respiratory front line. It's the warning beacon that invaders have overwhelmed your first response defenders.

Ian Carroll grew up in Melbourne, went to Carey Grammar and then studied political science at Monash University during the turbulent years of anti-Vietnam rebellion.

Kids need other kids, they need school. But we also don't need an epidemic.

COVID-19 is not the first pandemic and it won't be the last.

We never got rid of HIV but we have great treatments for it, we never got rid of bacterial infections but we've got antibiotics.

You don't want your family to be another cluster of COVID-19.

There's never been a pandemic which hasn't exploited a change in the way we live - politics, social structure, technological change, warfare, it's always something that we humans have done or are doing that's tilled the soil for the pandemic and the solution to it is usually social, behavioural and political.

One of the things that good leaders do is choose good people to work for them.