Thread: Corona Virus

Originally Posted by bob10

Why would the NSW health Minister refuse to make the advice given by Dr Chant public at the Parliamentary inquiry?

That is probably the easiest question to answer. The Minister does not want the public to see that they have been disregarding the advice of their senior medico and have been making dangerous assumptions and basing their direction on what has the best chance for the best result at the polls (opinion and ballot).

Don't these people realise this is above politics. We have a situation where a large part of our Nation is stagnant, going no where, people are hurting, jobs are being lost, and it seems it is because a couple of people refuse to admit that they could be wrong. There must be more to it than that. Has to be more to it than that.

Originally Posted by 4bee

Simples bob. Arrogance.

If this happened in some other countries people would be marching in the streets in protest. I'm glad they are not. OR, is it the case that they are afraid to come down harder because the people of SW Sydney may just take to the streets?

Originally Posted by bob10

Don't these people realise this is above politics.

No they don't, because a politician will always play politics, it's what they do. And if it all goes tits up then there is always a bureaucrat to blame, remember the Ruby Princes, none of that was the fault of a politician all the finger pointing was at government department employees.

Originally Posted by bob10

Don't these people realise this is above politics. We have a situation where a large part of our Nation is stagnant, going no where, people are hurting, jobs are being lost, and it seems it is because a couple of people refuse to admit that they could be wrong. There must be more to it than that. Has to be more to it than that.

Politics is not about the people, we are just pawns in a game they play for power.

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Originally Posted by bob10

Don't these people realise this is above politics. We have a situation where a large part of our Nation is stagnant, going no where, people are hurting, jobs are being lost, and it seems it is because a couple of people refuse to admit that they could be wrong. There must be more to it than that. Has to be more to it than that.

Yes, but......

Anyone got a fresh Conspiracy Theory ? - my few have disgraced themselves.... by coming true...

So, to all the (mostly interstate ) commentators what would you do? A hint here - magically swapping the government just puts another bunch of numpties in charge who would do exactly the same things to control the outbreak.

Its pretty easy to throw rocks at the NSW govt but I haven't seen any suggestions that might work.

It's interesting to compare the Victorian "success" of the short sharp lockdown that's still going a couple of weeks later with 20 cases a day. How long until that is 50 - 100 - 300 cases a day?

The NSW govt is pursuing the only way that is viable to resolve the situation - vaccinating as many people as possible and waiting until those numbers reach a level that suppresses hospitalisations is probably the only way way out. It's worth mentioning that the case numbers are a very long way from "out of control" which would be represented by an exponential rate of infection growth. By the way on the 5th of August last year Victoria had 725 cases......

It's not going to be a quick and easy way out, maybe we can get enough people vaccinated so that NSW can operate in the same way that the US and the UK do today, it will be interesting to see how the other states go with that concept, my bet is that state borders will be closed longer than international borders at this rate.

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