It's laughable to say "McGowan singlehandedly decimated the arts industry" considering that the pandemic has made touring extremely difficult for bands all around the world, certainly all around Australia. The Byron Bay blues fest, Splendour in the Grass, Groovin the Moo, and the Falls Festival were all cancelled two years in a row; shall we blame McGowan singlehandedly for those major Australian music festivals not going ahead in states like New South Wales and Queensland?
Yes much more civilised to let 'er rip like the United States and let a million people die.
Everywhere else is living like that now....
Buying more time gets more jabs and boosters into arms and more doctors and nurses into the system. If you think that's not a worthwhile goal, especially given what we are seeing in real time where 'let it rip' is taking place, that's your opinion.
I'd argue that the immune deficient are the first to get booster shots, the first to need another booster, and so on and so forth.
Ps where are the doctors and nurses coming from? The borders are shut...
In South Australia indoor hospitality venues are capped at 1/4 capacity, outdoor at 1/2 capacity, indoor fitness classes at 1/7 capacity, cops are driving ambulances, dancing is banned except at weddings, and many clinics and non-urgent surgeries have been cancelled. And gatherings at private residences are capped at 10 people.
Exemption for skilled labour isn't there? Probably recruiting overseas like we have been doing for cops, nurses and doctors for ages.
So when would you recommend we get this over and done with?
Omg
Yeah, but in this case the state government advertises over there and sorts out the details for the move. They recruit from the UK and Ireland all the time like that
I'm booked in for my booster. I'm just sick of jumping through hoops for mcgowan.
So I should chill till 2025?
Well if you had actually listened to the words that were said during yesterday's press conference (note: there was no discussion of another 2 or 4 years of isolation), the plan which was released in November was to reopen on the 5th of February, but Omicron has turned up and infections, hospitalizations and deaths in Australia (and globally) have all skyrocketed. Additionally the state is also now experiencing some community transmission for basically the first time since April 2020. And it's Omicron so it's probably going to get worse. People in the health department believe that the state government believes that the current outbreak will not be eradicated, so they want it to grow as slowly and organically as possible, rather than getting 3 weeks into significant community transmission and then also introducing tens of thousands of visitors a day from Covid hotspots to come in without any quarantine requirements. Not reopening for a month or two also allows them to get booster numbers and youth vaccinations up; it's quite clear from the research that even with some waning impact of the booster over time, having had three jabs is still much better than having had two when it comes to staving off severe infection (i.e., the type of infection that puts demand on hospital and ambulance services).
9 Covid deaths and more or less normal life since the pandemic started versus hundreds of thousands of deaths in the UK and US and months-long lockdowns and more deaths in places like NSW and Vic? Pretty damn good trick, if that's the only one he's got.
Yeah I listened, wasn't convinced.... he's posturing. But I never voted for him coz I'm not part of the herd.
Yeah, pretty much everyone has been impacted except for people who live in WA and don't know anybody who lives in any other part of the country or the world. My uncle died 2 months ago and I obviously couldn't go to the funeral. My wife had our first child a month ago and my parents and her mum can't come over right now to meet their first grandchild. It sucks, but it's inarguable that the travel restrictions have protected Australia (and West Australians) from a lot of the death and severe illness that have plagued countries across much of the rest of the world. I'd like to think that my uncle or the 36 year old who died from leukaemia would understand the absences at their funerals rather than wanting to pack in as many people from interstate so that the virus can just get out and kill more people (which frankly would not be a great way to memorialize your loved one).
