Could all these articles by this bloke be a Graham Young plot? Is he trying to get across the message of how unhinged the lefties can really be?

The main problem with this virus is our general approach to tackling it. Our strategies are reactive and not offensive/proactive. We let the thing build steam before we are bothered enough to do anything that will be effective in combatting it.

For example, we had a couple of months between the initial lockdowns of China and our lockdowns. We should have locked down our borders and implemented testing/tracing straight after the Wuhan lockdown because it was obvious to anybody who thought about it that whatever the virus is it must be bad. When a country like China, which prioritizes growing its economy above most else (above human rights for example) locks down then the virus should have been perceived as a very serious threat. But instead the government fluffed around with a wait-and-see approach and reacted with weak partial border restrictions and ridiculous notions that the public will be sensible enough to self-isolate.

But worse still, after our painful lock-downs we open up a bit. But the Victorian public loses the plot and proceeds to undo all its work all while the Victorian government lets it happen! It was blatantly obvious weeks ago that Victoria had a real problem; in fact people were making fun of the fact eg. https://twitter.com/liltelfeee/status/1274259695771901955/photo/1 especially note the date: 20/6/2020- which is three weeks ago. The Victorian Government let it spiral out-of-control until finally doing something substantial about it two days ago.

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And today we have a perfect example of complacency and non-preemptive/non-anticipatory behaviour. At midday, the morons in the Queensland government have proceeded with its schedule and opened its border with NSW. Now what they should have done is delay this for at least a week (but still open the borders with the other states that it did). Because they should be thinking ahead and reason that NSW will by now quite possibly have cases originally caused Victorians that are not reported/detected yet since there has been travel between these two states during the current Victoria disaster but before the new Victorian lockdowns were introduced. An offensive play would have been to cancel our planned NSW border re-opening and delay it at least enough to properly assess the prevalence of the virus in NSW due to Victorians that entered pre-lockdown.

We need to change our overall approach. We should proactively manage the virus to cut it off before it does anything and not continually be chasing it and reacting to the damage it has already done. For example, at the first sign of a new virus outbreak we should go straight to top-stage hard lock downs of the region which then ease to lower restrictions. We should NOT go from minimal restrictions which we escalate up: climbing from low to high restrictions lets the virus escape and run wild.

[PS- I'll make a prediction: Qld will in the next few weeks have cases originating from people entering from NSW which were directly or indirectly infected from Victoria.]

Thanks to Bubonic Dan Locked-down Victoria will be hammered by up to 500 new cases of COVID-19 every day by the end of next week — with in­fections doubling every five days — ­unless the disastrous corona­virus outbreak is checked, exclusive modelling for The Weekend Australian shows.

The confronting scenario emerged on Friday as Victoria ­reported the biggest daily spike in cases since the pandemic erupted, with 288 more people testing positive to the virus.

BK 'lectures' at RMIT but it doesn't say what he lectures & how what his lectures translates into something positive for society. All I ever see from him is common sense bashing !

First, the right-wing press/political enthusiasts, tell all and sundry it's fake news a leftie conspiracy, Convince the dumb anti-social imported minority? Then attack Andrews, when there is a second wave. In jubilant celebration of expected electoral success as a result of extremely effective blame-shifting? And willful blindness!

As for predictions of more outbreaks in Q'ld and elsewhere? Well, the virus hasn't gone away, nor the dumb asses spreading it with all manner of non-compliant anti-social behaviour and illegal border hopping?

I mean in some places, (redneck) folk were rioting rather than comply with an official edict to wear medical face masks!

Do you think they're so dumb that they weren't aware that their non-compliance created possibly lethal risks for their fellow citizens? Or lungs damaged enough to manifest as a fatigue syndrome? I mean, all your bodily functions/operations/movement/vitality/brainpower, relies on a good supply of oxygen!
Alan B.