Foxy,

If you want to know why I and many others think that Chairman Dan is incompetent, you only need to look at how the rest of Aus feels it needs to protect themselves from Victorians.

That Dan was inconsistent with the application of lockdown is the reason that Victoria is in the poo, not the minority groups. Sydney has similar groups with no problems.

SM, all governments have made mistakes when dealing with the pandemic. The most serious have been in NSW by the Berejiklian government, how did that Hazed of a minister keep his job? The 'Ruby Princess' and 'Newmarch House' debacles , both of these failures cost significant numbers of lives.

The indicators are the failure in Victoria can be put down to the use of private contractors at hotel quarantine. Your free enterprise does it again, cut costs, low wages, untrained employees, make a fast buck, bugger the community.

Paul,

Mistakes were made, but the stupendous cock up in Victoria dwarfs that of the Ruby princess. As firstly the decision to release the RP's passengers was based on a false health assertion by the ship's doctor, and secondly the crisis was just starting. After imposing the most severe lock down in Aus Chairman Dan couldn't help virtue signalling and threw the sacrifices made by Victorians down the crapper.

To sum things up:

"How are the mighty fallen. Until just recently it seemed that if there were one figure in Australia who could crush the COVID virus by pure power of will it was Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews. Now he is presiding over an infection rate higher than Italy’s and has been driven to restore lockdown measures for some Melbourne suburbs that have recorded an alarming exponential spike in the spread of the virus. And the way Victorians rank his handling of the virus, according to Newspoll, has dropped dramatically.

There was talk for a while of calling out the army. There has been the recruitment of corrective services staff to administer hotel quarantines which have been so woefully handled under Andrews’s watch that he is establishing an inquiry.

Meanwhile, quite a few people in Melbourne’s north and west, many of whom have ethnic backgrounds, have been refusing to have tests. No doubt they have their own reasons to be wary of the state, but couldn’t Andrews have worked through community leaders — imams, priests, whoever — to make these recalcitrant people more amenable? Now he’s been driven to talk tough again and to impose new quarantine measures that take affect from Thursday. He is also imposing strategic booze bus-style checks on the part of the police and on-the-spot fines."

This nonsense will result in so many people having to fight the facts for years to come. Covid 19 was just another virus and certainly a lot weaker than many flu strains. It killed a lot less people and the people dying are mostly older than 85 and at that age we are always on borrowed time.
The MSM stupidity and dishonesty will be acknowledged by history. the medico's will be bought to account in the next few years and every politician will suffer at their next election day.
The only time I have read about lock downs is in Africa when faced with ebola like fevers with a ninety percent kill rate. There the afflicted village puts up signs that they have it and everyone stays away.
We are still suffering hysteria and willful destruction of the Australian economy which we will suffer for years and I will remember you idiots and remind you of your rank stupidity as long as I can.
Check out the mortality figures, it is making a mockery of all your arguments but I expect it to take years to unfold.

Shadow Minister,

I stopped reading your post after the "Chairman Dan,"
reference. So yesterday.

Sort of BTT:

Good news ! The virus is about to disappear ! Here's the authority on it all:

"President Trump said Wednesday that he believed the virus was “going to sort of just disappear,” even as cases are rapidly rising nationwide — and added that he was “all for masks,” even though he has rarely worn one himself, mocked people who do, and has questioned the benefits and even the political meaning of face coverings.

“I think we’re going to be very good with the coronavirus. I think that at some point, that’s going to sort of just disappear, I hope,” Mr. Trump said in an interview on Wednesday with the Fox Business Network.

It is a claim he has made before. On Feb. 27, when there were still few known cases in the United States, he said at a White House meeting: “It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear.” There are now more than 2.6 million known cases in the nation, and there have been more than 127,000 deaths.

On Wednesday Mr. Trump said, “I think we’re going to have a vaccine very soon, too.”"

Well, thank god for that. For a while, I thought we might have a crisis with 2.6 million known cases, and 128,000 American deaths so far and new record daily cases. What do those so-called 'experts' like Fauci know ? Anyway, isn't that an Eyetalian name ?

And if in doubt, just grab a flashlight, or a bottle of Dettol.

Joe