CV and mad panic behaviour

[LP]

Gladys is primarily sending some scary messaging to the backbenchers today, but I don't think they care, I suspect they are happy to roll the dice to see if they can retain a seat! It's lowest common denominator stuff, and if a few of you die to keep the pigs at the trough, then so be it!

Gladys needs some attitude to pull the white ants into line;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StkasLs-QmE

[LP]

Here it is, the proof if anyone actually needed it!

ScoMo backs Melbourne pub’s free post-jab beers

The Prince Alfred Hotel in Port Melbourne announced last week they would offer a free drink to anyone vaccinated at a nearby hub.  Co-owner Tom Streater spruiking the offer on the hotel's facebook page.

<b>Scott Morrison has weighed in</b> after authorities ordered a Melbourne pub to stop offering free pints to patrons after their Covid jab, saying “common sense will prevail”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuxJqIs2a-Y

[DJC]

Yep, pride goeth before a fall. From “We don’t do lockdowns” to “Ok, we’ll do a half-arsed lockdown” to “Oops, we should have done it sooner and the cat’s out of the bag now”.

Scotty from Marketing is also copping a whack in the media. When Victoria locked down, he was none too impressed and resisted giving a benefit to Melburnians who were out of work and when he did provide one he made it clear that it would be payable only after savings were exhausted. But he was straight on the front foot when NSW locked down, declaring it won’t be asset-tested for Sydneysiders. Some are calling him the PM of NSW.

Scotty's biggest recent blunder was congratulating Gladys for not imposing a lockdown a day before she announced that folk would have to stay at home.  No wonder he's keeping a very low profile  :

More importantly, the documentary "Cracking COVID" will screen on the ABC on Tuesday 13 July at 2030.  After listening to Peter Doherty and Sonya Pemberton on the wireless this arvo, I think that it will be an interesting and enlightening doco.

I should add that Doherty reckons that it's pure luck that NSW hasn’t experienced more COVID breakouts and they will have to impose very tough restrictions if they are to get this one under control.  Too little, too late.

[LP]

I'm not a big fan of the term luck, it suggests good luck, bad luck, a coin toss.

If you open up unvaccinated populations COVID-19 running rampant isn't a coin toss, it's not a 50/50 proposition it's a certainty, the only thing random is the when not the if!

All this good luck bad talk makes people think they can be lucky or unlucky with Sars-CoV-2 like a coin toss, nothing is further from the truth! The virus does not care about victims being a mug punter or having punter's lament! To Sars-CoV-2 you are just another puddle of nutrients.

There is no point taking this crap seriously after the fact, it'll be too late for too many.

[capcom]

NSW is in serious trouble.  New cases is one thing, ICUs entirely another.  Can't brush that off.

This will be long haul for many many months.

[Mav]

Imagine if they’d locked down properly just a week earlier ...

The lethargic response will cost NSW squillions and that’s what will most concern Gladys & Scotty although deaths and hospitalisations will hurt them politically.

[LP]

FMD, it's reported so so differently for NSW, if Dan had acted that slow they would have strung him up!

More female privileges?

[PaulP]

FMD, it's reported so so differently for NSW, if Dan had acted that slow they would have strung him up!

More female privileges?

Nothing to do with gender IMO. Murdoch right wing media bias. Julia Gillard and Jacinda Ardern prove that.

[LP]

Nothing to do with gender IMO. Murdoch right wing media bias. Julia Gillard and Jacinda Ardern prove that.

Nimby?

It's scary to watch.

[PaulP]

Nimby?

It's scary to watch.

If the Libs were in power in Victoria, you'd get much the same reporting as Gladys IMO.