10-05-2020, 03:44 AM
(10-05-2020, 03:29 AM)Thryleon link Wrote:For one moment contemplate this scenario.
In a hypothetical revision of Victoria's COVID journey, Dan Andrews appoints ADF personnell to run hotel quarantine.
Put that in the context of how some people like to call him Despot Dan, Dictator Dan, giving everyone their taste of Communism, etc.
Would he be viewed any differently?
Also, entertain another idea for a moment. There wont be a vaccine. I have heard through the grapevine from epidemiologists that there will not be an effective COVID vaccine in the near future. The suggestions there will be are as much a prevent panic, and sell hope strategy that will eventually bring Chickens home to roost.
The majority of people screaming the loudest about this stuff, seem to be able to assert with absolute certainty, things that they know should and would have happened differently had we taken XYZ action.
Thing is, in hindsight we are all champions. There is some bone headed stuff that has occurred, and you would like to think that people will be accountable for it and we will find out what happens, but we probably wont. For all we know, there were other things that went wrong, but people are so fixated they dont know any different.
In my view if you want to call Dan something it's Dumbass Dan. Delusional maybe.
My main frustration here is that this criticism involves ZERO convenient hindsight. I was saying for weeks the hotel quarantine was a crazy idea full stop. You only had to see the daily covid cases - sometimes 11 in one day and 10 of them were in hotel quarantine. Why???? Why were we letting those sorts of numbers back in and why bring them on a bus to the most heavily populated part of the state to quarantine - and pay for it?? We should have set up some portables in the middle of paddocks in Puckapunyal and had the ADF patrolling. When devastation of the entire state is at risk that is what should have been happening and I was saying it for weeks - right up until we hit 700 cases per day.
What did Dan do? He had guys who mind a turnstile at Marvel Stadium sharing lifts with returned travellers then going home to large family gatherings/prayer groups. To say it was madness doesn't do it justice. It is unconscionable, it cost lives and livelihoods on a scale beyond any other stuff-up in the history of the country.
Those who question the arsonist analogy are probably right. He's more akin to a guy on a day of total fire ban that decides today's the day I'm going test my homemade fireworks... then shows up to try put the fire out and play the hero.