10-20-2020, 10:19 PM
Dunno if I'll vote for Dan, but I might. Hotel quarantine was a debacle, when compared against the other states, but not compared to the rest of the world. As mentioned above, hindsight is a wonderful thing, and maybe it would have gotten out anyway, but probably not if done better.
The question we always ask at work in times of crisis is how to fix it and how to stop it happening again. Acknowledge mistakes were made, but the focus must be on how to resolve the crisis. I think Dan's done that. When we recording 700 cases a day nobody can deny we were looking at heading the way of much of the rest of the world. If drastic actions weren't taken we'd now be like the US, Europe, etc... It would be too hard to contain and trace, and our deaths would be much higher.
If Vic didn't lock down and just let the thing run rampant once it was out, we would not be looking at something resembling normal by Christmas. As it stands, if Vic can become like NSW & Qld, then the whole country can open our internal borders (except maybe WA) and shops. If we had cracked a month ago, when we had 20-50 odd cases a day, it wouldn't take long for that to have climbed again. Feds are slagging Dan for staying the course, but the end result of staying the course will be good for the entire country, not just Vics. It's not about how we look in a month's time, it's how we look over the course of the next year or so.
And even so, there is still a real risk the bloody thing hangs around, escapes again, and causes more problems. It's the nature of the beast. But - the more we take it seriously, and the more seriously we take the lessons learnt, the more likely we can contain it next time.
The question we always ask at work in times of crisis is how to fix it and how to stop it happening again. Acknowledge mistakes were made, but the focus must be on how to resolve the crisis. I think Dan's done that. When we recording 700 cases a day nobody can deny we were looking at heading the way of much of the rest of the world. If drastic actions weren't taken we'd now be like the US, Europe, etc... It would be too hard to contain and trace, and our deaths would be much higher.
If Vic didn't lock down and just let the thing run rampant once it was out, we would not be looking at something resembling normal by Christmas. As it stands, if Vic can become like NSW & Qld, then the whole country can open our internal borders (except maybe WA) and shops. If we had cracked a month ago, when we had 20-50 odd cases a day, it wouldn't take long for that to have climbed again. Feds are slagging Dan for staying the course, but the end result of staying the course will be good for the entire country, not just Vics. It's not about how we look in a month's time, it's how we look over the course of the next year or so.
And even so, there is still a real risk the bloody thing hangs around, escapes again, and causes more problems. It's the nature of the beast. But - the more we take it seriously, and the more seriously we take the lessons learnt, the more likely we can contain it next time.