St George Dragons

[Thryleon]

As much as we hate it, and as much as we know that it is a completely false premise, they are public role models and they get unjustifiably held to a higher standard which is the price they pay for having extraordinary wages.

I'm even seeing a strict focus on compliance in suburban football, the fines can kill a suburban club, who knows what the authorities might do to the professional club to set an example.

Nobody wants to be like us or Storm just because of a barbecue, a lot of people in professional sport think booze should be banned in season anyway, they see it as unprofessional and just wait for an excuse to say I told you so!

My problem is more one of philosophy with this.

I actually care very little about this guy, and the fact he has been sacked, but I look at this overall episode and how its being applied and I see two very real problems.

1.  Joe average wouldn't be treated the same because Joe Average wouldnt make headlines.

2.  Joe average would have LESS confidence in their COVID status, because they wouldnt be in the same sort of bubble, with the same amount of testing applied to them.

Scomo literally jumped on a plane, flew around the world, and met with world leaders in a country that has recorded more positives in the last 2 weeks, than we have during the pandemics duration, and yet look at the disproportionate response here.  I think a Rugby Player probably has more confidence in their covid status than Scomo as an example. 

These are the scenarios that make everyone think that the covid response is stupid, and by tearing up his contract, it actually fuels more public hatred in the pandemic, and does more to damage the covid response and the way we are applying rules to "stay safe" than it does to instil people with confidence.

It smacks of ruling with an Iron Fist, and that is something I will never really subscribe to as its the precise motion that enabled a holocaust to occur in Nazi Germany with few questioning the regime.