I'm thinking when it comes to this particular pandemic nobody can be considered an expert.
It moves and changes in mysterious ways and what is expert advice today may not be as expert 6-12 months down the track.
What I do feel is there are some really poor attempts at blame shifting at both the federal and state level by political parties of both persuasions.
I find that really unproductive.
Covering up your own failings by pointing to mistakes or problems at another level of government is pretty transparent.
And it's not only the blame game at governmental level that's distasteful.
There's a nasty side to it to for some (a few) folks.
'Sucked in Victoria' or 'Sucked in NSW' appears to be the sentiment when there is a need for a lockdown.
It's almost like they're barracking for a worse result for the other states.
There's obviously an element of "Well, they weren't real sympathetic to our plight when we were struggling", but I suspect that was a perception rather than a reality."
The fact is that most decent people feel for those struggling in lockdown and it's more a case of 'Thank heavens it's not us this time, but it could very well be next time.'
The strange thing about it is... that all Australian states, no matter what party is in power have handled it much better than the majority of countries.
Different states have had different approaches, they've mostly learned from any mistakes and have managed to reel in numbers that in many places continued to spiral out of control.
We've done really well actually, considering it's a situation unlike any we've experienced in our lifetimes and although such a pandemic has been talked about in the past as a possibility amongst the common folk, it's really been the stuff of movies.
It moves and changes in mysterious ways and what is expert advice today may not be as expert 6-12 months down the track.
What I do feel is there are some really poor attempts at blame shifting at both the federal and state level by political parties of both persuasions.
I find that really unproductive.
Covering up your own failings by pointing to mistakes or problems at another level of government is pretty transparent.
And it's not only the blame game at governmental level that's distasteful.
There's a nasty side to it to for some (a few) folks.
'Sucked in Victoria' or 'Sucked in NSW' appears to be the sentiment when there is a need for a lockdown.
It's almost like they're barracking for a worse result for the other states.
There's obviously an element of "Well, they weren't real sympathetic to our plight when we were struggling", but I suspect that was a perception rather than a reality."
The fact is that most decent people feel for those struggling in lockdown and it's more a case of 'Thank heavens it's not us this time, but it could very well be next time.'
The strange thing about it is... that all Australian states, no matter what party is in power have handled it much better than the majority of countries.
Different states have had different approaches, they've mostly learned from any mistakes and have managed to reel in numbers that in many places continued to spiral out of control.
We've done really well actually, considering it's a situation unlike any we've experienced in our lifetimes and although such a pandemic has been talked about in the past as a possibility amongst the common folk, it's really been the stuff of movies.