CV and mad panic behaviour

[Lods]

If they can't see that Omicron has moved the goalposts, then they're showing their stupidity.

Stupid
Yep
That's pretty much the point.
The Queensland Government set an opening date based on Delta.
The time was set for a period that meant with Christmas and School Holidays there would be a huge influx of people into the State.
Omicron came along with no certainty at that time that it was a milder form of the virus and no real idea about vaccine effectiveness.... and they still went ahead with that change.
At that point they lost me.
Now there would have been many unhappy folks if that change  hadn't gone ahead....but there are a lot of equally unhappy and worried people around at the moment.
An opening at a date other than school holidays and Christmas, with most folks boosted would have been the more sensible approach once Omicron came into play.

As for hospitalisations, ICU's and deaths let's see what that looks like in 3 or 4 weeks time.
Omicron might be milder, it spreads quicker....the theory is that will even things out in terms of pressure on the health systems.
But Omicron might just as easily overwhelm that system.
Already positive cases are about a month ahead of where they were expected to be in QLD...and that's with lots of people saying what's the point in getting tested if it takes 5 days for results or not getting tested because they now don't fit the description of a ridiculous close contact definition.

I've followed all the directions from the health folk since the start of the pandemic.
Government and Health seemed to be on the same page.
Now I'm not so sure...and that destroys your confidence.