Solemn Sloth posted:

I’m glad we have such a wealth of expert knowledge in auspol, although it does make me question why we even need bodies like the AHPPC and ATAGI. Abolish them and just give premiers a copy of the monthly word cloud as their public health advice.

JBP posted:

Nah not really barely anyone in this country has had covid. Keep lashing out though lol.

EoinCannon posted:

Yes but you see delta variant means you can claim that you were right at the time and don't have to learn any lessons

freebooter posted:

Someone on twitter was seriously arguing that "nowhere in the world" has managed to deal with a Delta outbreak despite that fact that Melbourne and Perth both dealt with Sydney's loving spillover by swiftly going into lockdown

Centusin posted:

Everyone here loves to refer to Sydney's spillover, keep in mind at many points in this pandemic, 50% of returned travellers in NSW hotel quarantine have been people travelling onto other states after returning internationally without anybody in NSW complaining about the Labor premiers abandoning returning Australians. Perhaps NSW quarantine would have never had any leaks at all had Labor premiers been willing to do their job and help reunite Australians with their families, without inventing imaginary evil migrant holidaymaker narratives.

Those outbreaks in Melbourne and Perth didn't involve hairdressers that worked at a salon where 900 clients were potentially exposed. The first limo driver case in this outbreak was reported on the the 16th, the problems with the Double Bay Salon began on the 15th and were unknown until the 24th, at which point restrictions immediately began to tighten. Unless NSW was supposed to lockdown before any cases were reported, the situation is not remotely comparable to the small number of cases Victoria and Perth had to deal with.

It does seem like a valid point that right now Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, South Korea, Malaysia, Fiji etc are experiencing record numbers of cases despite having handled the situation well up to now. It's almost like this is a more infectious variant that is harder to deal with, which results in more unknown spread earlier on. And NSW is still better positioned than most other places that are handling a Delta outbreak right now.

hooman posted:

Rather than vaccinating all of Australia twice, how about we just vaccinate one dude 52 million times.

Periphery posted:

gently caress you NSW. I have plans for the weekend and I'll be loving pissed if you ruin them.
Kind regards,
Victoria

CrazyTolradi posted:

Badys Verysiklian

realbez posted:

Gladys you don’t have to post here nobody reads this forum

Recoome posted:

the bureaucracy defender has logged on

Comstar posted:

Fast Eddie, his son and Ian Macdonald have found guilty.

I look forward to them getting a large fine for the $30000000 they got.


Who am I kidding the penalty will be pathetic.

Eediot Jedi posted:

Scott this is not what Dan meant when he said treat covid like a fire that's not out.

Anidav posted:

Labor will win the next federal election. The newspoll breakdowns state by state show that the biggest swing towards Labor is in Queensland.

That's not a statistical anomaly.

Brisbane is literally the crown to win in the country because the amount of knife's edge Greater Brisbane seats held by the LNP is ridiculous.

Since 2019 Newspoll has gradually been showing evidence of a 5 point swing to Labor in Queensland and a 9 point swing to Labor in WA (whom we don't care about because there's not many seats there to win)

Even the slightest, slightest clue that Queensland swings kinda red next election, the Morrison government is gone.

Synthbuttrange posted:

https://twitter.com/SebStarcevic/status/1418784718598774785?s=20

GREAT THERES loving LOCKDOWN PROTESTS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY

INCLUDING MELBOURNE AND SYDNEY

kirbysuperstar posted:

bolt?

bowmore posted:

Sounds like Joe Dildohands

Konomex posted:

Holy balls, Federal Labor announces an actual policy? Has the lockdown melted their brains? Were they trapped indoors for more than a week and actually started strategizing how to knife Morrison?

BrigadierSensible posted:

If I were PM, I actually would hold a hose, mate.

Wizard Master posted:

It would seem the olympic basketball court is not the only place that Boomers have once again let Aussies down

BrigadierSensible posted:

Whilst I know the actual and depressing answer:

Is NSW Labor doing anything, anything at all to take advantage of Gladys's gently caress ups?

Coz surely, even in the desolate plague ridden hellscape that is NSW, she must be losing popularity. So a half decent opposition would at least try to capitalize on this yeah?

hambeet posted:

might go out for dinner tomorrow night.

freebooter posted:

I kinda have sympathy for Melbourne 2020/Sydney 2021 style panic buying, when the government only locks down as a last resort and it's clearly going to blow up in their faces and get way loving worse, because in that scenario it's kinda reasonable to maybe want to not go to the shops again for a while. (My local Woolies has been a contact site twice now, not that that will make half the staff there bother to wear masks.) But for one case, come on. The shops will remain open and you'll be more likely to get hit by a car outside than to catch COVID there.

Eediot Jedi posted:

There should be a simplified replacement without the rorting, but alas, who could have predicted what happened here last year and what happened all over the world would happen in Australia of all places???

Amoeba102 posted:

Sydney lockdown rules are not conveyed the best, so I just found out about recreation being a valid reason to be out and about. Which basically allows you to do anything so long as you're distant from people.

Senor Tron posted:

I thought that was a joke but JFC they're still allowing investor inspections.

If I was renting a place in NSW right now and they were sending inspections through I'd just be sitting in the middle of the room coughing loudly whenever anyone entered.

Animal Friend posted:

Capt.Whorebags posted:

I remember when we used to call Bill Shorten "Biff Shortbus"

Periphery posted:

And that's why it's important that people ask the politicians what level of death is acceptable.