@up_all_night how have you rated the responses of the various political leaders in Australia in regards to covid and all the complications surrounding such a complex situation? How do you think the states in Australia should move forward once vaccination rates reach eighty percent double dosed?
No one has been terrible. I think every state has been in different circumstances. I'm going to circle back to this.
We probably shouldn't be opening up at 80% double vaxed. Aim for higher, but that's not really an option.
I feel people fail to understand what letting the virus rip will actually mean. An aspect people find very hard to discuss or wrap their heads around is people die all the time for a lot of reasons. There are many people in society who are very susceptible to dying. In the final months/years of their life.
People seem to think mentioning or talking about this is callous. Somehow disregarding their lives or blaming them. When it's just looking at reality. In places that didn't contain the virus, the majority of people that died were these groups. Vaccines won't provide this group complete protection. So opening up here will have more deaths than I think people are realising. The number of people that will get COVID, not be fully protected and get sick and die needs to be understood.
I expect there to be a blame game, distortion of the inevitable deaths and cases once we open up. The state opposition leaders who are going, "open up, open up." Will be ready to turn around on a dime and blame these deaths on the premiers. It will be a shit show.
As for rating the complex situation. You know who deserves the lowest rating? The idiots and morons in the community that have screwed us over. What's happening in Melbourne and what drove Sydney's outbreaks is the failure of certain people in the community. Society is broken and non-cohesive. When large groups, the majority can understand and follow the rules. With other groups who don't listen, or just ignore. Stuffing it up for everyone else.
Here's an anecdote of people one of my friends know who lives in the part of Melbourne driving the spread.
A person is suffering symptoms, so they go and get a test. After getting tested they go and visit a family. Doesn't tell the family they might have covid. That night informs the family they tested positive. So the grown-up child in that household still goes to work the next day. Getting a test the following day. The entire family has COVID and so has people in that workplace.
All completely avoidable.
Also, Scomo is vaccine failure is the biggest failure of an Aussie politician.