I had to laugh at that practical and reasonable characterisation. Brainwashed more like it.
Since you like stats so much... Here are some more stats for you:
New figures show NSW has quarantined almost half of all returning travellers since the pandemic began, with NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian calling on other states to do more.
www.smh.com.au
Arrivals by state since the beginning of the pandemic:
NSW - 125,826
QLD - 48,975
WA - 36,908
VIC - 31,559
Victoria only taking 1/4 of international arrivals that NSW have YET almost the same amount of hotel quarantine breaches than NSW says a lot.
Plus, NSW Hotel Quarantine was not responsible for killing over 800 people due to government incompetence like Victoria.
As for this part of your post:
So the premise Victoria is on its own level of incompetence with HQ is simply false. NSW has had more breaches. Why aren't your buddies on Sky News complaining about that?
Maybe do your research first before making misleading statements.
Leaks vs a number of arrivals are perfectly valid. The point is leaks occur. We don't catch all the leaks. What do you think all those wastewater covid alerts are? Leaks that aren't caught and fizzle out. I don't know if this is the case, but I have read Victoria may just be better at detecting leaks than other states after last years experience last year.
I think you're not grasping that the issue is multi-variable. It's not down to one failure, by one level of Government. A big part of these multi variables is unknown and could be down to chance as well as be uncontrollable variables.
The only breakdown in HQ that can really be pointed to was last year and improperly trained staff who lacked any common sense. This was combined with the poor timing of the EID festival and large gathers. Which happened to focus on socio-economic groups which tend to do low skilled menial work, like security or work in age care.
Multiple things stacked up. If an infected security guard was some incel loner, maybe there'd have been no outbreak.
Let's look at aged care, that is where the majority of the deaths occurred. Every single aged care death in Victoria happened in a Federally run aged care facility. Something categorically went wrong in Federal aged care, that did not go wrong in state-run or private aged care in Victoria. Yet you will not at all think the Federal government has responsibility for that.
I think you're blinded by partisan politics to see this is a multi-variable. We can point to one specific breakdown last year. Otherwise, it's just speculation and non-bayesian thinking.
Failures are top-down from Federal to State. This current outbreak isn't even from a leak from Victoria. So arguing what is going on is the Vic governments fault is pointless. This outbreak appears to have now spread to NSW and QLD. I suspect even with that being the case, you will blame VIC for those cases and not go back to the breach in SA.
Australia is going to continue to how leaks and outbreaks until we get properly run quarantine.
Or we reconsider how we bring people back. I have heard from people who work in the COVID industry that a surprisingly large number of people "returning" have never been to Australia before. Somehow have passports or gained access. Don't have anywhere to stay once they leave HQ. That the system for leaving and coming back to Australia has some major flaws. With people travelling back and forth multiple times from hot spots.
It's also somewhat amusing, I'm the apparent brainwashed Labor supporter. Yet I'm the more cynical and least trusting of Government. My view is that this is a global pandemic, I don't trust any level of Government with the current policies to be daddy and protect me. Which it seems you believe they can, even with flawed policies. I am the one demanding better. Not thinking the politicians I support are perfect and will shield me from the deadly virus.
I don't think my view on this at all would be different if Vic had a Liberal government, or the Feds were Labor with the same policies. You will scoff at that, but I think my arguments that Donald Trump's failure was overblown with COVID. On par with the failure of Europe and everywhere hit at the same time in similar levels. Nothing next level worse. Shows I'm not ideologically blinded to one side of politics.
