Its Over, page-9244

...the reason NSW is not getting a lockdown according to Kerry Chant is seemingly because a short lockdown wont be effective against the variant.

...so have a longer one then !

...the longer you wait, the more protracted the eventual lockdown gets ....unless you get lucky again.

...plus in the meantime, businesses are not getting any financial support in the absence of a lockdown and trading volumes are shrinking because more people are opting to stay home.

..this reminds me of the hesitant shareholder who procrastinates in the face of an adverse company event (a tainted one)- I am not selling because it would recover or because its too late...tell the NXL holders, some had to sell later at a substantially lower price at 75% down when they could have done so at 20-50% down had they acted swiftly without procrastination.

...and you know the next market crash is around the corner...the problem is every time there is a downturn and you think its a coming crash turns out to be a false alarm...and when you have that one too often, you get desensitised to it so you wont ever believe it anymore...so when the real Kahuna comes, you would be slow to act...difficult isnt it?  So what mainstream tells you- don't get too worried about the crash , stay the course.

...maybe being Measured will help in the case of stocks, but being Measured will not help in the case of the pandemic.
...maybe the next time in an adversity event, you would sell first and ask questions later i.e no procrastination. maybe the NSW Govt's lockdown procrastination may turn out to be a regretful gamble or maybe her gamble will pay off and prove her courage and conviction...although heroicness has no place playing with people's lives.

...oh while she would certainly please her political masters, they have already washed their hands clean in case her gamble fails:

Don’t blame me for Sydney cluster, it’s NSW’s problem: PM


‘We’re sitting ducks’: Sydney professor

In a comment in this morning’s Sydney Morning Herald, Raina MacIntyre argues for a “short, sharp” lockdown to battle the delta variant.

Professor MacIntyre, head of the biosecurity research program at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Medicine, wrote that “we are on the knife’s edge of a delta epidemic in Sydney. As always, it was a breach of our borders: this time, one of the forgotten frontline workers, a driver who transports international arrivals to hotels”.

In an interview on ABC this morning, Professor MacIntyre said a snap lockdown down could save Sydney from “a much longer more devastating lockdown” later on if the current outbreak “really gets out of control”.

The reason why she sees Australians as “sitting ducks” is because so few of us have been fully vaccinated.

“The problem ... is that one dose of vaccine is not very effective against the delta variant. It’s got some vaccine escape, or vaccine resistance. And that’s what makes us sitting ducks.

“We’re not like the US or Israel or the UK where there’s a high rate of vaccination. Most people are very vulnerable. However, even in the UK where there’s quite high rate of vaccination they’re seeing outbreaks of Delta, particularly in schools.”