Yes. Elimination New Zealand style can and has been done.
Many Australian states and territories did the hard yards and essentially eliminated the virus. That is why many of us are going back to relatively normal living. That is why kids football, netball and cricket are starting up again. That is why some of us don't have to sanitize every five minutes in shipping centres any more. Small businesses are doing business again.
Andrews f'dup bid time. The people he has doing risk assessments appear to be doing incomplete jobs.
Government procurement for a task such as the control of a pandemic requires layers of quality assurance. It didn't happen. There was no training or compliance framework and so the security monitors thought they could hook up with people in quarantine. Most of them got undoubtedly away with it. One security guard didn't and so our economy is looking down the barrel of another trillion dollar loss.
Back to Andrews. Some of his so-called experts are both capricious and lack the ability to think flexibly around the box. Top down decision making styles often get it right but sometimes the model gets it wrong. When they do get it wrong disaster can follow because there are no second chances in the COVID space. New and better risk and opportunity management approaches are needed nationally.
The economic reengineering challenge for Australian is massive but it is doable IMO. Effective reengineering won't be doable while key politicians continue to send out a wishy washy message that things can just get back to the way they were because that goal is impossible.
Politicians need to realise that the faster they respond to outbreaks the quicker and more localised the follow-on lockdowns can be. Responses need to be instantaneous.
It's good to hear that Victorian will be testing everyone in the pigeon hole flats, maybe along the lines of what I suggested above. I still don't trust the capacity of Victorian Authorities to do it correctly and in a manner that keeps people on-side.
With the building and real estate industries on temporary life support maybe its time to get people out of those monstrous blocks and find new (unconcentrated) accommodation for the residents. Those blocks should have been demolished years ago.
