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02/05/20

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Originally posted by ConanTheLibrarian: ↑

The Amazon Tracking app was highly successful, or so we were told earlier this week. The government said that the first day take up rate exceeded the wildest expectations of what was hoped would be loaded in an entire week.

However, five days later, there aren't nearly enough people who have downloaded the App for the government to let us all back into the wild. So what went wrong with the success ? A mystery, or were the 'success' numbers low balled by millions to start with. No matter, now come the threats.

If we want an 'early mark', as dangled by Morrison, then he demands more downloads by the 18.6m Australians that own mobile phones. Yes that's sure to work - in a schoolyard tone, threaten all the 'naughty' people. The public service told Morrison the App must be compulsory, he bought it, then he was so stung by criticism he had to make it voluntary. Now it's come down to threats, so its obvious he still hasn't learnt that a lot of people just simply don't want the App.

Regardless of how many people have download the App, he will have to hit the release button very soon. People will see consecutive days of either zero or just ones and twosies in their state and make up their own minds about where they go and what they do. Except in Victoria, you guys are stuck with the evil puppet master Andrews, no App, he will erase you from existence just like Captain Cook.

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I agree that Morrison's tone of the last couple of days could've been better. It seems that some may have forgotten the bushfire Morrison and the rugby going Morrison in all this Covid excitement.

Leopards don't change their spots as they say.

That said, this virus issue is far from over. We have done very well as a country thus far and we have also been a bit lucky. We can't afford to muck this up now. As we lift the restrictions we need to ramp up testing and be very attentive in case of any outbreaks so that we can deal with them immediately. The app, while far from perfect, will help in this area.

Imagine the whinging if we get a serious breakout and we have to put the restrictions back on again ? It will be so much harder to put the genie back in the bottle the second time.

We have got one shot at this and we need to do everything we can to ensure that. We have to look past Morrison's arrogance and smugness for the moment and get this done. We can worry about the politics and the personalities later.

I'm in Victoria. I'm more than happy with Andrew's handling of this. In my view he has been one of the outstanding leaders right from the get go. Another 10 days to make sure the increased testing proves the theory is well worth doing imv.

Not sure why you're criticising Andrews if you're not Victorian. What has it got to do with you ?

How about you worry about you're own state and we'll worry about ours, eh ?
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