Mark McGowan showing leadership and wisdom

Originally posted by trousergecko: ↑

Mark McGowan keeps looking at Sydney(NSW) and Melbourne(VIC) for comparisons, they aren't the examples we should be following as there population size and density is very different to WA. Sydney just went open slather which caused a sharp peak, and Melbourne density and lifestyle/public transport systems caused higher human-to-human contact. WA Premier seems focused on these jurisdictions, when in news conferences.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-22/sa-has-reached-its-covid-peak-but-what-now/100771246

WA should be learning from South Australia, their rules are allowing the state the go through the COVID peak in a sensible way to keep the peak infection peak low and flat infection curve over time. to not place too much pressure on the hospital system at any point in time, while allowing travel under a range of sensible conditions to allow the virus to flow through the community in a managed way. The premier has alot of goodwill, he needs to use this to engineer, with the help of the public, a low infection rate spread over time before winter.

We need go this covid infection cycle over the next 3-4 months, so it is largely burnt out by winter otherwise our hospital will be code browning, burning medical staff and causing unnecessary deaths.

This may already be happening, with the threads of infection already hear. I want to see the modelling for WA, this should be open source available.

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TG, what a sensible idea.

I thought up until a few days ago that that was his plan, open up on the 5th.

The idea of fortress WA free of the Vid was always the stuff of fairytales just like the idea that we could jab this thing to death was.

Emperor Marky’s approach will come back to bite him on the bum as the virus will eventually spread through our community and the heat of summer seems to be the preferred time.

I know that some people here think we can just stay a little island and wait for it to go away but that’s another fairytale.
Some tough decisions are needed, he wanted the gig/job as the leader of the state and he should give us access to the modelling for WA (if he has any)?

He has a responsibility to look after all the people of our state and not just the fraction of one percent with co-morbidities who may succumb to this novel coronavirus.

There are more than just these people at risk with his burying his head in the sand approach.