If there are early effective life-saving oral drug treatment, we would still have to establish that Dan Andrews
- knows about such treatment,
- has the power to veto the use of such treatment within Australia, and
- actually does not support such treatment.
I don't believe in discussing one's experience, qualifications, etc., on a public forum. For one thing, people can make up whatever they like, simply to support their own point of view. For another, even experts have different points of view and different specific fields of expertise. Hence, I'm not going to trail my coat and declaim anything. I will only say that without medical expertise and experience and knowledge of biochemistry or pathology as basic background, informed discussion is unlikely to occur. And this is a public "Community Spirit" board, not a medical or pathology forum...
Back to Daniel Andrews and the Victorian taxpayer. I'm with springyzone in much of what she's said. As to his moral standing, I don't know him well enough. (Some of his actions and words have not been admirable, but that is to judge from a distance and from the outside.) I am certainly fed up with political grandstanding and the cancelling of this or that on the basis of political manoeuvring. Premier Andrews has cost this state much - and let's not even get into the B&R agreement...
4channel, your denial is facetious. You were baiting imastawka, who hasn't even posted here. If I can see it, everyone can see it. It's not a killing offence; some delicate insults in the spirit of robust disagreement should be able to be posted. We're adults and should be able to disagree with each other, after all, as long as it doesn't go beyond a certain point... But it's disingenuous to pretend you were not doing what you were doing. Own it and be proud of it if you're going to post with needles.
Janebabe has said it. The people in the community who refuse to comply with public health directives (and are arguing with the most ridiculous nonsense-fuelled notions and carrying on like tantrum-throwing toddlers) are putting everyone at risk. It's ridiculous.
The modelling (with previous strain, not Delta) shows that even with 80% compliance, the case numbers would be going down and lockdown restrictions could have been eased within a reasonable timeframe. Now that it's Delta, we would need to see between (roughly) 90% and 100% compliance - and we're not. It's not only the deliberate "I'm a sovereign person and the virus isn't real/won't touch me/etc" rule-breakers who are not complying... It's also (and I think this is the real driver of the NSW outbreaks) the people who will simply and casually visit between households thinking "It won't matter if I just pop around for a few minutes", the people who go to work and touch their masks or wear their masks wrongly, who share a ride to save money, who take a smoko and are standing around close to each other... It's the "Oh, it won't matter if I just [insert action]" mindset.
Uh-oh... off the Dan-delivering-blow topic again. Well, I would have liked to see the east-west link implemented. I think our local library is now in a very ugly building that looks like a swimming pool centre. I think there's too much traffic on our roads and that the solution is not "let's make them prefer public transport"... I think that our Arts Centre (all of it - State Theatre, Recital Centre, NGV, Museum, etc., if I can lump them all in together) are excellent. I think that being involved in the arts during this pandemic is soul-bruising at best, and that an outdoor theatre experience is the only way to stage something - and even then, it would have to have the audience socially distanced, masked, sanitised and hopefully vaccinated. I think I'd like to stage Medea in the original Classical Greek, performed in an amphitheatre at dusk, just for the heck of it.
I could write a great Tragedy about how no one came to see it... and stage that play, and then write another great Tragedy about how no one came to see that, and so on until the marble columns shatter and the sun plunges into a pool of tragic waters.
