Coronavirus 3 - Al Pacino's turn to mumble

[stui magpie]

So the latest version of the new and improved best in class hotel quarantine program starts again in Victoria today taking in international arrivals.

How long will it last this time before we have another lockdown and international arrivals are suspended again?

I'll be generous, I reckon they can hold it together for 4 weeks, we'll be back in lockdown by May 10.

Pick a date, nearest the pin gets the right to wear a smug smile during lockdown and a free portrait of Dan to fix to their bedroom ceiling or dartboard.

[David]

Really depends. If you're talking a brief lockdown like what happened in Brisbane last week, then yeah, I reckon that's more likely than not within the next month or two. If, on the other hand, you're suggesting something more serious – and I'm guessing it would have to be to suspend international arrivals – then I reckon that's only an outside chance, and that there will be better processes in place this time around (including but not limited to the aforementioned snap lockdowns if anything does leak out).

But sure, I'll play! If we're saying serious lockdown of the second kind, I'm going for 2020 de ja vu: 1 July. And yes I want the Dan poster, wouldn't be at all terrifying to have him watch over me in my bed.

[5 from the wing on debut]

I will only play if the prize is a video of him falling down the stairs.

[watt price tully]

Depends if Berejiklian exports the virus like she did earlier this year and they did post Ruby Princess.

Victoria now has hotels with the right air conditioning/air flow which might make us the only state in Australia with this and to prevent the highly contagious British strain from spreading ( I would ban Brazil arrivals) and the South Efrican strain is also a nasty variant.

Later I’ll try to paste in some info re Astra Zeneca.

Scotty has over promised and under delivered.

One of the biggest issues in fighting the pandemic is messaging from Government and he has failed this test so far.

[5 from the wing on debut]

That's right.
The virus is terrified of an appropriately worded resolution.

[watt price tully]

😂.

It’s the first aspect and the most important: get the messaging right. Unfortunately Scotty used Liberal Party logos when they were making announcements about getting the contract to develop the vaccine and promised the world but have failed to deliver. They also narrowed the basket of vaccines to put all their eggs in the Astra Zeneca Vaccine. They were so self congratulatory to make political a health issue.

They lied about the extent of the European Commission restrictions of importing the vaccine and have stuffed the timely efficient administration of the vaccine.

However, the messaging is front and centre and Scotty from Marketing stuffed up.

[5 from the wing on debut]

Yes, the logos at the announcements were cringeworthy.

[eddiesmith]

[stui magpie]

Don't believe for a second that Dan isn't still pulling the strings, on leave or not.

[eddiesmith]

Yeah but if he can't get up at a press conference and announce it, we seem to be safe.

Just look at the completely different reactions to 30 cases spreading in the community for over a week before detected when Dan was on leave and a handful of cases contained to hotel quarantine workers and their close contacts when Dan was in charge.

[Dave The Man]

[eddiesmith]

You'll be fine Dave, it takes Victoria's health department a week to even figure they've got a positive case and then shuffle through the papers to find their post it notes with all their close contacts before the Government is even informed and lockdowns considered!

You'd better hope it happens though before Collingwood has to travel to Perth, otherwise ANZAC Day will be being played interstate this year!!!

[Pies4shaw]

https://twitter.com/VicGovDH/status/1380071231337205771/photo/1

Wastewater fragment detection in the south east. It's either rampant in 23 local government areas or yet another false alarm. As I said the other day, I think they've got to stop listing 20 suburbs that need to watch out on the basis of a single detection of viral fragments in one test. It's a reasonably blunt instrument.

[watt price tully]

[stui magpie]

^

Absolute garbage.