Originally Posted by
wheels_down
The problem is Anastasia is too unpredictable. We can’t be opening and closing. NSW might maintain 10 cases a day for a month then all of a sudden record 20 and she locks them out again. You then don’t get that border open for months. Madness.
I actually pity AJ and all his employees who have to put up with this BS. By all means vote her out folks.
This has been the problem since day one. No-one has ever bothered to either set or state the criteria for border openings. It’s an ad-hoc, scattergun process, varying between each state and territory, rather than a national approach in the national interest.
Having said that, Queensland’s CHO stated today they want to see 28 days with no community transmission in NSW before considering opening the border. As Gladys said, we may never see that. If there’s no vaccine, or it’s not completely effective, based on their own criteria, Queensland may stay closed to southern states in perpetuity.
It’s a frankly ridiculous state of affairs and our political leaders should hang their collective heads in shame at their inability to plan a way forward in the best interests of ALL Australians. If they want to stay shut then so be it but find a nationally agreed position, state what it is, and prepare Australians for what is to come.
If there has ever been a stronger scenario in the last 120 years arguing for the abolition of the states entirely, I fail to see it.