Originally Posted by
Sunfish
The problem Victoria has is threefold:
1. We now have an utterly incompetent state public service. This is a direct result of hiring and promoting people who have no relevant qualifications and experience except belonging to a non anglo saxon, non male minority. This situation is plainly on display in the ongoing quarantine inquiry. One manager even made and published her own team video celebrating their own achievement in creating what Josh Frydenberg correctly labelled “the greatest public policy failure in living memory”. These people are unable to construct let alone execute a coherent covid or anything else strategy. When a vaccine arrives and needs to be distributed and administered, they will @#$% that up too.
2. Our politically correct state government refuses to call a spade a spade. There is a reason that Melbournes outbreaks are geographically located where they are: concentrations of non english speaking and/or low income people who do not have a reputation for (a) familiarity with westminster democratic principles and associated laws, and (b) any inclination to follow laws at all. That translates to:”they don’t give a @#$%.”. Covid containment policy should be backed up by six months in the slammer for breaking quarantine. It isn’t. There are sections of the community who don’t respond to anything less. Lest you think I’m being racist, the six months slammer should also apply to the pricks who keep coming up to their holiday houses in defiance of the lockdown restrictions. Also, lest I be accused of racism, the government forgot to deliver covid 19 information and instructions in languages other than english for a considerable time. This was a tragedy because a lot of the wives in these communities don’t speak or learn english and may have been able to influence their families if the message had been communicated to them.
3. A state leader and ministers who have never done an honest days work in their lives. They have no empathy with anyone outside their ethnic group all of whom are carefully branch stacked members of their political faction. In particular,, they have no empathy for anyone who runs their own business. Not only that, they do not even have (nor can the public service now provide - see #1) any understanding that a major task of leaders is to reduce uncertainty, not increase it. This is how we got the jumbo jumbo “you can exercise for two hours a day if it’s Wednesday, the date is even, it’s a full moon and there were less than 41.5 cases yesterday” strategy. You can do all that modelling, well and good, but craft it into a very simple message for the community instead of raising then dashing peoples hopes. For example, Restaurant owners have been caught twice buying food and organising staff only to have to throw it all out and close up again at short notice.
‘They result is that investors are giving up and running, not walking, away from investment opportunities down here and it will take ten years and another Geoff Kennett to get them back.
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That was as concise and truthful as any explanation I’ve read anywhere.