Originally Posted by
dr dre
And do tell, what qualifications/experience do her critics have?
At a guess, they're people who don't have the Government-funded silver spoon in their mouth and actually have to
work for a living... If the CHO's are
really that concerned about the death toll, why do they still permit tobacco use - arguably the single most-easily controlled way to prevent lung and bronchial cancer, that killed 8,684 people in Australia last year......
As has been stated above, they're
Doctors. They may be very
good Doctors, but they are still
just Doctors. They have been granted extraordinary powers, powers that have never-before been issued in Australia in this manner, which have no appeal process and no recourse or any other oversight. A fundamental concept in the legal system in Australia, and elsewhere, is the right to appeal. Under WA & Qld restrictions, there is nothing of the sort. No means no and if you're on the wrong side of that answer, you're screwed, without so much as a "Sorry Bucko!".
Tell a Doctor you can close the border to anywhere with a COVID case and
of course they will jump at that opportunity. Tell an Economist to close the border to anywhere with a COVID case and they'd be aghast at the thought. The issue is finding the appropriate middle ground, something WA and Qld have yet to do, especially when Qld is taking less than 1/3rd of the International Arrivals of NSW...