Originally Posted by
neville_nobody
As I said Australians stand for nothing, and the majority are not affected by Covid 19, in fact it has been a economic boom for them. Any Tradesman with an investment property is absolutely killing it right now. Any government worker is not affected. Healthcare has carried on. In reality it's only Airlines and Travel Agents who are suffering.
QLD and WA have years to run in their Electoral Cycles so people can bitch all they like but it ain't going change. Unless you can find a real legal challenge and finance the court case you are powerless. The problem for isolationist states will be the impending economic implosion as they start running out of labour, and the economic impact of "being safe" starts to hit.
But McGowan has stated in no uncertain terms he wants continue
Zero Covid, Zero Deaths even after 80% of the adult population has done the right things. An utter impossibility if the other states do go along with the agreed pathway because of the way supply chains and other things operate in this country along with the transmissibility of Covid Delta. At that point, WA is locking down and continuing isolation in perpetuity while watching the rest of the country run wild and free, and they are doing so to protect those who've largely refused to look after themselves with vaccination. People won't cop it. I honestly believe that's where his political capital runs out. Agreed, Australians don't generally protest, and his electoral comeuppance is a long way off, but he seems to largely operate at the whim of his political backers (local mining, media and property development magnates)., and As you say, the labour difficulties will start to really bite (hint, they are already in the residential construction industry), and that's where we might see change.
Qantas is right to establish a pathway out, there will be states that allow them to do it, eventually others will be coerced into joining. If not at 80% vax, then when?