Originally Posted by
Chronic Snoozer
Well now that you've caught on, do things he says and does make a bit more sense? He'd be an idiot to allow an excessive number of cases to develop if he knows the hospital system can't cope. Which is kind of how this whole pandemic thing kicked off.....
No, it does not. His CHO testified under oath that the WA health system is capable of handling 5,000 Covid cases, with, IIRC, 500 per day increase -
and that was a year ago!
Originally Posted by The Federal Court of Australia
Dr Robertson estimates that for 100 new cases per day (or 1,000 active cases), 130 hospital beds and 25 ICU beds would be required, and 14 deaths expected; while for 500 new cases per day (or 5,000 active cases), 650 hospital beds and 124 ICU beds would be required, and 70 deaths expected. These numbers would remain within the capacity of the Western Australian health system to manage, but would substantially increase the burden upon the health system.
Source
Fixing a health system in crisis is not a quick or easy task, and to use
that as an excuse to deny people their constitutionally-guaranteed right to travel without being penalised simply because they live in a particular state is a
very slippery slope -
particularly when
your own CHO testified under oath that your
current state health system could manage with upto 500 new cases
per day!
Because if
that is going to be the excuse he uses to keep the border closed after the nation hits the 80% target,
where does it end for him? What
will the trigger be to reopen the WA border - given the WA health system is on a knifes edge
without any Covid cases?