Originally Posted by
Clare Prop
Maybe all the sour grapes are because we are hosting the Grand Final in our Covid free state? Or just jealous that we can go about our daily lives without restrictions or masks?
No mate. Sour Grapes because what WA has achieved has been through good luck, nothing more, and
certainly not good management, and not pulling their weight, all the while thumbing their nose at other states and telling them
"This is how it should be done!". I dunno about you, but most every Aussie I've met takes a fairly dim view of people not pulling their weight and letting others carry the can...
Sure, if you want to bring in less than your percentage of returning Australians, you're more than welcome to. But NSW has consistently brought in two, two-and-a-bit times
it's fair share since the border bollocks began. The same goes for airfreight...You don't see queues of FedEx or DHL planes heading in to Perth, do you? And of course, each of those crews needs to be transported to HQ, managed while
in HQ and transported back to the airport, with the risk that entails.
Australia as a whole, has been happy to let NSW handle the lions share of the returning traveler & airfreight task, yet having the gall to penalise their citizens when it gets out of HQ, tut-tutting Gladys and her team for their perceived failings, because, you know, Tasmania has been Covid free for a year - but has taken in sweet FA international arrivals of any description for the vast majority of that timeframe...
For example, since April 2020-June 2021 (last month for which BTRE figures were available), this is the incoming passenger load:
- Adelaide: 19,969
- Brisbane: 112,276
- Hobart: 1,314 - Only started taking international arrivals April/May & June 21, was 0 for the 12 months before that.
- Melbourne: 81,570 - Took 0 in during Aug/Sep/Oct 2020 when they had their outbreak
- Perth: 48,243
- Sydney: 245, 951 - nearly 50% of all international arrivals, and almost as much as every other city combined
But you keep kicking back with the AFL grand final and the door closed to keep the boogey man out, all the while with a hospital system unable to cope with baseload cases without having to cancel elective surgeries. I'm sure your State Daddy has got it under control.