Originally Posted by
Clare Prop
Yes, when that state of residence had Covid rampant in the community.
Is being such a drama king a WA thing?
"Rampant in the Community"...Really? Have you bothered to look at the figures yourself? Or are you one of those people who believe everything your State Daddy tells you?
The ACT has more Covid cases per capita than does NSW, and has done since the 17th October, yet is classified two steps lower than NSW, to the point you can quarantine at home if you were to travel to WA, whereas Joe Q Public from NSW cannot travel to WA
at all - even if their only child lays dying in hospital - not even to quarantine at their expense in a Government managed hotel...
The ACT is currently classified as
"Medium Risk" according to the WA Controlled Border program, while NSW is assessed as
"Extreme Risk". The 14-day rolling average for those states sits at
384 for NSW and
27 for the ACT, however, if you normalise those figures for population, you get
518 for the ACT (as NSW's population is 18.9x greater) and, again normalised for population, the ACT has peaked at over 700 on a 14-day rolling average, but IIRC they have never gone above the "Medium Risk" category,
because it does not factor in population size, so as an assessment tool, it is useless, and unfairly penalises those states with higher populations.
IF that's the quality of the "health advice" being provided in WA it's no wonder your health system is up the shyte.