Originally Posted by
43Inches
To be fair the 'Dan plan' has always been since vaccination became available to Suppress, Contain and then open up and live with once a certain level of vaccination was achieved. Living in Victoria I've watched a lot of his announcements to see what applies to me and the narrative has not changed much in 9 months. The idea of suppression and containment was to try to have some sort of normal life until vaccination rates peaked, the recent outbreak forced their hand to move faster. What was not spelled out until recently was what level of vax equated to what level of 'living with'. It's quite clear that as NSW has opened up with no real huge spikes, Vic has adjusted and offered more freedoms at similar stages than what was planned, the expectation that the state will be pretty much completely open, possibly with just mask requirements by Christmas is looking pretty good.
Exactly this. I've mostly supported Dan through the pandemic and always said to friends that, that would change if he didn't open up once the best available protection was available to all. People who criticise him and use childish names have been fed lies that this wasn't always the plan, be it Victoria or NSW the long-term plan was the same, the only real difference being that sadly Victoria ended up having the outbreak last year NSW didn't. I will never understand how people, including some here are praising NSW but still chanting "chairman dan", Victoria is literally doing everything NSW is doing, opening borders, almost all rules gone.