Originally Posted by
RodH
People wishing to go to WA for Xmas from Qld are well and truly stuffed like the turkey they were going to have there!
WA's pathetically slow vaccination rate is the root cause of this latest border restrictions and that's largely due to that Political Drongo not encouraging his lemmings to go and get vaccinated asap.
The other States and territories Leaders have done so but not this clown!, well not lately and it's too late to do much good now anyway.
You have well and truly played the role of " Grinch " Mr. Premier and you so called advisors.
We all have to learn to live with Covid and all of it's variants as can't stop it , just live with it like the flu.
Encouraging? They tried that for months but no-one listened, at least as long as NSW and VIC. Now it’s mandated for pretty much every major sector in the state because they realised without community COVID transmission there are enough muppets here to stop the coverage reaching 80-90%. No-one in WA other than the lunatic fringe of the liberal party is going to support opening borders to deliberately allow 1000+ people to die earlier than they need to, so the borders will remain closed. When I meet people who refuse to get vaccinated and try to explain the consequence of their actions, they are “cool with that”.
Try to bear in mind that the vast majority of West Australians are vaccinated and they also want to see the border restrictions lifted but in a way that does not disrupt the lack transmission suppression measures, ie wait for high vaccination rates.
Short of physically dragging people off the street, I’m not sure how much more “encouragement” politicians can provide. They are taking away people’s livelihoods for not getting vaccinated, something that the Murdoch press and Nine would be decrying as totalitarianism if they hadn’t already used that with their anti-border restriction by-lines.