Originally Posted by
Icarus2001
SOPS I see Facebook groups with a petition calling for McGowan to keep the border closed in WA until it is “safe” to open. When do you think that will be? If the rest of the country has Covid in varying levels then WA could never open up.
Does it relate to
this change.org petition? In that case don't worry, it only has 28,000 signatures, or 1% of the state's population. The one calling for borders to remain closed in vaccine free 2020 attracted
10x as much support. And apart from a few extremist epidemiologists there's no one of substance backing this petition, even the
AMA toned down their calls for borders remaining closed recently. The Chambers of Minerals and Energy, and Commerce and Industry support reopening and that's pretty much all that matters.
And if governments did what every petition called for them to do then we'd have
no "religious discrimination" bill about to be enacted and we'd have a
Royal Commission into Murdoch media.