All borders to reopen.
Well that’s your opinion, free to stay in Sydney or Melbourne where it costs both arms and legs to buy a house, and to sit in a traffic jam all day long. Net interstate migration showed a net gain for WA and a larger net loss for NSW and Vic over the last year so the “free market” is deciding where they’d rather live.
Well that will be made imminently. We can see if it’s a firm date or a “stringing along”.
Well that will be made imminently. We can see if it’s a firm date or a “stringing along”.
As more and more domestic flights will now get cancelled in the lead up to Christmas, just remember that Mark McGowan and his WA Government have been the saviour of aviation in this country! I’m pretty sure I saw his nose lengthen as he said it!
Last edited by goodonyamate; 11th Dec 2021 at 18:21.
How is that announcement coming along! The only announcement made was the border was tightened last night but no mention of opening. WA is in an indefinite lockdown.
What is the plan MM!
What is the plan MM!
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.
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.
"RodH , 12th Dec 2021 05:51
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."
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."
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.
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.
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.
Last edited by StudentInDebt; 12th Dec 2021 at 01:34.
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.
How did you come to that conclusion? Of the total deaths in Australia of 2072 in the last 22 months, 1390 were in Victoria.
These are FACTS. This is why it is so hard to have a sensible discussion about COVID rules. So much catastrophising.
If MM did open up the border, there is nothing stopping vulnerable people from self isolating at home is there?
So you believe that if MM opened the borders from say Dec 20th to allow Christmas travel then 1000+ people will die in WA?
How did you come to that conclusion? Of the total deaths in Australia of 2072 in the last 22 months, 1390 were in Victoria.
These are FACTS. This is why it is so hard to have a sensible discussion about COVID rules. So much catastrophising.
If MM did open up the border, there is nothing stopping vulnerable people from self isolating at home is there?
How did you come to that conclusion? Of the total deaths in Australia of 2072 in the last 22 months, 1390 were in Victoria.
These are FACTS. This is why it is so hard to have a sensible discussion about COVID rules. So much catastrophising.
If MM did open up the border, there is nothing stopping vulnerable people from self isolating at home is there?
Last edited by StudentInDebt; 12th Dec 2021 at 08:01.
The short of it is that population density is the prime driver of this thing and then how communities interact, which in the case of QLD and WA it's really not a big threat. Vic has a more European style of interaction and dense population that converges around the city center, then throw in the communities that have large extended families and large community gatherings for whatever and you have the perfect spreading ground. I would hazard a guess that Melbourne also has a very high amount of older population concentrated in retirement homes which adds to the death rate. I doubt WA would get a massive outbreak even if they did let it rip, but I don't really care what they do, its their turf, their rules. Something for the voters of WA to sort out when the time comes.
Hold the press. If your positive and decide to spread your germs on one of our flights entering this state, then the hold planeload is off into Quarantine for the next fortnight, courtesy of our Anna.
Four flights today have now fallen over. Edit. Now that’s 5. Goodbye Christmas for these poor people.
Domestic confidence is never going to improve. Cannot believe I am still reading Airports being marked as exposure sites requiring quarantine. Every flight and airport is a exposure site now, forever and ever and ever!
Four flights today have now fallen over. Edit. Now that’s 5. Goodbye Christmas for these poor people.
Domestic confidence is never going to improve. Cannot believe I am still reading Airports being marked as exposure sites requiring quarantine. Every flight and airport is a exposure site now, forever and ever and ever!
Last edited by PoppaJo; 14th Dec 2021 at 11:16.
They’ve changed their minds, after businesses basically told them they will ruin everything if everyone who’s on a flight has to quarantine every time someone has covid.
Now only a couple of rows either side, which I think is still ridiculous, but better than the entire aeroplane I guess.
Now only a couple of rows either side, which I think is still ridiculous, but better than the entire aeroplane I guess.
Scotty from Marketing says: "There will be no more lockdowns."
Who knew that Scotty decided whether States or parts of States would lock down? I thought lockdowns were not his responsibility...
Who knew that Scotty decided whether States or parts of States would lock down? I thought lockdowns were not his responsibility...
Might not be lockdowns but travelers appear spooked at the moment, Tasmania are isolating entire plane loads, not one or two rows.
Seen a pretty significant drop off in pax numbers across the last fortnight, more noticeable this week. The commentary around 20-30k cases a day next month won’t help much either.
Seen a pretty significant drop off in pax numbers across the last fortnight, more noticeable this week. The commentary around 20-30k cases a day next month won’t help much either.