All borders to reopen.

[StudentInDebt]

Originally Posted by BuzzBox

If you bothered to read the updates provided by the Health Dept, you would know the two infected workers at the quarantine hotels did NOT cause a wider outbreak. All their close contacts were traced and isolated and either tested negative or were isolated while they were infectious. Genetic testing showed the outbreak that is now starting to accelerate originated with the returned traveller from Tasmania.

You can prove anything with facts

[tossbag]

"West Australians are so heavily vaccinated against COVID that the State’s Omicron wave will potentially peak lower than anywhere else in Australia."

Good luck with that.

[Chad Gates]

Fair enough Buzz. I can’t find that, but I’ll take your word for it.

[morno]

March 3, the new February 5

[vne165]

Thank goodness...

[PoppaJo]

When’s McGowan flying to Sydney to face off Clive? Good timing hey.

[BuzzBox]

Originally Posted by PoppaJo

When’s McGowan flying to Sydney to face off Clive? Good timing hey.

McGowan is due to appear in court in Sydney between 26-28 Feb. He said during the press conference that he wants to avoid accusations like the one you're trying to make and he will therefore do the full 7 days of self-isolation at a hotel on his return from Sydney.

[Maggie Island]

As good old George W once said after trapping on a carrier “mission accomplished”. Mods I think it’s time to put this thread out to pasture (along with the last two years…)

[KRviator]

Originally Posted by morno

March 3, the new February 5

Which year???

[Chronic Snoozer]

Originally Posted by KRviator

Which year???

This year, 2002.

[aussieflyboy]

McGowan better bring a fresh shirt if flying commercially. I’ve heard there’s quite a substantial cash prize for the first cabin crew to nail him with a ‘spilled’ coffee.

[vne165]

Aussie - where can I donate?

[Turnleft080]

Originally Posted by KRviator

Which year???

Funny you should say that. My dads record collection contains a 7 inch vinyl single released by RCA records of Zager & Evans "In the year 2525". When someone mentions WA or MM, I think of that one hit wonder. It's in my head.

[morno]

Originally Posted by KRviator

Which year???

Lets not be too specific

[SHVC]

Welcome back to the West! Headline in todays Australian. Should be The West rejoins Australia and the world. Bunch of muppets that government is.

[KRviator]

Question is - how many people are going to be willing to risk it, given McGowan's proclivity for shutting the border mid-flight, or changing the date that was "Locked in"...

Apart from immediate family and interstate FIFO crew going to work, I don't think the tourist market will rebound as quickly as they're hoping, and as a tourist, there's not much in WA that I cannot get elsewhere in Oz, that doesn't have the risk of a disrupted holiday.

[minigundiplomat]

Originally Posted by KRviator

Question is - how many people are going to be willing to risk it, given McGowan's proclivity for shutting the border mid-flight, or changing the date that was "Locked in"...

Apart from immediate family and interstate FIFO crew going to work, I don't think the tourist market will rebound as quickly as they're hoping, and as a tourist, there's not much in WA that I cannot get elsewhere in Oz, that doesn't have the risk of a disrupted holiday.

i don’t disagree - but if you’re heading to Qld in lieu of WA, remember Palachook was open and closed like a bedside drawer in a brothel until recently…..

peoples memories are shorter than we expect.

[airdualbleedfault]

Originally Posted by minigundiplomat

i don’t disagree - but if you’re heading to Qld in lieu of WA, remember Palachook was open and closed like a bedside drawer in a brothel until recently…..

peoples memories are shorter than we expect.

Indeed they have , apparently Mcclown still has a 64% approval rating, they ain't too bright over there

[Jester64]

Originally Posted by airdualbleedfault

Indeed they have , apparently Mcclown still has a 64% approval rating, they ain't too bright over there

Meaning they approve whatever he says and does. A lot of people took this as two-thirds actually wanted the borders to stay closed - which wasn’t what the surveys / polls were asking, they simply agreed with his decision, but the majority of us wanted it open at some point in the near future, because two-thirds of them agreed with him for a 05FEB reopening right until the point he back-flipped, then they agreed with his back-flip.

Anyhow bring on the reopening and the increase in recruitment activity that we can see happening amongst the QF group. I’ve been lucky, wish the same for others.

[BuzzBox]

Originally Posted by Jester64

...because two-thirds of them agreed with him for a 05FEB reopening right until the point he back-flipped, then they agreed with his back-flip.

It is a fallacy that two-thirds agreed with the 5 February reopening right up until the point he back-flipped. The truth is that we simply don't know, because the only poll on the subject took place on 21 December, a month before McGowan deferred the reopening. At the time of that poll, the effect of Omicron on the Eastern States was not apparent. Another poll that was taken a few days after the so-called 'backflip' found that some 71% of respondents agreed with the decision. The best we can say is that a lot of people changed their mind about reopening some time over the course of the month between the first and second polls.

The insinuation that West Australians are a bunch of lemmings who hang off McGowan's every word is quite simply wrong and, frankly, offensive.