Daniel Andrews has lost the Covid plot
Victorian premier admits the Covid-Zero dream is a fantasy.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has lost the Covid plot and tossed the National Cabinet script in the shredder.
Far from presenting a united front with the other state premiers – as laid out by Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Federal Operation Covid Shield – Andrews has chosen to pursue his own path.
The bold declaration a month ago was hailed as the premier’s great battle against Delta, but as a headline read in the Financial Review yesterday ‘Even Andrews couldn’t defeat delta’.
#DictatorDan:#youonlygetonechancewithDelta#youdoitonceyoudoitright#wedontwanttobelikeNSW https://t.co/9Jy58fO0C3
— Avi Yemini 🇦🇺🇮🇱 (@OzraeliAvi) September 1, 2021
Victoria entered its sixth lockdown after Daniel Andrews decided to teach New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian on ‘how it’s done’ by locking his state down hard and fast.
It didn’t work.
Over 170 cases.
— Avi Yemini 🇦🇺🇮🇱 (@OzraeliAvi) September 1, 2021
That’s a month after we locked down for 8 cases in the pursuit of donuts.
The strategy is clearly working.
The state's initial 8 cases became 170 today, growing faster than the New South Wales outbreak.
“This is not going to go down. It is now a question of how much it goes up,” said Andrews.
Both states have found that Delta is not being contained by stay-at-home orders.
When it was pointed out to Daniel Andrews in a recent press conference that 'sooner or later every state would have to learn to live with Delta, Andrews replied, "With the greatest of respect to the New South Wales premier, I'll let her look after her cases, and I'll look after mine here."
Victorians have been left shaking their heads at a series of bizarre decisions during the Delta outbreak, such as shutting children’s playgrounds and forbidding anyone to remove their mask while drinking beer.
No dessert until you eat your vegetables. https://t.co/vIQxjMTwRY
— Caden Pearson (@CadenPearson) September 1, 2021
Curfews (which the government admitted had nothing to do with Covid and everything to do with ease of policing) were enforced along with a two hour limit on exercise.
The unpopular health orders were made in pursuit of the premier’s Covid-Zero approach, which has now been dropped after it became obvious that Covid-Zero is an unattainable fantasy.
#DictatorDan finally concedes that zero cases are unattainable.
— Avi Yemini 🇦🇺🇮🇱 (@OzraeliAvi) September 1, 2021
So now he says we can open with low double digits.
Expect months of lockdown.
Until he admits, that’s impossible.
And shifts the posts to another unattainable goal.
The state has spent more time in lockdown than any other part of Australia, and yet it holds the grisly record for most Covid deaths. The vast majority of Victoria’s 822 deaths were linked to outbreaks within aged care facilities.
On the advice of the Chief Health Officer, Victoria's lockdown will be extended to slow the spread and keep Victorians safe.
— Dan Andrews (@DanielAndrewsMP) September 1, 2021
Due to the level of community transmission and number of unlinked cases, almost all restrictions will remain in place. pic.twitter.com/Gr3IG7N4b5
Reluctantly following Berejiklian's lead, Victoria intends to ‘reward’ its citizens with a very slight ease in restrictions on September 13.
The ‘reward for vaccination rates’ will see the 5km rule doubled to 10km and exercise limits raised to three hours. Non-essential construction sites will also be allowed to re-open.
Having completely abandoned his Covid-Zero eradication policy, Daniel Andrews has found himself copying New South Wales by using vaccination rates as a marker for restrictions, rather than positive cases.
Meanwhile, Daniel Andrews will have to put up with headlines accusing him of kneeling to Gladys Berejiklian after he kicked up such a fuss over her handling of the situation in Sydney.
I've been arrested, handcuffed, thrown to the ground, thrown into the back of a police car, frog marched from Parliament, and had cops try intimidate me at home.
— Avi Yemini 🇦🇺🇮🇱 (@OzraeliAvi) August 31, 2021
Now we're going after them for ALL of it.
Wanna help? Visit https://t.co/6EoL6gD7Dq!pic.twitter.com/Ap0WR3vhcf
- By Avi Yemini
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