Sorry bro - couldn't sit through all of it. Chicks voice is bloody grating.
So - opinion - not sure there's much of a surprise. I sort of take this opinion, if the entire CVD thing is an 'emergency' (per the definition requirement under the Public Health Act to implement emergency responses and bypass the hearing of changes in legislation), then you run it via an Incident Management Team (IMT - which I note the Vics have someone doing that (the controller), maybe NSW does but I don't believe I'm aware of this person). You have a bushfire, IMT. Floods, IMT. Terrorism or major police action, IMT. Pandemic, bunch of Health execs and pollies playing "wtf do we do next". Heard this plenty of times, if we managed water the way NSW Health have managed a pandemic, we'd be out of work within the week.
I've asked for a royal commission on the handling of all this. In water - we've had Health sitting there picking pendantic fckng holes in the way we've managed mock incidents (and usually its, you didn't have a procedure to manage the proverbial someone was hit in the head with a meteorite type incident). Its a fckng pandemic, surely Health have a procedure, protocol or even maybe a policy for managing this. But I think the video shows otherwise.
If I've lost someone to CVD, especially during the delta outbreak, I'd be very, very interested to know whether a procedure exists and whether it was followed. An example, Wivenhoe floods in Qld ~2010, I know what those guys had to deal with and why they made the decisions they made. I'd have made exactly the same calls in the situation. That cost lives and people went to prison as they didn't follow a procedure (and for the record, if they did, the dam probably would have failed). Is that worse than not having one when your NSW Health and its a pandemic that has cost over 1700 lives? Good q. If it was me, I'd at least be pushing for a coronial enquiry - maybe that might shine a light in a very dark place.
So to cut a long story short, we have a Health regulator thats freewheeling and a govt that has absolute power to implement whatever they want under the Act. Here's food for thought - whats the trigger for the public health emergency and associated powers to disappear? At a concept level, the gov't can do whatever they fckng like with no democratic process for ever.
Fck it - I'm booking in to get my hair cut Kim Jong-Un style this weekend.
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