A tad of an over exaggeration. McGowan is only giving people a warning not to travel over there but heās still letting them (to do it at their own risk). Not sure if North Korea would even let people make that choice.
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I know that authorities are being cautious and realist but I donāt think these predictions are really helpful to the current trajectory for SA, especially if weāre pivoting towards āLiving with COVIDā where cases are just part of everyday life. These predictions will just install fear in South Australians that COVID is still doom and gloom.
Other states gave similar predictions only to revise them later on (QLD for example). I am not sure if I am liking the SA approach on living with covid.
But SA should be able to live with 300 cases daily. They have one of the biggest hospitals in the Southern Hemisphere. Time to use that.
The two vaccines to be recognised are Covaxin from India and BBIBP-CorV (aka Sinopharm) from China.
It baffles me SA hasnāt received more criticism. It just proves the freedom liberal governments get in australia from mainstream media. If this was WAs border bubble, Victoriaās or QLDās there would be a lot more about this.
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See, McGowan isnāt a stone hearted person like some seem to imply here. He knows compassion and applies it when the situation permits.
Yes his borders are very stubborn but I donāt think he wants to do this just to piss off the East Coast.
Heās not compassionate itās evident on his border policy. It took a plea for someone to get into the state by going on national television to doing a heart breaking plea.
Heās certainly pissed off a lot of the other States and the people in W.A. There will be only so much dictatorship they will take . Itās probably easy for me to say that since I live in another country at the moment but I can clearly empathise with a lot of my fellow Western Australians who are fully vaccinated and canāt even travel interstate / internationally .
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Thatās a big statement off one exemption.
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One exemption in amongst probably hundreds of applications. Heās a saint!
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After two years of covid stopping people from seeing dying relatives seems excessive to me. It shouldnāt take going to the media to allow him in. There should be exemptions allowed by now. The long term effect of such decisions has potentially damaging implications for individuals future.
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I am not trying to justify McGowanās border policies and his stance but I was just trying to say that any comparisons to North Korea is ludicrous. North Koreaās ruling system has absolutely no compassion, which is not McGowanās stance as demomstrated.
Having said that, the notion that NSW stays under extreme risk even though their rolling average is surely below 500 by now is ridiculous. If people are willing to quarantine in WA and want to travel overseas and return via Sydney or Melbourne then they should realistically have the option to do so.
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QLD 0 + 0 day yesterday.
The Premier is now keeping WA residents from leaving the state. I can understand keeping people out but not letting them leave? Tom, cāmon. Thatās not a free world policy at all. Comparisons to a dictator is correct at this stage. Heās full on power.
This is false, WA has never had a state enacted restriction on leaving the state to go anywhere, and still isnāt. At the moment, you wonāt be able to come back from NSW/VIC until the restrictions are lifted, which is the same as every other COVID zero state right now. International flights still leave from Perth every single day.
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Didnāt he say something the other day about NSW being a super danger zone or whatever and that people canāt travel there from WA to go overseas?
Yep,
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Thereās no restriction on travel to NSW from WA, itās getting back to WA from VIC or NSW thatās the issue, as has been the case for several months. Nothing has changed.
If you want to travel one way internationally leaving NSW ex WA nothing is stopping you.
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