I Think It Would Be Fair To Say Ideologically Driven Politicians Are Poorly Equipped To Help Us Manage The Ongoing Pandemic.

We had a press conference from Premier Dom and Minister Hazzard this morning (Sunday 19, Dec.) on what to do about the rising case load of COVID19 – so many cases indeed that we can’t genotype them – and whether it was time to introduce some basic control measures. In the last few days pretty much all of the best epidemiologists in the country,the AMA and the NSW Opposition have all suggested that simple measures – a mask mandate, use of QR codes, sensible large gathering limits, basic social distancing and beefing up track and trace systems might be prudent for a few weeks until we see just how the spread of the Omicron Variant plays out and if it starts to cause rising hospital admissions and worse. This is on the background of pretty awful news coming from the UK, Europe (Holland in lockdown again) and the US with figures for cases in NYC the worse ever. Even Tassie has brought back the basics, as announced today around midday today Kerry Chant has been sidelined and the... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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