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We are starting to see a pattern here. Ambulance ramping, hopelessly long waits in ED departments resulting in unnecessary deaths. McGoo and Cooked go the blunt instrument approach to 1 case of community spread because they don’t want to be exposed for the hopelessly underfunded and understaffed hospital system.

DD The Libs lost; you need to get over it.

I bet you haven't taken your red Vote Labor hat off since election day except on match days when you are barracking for your Swannies. Have you got a big poster in the corner of your office you souvenired on election day of the great Emperor Mr McGoo?

Fact is McGoo and Undercooked are a couple of one trick ponies who have been caught out time and time again being reactive instead of proactive. One wonders how the hell our hospitals would have coped with the typical levels of influenza we experienced pre Covid. Just about no bastard has got the flu and they are not coping. 

It's been good to see McGoo put back on his heels instead of bouncing on his toes puffing his chest out. I see he has waited until the Prime Minister left town and a Covid outbreak to once again pull out the old "the commonwealth should be doing more" card. Very quick to shift blame when he gets caught out. Yet very slow to react to lessons handed out. What a shame they have so little opposition. 

I wonder what Colin Barnett is doing these days.   

The Libs have 2 seats after the election; two fewer than the Nats.  Labor have 53 seats.  And as for Morrison he was too gutless to come over to WA during our state election.

What's your point and what's the election result got to do with these dopes failures to provide an adequate hospital system and put proper systems in place in these quarantine hotels?

You are still crowing about the election result and that's the problem we have. The smugness of an arrogant government.

What are you doing Colin? Are you watching?

I was very even handed in my analysis of the WA state election.  However, the re-writing of the reasons for the state election is not going to pass without being challenged.  That includes the result of the 2017 state election where the Barnett government was beaten in a landslide.

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I shat my dacks McGowan needs another plan the total lock down BS is costing a fortune, goodness knows how pubs retail et al can survive with losses like this, people can’t have livelihoods wrecked just because our simpleton leader can’t come up with a better plan

Look at NSW far bigger population more travellers coming in but does not have a total lockdown at a drop of a hat. Give me the premier of NSW any day of the week over these lunatics.

You will need to move to NSW to facilitate such a desire.  Of course, you will not be able to move quickly enough to qualify to vote in the Upper Hunter electorate to help her in that by-election.

Glad the election result was able to sort out the issues in the health system and the gold class Mercure hotel debacle.
Not like they had any advice on these issues of course while trumpeting their victory and budget surplus.

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Funny but scrolling back through the news would suggest that what has happened here is the same as QLD, NSW, SA and Vic have all experienced in the past 12/18 months.

It was also there in print (which I realise is rubbish but in the absence of any other source) all states have has breakdowns in hotel quarantine either with air conditioning or transfer from guards, all states have gone into three day lockdowns except victoria which was 6 weeks. 

Some if you want an alternative, well we could try the Indian strategy where we inoculate the rich and stuff the 99% of the population, perhaps the swedish or norwegian idea of herd immunity is what you would prefer, then there is the english idea of just ignoring it until oops we better do something strategy, you choose me I will stick to doing what I reckon is the best strategy for me and my family in this case and that is what the elected government tells me. 

It is really easy to to throw bricks and criticise but coming up with plausible and effective strategies is a bit difficult.

The real culprit in all of this is the government authority responsible for quarantine in this country which has been loud in its ignorance of the issues. If you want to stop the virus coming into the country so we do not need hotels in the absence of proper facilities being made available then stop returning folk especially from certain regions of the world, the cost of that would be only felt in the service stations and fast food outlets!

Peter Dutton's response to a question from David Speers (Insiders) was particularly interesting in view of some comments on this topic.  I would highly recommend that Dutton's answer is checked out on the Insiders programme.

So you're saying 42 because McGoo won the election in a landslide he should be held accountable for any stuff ups?

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So you're saying 42 because McGoo won the election in a landslide he should be held accountable for any stuff ups?

I presume you meant to say not accountable.  Not at all but the state governments, including the WA government, have pointed out to the federal government the limitations and deficiencies of the hotel quarantine process.  What has the federal government done about this?

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We are starting to see a pattern here. Ambulance ramping, hopelessly long waits in ED departments resulting in unnecessary deaths. McGoo and Cooked go the blunt instrument approach to 1 case of community spread because they don’t want to be exposed for the hopelessly underfunded and understaffed hospital system.

DD The Libs lost; you need to get over it.

I bet you haven't taken your red Vote Labor hat off since election day except on match days when you are barracking for your Swannies. Have you got a big poster in the corner of your office you souvenired on election day of the great Emperor Mr McGoo?

Fact is McGoo and Undercooked are a couple of one trick ponies who have been caught out time and time again being reactive instead of proactive. One wonders how the hell our hospitals would have coped with the typical levels of influenza we experienced pre Covid. Just about no bastard has got the flu and they are not coping. 

It's been good to see McGoo put back on his heels instead of bouncing on his toes puffing his chest out. I see he has waited until the Prime Minister left town and a Covid outbreak to once again pull out the old "the commonwealth should be doing more" card. Very quick to shift blame when he gets caught out. Yet very slow to react to lessons handed out. What a shame they have so little opposition. 

I wonder what Colin Barnett is doing these days.   

The Libs have 2 seats after the election; two fewer than the Nats.  Labor have 53 seats.  And as for Morrison he was too gutless to come over to WA during our state election.

What's your point and what's the election result got to do with these dopes failures to provide an adequate hospital system and put proper systems in place in these quarantine hotels?

You are still crowing about the election result and that's the problem we have. The smugness of an arrogant government.

What are you doing Colin? Are you watching?

I was very even handed in my analysis of the WA state election.  However, the re-writing of the reasons for the state election is not going to pass without being challenged.  That includes the result of the 2017 state election where the Barnett government was beaten in a landslide.

How about you get your hand off it and stop trying to lecture us like you are a Minister addressing the media giving us your "measured" responses. This has fuck all to do with the election result apart from the fact yes your team WON the election and are thus expected to do a good job and deliver us good government. 

They ARE NOT doing that. They are lazy and reactive and arrogant. Lucky I am not the father of that poor girl who died from a fever waiting to be seen to in the multi billion dollar Perth Childrens Hospital or a couple of these flogs would need 24/7 security.

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So you're saying 42 because McGoo won the election in a landslide he should be held accountable for any stuff ups?

I presume you meant to say not accountable.  Not at all but the state governments, including the WA government, have pointed out to the federal government the limitations and deficiencies of the hotel quarantine process.  What has the federal government done about this?

And has your selective mind decided to ignore the advice of the Defence Minister Peter Dutton that these  facilities on Christmas Island ARE NOT suitable to be used as medical quarantine facilities or has your brain suddenly gone blank?

“I'd love to tell you that air bases or the Christmas Island facility is fit for purpose but it is not,” he said.“There is not the segregation of facilities such as the mess and where people need to come together in blocks for, you know, showers or toilets or whatever it might be. It is just not fit for purpose.”

Defence Minister Peter Dutton says Premier Mark McGowan’s hotel ‘mistake’ to blame for COVID-19 outbreak | The West Australian

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So you're saying 42 because McGoo won the election in a landslide he should be held accountable for any stuff ups?

I presume you meant to say not accountable.  Not at all but the state governments, including the WA government, have pointed out to the federal government the limitations and deficiencies of the hotel quarantine process.  What has the federal government done about this?

The federal government has said from day 1 it's assets are not fit for purpose as general facilities are shared in most cases which would facilitate the spread.   In addition they're miles away from proper medical treatment if anyone gets really sick. All state premiers including McGoo agreed at the beginning in National Cabinet that the most appropriate place to house returning residents was in hotel accommodation.  For McGoo to try and deflect the blame to the federal government now that there has been an almighty stuff up on his part is disingenuous and a disgrace.  He's very big on chest beating and telling the other states how to do it in good times but hides behind so called "medical advice" and blame gaming when it goes pear shaped.  If he'd listened to the AMA on housing returnees from the outset, we wouldn't be in this predicament.    

have a look at the joke of a website from the WA Department of Health compared to the NSW department of health. NSW department of health has a dedicated no nonsense website revealing all statistics compared the the fuck all information WA department of health website.


www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-1...tats-nsw.aspx#active


ww2.health.wa.gov.au/articles/a_e/coronavirus

The NSW website has ALL statistics related to Cornavirus in their state only. The WA website you have to click on a link that takes you to an independent non government website that takes ages to load and is dominated by statistics about Covid statistics globally and in Australia.

This is just typical of the McGowan and Roger Cook style. They are a cover up style of government that withholds information from the public because it knows it can baffle and fool most of the WA public in it's staged managed press conferences.

You are a disgusting and weak government that needs to be held accountable and brought to it's knees. Wake up you fools who blindly voted for this government.

NSW had 3 locally acquired cases last week and their economy is till open for business. Just over 3 times the population of Western Australia and no lock down and managing to get it down to zero. Yet McGoo says hard lockdown is THE ONLY WAY TO STOP IT.