change of guard

[mellie]

Trumps about to change the world, soon using his slogans won't feel so cringy.

[Jasin]

The Premiers did good.
Dan saved NSW and SA from being invaded by diseased non compliant Victorians.

[mellie]

The Premiers did good.
Dan saved NSW and SA from being invaded by diseased non compliant Victorians.

Epidemiologically speaking, Dan did what was required.
Victoria is a smaller state with a larger population ,( area wise) than NSW.
If an outbreak of any disease were to impact Australia, Victoria is worst placed because of the higher concentration of people per area.

Viruses thrive in the cold, another factor which undoubtedly would have contributed to the further loss of human life had Dan not locked us down.

Also, our hospitals weren't equipped to cope without having locked down. There simply wouldn't have been enough ventilators.

I've caught covid 3 times, I'm also fully vaccinated, but can tell you, I was very ill the 3rd time I had it, I was hunkered down in a cabin on Phillip Island with my child who had it also ( she wasn't as affected as me, I have RA) , and by golly, we were crook. I remember taking my vitals ( observations) at 3am on day 4, seriously struggling with the question of whether or not I would call an ambulance for myself and wreck my daughter’s holidays.
I looked in the mirror, I was cyanosed, ( blue lips) and looked dead. I also knew that ambulances were ramped-up and the likelihood of them even admitting me ( apart from 02 sats, I was going ok) so I just chased the fever with 3. 5 hourly paracetamol and prayed that my sats would improve by morning. They did , but I still wasn't feeling too flash.
I also had swine flu several years prior, and remember thinking "ok, this isn't fun, but it's not as bad as swine flu "

Had I not been vaccinated, I probably would have ended up on a ventilator, or oxygen at the very least.

Anyway, Dan did a good job of stopping the rapid spread of Covid, which would have ended in an ICU crisis * lack of beds* if he hadn't, so. ...

Love him ( Dan) or hate him, I think he did a great job managing our covid crisis.

[Black Orchid]

He also sold Australia out to the Chinese and the federal government had to step in to tear it up, did not consult Victoria's health commissioner on his Covid decisions and his communistic lockdowns and orders for the police to use brutal force were unjustified and draconian.

Oh and he bankrupted Victoria.

What a stand up guy!

[mellie]

He also sold Australia out to the Chinese and the federal government had to step in to tear it up, did not consult Victoria's health commissioner on his Covid decisions and his communistic lockdowns and orders for the police to use brutal force were unjustified and draconian.

Oh and he bankrupted Victoria.

What a stand up guy!

But he's not a bad sort, and let's be honest BO, he wasn't difficult to wake up to everyday, when we'd tune in for the daily death lottery.....and increased laws/ rules changes.
Look, I agree with you in principle BO, however as Premier, he really didn't have to consult with anyone, when it came to Vic locking down en masse.



As for fucking Victoria..... it's been union fucked for years, and likely will be forever more, long before Dan came.
Do you really think he fell down those stairs?

I don't.

Perhaps we should ask our PM John Setka what happened at Dan's holiday house.

[mellie]

Convict eurphoria thrived in state towards the end. ( 8)

[Jasin]

NSW: full of Convicts who became good.
VIC: full of Free Settlers who turned Criminal

[Black Orchid]

Taste is subjective I guess but I can only say that for me the very last thing I would ever want to wake up to in the morning is Dan Andrews! Ewww!

[mellie]

NSW: full of Convicts who became good.
VIC: full of Free Settlers who turned Criminal

But..... The convicts when released headed to Victoria's Gold fields, so.... Victoria ended up with more of them than NSW.
Did you know that Ballarat was a larger city than Melbourne during the height of the Gold Rush?
It was also very nearly going to be Victoria's capital.

Fortunately.... once the Gold rush ended, the convicts fled Ballarat.

[Jasin]

I find Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia very much on a different playing field than NSW, South Australia and Tasmania. Northern Territory seeming like a neutral country of its own aligned to neither.