Covid 19 -

Originally Posted by Trendseeker

I doubt that there are any conspiracies. Just lack of coordination between state and federal governments, mistakes, arguing, blaming, excuses and general confusion about rules. They don’t have the time or resources to conspire about anything else.

Australia hasn't really had a pandemic before so we don't have a playbook to refer to. Other countries that experienced ebola/whatnot created a game plan afterwards so that in the event of another they'd have a plan that they could enact swiftly. We're having to figure it out as we go, just like they did the first time around. All we can really hope for is that we'll analyse what worked/didn't work and create a playbook of our own so that next time we'll know what to do and we can roll it out fast. To be honest it's a bit unreasonable to expect a pandemic-inexperienced government to get it 100% right first go.

If our government fails to learn from the experience of the first one and doesn't create a proper plan of attack for next time, well that's a different issue and can't really be excused.

edited to add: My own personal wish is that all levels of government can realise what's at stake and stop the waffling around. Our country has been turning the people against either side for a long time just so they can get themselves elected and the other party out. I hope they can all cut the bull**** and realise that their job is to meet the needs of the country and the people, they should all be focusing their attentions on that. Australians seem to love to argue and flip flop backwards and forwards between parties, there's no forward thinking at all.