Ask them again in six months after the truth of the economy sinks in and people are more awake to the long term implications of laws remaining on the books that have removed their freedoms. Remember, the death toll in Victoria is 760 from a population of 5 million.
If Dan Andrews asked and pleaded with the people to follow safe practices needed to overcome the pandemic, and a small percentage refused to do so such that harsher restrictions had to be put in place such that the economy of the whole of Australia suffered, because of the number of infections began to rise very rapidly, then the blame cannot be laid at poor old Dan's feet, but rather it should be laid at the feet of the rebellious few.
Remember we had forum members advocating rebellion against the safe practices put in place both from within Australia and many more from overseas selfishly interfering in the well being of Australia.
It took a few months of uncontrolled safe practices for the rebellious people to realise that they were causing harm to themselves and becoming infected with the virus by not following the recommended safe practices, and when they started to comply, it stagnated for around 14 days, i.e. two weeks, before the rapid fall off in reported daily infections began to show up in the figures. This can be seen in the Graph below where I have reduced the spread of the weeks shown to make the obvious more understandable.
What we are seeing is the decay in the number of daily virus infections which is in line with control theory. Prior to the peak in the daily reported cases, the system was unstable because of the number of people who were ignoring the suggested safe practices. After the peak in the daily reported cases the control loop became stable and the number of the reported daily cases decayed such that the rate of change in the moving 14 day totals is starting to approach zero.
It is my view that the state of Victoria can, as it is doing, reducing the restrictions within the LG areas, where the reported daily cases have virtually dropped to zero, so that normality in the life of the people can resume. However, in the LG areas where the "hot spots" are, the restrictions need to be maintained.
The states which have closed their borders to travel across their lines, they also need to begin removing their control measures, which have been effective, but costly to the respective states economy. By November the opinion poll of the Queensland people will decide which dominate party they wish to govern them.
@Backlit, you are confusing your liberties with your so called freedoms. None of the measure that were introduced took away my freedom, however, my liberties were removed from me by the restrictions that were introduced to control the spread of the pandemic.
The economic harm that has resulted from the rebellion of a few misguided people within Australia can be blamed for the economic downturn in Australia. However, people rebelling protesting against potential governmental decisions for economic gain is more likely the major reason for the down turn of the Australian economy. The exporting of goods to other countries has helped to keep the cash flows into Australia, while the decrease in imports has stopped the export of our cash overseas because of the lose of manufacturing in Australia over the years.
Australia has become populated with very lazy people who do not want to work but would rather rely on the tax payers of this country whether people or businesses, to keep them in a lifestyle that they want to become accustomed too.
If anything the pandemic has shown the shortfall in out logic of exporting all of our manufacturing expertise oversea, including agriculture.
Our economic problems began many years ago, when the unions overpriced their members to their detriment.
Shalom
