With the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic threatening to run rampant in Australia, you’d think that our country’s leader, Scott Morrison, would be hustling hard to instigate measures to kelp contain the disease. But based on his rambling press conferences about haircuts and barre, it seems like that’s not the case at all.
Since Scotty is dawdling on the leadership front, NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian will almost certainly take matters into her own hands when it comes to a NSW lockdown, the federal government be damned.
Speaking of Scott Morrison, the GOAT team talk about his rambling COVID-19 pressers on ‘It’s Been A Big Day For…’ below:
At the time of writing, NSW accounts for nearly half of the 3,050 confirmed coronavirus COVID-19 cases in Australia at 1,405, which is more than double the second highest state, Victoria, total of 520.
This NSW tally certainly wasn’t helped by the Ruby Princess fiasco where dozens of COVID-19 positive passengers were inexplicably allowed to disembark in Sydney without proper testing beforehand, causing the number of confirmed cases to sharply rise in a short amount of time.
But the most worrying thing to come out of NSW’s high number of coronavirus COVID-19 cases is how 145 of the most recent cases came from a completely unknown source and the numbers are still rising (as per ABC News).
You’d think that with the number of coronavirus COVID-19 cases in NSW that it would be time to instigate a lockdown, yet Scott Morrison seems more than happy to twiddle his thumbs on the issue while focusing on business closures instead, thus forcing Gladys Berejiklian to step up.
Having announced on March 26 that police will step up their public presence and ensure that no cruise ship passengers will be allowed to disembark in NSW until further notice, the new batch of confirmed coronavirus COVID-19 cases in NSW almost certainly means that Gladys Berejiklian will instigate a state lockdown rather than wait around for Scott Morrison to do anything of the sort, saying “If NSW has to take difficult decisions we will, at a critical stage, to stop the community-to-community transmission.”
Gladys certainly isn’t the first to ignore Scotty’s measures in favour of doing their own thing as Victorian premier Daniel Andrews is already gunning for a stage 3 lockdown in an attempt to contain the coronavirus pandemic in Australia.
Based on what Scott Morrison has done to contain the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic so far, don’t be surprised if Gladys Berejiklian and Daniel Andrews break away from the PM and more states jump the gun by instigating higher level measures before Scotty does.
At least there are some politicians in Australia stepping up at a time when we really need them to. Here’s hoping they don’t drop the ball.
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