ANALYSIS: Berejiklian steam rolled the national plan. Now we all need her state to succeed
But, really, there should probably be much more outrage at the slippage that has gone on at the same time in clear signs of what drives the Premier's public policy: her "roadmap to freedom".
"What we need to do is always weigh up that health advice with public policy and I would never do anything where the health experts completely objected to anything or did not think it was safe," the Premier said.Then there is the hijacking of the 70 per cent vaccination target. There was nothing in the modelling about what would happen if you started easing restrictions for the fully vaccinated — without any word on how in practical terms this would be policed — while you were still recovering from a major COVID outbreak, and when your tracing system was overwhelmed.
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