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HOW VICTORIA'S MAD "INCLUSIVE" POLICIES MADE THE VIRUS DISASTER WORSE

I've shown before how multiculturalism made Victoria's virus disaster worse. Now we learn just how mad the Andrews Government's "inclusivity" policies were - from trusting security at a quarantine hotel to an "indigenous owned" company that wasn't a preferred tenderer,  to having guards with poor English and religious objections to hand sanitisers.

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Victoria's policies "made the virus worse? Bolt keeps staring at his own naval as if Victoria'wasn't and isn't a sucess in supressing the virus. Simply compare it to the rest of the world. To States in America. To London and NewYork and you'll see what idiotic generalisations about "disaster" are being made. Victoria has brought the virus under control and looks as if that control will be the long term gain we all want. Bolt prefers to amplify his racial, religious and cultural bigotry and put it all together in one package. That an assimilated universe of Andrew Bolt clones would be the perfect world in which to live.

HOW VICTORIA'S RACE POLICIES HELPED CAUSE VIRUS DISASTER

I've said multiculturalism made Victoria's virus disaster worse. (UPDATE: new outbreak linked to five Afghan homes.)  Now we learn just how mad Victoria's "inclusivity" policies were - from trusting  quarantine hotel security to a non-preferred  "indigenous" company,  to having guards with poor English and religious objections to hand sanitisers.

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"Virus Disaster" is an inflammatory bigoted and as racist as one can get. It defines Andrew Bolt to a tee. The short term pain for long term gain has been proved to be a greater success globally and it shows even now in Australia and Victoria yes Victoria as well.

 Bolt hasn't shown that of those of cultures not to his taste are not the victims of the social system but  are as he suggests the spreaders of the virus. Even if they are it's because they live in the world of precarious work in which to survive. There are Afghanis across Australia untouched by Covid but Bolt prefers to scapegoat victims as if they are to blame. When they are immigrants that he dislikes and demands a wall to be built to exclude from being allowed into Australia. Afghani's helped pioneer this country as have Chinese and Indigenous Australians have spent over 200 years advising us just how we have been fucking it up. What has Bolt done but like Trump divide us? 

Let's remind Bolt the world's most successful nations in handling this pandemic are those where Public Health is a priority and dominates the user pays private services that's where " social inclusivity" is the nations primary government policy. 

UPDATE 

Chief Medical Officer apologised for his "inadvertant mention of Afghanistan. No such inadvertant accusations by Andrew Bolt. You won't here any apology coming from him.

THE POLICE STATE WHERE WORK IS BANNED

Victoria is now a police state with one of the worst unemployment records, thanks to the virus bans. No wonder, when police hit one young construction worker with three fines at once and told him to go home as he was trying to get to his (lawful) work site. My editorial from The Bolt Report.

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"one of the worst" what does that even mean? Dan Andrews clearly said "better short term pain for long term gain" but Bolt ignores that and continues to incite dangerous spreader protest to very little effect. 

He searches for exceptional cases from which to fire wild generalizations. Victoria was the most productive State and will be again unlike Andrew Bolt whose been a media drudge for over 30 years and will always be. Time has defined him but hasn't as yet done that to Victoria whose citizens enthusiastically support Dan 

CORONAVIRUS ISN'T KILLING US THE WAY THE BANS ARE

Australians are getting smashed by the virus bans. Just look at the latest "good" unemployment figures. But the virus meanwhile shows it's getting much less deadly, with very few deaths in Europe's second wave. Finance guru Terry McCrann warns: ease the bans or suffer more.

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Wow while Europe is panicking Andrew Bolt is trying to sell us the fake tale that it's not. London is moving back to strict bans as is France. COVID deaths begin to rise only after a lag time and yes the EU is concerned. 

Scrotum faced McCrann and he are back crying "wolf ". One thing is for sure life won't be returning to what it was any time soon. The systems we put in place and have been living with need to change. We certainly need better Public not for profit Services given that the private ones have failed us badly. They certainly haven't reduced costs saved from any long term emergencies because they only focus on short term profit. Our Social Welfare departments have been shrunk or outsourced and are now being scapegoated for failing us. Of course, they have and through no fault of Dan Andrews.

 Politics needs to refocus on public service and accept the fact that loss is part of democracy while the opposition and government are there to compromise and take us forward. Progress rather than waste our money and time.   One need only ask why do these chicken little criers of doom need to act as a Murdoch tag team.? where is the reasoned debate? 

Were Australians better off before Abbott's LNP came to office?  We were the worlds 2nd best economy. Where are we on that list today? Was Victoria better off when the last LNP government was in power than we are now? Would Matthew Guy and now O'Brien ensure we were? They certainly wouldn't have made Victoria the best economically managed State in the country. We were the State that was propping up Morrison and Frydenberg who were in recession. All these questions are accompanied with a solid answer no!  COVID has simply provided yet again the blame game in an attempt to go back to a short term future that will continue to put us back on the path to loss we were on since 2013.

Dan Andrews was advised by the Police Commissioner that Private Security was the best option so he takes the blame for taking their advice and chooses companies that had been rubber-stamped by the Commonwealth. However, we and he operate in a privatized system that was never capable of dealing with a pandemic. That's patently obvious when one compares the best and worst outcomes among 200 nations. The USA and UK are hardly examples to follow. China Vietnam, NZ,  Cuba Norway Denmark have done far better jobs with far fewer deaths. Massachusetts has the same pop as Victoria had 125,000 cases and 9000 deaths. Instead, here we are knit picking on which individual is at fault rather than which system can deliver the better outcome.

DICTATOR DAN'S MEMORY HOLE: OFFICIALS NOW "FORGET" WHO GAVE THE ORDER

Bizarre. Top officials and police say they now forget who gave the disastrous order to put amateur security guards in charge of Victoria's quarantine hotels, letting lose a virus that killed more than 700. Some even now forget why they once named names.  What on earth is going on with the memories of Dictator Dan's apparatchiks? Check this list.

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This is exactly why Bolt's focus is out of wack. He's counting trees individual acts to explain why our system can't cope with either a pandemic or climate change.  The Police Commissioner said he was against the ADF and the Police acting as Security for quarantine tourists or Australians returning home. It doesn't matter that error doesn't even begin to explain the broken system with which Andrews had to fight the pandemic. Yes NSW had it's  crisis and learnt we are having ours and are too. However, the lesson isn't scapegoating an individual who was in charge of a system that had been broken over a very long period of time.

It comes into relief when comparing the nations of the world and it's patently clear the USA and the UK which we try to replicate are the worst and China can't be blamed when it's one of the best.