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David Codey (61)
This is the problem with Scomo's leadership though. Since the beginning he has been downplaying how serious this is and each step he taken has been woefully inadequate based on how quickly it gets overwritten by more serious action.
The fact that the states have broken ranks with him is certainly an indication that they don't think he is doing enough.
There is a clear path of how the epidemic will infect our population and how quickly it goes from being not a big problem to being out of control. We have the advantage of being behind other countries and we're not using it very well.
I would argue that no countries have gone into lockdown too early. Most countries in lockdown are dealing with a public health emergency causing their hospitals to be overrun at the same time as shutting down their economy.
What I don't like more than everything else is his priorities seem to only align with certain interests groups and not with what is actually needed to achieve real results. His sole focus during this crisis has been the economy. He may from time to time sprinkle in some platitudes about public health and safety but it's pretty evident that it's the ecomony first, second and third. Which is why he's been dragging his feet to get to where we are no and why he'll have to be dragged to the table once again to do the inevitable.
And in terms of public health and safety it's dangerous. The longer you delay the worse it will get and very likely more people will die that wouldn't had he been more focused on health based outcomes. He and others need to accept that no matter what they wish the economy is going to take a kicking and everything stimulus related will have less to do it keeping it going and more to do with keeping people going. Because if more people become sick and die than what is necessary it won't matter how the economy handled it.