7 August

It’s in the data. This is Victoria’s rolling average community spread for the whole pandemic. The red arrow - 2 May - was the day that average started to climb above 1. The same day NSW went below 1. Also the time Australia ‘opened up’ with its 3-stage Covid Safe nonsense. Victoria opened up with community transmission, NSW without it. For the next 6 weeks, that community transmission spread the virus through ‘opened up’ Melbourne and Victoria, until about 15 June (green arrow), when there was a critical amount of it, and it exploded. Classic exponential growth behaviour. Beginning at the end of July, NSW got the community transmission pattern Victoria had on 2 May. And NSW has also opened up. We’ve seen this movie before. It took 6 weeks for the virus to build in Victoria. We’re 2.5 weeks into our community transmission. Experts pleading with Gladys to get more restrictions back on now, and fast. None of the rubbish about ‘Victorian failures’ is relevant. The failure was opening up with community transmission still happening, anywhere. People need to think rather than just stick with their usual political team.