It's not like there's a universally straightforward answer though. There's also been a fair bit of criticism directed at various state premiers, especially Andrews, for the damage done to the economy by not opening up fast enough, including in the last month when the virus was once again taking hold. Even with the benefit of hindsight, I don't think it's going to be completely clear exactly what the right course of events should have been, only what it shouldn't have been.
Yes I agree on that.
It is also that what is appropriate may change as the state of infection/cases change. So the "answer" various on what the status quo is.
Vic like every other state was approaching zero, and from that certain decisions and are valid.
The virus conditions change though, and so that then also means that the "answer" becomes different.
What you do when cases have flatlined is quite different that when there is an outbreak. Morseo again when that outbreak has become multiple clusters such as is now sadly the case in Victoria.
What the "answer" is is different than if you have the occasional few new cases such as now in the ACT and NSW.
Even with the benefit of hindsight, I don't think it's going to be completely clear exactly what the right course of events should have been, only what it shouldn't have been.
Yes agree, as there are all sorts of responses that can have been taking. ie Ramping up of testing and in hostpot testing opening it up to all was good.
But putting aside what the source of the new outbreak is (and the jungle drums seem to be more and more that the genomic sequencing is indicating the source of most new cases was the hotel security guards, and the people they then infected),
what really hurt Vic this time around was the lack of speed in bringing in enough control measures, even if one can can argue about what the best measures would have been.
You could see the cases building, hotspots were forming but it was just the status quo re control (ie contact tracing, self isolation etc).
PS: The other factor is that we lean more about the virus every day.