No virus, no worries in WA? Not so much.
I have been watching this trend closely as I have suspected this to be one reason why the border won't open. No risk approach may not be only to protect the community - but the government from their mismanagement of the state healthcare system. (NB I haven't listened to the interview but just read the written element).
The ambulance ramping crisis in WA has reached a record high for a third consecutive month. Early figures for November show WA patients were forced to wait 3483 hours before being admitted to emergency departments. With one day of the month still remaining, November’s figures are already up 200...
www.6pr.com.au
So I must ask if COVID-19 was spreading in WA what would be happening. Hmm.
Edit: I have just listened to the clip. A must listen. I am rather angry & disappointed, my only conclusion that I have reached is that I am stopped from seeing my family due to government ineptitude. The director general can spin it and bring up irrelevant statistics however he wants, but there is a clear trend here. If mental health is such a problem for the system, one must ask where these mental health problems have come from relative to 12 months earlier. COVID-19 isolation perhaps?