I said that "I can't see how opening the border would have resulted in a better result for cases of Covid-19 in WA." and I honestly can't see what better result could have been achieved.
Simple.Just look at the results for Taiwan.Now just 554 cases,7 deaths and no local transmission for 200 days.Only minor lockdown measures and no internal closures in a nation of 23.6 million.
Authorities thank public for helping to reach milestone as cases surge in many countries
www.theguardian.com
Compare that to Western Australia- 768 cases and 9 deaths with a population of 2.5 million.
So if Taiwan was 2.5 million people they would have had approx 58 cases and 1 death.
Yes Australia have done well but that doesn't mean we couldn't have done better-excellent contact tracing,successful isolation policy,hand washing and mask wearing.