Outbreak: How Australia lost control of the COVID Delta variant | ABC News
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- A forensic, data-driven look at how Australia's Delta COVID-19 outbreak took hold in Sydney before sending NSW, Victoria and the ACT into a long, winter lockdown.
Jeremy Fernandez traces back through the modelling and decision-making to see how the virus spread so quickly.
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Answer: The Liberals followed the corporate advise not the health advise.
@Gale Blews Yet the body count in NSW is still lower than Vic.
@@TheLargino they've lost their minds. How do they think third world countries might be going? Talk about acting like psychopaths and privileged first worlders. Struggling third world nations should be vaccinated first if this isn't about money or control
@Gale Blews It is unfortunate that people are getting ill, as it is also unfortunate this virus will be around for a long time to come. Both sides of politics have squandered the last 12 months or so by not preparing the health care system for inevitable cases.
@@Verrifier-z6z There's no money in it for them vaccinating the third world. Remove the ability to profit off this and it may have become fairer.
@@TheLargino because of covid ripping through aged care, and whose role is it take care of aged care, the federal governments
Makes my blood boil to see how Scott Morrison squandered our progress with a horrible vaccine roll out.
Greg hunt and deal with postponing recent pfizer deal 🤬
Actually that is a myth. Australia ordered 142 million doses of vaccine by October last year (30 million AstraZeneca, 51 million UQ, 61 million Novavax). It was just extremely bad luck that all 3 had issues (rare side reactions for AZ, 6 months delay of Novavax, and UQ had to be canned because it triggered false HIV positives).
Last year mRNA platforms were unproven vaccine technology compared to those other 3. It was just lucky that they worked - other countries have been lucky. Australia was not lucky. It came down to luck.
Not building any quarantine facilities is actually where the Federal government didn't do their job. That and not protecting aged care facilities in 2020.
@@pianowhizz exactly. Pfizer was not going to prioritise us either ways. That’s what they said to government officials. Hunt didn’t take the meeting but his team did. AstraZeneca was plagued over politicisation of its rare blood clotting side effect (safer than aspirin and significantly safer than birth control pills). People over at novavax had a production issue. UQ’s vaccine (although proving to be 99% successful) was found to give false positives for HIV/AIDS due to a portion of the virus being used as a clamp for covid (no risk of getting the disease because of the vaccine though). Government has ordered almost 3 times the population worth of vaccine and moderna’ s vaccine (25,000,000) can be added on top. And had this done last year. Labor just peddles this myth that the government didn’t order enough vaccines as people would believe it due to the lack of supply. Look at how labor twisted Pfizer’s word, the company said the vaccines were coming as quickly as possible. The company was prioritising countries hardest hit by covid and if we had done what labor was suggesting, we would have have 10 million doses at the moment.
Could also prevent infected from entering the country without proper quarantine but hey, would would we know
Scapegoating Scott Morrison is lazy and inaccurate. It’s more complex than that. Scott Morrison has managed with the available resources and information, using a wholistic approach. Our economy would be stuffed if another party was in.
28:18 No we did stand a chance, it was Gladys who told everyone not to cancel gatherings and resisted calls to take things seriously. We have her to thank for this.
Yes, it was a very odd and seemingly partisan remark by the ABC at the end there. The fact is many states did and have continued to stand a chance, whilst with Gladys, NSW evidently didn’t stand a chance.
Australia will charter three repatriation flights between May 15 and May 31, prioritising around 900 people deemed most vulnerable, Morrison said. The government estimates around 9,000 Australian citizens and permanent residents are in India.
Prospective travellers will need to return a negative COVID-19 test, and will be required to undertake the standard 14-day hotel quarantine imposed on incoming travellers.
Morrison said his government is unlikely to allow the resumption of direct commercial flights from India in the near term and has instead asked state authorities to accept additional repatriation flights.
The Australian leader, who has rejected suggestions the hardline approach will damage the country's bilateral relations with India, said he will speak with his counterpart Narendra Modi later on Friday.
100% RIGHT
@@shakes6415 How so? Justify your answer, please.
@@jeffreygrahamwhite72 they had the index case. They knew it was delta. Gladys waited 7 weeks. Every death from this outbreak nationwide is squarely on gladys and scomos shoulders
The incessant music is distracting.
Totally agree. There really isn't any necessity for BG music. This isn't a music video. It's a documentary.
Its ludicrous. Wonder if they hired their own composer.
Totally agree!!!
Tell me about it 😠
I love that music. It adds to the feel
I love how they say "Australia" lost control but really they need to say "New South Wales" lost control.
Cases are about 25% of last winter & deaths 10-15%. & much less in Victoria.
Yeah, WA is doing well.
@@juRa6077 What if the bogey virus show moves to WA next winter?
@@johnsergei Zero cases in Queensland it seems again. Damn its just so easy now to get zero, didn't NSW say you can't get that?
@@pkerry12 So me the licence for the test they are using. The testing is unlicenced. The CDC says PCR can't tell flu from Covid. Various other oveseas health deb't and courts have found thetesting to be unreliable & the inventor of PCR made it quite clear, do not use it to detect infections, it is far too sensitive, you'll get bad data.
this is dodging the point so much... it is so clear that they didnt act quickly enough. If they say they didnt know how dangerous delta was then thats also just gross incompetence. Absolute fools, pushed by the business lobby.
The Gov knew Delta was so dangerous it shut its own citizens out from India, and yet, allowed the same variant to run rampant months later.
@@Antphoneigh the Media/newspapers/radio/Federal Labor opposition calling the Prime Minister racist back in May 2021 for trying to protect all Australians in the Country by stopping all flights from India for 2 weeks to assess Delta. Media were calling the Prime Minister racist, Un-Australian and Indian-Australians need to come home. He was following health advice from top health Government officials. Days later he overturned his decision and Delta came in. And once Delta came into Australia 1.5 weeks later and was detected the Media/newspapers/radio/Federal Labor opposition all went silent on why/how Delta came here in Australia. This video doesn’t tell the rest of the World all the truth.
Ok, explain Victoria?...they locked down hard and fast and yet...
Clear as day where the blame lies. We have Gladys Gold Standard who wanted to maintain her no lockdown record to thank for the mess we now find ourselves in. If she truly acted on medical advice, those giving it should have been sacked a long time ago, but I don't for a second believe she received advice not to take immediate action. All the medical advice from other parts of the world who experienced Delta was contrary to the lack of action Gladys took once the first case became apparent in Bondi on the 16th of June. That case was the result of not taking appropriate precautionary action by ensuring transport drivers for airline staff were vaccinated and masked, which should have been very apparent from a similar earlier problem back in December. Gladys sitting on her hands for more than 2 weeks was inexcusable and all subsequent cases and lockdowns around the country can be attributed to Gladys not doing anything. An immediate one week lockdown in the Eastern suburbs of Sydney would have been sufficient to stop the outbreak in its tracks at that time. No doubt the Teflon Premier will survive this crisis through lies as well, after all she survived sleeping with the corrupt Darrell McGuire by first hiding it and then lying about it, so this won't be any different.
@@gustaaf1892 spot on.
NSW premier with the guidance of the PM completely incompetent
Case of the blind leading the blind
You want everybody follow the lead of Chairman Dan? Locking up everybody from 2 years, destroying quality life of young. Being alive and living life are two different things.
@@geetaramakrishnachow Yes we do. he should be acting like Chairman Dan and locking the State up completely for a week. then we would find the ones who are still spreading it.
@@ianmontgomery7534 What did he achieved from the past 2 years of lockdown?
@@geetaramakrishnachow um if he did not lock down it would have been a whole lot worse, that's pretty ignorant to say, lock down was our only weapon, nsw messed up the whole country.
The LNP government were so concerned about the Delta Variant, they stopped Aussie citizens returning from India. Over a month later Gladys said " nobody could have seen this coming."
Do not be so partisan as to imply that an ALP federal government would have shut the borders. The ALP is known for its lax border policy, and although obviously the LNP failed and should have completely shut the border or at least managed quarantine for returns in a dedicated quarantine facility, the ALP is quite unlikely to have done better.
@@aliendragon17 meanwhile in Western Australia 0 community transmission but ships keep coming and we keep treating them
That is not true. All Australian citizens have been allowed to return home provided tickets are booked in advance and you are an Australian citizen. This story is lies.
@@aliendragon17 well we got through the global financial crisis unscathed with a Labor Government ...
Delta spread much faster than the last version and there was no way to anticipate that, without scientific modeling.
Though, common sense tells me that evolution will ensure that each variant of COVID will either increase its transmission rate, or it’s lethality.
Why didn't they take extreme precautions for those working near airports. Pure negligence. NSW now paying the hefty price.
the vaccines spread delta. (happened in Israel too) senator Ron Johnson talked about it on bitchute.
@@BYGODYOUARESPECIAL1 Your site is a bot
That was Kerry Chant's fault. Also now all of our workers are vaccinated and at least we learnt from our mistake
Could've just shown a picture of Gladys and saved half an hour
Gold.
Is it recent? It mentions 1 week . So is Australia under lockdown?
How we lost control: Gladys
Basically this, and Scomo's 'eggs in one basket' failed vaccine plan
Australia will charter three repatriation flights between May 15 and May 31, prioritising around 900 people deemed most vulnerable, Morrison said. The government estimates around 9,000 Australian citizens and permanent residents are in India.
Prospective travellers will need to return a negative COVID-19 test, and will be required to undertake the standard 14-day hotel quarantine imposed on incoming travellers.
Morrison said his government is unlikely to allow the resumption of direct commercial flights from India in the near term and has instead asked state authorities to accept additional repatriation flights.
The Australian leader, who has rejected suggestions the hardline approach will damage the country's bilateral relations with India, said he will speak with his counterpart Narendra Modi later on Friday.
😂😂 really what about Dan 🤦♀️
imagine thinking Daniel Andrews doesnt deserve to be considered there. He killed far more than Gladys has.
@@kegs666 if you are referring to the deaths last year, most of that was in Federally run aged care facilities. That's on Greg Hunt and Morrison
When the greed of business owners is the driver behind political decisions about community safety, failure is a certainty.
Yep
Decisions made by cocaine sniffers.
The greed of business owners is the jobs of poor underpaid sods who have to take public transport to go to work and make sure you have somewhere to go to buy food. You must be a public servant
Advisors and lobbyists pushing their own wheelbarrow tempting politicians with treats the failure is self-interested politicians
Wow - Indoctrination at its finest. "Business owners", as in, the literal backbone of our entire system is to blame. Your lack of nuance is frightening. Sure, big business has flourished this last year, and small businesses, often the lifeline of millions of middle and working class Australians, and their employees, have been crippled, but yeah.... the greed of "business". You are an absolute disgrace you Commie muppet.
Arrogance and pride get us to this. Why didn’t Gladys lock down eastern suburbs like the way she locked down northern beaches knowing this time it’s delta variant
it seems too suspicious… i don’t accept the reason she was trying to avoid a lockdown…knowing full well by the time they tested him it was the delta variant…. she probably had some vested interest in that electorate as it’s currently liberal held….how do you place trust in someone who is under investigation by ICAC, including the deputy P.
Politicians will have to answer for their actions one day
Victoria's fast and hard lockdown couldn't contain delta.
They don't wana anger their top donors, follow the he money , that's simple
@@luvinsanity1 WA's did
@@bruceh9780 Massive desert and ocean 'mote' tends to help.
Blind freddy could see we needed to shut down immediately gladdy is at fault
@@goodyear05 OK Karen. Btw, mind explaining to me how you somehow conflated lockdowns to affecting your body? Suck it up and deal with it, I think you can handle not traveling or going down to the local cafe for your morning coffee for a while longer.
@@waxa3869 go and stock up on your toilet paper
@@goodyear05 when your choice costs lives utterly selfish maybe drs nurses should have choice to
@@goodyear05 you sound such a spoilt brat utterly selfish but when u get be crying screaming for help
@@goodyear05 You're selfish and entitled you're giving it to people who will die you're a carrier if you did the right thing you wouldn't be a murderer anymore you should be ashamed..
Gladys wanted to be the queen of hearts by being gentle on lock down, but messed up. A lock down week early would have prevented 2 super spreader events and would have meant a better situation now.
If Vic catches up it might indicate she had the right idea.
Yeh Dan locked down as a precaution very early on and here we are on the same trajectory as NSW. Mind you we were already under no house visits as well before this last lockdown. The two most populous and active states can't stop delta seeping in with lockdowns. Unless you take out all overseas planes/boats.
The vaccines spread delta. (happened in Israel too) senator Ron Johnson talked about it on bitchute.
No, she did an amazing thing, by saying we need to live with COVID
If Gladys had shut down immediately instead of waiting 2 weeks then yeah we probably would have gotten a hold of it.
Elect stupid leaders get stupid results.
You really can't say that after what's happened in Victoria. With a population density as high as Sydney or Melbourne, a highly infectious virus such as the Delta Variant of covid was going to spread at unprecedented rates. Obviously, the mistake lied in the failure of the hotel quarantine system not Gladys' inability to lockdown harder and faster.
Did you not just watch the same video as me? They literally said going by what’s happened in Victoria and the ACT recently, locking down would not have made a significant difference. They also forget to mention the fact that anti-lockdown protests also had an impact. Look back at the first one in NSW, they had a significant increase in cases from that time. Same with the second time around and same in Victoria. Population density and the sheer proportion of people not following rules even after lockdown have only made it worse. I agree state government should have done more, it you cannot say shutting down immediately would have worked given current examples.
Australia will charter three repatriation flights between May 15 and May 31, prioritising around 900 people deemed most vulnerable, Morrison said. The government estimates around 9,000 Australian citizens and permanent residents are in India.
Prospective travellers will need to return a negative COVID-19 test, and will be required to undertake the standard 14-day hotel quarantine imposed on incoming travellers.
Morrison said his government is unlikely to allow the resumption of direct commercial flights from India in the near term and has instead asked state authorities to accept additional repatriation flights.
The Australian leader, who has rejected suggestions the hardline approach will damage the country's bilateral relations with India, said he will speak with his counterpart Narendra Modi later on Friday.
7 weeks *
@@Whoisthis1111 my
Scomo should of stepped up ! Glady and scomo must be held responsible!
@Kenny Knackers. WHAT HAPPENED to showing the Media/newspapers/radio/Federal Labor opposition calling the Prime Minister racist back in May 2021 for trying to protect all Australians in the Country by stopping all flights from India for 2 weeks to assess Delta. Media were calling the Prime Minister racist, Un-Australian and Indian-Australians need to come home. He was following health advice from top health Government officials. Days later he overturned his decision and Delta came in. And once Delta came into Australia 1.5 weeks later and was detected the Media/newspapers/radio/Federal Labor opposition all went silent on why/how Delta came here in Australia. This video doesn’t tell the rest of the World all the truth.
@@midnightspares Indian media is the worst, trying to start conflict everywhere iv notice! Experts on everyone’s business! And phone scams
@@kennyknackers6084 Indian Government did “a burn over” with original Covid-19, that’s the term health professionals use when a Country lets a virus spread through its population. Then as you know, Delta was born and spread.
lost control is strong language. 0.3% of the Australian population has had covid. That's not bad compared to the rest of the world. USA is 12% atm
@@daniel5377 I get what your saying but as Americans would understand when one state gives up trying there is not much hope for the others around them!
How we lost control? One word: GLADYS.
China?
Her ideology has killed all of us. we are going to be the state that doesnt define what is an essential worker and lockdowns and curfews dont work......I live in the parramatta LGA and thank you so much for locking us up at night from 9 to 5
They don’t let me tell you what I think of you Todd m
Australia is not NSW either, ABC is scuffed.
Don't forget the Ruby Princess incident last year.
How's this one
In Qld they were flying health representatives from all over the state, to a health conference in a hotel in the middle of a large capital city that was being used as a covid quarantine facility.
Potentially 'seeding' covid throughout every medical facility in Queensland upon their return back to their regions.
These are the morons we now have to listen to in order to get us out of this shit fight.
Look Gladys is the worst premier in Australia and started the pandemic in March 2020. Doesn't want to even hold press conferences. Delta came into NSW first and spread to Vic. Then Gladys does an under the table deal with the government giving NSW more vaccines then anyone else in Australia. (coming from a right wing supporter)
But cricketers, footy players are ok to go overseas and return.
Oh, don't forget the Olympics.
And what about those stupid marches in Sydney and Melbourne….they were super spreaders!
@@CrazyWhiteVanDriver don’t forget Anastasia Palacauksjididj however you say her name
The control was lost by Gladys Berejiklian when she failed to lock down in June, 2021 when the limousine driver and his passenger(s) were detected as having the Covid Delta strain. There should've been a snap 7-day lock-down with the driver and his passengers immediately removed to Howard Springs. Had she done this, she would have spared us of close to three months of this lock-down that seems to drag on and on and on..........
How Australia lost control of delta or how Gladys risked it all and lost control of delta?
Or, How China has destroyed countries for their end goal.
Or, how you lost control of gladys.
@@joanescueta9231 How countries react to Corona Virus has nothing to do with China
@@Mayday_06 Everything to do with China, don't be naive.
the vaccines spread delta. (happened in Israel too) senator Ron Johnson talked about it on bitchute.
Very good work to the people involved with putting this piece together!
P.S. ABC please don't censor/disable comments on your videos, thanks 😉
The trolls/bots and nutters will ensure that it happens.
In Depth channel is always open for comments unless it's a sensitive topic (topics like suicide, racist violence e.g. Cronulla, or sexual assault).
They seldom provide for comments because, social media is awash with misinformation.All I can say is a lot of worried people out there; as well as those preying on people's fears.
@@MeoithTheSecond ABC can now be punished for what trolls say on here. See The West Report
@Buddy Rojek Yes, free speech.
Answer: You are letting people with covid in the bloody country without proper quarantine procedures.
wrong: you're not vaccinating enough. end of story
@@lilianaisabel9108 wat u mean ?? Considering that are vaccines were held up by other countries thecfear mongering about the safety of the vaccines and the brainwashing that it would be over by Christmas
@@lilianaisabel9108 wrong….you can’t give vaccines that you don’t have.
@@jenniferbailey5914
and why didnt you have the vaccine?
The vaccines spread delta. That's why we got a huge "spike" in cases right after the vaccine "drive". Lots of very qualified experts like Mike Yeadon chief scientist of pfizer, Robert Malone inventor of the mRNA technology were warning us but even they were labeled "conspiracy theorists" by the mainstream media the vaccine makers' servants. (Spikes in Delta cases similarly occured in Israel too right after the mass vaccination there : 84% vaccinated, 84% caught delta) Senator Ron Johnson discussed it on bitchute. You will not find it on youtube.. banned... just on alternative video platforms.
How do you lose control? By not controlling it.
It should be how NSW incompetent government lost control!
Gladys should go to court for this 🤬
Not the whole of Australia. New South Wales and Victoria are the two states struggling due to Gladys not locking down earlier and not being strict.
Also the slow roll out of the vaccine is truly pathetic.
We may have lead in controlling Covid in the beginning (being an island did help significantly) but the vaccine roll out was a fail.
Not only that but Australians didn’t see the need to get vaccinated. That’s when such s….y comes back and bites in the back side
Why were places like officeworks, Louis Vuitton, and reject shop allowed to stay open??
Gotta get your hand bags. Essential no doubt.
Thank god I found a person with common sense I the comments in this video is bots all acting under one no one has commented about other places open or the survival rate it’s all just rhetoric
So they can do social experiments like what the US did back in the 50s.
Exactly, "lockdown lite". NSW gov set us all up to fail.
@@jefferyreis3551
😂
Outbreak: Based on A True Story. Sequel coming sometime in 2022.
i thought it will be premiered on 2023
headlined by Mu Vaviant
Lol..
@@Mathguy363 Australian here…..we can’t give vaccines WHEN WE DON’T HAVE THEM! How about you send us some!!!
@@jenniferbailey5914 hahahaha. I was thinking like a canadian. I don't know your side but good luck over there
It seems everybody who contracted COVID suddenly started traveling extensively across the entire continent.
the covid virus has some mind control function thanks to Fauci endorsement in their "gain of function" project. The virus is meant to be a bio-weapon.
They were paid by China to do this. 😂
@@stephenvincent4706 Delta is from India.
@@malmsteen2002 I really can't work out whether that is tongue in cheek or not...
@@spokebloke1 either way, anyone, whether they’re serious about such a claim or whether they have a very poor sense of humor should be ignored.
Gladys. She has to answer for ruining it for the rest of the country. How and when did this become acceptable political behavior.
They're already thinking about the next election.
Don't count on it, Scomo is going to cover her back, they're all in it together, I hope she answers for all the damage and ruin caused but nobody is putting the pressure to make it happen
@@Blackheathenly They'll just rig it like last time!
It goes beyond her, the entire NSW coalition is corrupt. Look at how they let the state get eaten by property developers. Dominic Perrottet said he rewards councils who re-zone areas for property developers. The politicians aren't running the state, big business is. Why do you think all those stores were open during the lockdown?
Covid zero is a stupid policy.
'Australia' didn't lose control. Gladys lost control.
Gladys was elected into government by Australians...
@@punkybrewstar83 not by me
Scomo lost control of Glady!
@@kennyknackers6084 ha!
And Dan Andrews
So the issue really was quarantine....how hotels where used makes no sense for an airborne virus. Caravan parks would have been much better as each site is separated.
After the first outbreak from hotels in Melbourne, how hard was it to figure this out?
Blows my mind how incompetent it is to not realise the importance of properly quarantining people.
Imagine if our quarantine system was literally and figuratively airtight. There would be no outbreaks, no lockdowns, we could move freely around the country and even between countries, if we were willing to go through quarantine on the way back. A good chunk of the money spent on job keeper would have been available to ease the cost of quarantine systems.
@@mlem7108 and Dan asked for proper facilities too. That makes me question if Sco Mo is really listening to other states when they ask for something as important as a proper facilities.
True all our outbreaks came from Quarantine.
The vaccines spread delta. (happened in Israel too - 84% vaccinated, 84% caught delta) Senator Ron Johnson discussed it on bitchute.
Australia has not lost control we in other parts of aus would like to reiterate Eastern auatralia has a covid out of control issue.
Yeah- not all Australians, but enough Australians are responsible for electing Gladys, that Covid is out of control. Amongst all the other terrible things that Gladys has done.
Australians aren't responsible for international travelers quarantineing or lack there of. That's the government job and they still haven't got it right ofter almost two years 🙃
Today a Sydney woman got on a train with her kids.She was heading for Coffs Habour..She was stopped at Dempsey..She tested positive but that Wasn't news to her..!
@@punkybrewstar83 get rid of her then, and the cross eyed clown in Victoria while you're at it. Don't pick and choose
@@suehowie152 She should be charged with endangering lives..
Dear Auntie,
NSW, ACT and Vic alone do not Australia make.
Yeah I was surprised that QLD didn't get a mention, but WA did.
I'm not surprised that TAS didn't get a mention
YES they do, without those three jurisdictions, make up the economy and population, without them Australia would be a third world country and we'd all have to be hunting our own food to survive
If anything, Australia's positive *and* negative outcomes, and both successful *and* unsuccessful governance issues should be recorded for historical teachings and our future prosperity when dealing with the next pandemics ... because this certainly won't be the last and only one.
The need for this education is so immediate that every piece of information or advice that governance on this issue has been based on should be immediately available. No political pandering with 20 year embargoes as per the cabinet records. *Immediate* public accessibility.
Mmlm
You can record and teach these things until people are blue in the face.
Yet, it will be fruitless.
Ww1 was the "war to end all wars"
Yet, out of it came ww2, a war many times worse.
What was learned?
How to produce deadlier weapons.
God is the only option.
Everything else is deception.
Addressing overweight/obesity and general unhealthiness seems to be amongst the most logical things Countries should do to stave off future pandemics.
I read overweight/obese people make up a significant percentage of serious covid cases.
@@rdallas81 yes gods always stop wars….for king and country…and who ordained the king his powers?
@@grittychops6755 All things happen by God. All things. That means you.
Now what you do with that knowledge depends on who you are INSIDE.
As a Victorian who has spent fewer weeks than Sydney in the current lockdown and is now starting to look like a sheep, who is cutting Gladys's hair?
Gladys, along with ScoMo, Dan the man, Brett Suttan, Martin Foley, Kerry Chant, John Barilaro all must have someone in their homes who is proficient in cutting hair.
Catherina, Joh Bailey of The Joh Bailey salon, Double Bay. He is the superspreader.
@@gregoryholstein3033 Perhaps if he wears a sticky dot like Gladys does frequently, it will protect him from the virus
@@catherina2611 Is Sharon Lewin & Shayna Blaze twins 👯♀️
Plenty of people in Melbourne doing backyard work, even advertising on Facebook marketplace and nothing is being done. Meanwhile many of us who follow the rules are going under. Dan looks like he might have had a bit of a tidy up too
We did almost return to normal. But many would say we never did. Queensland has been normal for months
career politician its in the family
Howdy Quantum...from an old EOD friend
If you call being tracked everywhere you go, police using than information.
Wearing masks, not being allowed to see family..etc normal then yeah, it's like before covid and living in a authoritarian state.
@@Robert-cu9bm
I hope that you are allowed to visit your family real soon, without having to wear a mask.
It's prolly like way better to catch a disease from a family member than some stranger.
@@benjigray8690
I can I'm living in the UK, life is normal now.
Double Vax so no worry about catching it.
We don't get tracked, no masks etc.
Australia was one a democratic free country now it's authoritarian.
Why on earth would anyone have the audacity to think international travel is okay during a pandemic? Yes it’s a pity that you cannot fly around the world but it’s even worse to trash a country’s economy and freedoms so that a few can hop on planes.
It's fine if you're immune-- vaccinated or recovered from a COVID infection.
@@laughter95 Where did you get your PhD in Virology?
@It's still all quiet Today You obviously have no idea how good Australia has it if you're actually trying to imply that it's somehow fairing worse than other countries.
Vivian makes a good point
@@laughter95 If you bring enough immune and vaccinated people to Australia, it's pretty much guaranteed someone will still transmit COVID forwards.
Not shutting down border completely was the mistake. Not locking down completely was also a mistake. All shops should be closed. Groceries should be ordered online and delivered.
This is the dumbest comment ive heard in a while, so you want to shut down coles and woolworths and other food shops only online. Omg you dumb af.
How are the goods gonna B delivered? Humans R no good, being potential virus spreaders. Do you have reliable drones or well trained seagulls?
Interesting idea but how do people with no internet get on?
But the left want open borders and it’s racist to stop intentional travel.
@@denisegore1884 check out Wuhan lockdown videos, no one on the street, all shops closed. Free food bags are delivered to every home. That’s a real lockdown.
Damn. I'm happy we have Dan Andrews in VIC.
Think what you want of him, but he is always upfront.
You can judge him by what he says because it's what he stands behind, even if I disagree with him I can respect that.
The same cannot be said for Gladys. Before you take what she says into account you have to figure out who's agenda she is running, if she really means it, and if you can trust her today, when she will lie about what she "meant" tomorrow.
I do wish he shut the NSW border immediately though. We luckily got the delta outbreak under control, then it came back in force from NSW.
Dan "sent private random security guards" to deal with a quarantine issue.
The guy couldn't remember who made a phone call from a mobile phone???
NSW has had 2-3 major lockdowns....
Victoria.... Well, they are in lockdown #6.
Dan was the HEALTH MINISTER followed by premier for roughly 12 years....
Good luck trying to find out any information regarding the increase to ICU capacity in Vic... Because the capacity hasn't increased at all.... Meanwhile house prices in Melbourne have tripled in the same time frame
Andrews is a hopeless Oompa Loompa.... And Gladys is his equal
@@raven4475 stay off the sky news cool-aid
I do love it it when he throws shade I have to say ... truth teller
Agreed. I live in NSW and i can't stand Gladys. She f*d up from the get go and she splits the city up and let's people in Bondi where the outbreak started go to the beach with no masks while western Sydney is being punished and over policed. 😡
Not any more. New Zealand is the best country for handling virus.
Nah greenland is
Tanzania is the best, no testing.
NZ IS LEADING THE WAY..take note America and Australia
@@timothyhubert2305 Yeah the RT-PCR test is especially subjective in detecting analogous nucleotide sequences in guava fruit. Shut it down now!
New Zealand did a great job and continue to do a great job. But I'm pretty certain that the country with best handling and minimal Covid exposure is Taiwan.
You forgot to mention, Victoria’s fourth lockdown was successful against the Delta variant
@Smally Bigs when you finish a lockdown, and the media shouts "we are covid free!" (When we are clearly not, it's still there somewhere) people relax, don't wear masks, don't keep their distance, go and watch sport, go to the pubs and breathe the same air, then we get reinfected..
@Smally Bigs nope getting an adequate supply of vaccine is , if only we had a government with the capacity to do that ?
If the testing is doctored then they can make any number they want. Show me the licence for the PCR test?
@@martyn_g Wearing facmasks this way is the most sickening thing I have ever seen. Out in the environment, in no time these masks are a breeding ground for bacteria & a soon full of pollutatants, some of whach can cause cancer. Good god if if you believe in this psyop?
You people have no balls.
Why is there music playing in the background the entire time you are talking?
I think this report lets NSW Government off the hook for some very poor decision making.
Gladys wrecked it for everyone nsw and Victoria destroyed it for everyone
Shouldn't the title be how NSW & VIC lost control, the rest of the country is doing great.
Till next flu season?
Gladys did not want to risk becoming unpopular by making the tough decisions that a premier so.etimes must make to stop things like this latest Delta strain spread. Had she locked Sydney down hard and fast, like Dan Andrews did Melbourne, right from the very first sign of Delta starting there, we would not be in this current situation. As a Victorian, like many others, I am so angry that after all we endured in Victoria with our hard ling brutal but necessary lockdowns that did their intended job, we and other states must suffer yet again. Simply because NSW was slack, weak and out of control. And failed to do what needed to be done ie hard lock down all of Sydney. Not just parts of it which infuriated some of the poorer areas there. When Fan Andrews locked down Melbourne very hard and fast and became pretty unpopular, he did not just lock down part of Melbourne. They all copped the ring of steel, the nightly curfews, the masks etc etc. And even regional Victoria with virtually no cases was also locked down, partly to stop the potentially fatal spread to rural locations with few medical facilities but also to appear fair to all Victorians alike. I am unimpressed with how NSW handled their latest outbreak and how this has affected Victoria when we were do ping so well, getting on top of Covid, at last. And I can understand why some premiers are so jealously and protectively guarding their people and wanting to keep potential virus spreading NSW and VIC people out of their states. WA is probably the state many Victorians would love to flee to, if they could. As far from the Covid infested east as possible....
How Australia became a communist country.
The NSW govt did not announced a lockdown until day 10 of the initial outbreak in Sydney, which is madness! This time frame was how the delta variant was able to reach NZ, because the NSW Govt didn't lockdown early enough for the NZ Govt to react and close the travel bubble with NSW.
Thanks Glady's you doofus!
Australia is not another planet. Is not such a unique part of the earth. Why couldnt you learn from the rest of the world is it so hard.
It is actually very unique because of flora and fauna. We have a bunch of flora from the Gondwana times that no longer exists anywhere else in the world.
I wonder why no mention was made whatsoever about Queensland successfully stopping the Delta outbreak which came to our state courtesy of Gladys’ incompetence.
(shhh. Never say anything positive about Labor, otherwise Murdoch won't remember you in his will.)
@@katiekat2921 VIC stopped their first outbreak, but unfortunately, too many selfish people caught it in this second outbreak and now it's spiralling out of control.
Qld can't stay isolated forever. Palachook will have to open up eventually.
@@briangoodman1779 Queensland isn’t the only state which has shut NSW, Victoria and the ACT out, all the other states and territories - Labor and Liberal - have too.
The background music is annoying.
"Australia" didnt lose control, the eastern states did
It’s not even all the eastern states.
QLD, Tas, ACT haven’t lost the plot like NSW and Vic. That said, even Vic has been doing their darnedest, and poor ACT is literally surrounded by NSW.
We in QLD are doing the best we can, especially considering how many people are moving up here (or trying to at least) from NSW & Vic.
Sincerely, an eastern states born and bred* at risk citizen with more at risk family who is doing her best to learn from the successes and failures of my fellow eastern states citizens and leadership, supports her state’s leadership but is highly disappointed by the national leadership and leadership of the state who gambled with people’s lives and lost, thus risking the lives of the rest of the eastern seaboard and nation with it.
@Hit or Miss Prospecting I’m well aware Regional Vic is no longer in lockdown whilst Melbourne still is-it’s one of the reasons why I say Vic is doing their darnedest. I know many in Regional Vic aspire to come out of lockdowns early and thus put in the work to make that possible, which then means the contact tracers etc. can focus on the Melbourne situation better to get them out of lockdowns sooner.
Vic works hard to keep the numbers low when an outbreak occurs, and most of the time they get it together… this time, in Melbourne especially, they’re struggling to keep their grip on things, tensions are higher than I’ve seen so far (especially from the leaders who are trying their best to avoid NSW-esque deterioration), and the costs more severe.
The cracks are starting to show in Vic, and it seems like it takes more effort to contain each new outbreak, the grip faltering, and the resilience wearing worryingly thin due to accumulated fatigue-that’s what I mean by Vic losing the plot.
It’s different to what I mean when I say NSW has lost the plot, because they never seemed to care to respect the measures and efforts put in place by Vic to their south or QLD to their north, let alone attempt to emulate them, thus getting themselves into the situation they are in now where no one seems to be able to do anything to even curb the fallout of the virus ripping through the state and everyone seems to be left scratching their heads and shrugging their shoulders.
@@jessicadangerfield1539 There is a state named Western Australia too you know, its actually the biggest state.
@@pamjudge9691 yes, but it doesn’t reside on the eastern coast.
We’re discussing how NSW & Vic, do not Australia make, nor do they alone make up the states and territories along the eastern seaboard.
I’m responding to the original comment by saying the others states on the eastern seaboard also exist, and don’t deserve to be tarred with the same brush just as they were saying that “Australia” shouldn’t be blamed as a whole for the mistakes of a couple of the eastern states.
Notice, I also didn’t mention Northern Territory or South Australia either-because they’re in the centre of the country, not on the eastern seaboard.
Well all the states goes under a name called Australia, otherwise we have to start deviding even the states into surbs which dont make any sense
Western Australia didn't lose control don't lump us with NSW
The dividends of hubris are going to paid in lives. People are dying who would not have died if it wasn't for this hubris. This is a cultural thing, it's the Sydney First mindset, and it's very popular in Sydney. Gladys is the reining queen of this mindset, and she sells it very well.
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"The dividends of hubris are going to [be] paid in lives." Well stated! As an American, I wish the stupid leaders (e.g. governors of Florida & Texas) would realize this and change course.
Title should be: Galdys' gold standard in losing control
Coming from Canada, the fact that Australia specifically tells the public who was infected is alarming. This creates a stigma of those infected and only creates shame.
I am Australian and Don't find any truth in what you posted
No shaming here in oz at all.....
@@inezm8444 No shaming here also
They shouldn't have let the so called variant into the country in the first place
Thanks from NZ too, Gladys. Keep up the fantastic work.
Why are people not asking the hard questions. Like why Australia didn't go into hard lockdown with no international travel coming in as soon as they heard of the delta strain. Who gave the order to let them in anyway. Will the government compensate the families of those who died from delta due to the governments incompetence in not shutting the international border.
Political correct
A woman called Gladys is in a hot air balloon she realized she had gotten off course.
She reduced her height and saw a man down on the ground. She went a little further down and shouted at the man:
- ′′ Excuse me, can you help me? I've arranged a meeting with a friend an hour ago, but I don't know where I am..! ′′
The man replied:
- ′′ You are 30 meters above sea level, at 55 o 41'47 ′′ northern width, and 10 o 12'47 ′′ east length ".your just above the crowded beach
- ′′ You must be a technician." Shouted back the woman named Gladys
- ′′ I am," said the man, ′′ but how did you know.?"
- ′′ Well," said Gladys′′ everything you've said is technically correct, but I have no idea what to use it for. The fact is I still don't know where I am. The only thing I've gotten out of it means that I'm even more delayed. ′′
The man on the ground replied:
- ′′ You must be a Liberal politician....?
- ′′ I am," replied Gladys′′ but how did you know.?"
- ′′ It's easy. You don't know where you are or where you're going. You have gotten up with the help of hot air. You have made a deal that you are unable to hold and you expect people under you to solve the problem. Facts you're in the same situation you were before you met me but now it's all my fault,
I just got angrier the longer I watched this.
Even I knew what was coming and I'm just a pleb. You just had to hear and see what was happening in the rest of the world with Delta to know.
On the button from the day we saw the video from Dr Li Wenliang RIP it was obvious we were going to have a pandemic if we didn’t take precautions and follow the 20 year old plan derived by the medical fraternity
The title should be how NSW lost control of the delta variant
... if there is a way for politicians to stuff up, rest assured, they'll find it..
In a word: Gladys
It's not the drivers fault. It's the governments fault for ALWAYS allowing overseas travel. Didn't take note of those horrific scenes coming out of India when Delta broke out. They never learn. The government is still allowing overseas travel. Amazzzing! I like what the WA Premier has done. He's stopped NSW & VIC residents traveling there, even if they have the vaccine. SMART. Wish our QLD premier would do the same.
You really have an island mentality. Isolationist for what, a virus that only hurts the old and criple.
@@JeroenBIG a man in his 30s died yesterday. You're welcome.
I’m SO glad I’m in WA. We’ve just been shaking our heads watching the eastern states.
Queensland have the same policy , 14 days hotel quarantine, so not sure what you are talking about. Are you suggesting no border bubble? Western Australia doesn't have any population on its borders so obviously they don't need such a measure.
@@JeroenBIG You're right, the lives of people over 60 don't matter.
What a pathetic government. What a pathetic premier. She was definitely on her high horse. The St. woman. And then they were blaming the people for the spread. Bad bad bad.
If the NSW government stopped worrying about what property developers wanted and showed some integrity, we wouldn't be in this mess!!!
By packing people who have the virus into hotel quarantine with people who didn't have the virus. That has been proven.
Nope, wrong.
@@kristianaaberg7882 I am correct, hotel quarentine was never set up to handle an airborne virus, everyone who goes into hotel quarentine catches the virus from people in the hotel, that is why people test positive 2 weeks after going into the quarentine.
@@yesterdayschunda1760 feel free to provide some actual statistics to back up this claim. Some people caught it in hotel quarantine, but most did not. Yes, an airborne virus is hard to contain and hotels are not set up to be used as a hospital ward. But it was better than letting those people go home.
Easy, Scomo was lazy and Gladys has screwed us over.
US citizen here.....i see you all are pointing fingers at each other as well....lol
Human behavior is amazing to observe
We have had 4 deaths total in my state, still 4 too many but an excellent outcome. The less populated (less selfish and egotistical winky face) states are a bit over "taking one for the team" at this point. But yes we are just a mini me wanna be USA so judge away :)
No, NSW tried to bring everyone together, but the other states had to go on a mental spree, whining how they could never live with COVID
Should be "How NSW lost control of the coronavirus outbreak".
Should be "How NSW taught the other states that their COVID zero policies are stupid and we have to open up"
Today Sept 9 2021, 1545 cases and thousands more predicted, Gladys more worried about her Political Survival , rather than the Survival of hard working people that are the most sffected....
We lost control is because the government let the people break the rules, doing large family and religious getherings particularly people from the north and west in Melbourne.
Seriously, airline crew?!?!? We are tested before coming to and also upon arrival into Australia. We also wear a mask until we arrive at our quaratine hotel and we are not allowed out of our hotel room until we head back to the airport for our return home. Find someone else to blame, this is getting ridiculous!
Yea the limo driver was their scapegoat too. I feel sorry for those that became scapegoats to Gladys and Scomos arrogance
Last I checked WA is the biggest state, I think you meant the two most populous states. Not a bigger but just for correction
WA is the best state too
Video should be titled how the Eastern States lost control.... WA has held off Delta admirably.
Preach :P
@@sambros2 WA is useless, would be broke without NSW
Watching this as an American, I’m floored by the level of concern by such low numbers. However, I’m aware that the leadership in the US was abysmal since this epidemic started, as well as the fact that Australia only has tens of millions of citizens compared to hundreds of millions in USA. It’s absolutely numbing having to deal with so many imbeciles in America who STILL treat this epidemic as if it was a minor problem, refusing the vaccine, and have flouted all the protocols that were put into place from the start.
Ironically, the people who most supported the leadership at the time are the most likely to oppose vaccination now. That's why our vaccination percentage is so low. The pandemic has been politicized in America. I'm fairly conservative myself, but I'm appalled at the level of ignorance and pig-headedness leading the charge here against medical science.
Another reason why I'm glad to live in New Zealand
Ask Izrael how the vaccinate feels when it now have all time peek in infection :)
Watching from Canada, I wish all of you down under the best in the very difficult times to come.
Looks like you guys blew the golden opportunity to crush this early on. Now all bets are off. Good luck!
Correction : *Gladys* blew the opportunity.
The eastern states did. We here in WA have a bit more intelligence.
Robert, you are right. It looks like Australia were so determined to 'return to normal' that they failed to stop the spread.
@@MarielaQue NSW and Victoria are 2 small states in Australia, Australia is so much more than just those two - and the rest is largely Covid free.
@@pamjudge9691 NSW and Victoria are only small if you think WA is normal sized, which it isn't 😂
There's no denying NSW and Victoria form the economic and population centre of the country. I don't think this video is particularly parochial, it just reflects reality. More than half the country is in lockdown right now, and the fate of every state in Auatralia *is* sealed, regardless how many days it takes each premier to front the media and say so.
And berejiklean did not swiftly apply lockdowns and lockdowns were so lose it was as people were on holidays going to parks beaches literally on top of each other without wearing masks. She was negligent with the princes ruby cruise ship and she was negligent again. I want to vote for her part again but definitely not for her again.
This is clickbait. It was never Australia who lost control. It was NSW
Australia didn't loose control, NSW did , a state that won't take responsibility for their lack of action.
I hope gladis is happy with her choices
Australia? Or just NSW and VIC
The liberal party wants the rest of us to accept the virus into our lives like NSW and VIC did, the best way to do that is to ignore that other states are still successfully managing COVID zero.
Keep going ABC. This is a very good program!
It's not delta that lost control its Dan and gladys
But somehow Jacinda's govt's response in NZ is called out as being selfish.
Talk about projection.
In the news today we (NZ) have been criticised by an American infectious diseases expert for locking down again. He says we are going to have to live with the virus. He is correct, but once enough people have vaccinated to lessen the deadly impact of Delta if they the contract it then things can open up. I don’t think America is in any position to be advising others how to deal with Covid after the absolute carnage Covid has wreaked over there and their poor handling of it. I have seen so many Americas write that it is impossible cant compare the two countries, a much bigger pupulation there, but honestly the country is full of science deniers, the ex president has a lot to answer for in his appalling response to it, and as the US is divided into 50 states each with their own regional govt, they should have managed it much better. They do have a bigger population, but they have 50 times the resources of NZ, 50 mini governments, more hospitals, more money etc, etc…
Australia with a much larger population that NZ also stamped it out (and both Australia and NZ have current delta outbreaks), lockdowns work until we can get a much bigger percentage of vaccinations (both vaccinations) completed. Just my small opinion for what its worth.
Prime minister Jacinda Ardern continues to protect her people and is honest, they trust her, that's another reason why NZ goes hard and early..the people work together!
@@bex2b474 we do try Bex. She has her ‘haters’, but we do try. I was actually a supporter of the opposition government, but am happy to support Jacinda right now.
@@anneb1217 Same as me. National were simply unelectable last time around, and they're not really any better now in my opinion. It was the first time I had ever voted Labour if for no other reason than they at least appeared stable. I did not want a government that seemed unable to stick to one leader for more than five minutes under any circumstances, let alone during a pandemic.
@@theotherwayofstopping4717 yes, me too, always a National supporter but could not give them my vote last time. Unfortunately with Jude at the helm they wont be getting it this time either. I don’t like to choose based on the leader, rather look at the party and its policies, but I don’t like the way Jude has conducted herself. He behaviour (using every opportunity to attack Jacinda who has done a good job) annoys me. I would be far more impressed with her if she decided to stand by and support the government during this pandemic. Also firmly believe National would have opened the border thinking of the economy (Jude was gearing for this early on, gnashing her teeth and carrying on like she does) and we would be in a much worse place covid wise. Anyway, just my humble thoughts… hope you are safe and well.
A very informative story. I feel sad for the families of those lost to COVID-19 and can only think that as a society we could have done more. Time to take up the lessons learned. Be kind to each other and calmly debate the issues rather than creating divisions in our communities.
Wow, as an Aussie living in Tokyo and looking from the outside I thought she was doing a good job of handling it.
Turns out she was the problem all along.
@Evan Atkins God bless your English teacher. They did a terrible job.
Thankyou for the journalism
ABC are corporate lapdogs. What they're reporting is propaganda & lies, just like the medical mafia. There is no Delta variant. There is not test for it. And COVID cases are extremely exaggerated due to the high false positive results from the PCR tests, which were never meant to be a diagnostic test.
A quality premier would have stepped up, taking on board, instead of mocking and laughing at us, what and how we Victorians, who have done the hard yards and driven Covid into the ground, wouldn't have been in vain. Even Mark McGowan, the W.A premier tookbon board what we did and stomped it out, straight away. Sucks to be a premier of a state that karma came and bit in the bum. The premier who is the joke if Australia......
Zero covid is a stupid policy.
Simple answer: Gladys
Victoria wrote the book on going hard and fast into lockdown. All the strictests regulations were introduced immediately. Lessons were learned at a terrible price. But it worked. Gladys refused to consider adopting any of them costing precious time.and endangering millions.
For Victoria our hard and fast lockdown hasnt beat Delta but it has kept our numbers far lower ensuring less risk of overwhelming spread and pressure on our hospital systems or deaths. So i would say thats not exactly a complete failure as was suggested in the program.
Disappointed ABC this is sadly lacking in a lot of real facts and too much bias from certain parties.
Dr.Kidd should be giving daily updates, not politicians
The idea that Australia didn't stand a chance of stopping this outbreak has to be reconciled with the fact that New Zealand appears to have done just that.
And we were the laughing stock for locking down with one case but of course there were lots of cases that we didn’t know about at the time. Just hoping that Auckland get out of this next week and enjoy Spring like the rest of the country.
Its not a virus . Its tyranny
New Zealand are just 1 outbreak behind NSW.. a few days? a few weeks? a month? who knows when... but failed plans like zero covid... will always fail.
N.Z. won't rejoin the international community for 10 years.
@@Jennyeq
It's only Auckland in full lockdown rest of country very few restrictions, because we lockdowned at only 1 case.
It's a simple thing really. The nsw authorities were arrogant and messed it up for everyone. No one knew that this was going to spread that quick?? Have you seen what was happening in India or in the UK?
Did anyone came from delta infected india to Australia? From zero to erupted positive cases again? How did that happened, did it started from the vaccinated becoming positive and infecting began again to delta and maybe later to various variants infection.
Let's let the businesses (who profit from being open) decide if they should be open.
No mention of Israel and Singapore with 80% vaccination rates and the surge in cases?
The topic was Australia's response to the delta variant-not what's happening in other countries.
The vaccines are designed to stop hospitalisation and death, not transmission. The hospital numbers in Israel and Singapore look reasonable
@@ClintonRoy you clearly don't understand the definition of the word _vaccine._ 🤭 Beeteedubs, mRNA _vectors_ were categorizing as genetic therapies until just recently too. What a coincidence, aye? 🙄
@@elsiepfeiffer1395 the vast bulk of vaccines do not produce what is called sterilising immunity. mRNA based vaccines do not modify your cellular DNA at all, they are not gene therapy. They trick the body into producing a large number of copies of the foreign protein associated with covid, giving rise to a large and well remembered immune response.
@@murdochrc-imback7680 ultimately the Government’s response to the Delta variant is to vaccinate as many people as possible and open everything up. It was not looking at what was happening in the rest of the world that caused Gladys etc. to be so apparently “surprised” by Delta. I think if you don’t look at overseas experiences, and that is clearly what happened here, we are in for a devastating two to three years. Good story telling should take this into account because we only have their experience of attempting to vaccinate their way to freedom to go by.
Australia is an amazing country. I know this documentary is about a failure to contain this outbreak but your standards were so high. You've done a remarkable job managing this pandemic guys, sincerely
Specific states have that stood their ground against what Scomo and Berejiklian wanted to force on all of Australia.
Yes, I admire your country and this news channel. I wish we Americans had an ounce of the sense that you Australians do.
@@ColonelKlink100 It's not my country, I'm South African. We've handled things as badly as most other countries
Wake up fool . Australia is a paradise for white collar crime . All it's public institutions have been thoroughly prostituted by an openly corrupt Federal Government , that in turn is in cohoots with the corrupt mainstream media , that acts as its body guard . Australia is nothing more than a Third World , tin pot regime , that even imprisons their non mainstream journalists , for exposing their well worn system of institutionalised corruption .
Gladys and her corrupt goons deserve the brunt of the blame
A tip for everyone, maybe, stop this stupid flying through world history. I mean is that really really necessary? Is it really that urgent? Here in Europe, too, I see that and think to myself that none of this can be true. Why do you have to fly back to foreign countries immediately?