Thread by @twensor

For the record:
- Health Sector Emergency Response Plan 7th Feb [HSERP]: health.gov.au/sites/default/…
- 26 Feb WHO report 27: more new cases outside China than inside;
- PM enacts HSERP 27th Feb (Feb 26 we had 23 cases)
- TL/DR version: theconversation.com/its-now-a-matt…
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HSERP p8: "... measures will reply on voluntary compliance rather than legal enforcement wherever possible".

p12-13: 1/2/3 scenarios = clinical impact low/moderate/high. QUESTION: has Morrison been asked which Scenario in play on adoption, which applies now?
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HSERP p3,9: The "proportional response" thing is baked in; contrast p9: "Prior to 2009, planning for pandemics...was aimed at responding to a worst case scenario."
Observation: the whole thing reads like AHPPC was expecting a very nasty outbreak of the flu.
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Final obsv'n: the current plan is just not geared to a worst case scenario. Well I guess it COULD be worse -- at least Covid19 isn't like the pathogen in I am Legend.
The Feds need to find the guts to say we underestimated & change the plan. #covid19aus #covid19australia #auspol

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