Thread by @iMusing

111 cases of community transmission from 8pm Thurs to 8pm Friday. “Unfortunately the numbers are stubborn”. She claims community transmission is to “some extent stabilising” which is why she is announcing additional measures. Okay mate.

she needs to take extra action today because they do not have the data from the last five days, Berejiklian lies. That is not the reason. Nor are stubborn “numbers”. Stubborn politicians more like.

lockdown by LGA. She says people in Fairfield, Canterbury Bankstown can not leave their local government area. The same people who were told to get tested every three days three days ago still have to get tested every three days to go to work with ing their LGA?

non critical retail will not have face to face trading anymore. Click and collect only. They have made a critical retail list. It has taken her three weeks to get here.

pause on all construction, building, maintenance, renovations, and “cleaners into homes” until midnight 30 July. A difficult decision, says Berejiklian. Urgent repairs can occur. Anything other than urgent repair “obviously” can not occur.

compliance penalties for employers who try and force workers into the office. She addresses workers directly “if you feel you are being forced into the office”. She does not tell bosses to stop being arseholes.

regional NSW not subject to additional restrictions.

appeals to the population to support her. Repeats the lies about making decisions to keep community safe; about basing decisions on health advice; about lifting lockdown as soon as possible.

deflects to the delta variant and vaccine supply, again. Says there will be people who are angry with her which sounds like a breach of cabinet confidence.

reverts to the common sense garbage, to try and obscure the fact she has been forced to change the settings she said were “the right settings” because those settings failed to contain community transmission.

correction: Fairfield, Canterbury Bankstown and Liverpool.

https://twitter.com/iMusing/status/1416202780734148608

police announcing welfare “support” for people who “feel vulnerable”. The least qualified worst possible agency to be given this platform. Police “welfare checks” cause mental health conditions and criminalise children among other negative outcomes.

the new settings do not indicate there was anything wrong with the old settings, she lies. The claim is that the new settings make her a hero in a cape, saving lives.

repeats unfortunately. Repeats the delta strain blame line. Repeats the implication that a five day lag in the darda is something new. It isn’t.

a workplace transmission is like a melting pot, says Chant. Wrong metaphor. We are chasing our tail in terms of transmissions. Also wrong metaphor. She is under incredible stress trying to explain why workplaces were kept open when workplaces are known transmission sites.

why wait until now?
A: we have been flagging the fact that we need to look at a range of strategies to decrease mobility, says Chant.
She is talking to Berejiklian. She says as much.

Chant says bosses “should immediately review all of the people they have asked to come into the office”.
Office workers would be a small proportion of workers dealing with the worst decisions being made by the worst bosses imo.

we are not talking about a ring of steel, says Chant. She will leave that to police. What she wants to address is welfare, which, as we heard not five minutes ago, was given to police.

Chant clarifies that health care staffers, emergency services and aged care workers “can move”, presumably outside the three LGAs. Still subject to the three day swab rule, Chant confirms.

we fought so hard for the financial support, says Berejiklian, about business financial support, which has been within state jurisdiction all along.

asked if yesterday was the first time she received health advice on needing additional measures, Berejiklian says yesterday was the first time she received “new information”. She means the daily numbers, from what I can tell.

defaults to thanking South Western Sydney residents. This particular political comms strategy is getting very fucking old.

we are not going to have the ring of steel as Dr Chant said - Berejiklian.
In fact, Dr Chant said she would “leave” ring of steel to police.

the cost of not doing [the new restrictions] is actually much greater, says Berejiklian.

and again on the darta lag. She is leaning incredibly heavily on this, which has been a fact throughout.

we have been really fortunate to date that we have kept the virus out of the regions - Berejiklian.

a personal Q to Chant twinned with a Q on health system capacity. It sounds like a plant.
It has been challenging for everyone, says Chant. The health system is working very hard, she says. It is rolling out the vaccine, testing, and treatment. She thanks health workers.

and yep, that was the wrap. Berejiklian calls time. Hazzard is absent on the weekend, again.