Thread by @YouAreLobbyLud

1/ I THINK I CAN READ GLADYS' MIND
See if you agree with me. Every good General tries to get inside the mind of their adversary, so here goes...

2/ Her intention is to stay in this quasi-holding pattern (which isn't a holding pattern at all, because numbers are climbing and the disease is leaking all over NSW, but never mind) until vaccination gets up to some level (50% of eligible = about 35% of total) and then relax…

3/ …all restrictions.
She then thinks this will have "lanced a painful boil", that we will have "got over the hump" and now have COVID circulating freely and it won't be nearly so bad as people are thinking.

4/ She thinks that then some of the most vulnerable will be protected and that at least the healthcare system won't be "completely" overwhelmed. She views healthcare simply as a resource to be deployed, like a kind of oil spill clear up operation.

5/ Then she thinks that with such a high prevalence in NSW the virus will leak into other states and become uncontrollable (which she thinks would happen sooner or later anyway) and so they will have to follow suit and "live with the virus".

6/ Then everything goes back to "normal", Qantas has full planes again and she is the hero(ine) who has finally brought Australia to its senses.

7/ Until she gets to that point, she just has to placate the "#ZeroCovid zealots" on one side and the right wing headbanger nutjobs in her own party on the other who want to blow the joint open right now (and with whom she actually agrees entirely).

8/ She views herself as an admirable "centrist", someone with deft political talents, sent to this Earth (by God probably) to lead us out of our present purgatory. "Damn! Am I shit hot or what?" thinks Gladys.
Amirite or amirite?