Thread by @iMusing

Berejiklian is up. She starts with testing numbers and 415 new cases of community transmission. The lowest possible infectious in community figure is given, as usual. Stay home, get tested and isolate, she says.

the main suburbs of concern. She is acting completely business as usual. Food and to get vaccinated and that’s it, are reasons to leave home in Blacktown, Mt Druitt, Merrylands, Doonside.

a passing reference to “the deputy premier” and “regional NSW” and “our Indigenous communities” and she barrels onto thanking the prime minister for his extra dose announcement, 5 million doses, and bumper vax days for tradies.

please get vaccinated, says Berejiklian. The quicker we reach those targets the more opportunities there will be for us. She really is putting on her business as usual face. An insult to the whole country.

good to see Chant is back. She does not fluff around. These numbers are too high, she says. The seriousness of the situation can not be stressed hard enough. She does not want to see escalating hospitalisations.

stay home stay home. Chant expresses concern for Dubbo and Walgett and says things have settled in the Hunter Newcastle area, mentions Maitland as having indications of spread.

sewage testing in Bourke underlines her concern about western NSW, says Chant. The extra doses will be targeted to workers, freight, frontline. Vaccination is a tool, not a silver bullet. Stay at home.

Barilaro: yesterday we made the decision to shut down regional NSW. He calls this a “sharp hard lockdown early”. Incredible.

promises to “keep” the focus on “those vulnerable communities”. Repeats the stay at home message and the short sharp framing.

and that was that on the first delta statewide lockdown. The deputy commissioner is up. He runs thru a few numbers, the infringements, a party at Clovelly, a BBQ in Blacktown.

says the arrangements are designed for those specific communities to keep people safe. Police do not want to have to enforce those orders, but will do so, and he does not apologise for that.

have you heard about the face mask shortage in Walgett?
Chant: there has been a whole of government response and the Cth has a role in remote Aboriginal communities. She would not expect there to be a mask shortage but if there is she will address it immediately.

can the case numbers come down under the current settings?
Chant: thanks police for their role in compliance. Says most people are doing the right thing. Thanks people. We are all in NSW we are all Australians.

we are at a fork in the road and we have to decide what path we take. The not a silver bullet line again. Tell your friends and family to take this seriously.

the fact we have held the numbers to the levels we have is testimony to the behind the scenes work, says Chant. Her concern level she can not describe, if we do not drive these numbers down. We have to limit our interaction with others.

transmissions are in households. Chant asks people not to send kids to childcare unless they absolutely have to. Workplace transmission cycles have to be broken, she says. Freight hubs.

should we have done of these things earlier?
Chant says she provided the advice for the statewide lockdown following the briefing yesterday.

some of the initiatives yesterday she is incredibly pleased about, in terms of the isolation payment, says Chant, which is the first mention of the test and isolate payment this morning. That makes 6 whole seconds on the payment, over two briefings.

the health system is under stress, let’s be frank, says Chant. But if it is a big system, and please be reassured that the system is ready and able to respond to your needs.

finally someone addresses Berejiklian on her shitty dismissive offensive minimising and avoidance around the statewide lockdown yesterday. Oh blah blah nothing nothing most of the state was in lockdown anyway she swats the Q away.

and reverts to her happy place of dwelling on sickness and deaths in foreign countries. Stay home, she says. That’s it. We can do this. The future is in our hands. Rah rah rah.

everybody just do what is asked. We are literally all in this together. Berejiklian has no fucking idea, and she is going to get away with it.

she blames increasing cases on “bad choices” no, not hers. Other people. Individuals. Voters, if you will.

Chant does “not like” delta cases in apartments.

doctors do not issue s 62 orders for no reason, says Chant. There may be compliance issues they are worried about. Work is being done to increase access to accommodation - this is for isolation. Accomm has been stepped up in “our rural communities”.

will borders be closed until christmas? What we should focus on is what she and Dr Chant have been saying from the outset, says Berejiklian, which is to get cases down. There are too many people making the wrong choices, says she.

no other jurisdiction has eliminated delta, says Berejiklian. We have to learn to live with it. The “duel strategy” in NSW is getting cases down and vaccination up. Overseas fear factor comms get another triple run.

we have done it before, says Berejiklian, got through these hard times before, when we didn’t have the vaccine. Does she mean when alpha was eliminated under the nationwide lockdown? When not even TAKEAWAY was open? That before?

we will consider those options dependent on Dr Chant’s advice and getting those case numbers down then IF YOU ARE VACCINATED (x 2) we will look for opportunities for what you can do in September and October - Berejiklian refusing to budge an inch despite her massive failures.

we know what works in those LGAs says Berejiklian, on mass policing in low income high density parts of western Sydney. Smfh.

she can not WAIT to give Double Bay voters their hair appointments while the riot squad roam Blacktown handing out fines of 10x their average weekly wage.

the risk of this taking off is great, says Berejiklian. Who will tell her?

if you see people doing the wrong thing, call them out. Deputy Warboys has said thousands of people call Crimestoppers, keep that up. You can be a cop! Everyone can jump to conclusions and catalyse criminalisation, just like real cops!

we need everybody to do the right thing and respect the rules we have in place, says Berejiklian for the millionth time on her failed public health policy settings.

are you still going to consider lifting restrictions in November if case numbers are still rising on current trends? The future of the nation is in our hands, says Berejiklian. Thanks everybody. We’ll come back tomorrow [and repeat the same pandemic politick] she says.

I can honestly say that two long months into watching this tedious repetitive dishonest and failed political messaging, I think that was her most blasé performance yet.