Is Premier Dan Andrews Australia's most dangerous man?

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It is understood that the old health department effectively ceased operating on 1 February 2021. People from the old DHHS who were overseeing quarantine were moved to other jobs. New people came in who had no quarantine background experience or working knowledge of the program and its current status. It would appear that this led to defective or critically slow decision-making, or to none at all.

For example: staff at the Holiday Inn requested instructions on whether to attend work as they had been in close contact with Covid-positive travellers. The bureaucrats responded that they didn't know and had to wait for a group meeting. When instruction came not to attend work, it was too late. The workers had already attended work as rostered.

In other words, the bureaucracy was incapable of responding to queries from the hotel within the timelines that are necessary when running a 24/7 operation. The failures were/are at the bureaucratic level.

Conclusion-The government is the problem The current lockdown has occurred because the quarantine management of the Holiday Inn by the government was demonstrably slow to respond to known infections. Close contacts, including staff, were not notified for up to three days or more and not given instructions as to what to do. Consequently, close contacts who were unknowingly Covid-positive went about their activities in the community unknowingly spreading Covid.

This high risk was is well known by the government. The bad management of the hotel quarantine program in 2020 proved the horrendous consequence of such bad management. But the Victorian government has clearly not fully and properly learned the lesson or fully and properly implemented proper processes.

In this respect the government in its current form and leadership poses a major risk to the health and safety of the people.