Yes Minister

Rohan     Conservative party advisor to the PM   The talk is that you have failed in your duty to provide leadership for the country in a crisis.  Instead of grabbing the opportunity to lead under the security powers of the constitution  ( like you can use for Biosecurity issues)   you have let the Shires do there own thing ,

You let the locked down closet bureau run that dumb easy precautionary principle PP  to the point where no-one leaves home and no-one takes any risks . ( except party faithful)  their method works --but its not right and not real world management . Children's class , They have been doing this for decades. 

Bern   it just stops the bureau and the bosses from  being accused  of being careless . That's whose interests the PP is protecting. The fact that most people in the meeting have no real experience of managing a crisis doesn't change the governments view that" it knows what it is doing" .   


Rohan Now most  people can't even travel around the country and the making and braking of rules  made by these tin pot powers is a deep running sore with the people. They trusted us and now they see attention seekers everywhere running for cover . 

The people are smart enough to eventually see that any pretend parent who keeps making or changing the rules is unfit for governing and has lost control already .

As for writing the prescription to control the next pandemic - no-one will know there is a new crisis because they will be too busy having meetings to decides how and when its likely to start .
And by the time the sacred information source committees  give the order to start the trucks rolling the evil thing will have again escaped and be running like wildfire -- just as it does with all the new emerging  emergency agencies (EA's)  now growing and  sitting around waiting for something to happen 
 

Cameraman  (  to himself ) These "teams " are also going to lose competency and morale , breaking ranks leaving us with an even more moribund bureau and ignorant group of compliant plants up top  ,No need for a corruption agency  when these twits cultivate  their own,  

PM  what's a mere man like me supposed to do . This is a real crisis . Not somethin
g we the party or the press drummed up so we can close it down and win points with the people. 

Its a real threat  or it seems to be. American's don't usually worry about things that are ephemeral???  And when the crisis originates in a foreign country whom we don't trust , we load our guns -automatically like in the good old days
Greg Sheridan  The great Aussie cringe  or is it something about too much sun and the  binge ? 

Bern to himself  We say we think for ourselves but really we don't trust ourselves to do anything properly ,

Alec ( another advisor )  don't you mean the shires start loading their guns 
I  mean you have that gun slinging mad lot down south just about to confess panic and misguided targeting based on testing the thin air  writing the rule book .
Surely YOU ( the Commonwealth) should be writing the revisions to biosecurity ay act not these clowns   See below how their SIRH has managed to make their ORDERS right whatever they say 
 
PM  Well I did ask my own CMO ' should he not to take charge' ,but he claimed he wasn't responsible. He insisted on retiring .
 My string of advisors I mostly  got from Turnbull who trained them to only act  when it looked good and wasn't too hard to do .
 
Bern  He didn't have any idea of what was hard to do - he just wanted to do it !

SirH    Perfect greenlabor man !

Alec he may have claimed that but  what he really should have said is that he didn't FEEL he could carry the burden ,
And YOU  could have told him  that  he didn't need to 
The CMO's job is to coordinate,  and the higher that coordination goes the less crap , big noting and confusion crawls into the system.( heads nodding around the room ) get rid of some of your ministers who only think they know things  and show some backbone - you have the constitution and right process on your side. 

PM  Well what can i do     NOW!!!!!!
Alec Not much . you have let the silly attention children have their way . Eventually the people will see that that is what has been happening  - maybe after Christmas they will see the game more clearly . 

 Maybe you can foreworn the public of Fed move to review the states and your attempts to mange the crisis  in the new year . You are not just confessing you are showing realism - no-one knew exactly what to do . 

Sir H    That way the people will also see the haste that makes for waste and the many mistakes that these quick fix merchants have now put into law .
Eventually the same old worry warriors and their attendants will be seen to be who they really are  

Bern I wonder whether the Deep South group asked experienced epidemiologists whether  the emperor's  last capture methods were any better than his first .  
Sir H   if you look at this Well being bill   it seems 0to just e about the size of the prison - nothing about what the prisoners and the free can  do to help themselves ..   Governance that provides paying jobs for public servants . . 
Bern    And someone might dare to ask the cost benefit of all the testing tracing and forever chasing  of one evil object -  that what what epidemiologists were all ways telling us - That CV ' variants s were always something we have to live  . 

Two page out of the legislation . 
The premier  can be wrong but any other logic cannot be right 
The French revolution - the greatest documentary ever  shows how the decision making of someone who doesn't know what he doesn't know , can eventually end up with a police state .