with shops, factories and warehouses to open their doors again on September 14.
"Everything is on the table," Mr Andrews said, insisting that the road map out of Melbourne’s toughest ever restrictions had still not been drawn up and that the plan for opening up the city and the state, to be announced on Sunday, was still to be finalised.
The research company reported that support is still strong for key aspects of the government’s present COVID-19 response with most of those surveyed still in favour of the night-time curfew, the five-kilometre travel limit and 87 per cent of respondents supporting the mandatory face mask policy. The plan also lists for the first time criteria for moving into new stages based on daily case numbers, suggesting stage two would only be activated once average daily case numbers were consistently below five.
The draft also advocates a “go outside” message, used effectively in Scotland and New York, that discourage gatherings in private homes where there is a “up to a 20-fold greater risk of virus transmission”.
Overinflated Covid death numbers and constant scaremongering! It is time for the Dan Andrews to quit! He has been a failure and is destroying this state! Can he not see the devastation he is causing? The virus is here to stay and we have to learn to live with it like Europe.
Business council of Australia.. hmm more like the IPA
We need a “SAFE plan”, NOT just having a plan that may not be safe. As Premier Andrews said: “you can’t fix the economy until you deal with the “health emergency.” None of us wants another flare up. YES, WE NEED TO LEARN HOW TO LIVE WITH THIS VIRUS!! IStandWithDan
Profits before people. Brilliant stuff. NOT.
The Business Council of Australia can demand whatever the hell it likes. I don't imagine for one minute that Dan Andrews gives a shit what a business organisation has to say about public health policy in Victoria.
They are not epidemiologists. They are not putting their life and health on the line in hospitals or aged care homes. They do not understand that the out of control pandemic is more costly to businesses in the long run. They don't care about business certainty for small business.
I’m sure their concerns are purely health-driven.
The Business Council of Australia WAS NEVER ELECTED TO RUN ANY STATE and they have done a DISGRACEFUL Job of Advising Small Business
Surely the Business Council of Australia has already produced a report on how many deaths are acceptable and, most probably, who they should be.
The business council can just wait. The economy isn’t more important than saving lives.
Demand away!!! The Stage 4 restrictions will be lifted when and if people are no longer at risk of death...not when you run out of money!
The BCA can go & get knotted! DanielAndrewsMP is the man I'm listening to & I know his intention is to open business & industry as fast as possible without prejudicing the success achieved through our sacrifice. Economies can be rebuilt, lives cannot. Stop thinking about money!
5 m people can't all be arrested!
The business council of Australia DONT sound like Epidemiologists or Infectious Disease Specialists🤔.. 🤫..so perhaps they need to PIPE DOWN & Learn to listen to the experts... ..they will lose out Big time if we have a 3rd Wave – R they Really THAT DUMB. ¹/-
Business council of Australia will have more death on their hands...
Let's have a list of these jokers so we know which companies think their profits are more important than our lives, please. What you give money to is what you support, and I'm not supporting that!
When did these accountants and book-keepers become epidemiologists?!
Business can wait!!!
Find me a list of BCA members and I will happily never shop at them again.
I back the BCA
Then to complain about all the lazy sick dole bludgers who won't risk their lives to work for slave wages during next wave. If they want public control, they can run for public office. Don't remember voting for them, do remember the last election results.
That pack of spongeing rent seekers can get in the bin. And close the lid after them
'demanding' ? Why did you make that word up ?
Denial Andrews loves the power
Open too soon and we're back again to July and look how well that went.
The Victorian Gov should do a deal with the BCA: they'll open everything up and the BCA takes legal, ethical & financial responsibility for all those who sicken or who die.
So but I’m more interested in what the CMO wants.
The Business Council should pull its head in. Incase they haven't got the brains to figure it out, DEAD PEOPLE = NO ECONOMY SICK, DEBILITATED PEOPLE = SICK ECONOMY What do the teach you idiots in business school? Certainly not logic or science.
The BCA are NOT virologists, epidemiologists or public health experts. SO THEY CAN JUST STFU.
*makes mental note to NEVER shop at any business associated with BCA. 🤔💸
question is can all businesses be trusted to open & enforce all covid19 safety health procedures & regs
Covid-19 loves this idea. What will The Busin3ss Council do when the inevitable 3rd wave of the virus starts? The economic damage is worse if you allow the virus to rage unchecked.
I’m guessing the Business Council of Australia have 0 COVID19 cases!! Aren’t they lucky!!?
Yeah, or what? Will the Business Council of Australia go on strike if Melbourne doesn't comply with their demands?
Business Council is soooo irrelevant here. So irrelevant! If they had any smarts at all they’d be lobbying ScottMorrisonMP to continue support rather than not. Why is it that representative bodies like these always act at the last minute? And then weakly so?
.. just this
Even the Age has turned on him, getting bad now
The BCA? More old conservatives? Tell em to FO.
Ask them to accurately foretell what the numbers will be in two weeks with their glass balls- and when they can't- Tell them to p*ss off. auspol
Tell these money hungry tight arses to back off
Hold the course DanielAndrewsMP
That’s not going to happen. Andrews wants to ruin Victoria. He already has.
Tell BCA to get a bloody grip and stop undermining our health efforts
Has the msm had anything positive to say over the past 3 months?
Hear that COVID, you have two weeks to sort yourself out
Put the public sector on job keeper. Watch how quickly we will open up.
😅😅😅😅 hang, draw and quarter them.
The Victorian public are demanding to be kept safe 😥
Melbourne has the strictest Covid restrictions in the entire world right now. You have to start asking why these measures are so extreme covid19 danielandrews melbournelockdown victorialockdown
DanLiedPeopleDied DeadlyDan CedarAndrews DictatorDan
Cmon I’m sure the BCA press release and TimReedBCA didn’t say demand, why use such language 🤷♂️ & stay strong Victoria.
Enough is enough. The Governor of Victoria should have DismissDan months ago. It’s absurd that so many people and businesses are being driven into oblivion by the failed strategy of the Andrews government. COVID19Vic CovidVic vicpol auspol
The business council of Australia is motivated by greed, they don't give $2 for Australian lives that hang in the balance...
People on chemotherapy shield themselves because they are at particular risk. We view that as normal. People at particular risk from Covid should also shield themselves, without the whole of society and the economy shutting down.
Translation, the business council want's to get back into lockdown ASAP.
Yeah, good. Out yourselves now so we can boycott you later.
Sure, if the BC funds a fivefold increase in our health budget for the rest of time and builds the hospitals in those two weeks
Oh great. Because another Stage 4 will be fantastic for business and everyone else...
Let’s take advice from the experts, not a bunch of corporates interested in their own pockets.
Why? So we can all get infected and have to close AGAIN?
Ask them what number of deaths is acceptable. Make them spell it out.
If I was DanielAndrewsMP , I would walk away and let them get on with it...
Ok, the business organization wants business open. I’m gobsmacked 😶
And if the COVID virus takes off again they back a full blown lockdown of the whole state they will back that ?
“What’s a bit of death compared to a couple of bucks” says the BCA!
Fuck the business council. Fine them all and put the money into JobSeeker.
It’s the untraced mystery cases tht lead to stage 4 but instead of locking down the whole Vic, DanielAndrewsMP shd target the cluster/suburbs, maintaining 5km radius & no visiting, wouldn’t it be better than now?
The BCA ignores the science of COVID just like its position on climate change for political self-interest.
I really dont get this. it's a global virus. all i see is condemn with disgust on fellow Australians as if they dont deserve to live on earth, just because they say something. And where is the PPE for health care workers?can we trace n isolate better now?
Emerging evidence is harsh lockdowns are counterproductive. Instead, dedicate one treatment centre, protect the vulnerable, localise lockdowns, fast track better treatments & open. Collaborate better with non-political experts VictorianCHO
We're SO lucky the Liberal/Nationals aren't in government, or it'd be 'throw out your dead, so the shops can open'! The Business Council can get in the bin. springst
The odds are pretty good that they are merely pissing into the wind! The answer is known before they even wrote the letter! StandWithDan and ignore DimTim and Co!
It’s not their decision to make
Dan Andrews should announce changes when it’s safe. Speculation is not helpful. Some people won’t hold the line.
Which businesses do they represent so we can boycott them.
The BCA can wait like the rest of us. Or would they prefer thousands of infections and deaths?
The business council can sit down and shut up
aussie_bot Melbourne and the position of Premier both open thank you.
there will be no cure, question is how government will manage the virus, so much more damage being done to people due to lockdown,how many suicides since February DanielAndrewsMP how many domestic violence incidents reported?how many businesss gone forever? Mental health ?
Tell that to the front line Health workers who’ll have to risk their own health while treating the increased numbers of COVID-19 cases.
Victoria will need to slash and burn in next few years. If you thought Kennett sold off Victoria assets,wait for next Govt. And it won’t be an Andrews Govt.
Good
Take them on a tour of the aged care sector without masks on then we might get a different perspective ‼️
When were the Business Council elected? I must have missed it? They can go and f.... off.
Assuming no vaccine?
noeltowell, LNP cheerleader at the TheAge where an LNP Chairman oversees LNP fundraisers, directs LNP factional warfare & stacks the newsroom with Murdoch hacks. ‘TheAge, LNP, Always’ auspol ThisisNotJournalism
The irony is doctors who’s businesses would benefit from the virus spreading and having more COVID cases to treat, are the ones saying that this is a terrible idea. We don’t want more cases either.
This is Andrews VictoriaPolice
FO
So we have the same virus With more cases per day than when the second wave started At a level where contact tracing is unlikely to be effective Sounds like a perfect time to open up 🤦♂️
I promise the BCA I won't spend a fucking cent more than I need to if covid numbers go up again.
Another lobby group.
No surprise there. they’ll send their low paid employees out to get sick while they isolate in their secluded beach mansions. Fuck that. We see whose side you're on, The age. No longer fair and unbiased. Just another bunch of shills for rich bosses.
The BCA doesn’t speak for all business.
NialFinegan Ok and their plan to stop and assume responsibility for the spread of the virus
Well the Business Council will wait like everyone else until it's safe. They're not helping themselves by being so shortsighted. Letting it rip would kill people and business.
We need a “SAFE plan”, NOT just having a plan that may not be safe. As Premier Andrews said: “you can’t fix the economy until you deal with the “health emergency.” We reached to this point after huge hard works and pain, none of us wants another flare up. IStandWithDan
Here here !!!
Enough of this flog
Will they be picking up the costs of funerals if that ends up being a mistake, I highly doubt it, but let's face it, greed is more important than life.....
The BCA and the AMA two organisations always struggling to prove their relevance, in a crisis, or at any other time.
-self interest- (n), ~ see Business Council of Australia
The Business Council of Australia is demanding. Michael Whatsisname used “bloody” on ABC news. Little Matty Guy got all ruddy faced. What’s the world coming to.
Bit short-sighted if by us opening too soon the virus takes hold again and we have to lock down for MUCH longer. I will be very upset if all our sacrifice will have been for nothing.
The BCA doesn’t care who dies if there’s a buck in it for them.
Did I miss something? Who put the BCA in a position to demand anything?
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