As showers scatter from our skies we might also be witnessing a perfect storm in the insidious spread of the COVID-19 Delta strain.
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The Border is now under threat in a way we haven't seen before thanks to the selfishness, idiocy and evasiveness of three rogue removalists.
We have prided ourselves on the vigilance with which we have handled the low points of the pandemic, accepting without question - even while still rightly voicing concerns at the unfair burden imposed - the restrictions that have come our way.
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To now be in the position where we're possibly teetering on the edge of a genuine outbreak because of the infected removalists' cross-country, permit-breaking travels is almost too cruel to believe.
That's what has happened though with the trio's visit to a Jindera service station.
It is reassuring to hear our senior police here in Albury talk of a criminal investigation.
But what is more pertinent is how this case magnifies the NSW government's fractured response to the Delta outbreak.
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Images doing the rounds of social media on Thursday of heavy traffic on a major Sydney thoroughfare suggest there is no genuine lockdown in the NSW capital.
If this is allowed to happen, the question must be asked, then how can Premier Gladys Berejiklian think she is going to stop the spread?
Berejiklian bristled on dismissing media questioning of her failure to define "essential" workers in relation to NSW's lockdown when Victoria, it was put, had done just that.
The Andrews' administration hadn't, she fired back, exasperated, in what was far more swipe than explanation.
Parochial stoushes on semantics though merely add weight to the case extolling the federal government's COVID-19 ineptitude.
If Scott Morrison and Co had done its job properly on vaccines we might not have states bickering on who's done what, with the rest of us fearful of the the incredibly high stakes now at play.
We can only hope that somehow, with a bit of truth-telling by those removalists, with a less-timid Sydney lockdown and even a bit of luck, we get through.
A rush to vaccinate in coming days won't be enough.
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