Lisa Wilkinson slams Gladys Berejiklian in explosive rant
The Project's Lisa Wilkinson couldn't hide her fury at NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and her lack of communication over the latest NSW lockdown rules.
Host Waleed Aly agreed with Wilkinson, saying that history was starting to repeat itself.
“It reminds me so much of the situation in Melbourne last year where you had people from low-income areas with insecure work that couldn’t take time off to get tested and it was only after the outbreak reached those points where people went, oh my God, that is a bit of a problem,” he said.
“I don’t understand why lessons aren’t being learned? Is it just too hard or they aren’t watching to see what the lessons are? I’m genuinely confused by this?” he concluded.
Wilkinson placed the blame on the NSW Premier, saying that her relaxed stance is what's causing the COVID-19 cases to spike.
“I think everybody in Sydney is it confused as well,” she admitted.
“Right from the beginning of this, Gladys Berejiklian was refusing to call it a lockdown and that was the most important moment of communication.
“We all knew, and still know, that the Delta variant is so much more transmissible and she never adopted a stance that made it look like she was taking this more seriously, but she had every reason to.”
“She had the Prime Minister at the same time saying, Gladys is the gold standard of how you do these sorts of lockdowns, and so Sydney has kind of been confused and it’s no surprise to anybody that the numbers are the way they are. The word I’m hearing a lot from my Sydney friends that they are ‘confused’.”
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Berejiklian has become a bit more clear with her wording, revealing that the only way the lockdown can end the extended lockdown is that if every person does the right thing.
As 38 new cases were recorded in NSW on Thursday, anxieties are high within the state and the lockdown was extended by another week.
It will now end on the 21st of July instead of the 16th like originally planned.
“I want to say in the most, strongest possible terms, please, please avoid contact with other households, please avoid visiting family and friends because you are not allowed to,” Berejiklian warned at a press conference.
“When we talk about providing care or compassion, we are talking about one person visiting someone who might be isolated, dropping off essential services or goods.
“We are not talking about visiting extended family members, we’re not talking visiting friends.
“Data over the last few days shows this is how the virus is spreading. The saddest message out of all of that is that people with the virus are passing it on to those they love the most.”