Maybe Gladys Berejiklian wanted to provide hope but her message on easing NSW restrictions misled us | Anne Davies
by Anne Davies from on (#5NCJW)
The narrative on the cause of Covid transmission has also shifted - from essential workers and families to non-compliant lawbreakers
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If you find the daily 11am press conferences from Gladys Berejiklian frustrating, there's a simple reason. After the headline numbers on cases and deaths, it's practically a fact-free zone, with the next 45 minutes often filled with confusing messages and slogans.
Over the past week, as the cases have spiralled towards the heights reached during Victoria's second wave in 2020, the messaging has lurched from just get vaccinated" to when we hit 6m jabs we can live more freely" to Monday's brutal reality check.
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