Re: St George Dragons
Reply #13 –
The penalty wasn't handed out by the government.
Joe Average can see the potential problem as easily as Scotty from Marketing, and I suspect the club and NRL recognised the failure of the pub test.
To me it's more akin to the speeding teenagers, heaps of teenagers defend that by claiming after the fact that nothing bad happened, but then sometimes parents end up burying their kids instead like the accident the other night north of Melbourne.
Nobody in a position of responsibility will leave the fate of the NRL competition to chance.
No it wasnt handed out by the government, but the conditions under which they compete is, which results in this heavy handed approach to "covid breaches".
Your analogy to speeding needs to be qualified to the appropriate conditions to be worth comparing as a blanket approach to speeding is the same approach to our covid restrictions which sees the vast majority of health care workers I speak to really disagreeing with the pandemic response, which is telling.
The risk of speeding is different depending on how many other people are on the roads, which roads you are driving on, the experience of the driver and how fast the car is travelling with this analogy rendering it a useless true statement and a ridiculous analogy.
This is akin to pulling someone over on the Stuart highway for doing 130 and stating you could kill someone at that speed. That is true, but that would involve a lot of extenuating circumstances to occur, and the same risk profile doesnt apply to all highways the same way AND this is a legal speed limit on sections of the Stuart Highway.
The risk profiles change depending on the conditions (likewise with Covid). Again, this is all about the optics, and I personally believe its a bad reason to do anything and it fails a common sense reaction. NOTE, he is being sanctioned quite heavily. You wont find nurses losing their jobs for working in multiple covid facilities and breaking proper covid risk rules, but like you state, they arent held to the same standard, right?