Mark McGowan, WA’s lazy lord of the lockdown

For the second time in less than three months, the Wester Australian Premier Mark McGowan has locked up two million people in their homes over fears of community spread of coronavirus. Back in February, we only had one positive case. At the time of writing we have two. The differences end there. Again McGowan tells us he has no option. As the American baseball coach, Lawrence “Yogi” Berra once said: “It’s déjà vu all over again”. McGowan, like a lazy student, takes the easy option because he doesn’t do his homework. 

Like last time, the positive case came from a quarantine hotel, the Mercure. On that occasion, it was a hotel quarantine worker who was not attired in full PPE because he did not have to be in…