Western Australia (WA) Premier Mark McGowan has unveiled the state will remain shut off from the rest of Australia due to the inefficacy of double-dose vaccination against the Omicron variant of the CCP virus and rising cases in the eastern states. An estimated 80,000 individuals had planned to travel to WA in the first two weeks of the reopening. “It would be irresponsible and reckless for the state government to ignore the facts and ignore the reality of the situation playing out on the east coast.” While Omicron is less severe than the Delta variant, it is significantly more transmissible, and has resulted in New South Wales and Victoria recording thousands of hospitalisations a day since the start of the year. “It will cripple our community like it’s doing on the east coast currently. The eastern states’ experience has not been our experience. West Australians are resilient … We’ve had …