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did people hear some of the businesses mentioned as "places of concern?" I don’t recall all of them, but Chant definitely mentioned Ikea and Kmart... 2 places that should definitely be closed.
A Katmandu (July 4) and a Beds R Us (July 5) store have also been included in the list of exposure sites. Obviously essential...
 
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A Katmandu (July 4) and a Beds R Us (July 5) store have also been included in the list of exposure sites. Obviously essential...
They’ve got no idea up there. The only shops that should be open are those that sell food. Everything else can be ordered online.

A farcical lockdown.
 
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A Katmandu (July 4) and a Beds R Us (July 5) store have also been included in the list of exposure sites. Obviously essential...

the attack on commerce on here is idealogical.

Give me one good reason why people should be denied the right to purchase

A thermal singlet made out of the recycled kevlar booms of Americas Cup yachts,

amidst a rapidly mutating global pandemic?

people simply dont understand that the average body mass index in Sydneys Eastern suburbs,

makes the likelihood of dying of exposure,

very real at this time of year, without access to extreme lightweight, thermal technological clothing options.

Hitler used to closedown West German Pottery Superstores at the drop of a hat
 
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correct. in addition to that, it also tells us that the "stay at home orders" is not doing the job its supposed to do. If they had a Melbourne style lockdown, every single case would have been in isolation during their infectious period after 14 days had passed. But if you look at Sydney’s numbers, they have been in “lockdown” for 2 weeks now, yet the case numbers are going up. Its almost as if these 2 weeks have been a total waste.
They've trod water at very best so yes, more or less wasted. Can't have a Clayton's lockdown with those numbers if they're serious about pulling it up.
 
I think the article is a beat up.
Statements made have two purposes.
1 To force the Feds to provide more vaccinations to the state by a sort of blackmail/threat. Of course, if these vaccinations are being made available now, does that mean they have previously been withheld? That would be criminal . I suspect it is the case.
2 To cover for NSW inability to control the virus and give an out in a worse case scenario...political tactic.
Like you, I would be stunned if we gave up on virus suppression at this stage with such low vax figures. Would be a recipe for disaster.

Could be.. in some sense it's good to discuss these possibilities in terms of alternative futures.
 
correct. in addition to that, it also tells us that the "stay at home orders" is not doing the job its supposed to do. If they had a Melbourne style lockdown, every single case would have been in isolation during their infectious period after 14 days had passed. But if you look at Sydney’s numbers, they have been in “lockdown” for 2 weeks now, yet the case numbers are going up. Its almost as if these 2 weeks have been a total waste.
Not sure about that. Victoria's continued to climb after the lockdown started.
The problem is once numbers start to climb the likelihood of those who unknowingly have it going food shopping, or to an essential job, climb too, so the chance of it continuing to be spread rises.

perhaps Victoria can send some of our expert contract tracers up to assist, as it appears the NSW folk arent getting the job done. and we dont need them at present.
 
a lot of VICS returning this weekend from NSW as school hols is now over as of 20 minutes ago (damn).

Maybe they should have closed the border to the whole state?
Thoughts?
Chance it will come into VIC with people coming back!
 
a lot of VICS returning this weekend from NSW as school hols is now over as of 20 minutes ago (damn).

Maybe they should have closed the border to the whole state?
Thoughts?
Chance it will come into VIC with people coming back!
Hopefully no one went to Sydney. The virus was entrenched in Sydney a week prior to school holidays and Victoria designated red zones so there is no excuse if anyone still went into a NSW red zone. I had a trip planned for this past week but had to cancel. Will be extremely pissed off if someone brings it back to Victoria after deliberately going after the announcement of red zones.
 
a lot of VICS returning this weekend from NSW as school hols is now over as of 20 minutes ago (damn).

Maybe they should have closed the border to the whole state?
Thoughts?
Chance it will come into VIC with people coming back!

there are no cases in regional NSW, but people who live in Sydney can travel to regional NSW. They don’t seem to have any hard separation. School holidays might explain why the government hasn’t yet closed the border with all of NSW. Perhaps it’ll happen as of midnight Sunday
 
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The vaccination rates of the OECD countries were posted and I commented on them. It’s not very complicated.
These are countries that we compare ourselves to and we are last of 38 in the very statistic that will give a level of freedom that we all crave.
yes we have had less cases and less deaths than most, if not all, of the OECD and that’s great and a credit to us. That doesn’t mean that we can’t and shouldn’t vaccinate our population .
Our vaccination rate is pathetic
I'm not disagreeing, trying to understand why. No doubt the biggest part is scomo's govt to recognise the hesitancy and do something about it. They haven't acted quick enough on the supply nor communication side.
We are doing better than NZ on first doses. I assume their PM copping a similar backlash?
 
so 44 in NSW. 29 in the community.

NSW still telling people to stay home, but not properly enforcing it.
And when they try, there's calls of police overstepping the mark? How do the police win when everyone's a victim?
 
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Well, Berko has stood almost alone in the way she’s handled outbreaks. To date, she’s been successful.

The eyes of the nation are on her now, so let’s hope she is again. Otherwise the ramifications could be immense.
 
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there are no cases in regional NSW, but people who live in Sydney can travel to regional NSW. They don’t seem to have any hard separation. School holidays might explain why the government hasn’t yet closed the border with all of NSW. Perhaps it’ll happen as of midnight Sunday
No people in Sydney have been banned from travelling outside of Greater Sydney since the lockdown started. That said it is a pissweak lockdown so no doubt Sydneysiders have been flaunting it. I did read that regional NSW people were lagging on Sydneysiders travelling to their regions and fair enough. They just do not get it up there.
 
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And when they try, there's calls of police overstepping the mark? How do the police win when everyone's a victim?
Yeah it's absolute *smile*. Typical "not my fault it's anyone's fault but mine" reaction of the world we live in today. If people are doing what they are supposed to do to drive case numbers down they won't have any issue with police enforcement.

Everyone has some sort of *smile* excuse these days.
 
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Hardly a fool at all. His Government is being slammed locally, and laughed at internationally, for the covid vaccination rollout in Australia. The best way to stop that happening is to get the percentage of Australians with 2 vaccine shots higher..

He's not a fool, he knows what he is doing and why he's doing it.

He is a fool, because we as a country need MAXIMUM protection, not some half @ssed quick fix she'll be right knee jerk reaction. Which if I may say is typical of the idiotic bunch who are currently "running" our country.

They are the absolute worst Government I've ever seen in Australia.
The most corrupt, lying, fraudulent, inept, self aggrandising, leaderless, bunch of no hopers we've ever been lumbered with.
 
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Everyone has some sort of *smile* excuse these days.


yeah

I saw vegan Texas BBQ beef jerky for sale today.

just eat meat, or eat veggies FFS

if your locked down, and your having a *smile* party, the cops are gonna come and they'll be unpleasant.

if you need advanced Auslan Non-Binary Friendly Pasifist-based community liaison to tell you to

*smile* stay home and wear a *smile* mask,

then we're all *smile*
 
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I'm not disagreeing, trying to understand why. No doubt the biggest part is scomo's govt to recognise the hesitancy and do something about it. They haven't acted quick enough on the supply nor communication side.
We are doing better than NZ on first doses. I assume their PM copping a similar backlash?
No idea whether Jacinta is copping flak or not.
There are lots of reasons why our rate is poor but the big issue to me is that despite all of them there is still nowhere near the urgency from our government that I would like to see and way too many excuses.
I work in and around the sector and the supply problems have been chronic, the transparency almost non-existent and the communication sadly lacking.
I despair sometimes at our bureaucracies, both Federal and state .
 
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