I go for rides on my bicycles and try to do this at least a few days a week, so I see the traffic first hand. Bit more limited when we have the 5KM limit.
The very first lockdown was the quietest, there was no 5KM limit in that lockdown so I rode into the city and it was really dead. The traffic is clearly lighter than it usually is, and by a substantial amount, but it is not as quiet as it was last year. I still see a gap between the groupds of cars aligning to each traffic light sequence, not something we saw before COVID, but there are a fair number of cars out there. It is noticeable that there are few, if any, vehicles after curfew - which is why curfew works.
The above post of Raf Epstein's tweet is simply astounding. How can someone working across 2 workplaces refuse a COVID Test? So selfish, any anyway, it is a test, what's the problem?
Redford, I reckon we are going harder than NSW on the lockdown restrictions, less shops open, a curfew and none of this mucking around with LGAs, the whole of Melbourne is locked down. Hard to think of how we could go harder. We went hard and early, hopefully it will work but the constant threat at the moment is cases coming in from plague infested NSW.
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