Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

[justinbrett]

Courier Mail is reporting To QLD closes to Greater Sydney - but then in the article lists 5 LGAs

5/35, not sure that even qualifies as Lesser Sydney

 

[kyle]

At least VIC has another zero day with strong testing numbers.

We really need VIC flying out and spending money these school holidays!

We would love to fly out if the borders stop closing!

 

[lovetravellingoz]

I'm not sure she meant to say that...she is very prone to poor choice of words! But that's what she said.

Another case of a HQ room to room transmission, but this time on the same floor.


And it would seem genomic tests not having been done as quickly as they could have as cases were presumed (said at the presser) to have caught before they arrived.

As I said at the time of the recent example in NSW HQ I really do not understand the logic of just presuming that because people are in HQ that they have not caught it there and genomic sequencing is not done in more timely way so that breaches (which may be also dat the airport or during transfer and not just in HQ) if they do occur are detected earlier.

 

[Pushka]

Another case of a HQ room to room transmission, but this time on the same floor.


And it would seem genomic tests not having been done as quickly as they could have as cases were presumed (said at the presser) to have caught before they arrived.

As I said at the time of the recent example in NSW HQ I really do not understand the logic of just presuming that because people are in HQ that they have not caught it there and genomic sequencing is not done in more timely way so that breaches (which may be also dat the airport or during transfer and not just in HQ) if they do occur are detected earlier.

I'd expect every single case to be sequenced as a matter of course once the first positive is confirmed. Especially those presenting later than around 7 days after arrival.

 

[nutwood]

In SA the Police did an undercover blitz and heavily fined some hapless small businesses. Small business and servos are now constantly asking people to sign in and if they don't they are asked to leave. The local BWS shop was incredibly vigilant from the beginning back in 2020. Department stores and Supermarkets sometimes just make it hard to sign in with just a couple of QR code's at the entrance. Making for crowding issues.

I read about that blitz. I thought it quite sad. I always find SA police a bit of an enigma. They are some of the nicest police in the country but they do seem to have regrettable police State tendencies.

 

[jakeseven7]

24 cases for NSW.....

(including 10 pre-shadowed) / so an additional 14.. / edit additional 16??

The way they do numbers and premiering them like a movie the day before is messy.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

23 cases for NSW.....

(including 10 pre-shadowed)

 

[Pushka]

There goes so many plans. Sigh.

 

[jakeseven7]

There goes so many plans. Sigh.

Yup and people in hotspot LGAs banned from leaving Sydney as well.

Watch the borders come up hard and fast

 

[lovetravellingoz]

They are not using the L word, but if you live or work in 7 LGA's you cannot go beyond metropolitan Sydney after 4pm today..

 

[justinbrett]

Y’all gonna have to speak up, we can’t hear your over the sound of all the borders slamming shut on us

 

[SydneySwan]

They are not using the L word, but if you live or work in 7 LGA's you cannot go beyond metropolitan Sydney after 4pm today..

How is metropolitan Sydney defined? Some people who work in the city live way beyond what I would consider metro Sydney (e.g. west of Blue Mtns).

 

[justinbrett]

They are not using the L word, but if you live or work in 7 LGA's you cannot go beyond metropolitan Sydney after 4pm today..

Because it’s a travel restriction not a lockdown. If you can go to the pub and sit down and drink, that’s not a lockdown by any definition.

 

[bcworld]

How is metropolitan Sydney defined?

Gladys was just asked that. Couldn't seem to answer. "People know what that means".

 

[dajop]

Because it’s a travel restriction not a lockdown. If you can go to the pub and sit down and drink, that’s not a lockdown by any definition.

Will be interesting what evolves in Sydney, there's almost bound to be a reduction in some economic activity until cases slow - human nature.

Before they implemented the most recent "heightened restrictions" (aka lockdown) in Singapore, but after the community cases started climbing, there was a noticeable slowdown in activity - less people out and about, less busy shopping malls, hospitality slowed (except once the lockdown was announced, in which case it boomed for the 2-3 nights before came into effect). But that might also be cultural.

 

[Pushka]

How is metropolitan Sydney defined? Some people who work in the city live way beyond what I would consider metro Sydney (e.g. west of Blue Mtns).

Reporter asked that very question. And the answer was “everyone knows that”.
We will be seeing masks in Adelaide now.

 

[SydneySwan]

Reporter asked that very question. And the answer was “everyone knows that”.

Indeed they do. But everyone's interpretation is different.

 

[Pushka]

And interpretation is not what is needed right now.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Because it’s a travel restriction not a lockdown. If you can go to the pub and sit down and drink, that’s not a lockdown by any definition.

By any definition?

Lockdowns can be any combination of non-pharmaceutical interventions, including just the one. Imposing a sanitary cordon as in this case, that selected people cannot pass through, being one such non-pharmaceutical intervention and a pretty significant one.

There is no one fixed definition, and you will see people also using terms like full lockdown, strict lockdown etc.


ie Lockdown in England where you can go to the pub and sit down and drink.








When in Melbourne I could go to my local pub, but not leave Melbourne I certainly considered it to be a lockdown.



I would also believe that all of Australia is largely in lockdown at present from the rest of the world, apart from NZ, due to the restrictions on entry and exit.

 

[kamchatsky]

They are not using the L word, but if you live or work in 7 LGA's you cannot go beyond metropolitan Sydney after 4pm today..

Thank goodness we rescheduled to travel to Canberra last week, as originally we were planning to travel during upcoming school holidays. I don't live there but work at one of the 7 LGAs.