Well the NSW Premier was pointing to the Doherty report and I think you pointed out some of the assumptions which are now probably not even achievable in terms of cases before getting to 80%.....its all so frustrating.
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Part diversion. Part fear mongering.
Lockdown fatigue? Civil disobedience campaign? Reality bites? People sick of "doing the right thing" for no apparent benefit (yes I know they don't catch COVID and die, but probably most people out and about won't catch COVID and die either)? People sick of taking one for the team? People no longer believe that it makes a blind bit of difference to the outcome?
Dan about to announce 2 week lockdown extension and 2 week curfew. Will need a permit to be out between the hours of 9pm-5am
I think the poster was having a virtual reply to a prominent Vic poster who loves the word mockdown to describe Sydney's lockdown.....I'm guessing its the frustration.
Tend to agree, but the laws need to be proportionate and reasonable - many genuine and law abiding people don't follow all laws blindly, and some laws are just wrong from my perspective (eg previously the way we prosecuted gay people, or women having pregnancy terminations; charging people for assisting a relative with terminal illness to commit suicide, some of the refugee laws, banning citizens from returning if they were in India, impossible caps on other citizens' return, requiring an exit permit, prohibiting people from crossing a state border etc etc etc).
Very sorry to hear it @MikeG. That must feel so frustrating for you and your family.
I feel your pain. While not getting locked in like you and your family, I only missed being trapped as I visited the nearby supermarket at 11am, while the contact visited at 6pm that day. I've also just cancelled a trip up to Noosa at the end of next week for me and MrsK, as the two week extension to the ACT Lockdown has scrubbed that idea.
Well, we are under restrictions here in SA - masks compulsory everywhere and limit of 10 to household etc etc and we, touch wood, have not had any unknown community transmission in 3 weeks. So if you think NSW might be bad, stay away from SA.
More or less agree. I, like almost everyone else, have followed the rules to the best of my ability and capability. Booked and received vaccinations the minute I was regarded as eligible by the Victorian government. Unfortunately it seems like none of the sacrifices we as a people made over the past 18 months have earned anything. Feel like I am pretty much done, as much as I would still like to believe.
It's not the short term implications, its the long term ones. If we vaccinate everyone possible then we need to drop all restrictions or you'll have an insurrection on your hands.
