Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

[lovetravellingoz]

Although if you replayed the last five years as a montage most people probably couldn’t tell the difference!

Gladys is using these events to continue to show that NSW is open.

My main concern is that other premiers will wag their finger at us and say we are being irresponsible. Particularly Victoria.

Surely wagging fingers are not really that frightening.


When you have been in a bad place (Vic's Second Wave) it is prudent to be cautious on the way out. There are ample freedoms to have fun now even if NYE2020 will be on the tame side.

 

[Must...Fly!]

My main concern is that other premiers will wag their finger at us and say we are being irresponsible. Particularly Victoria.

Not sure why they think they have the right to wave fingers.

If only we could all have a hand in causing 800+ deaths, and then claim the moral high ground too.

 

[Lynda2475]

Gladys has cancelled the Fireworks invites for essential weorkers, closed all state controlled foreshore access, asked local councils to restrict access to other vantage points unless a ticketed covid safe event and introduced a permit system and police patrols to limit access to CBD unless you have a Covid Safe venue booking or live in or are staying at a hotel in the CBD.

I dont think many will be watching the display from any of the usual spots at all, will need to be tuned into the TV or view from a long long way away.

The bigger threat on NYE is people having house parties and not observing physical distancing and good hand hygeine.

Until Greater Sydney has 28 days of no locally aquired cases Greater Sydney is unlikley to be allowed to go anywhere - except NT who currently letting us in as have only defined NB LGA as hotspot.

 

[Pushka]

Err. I have to vote in at least two electoral districts or be fined! Don't you love compulsory automatic enrollment and voting for all property owners in Melbourne City Council regardless of if you actually live there? Then I must also compulsorily vote where I (apparently) choose to reside.

Is that for Council only? and not State or Federal? I'd be fine with that although even voting for one a council isn't compulsory in SA.

 

[Pushka]

Last year it was “cancel the fireworks! There are bushfires”, this year “cancel the fireworks! We’re getting 3 cases a day”. God knows what next year will be

I would say the annual fireworks display is a great international representation of Australia’s relative success against the coronavirus. It will be a strong boost for our international image.

All our councils cancelled fireworks and pretty much Christmas months ago, after the first wave and we had been Covid free for weeks. Last year it was the bushfires. Then before a Covid struck it was environmental and they were going to do lasers instead. Then Covid presented them with the excuse. Any excuse for being lazy. It's going to be the Covid excuse for many things now.

 

[antycbr]

Is that for Council only? and not State or Federal? I'd be fine with that although even voting for one a council isn't compulsory in SA.

Many major capital city councils have a property ownership based franchise in addition to a residency based franchise.

In the City of Sydney every business based in the LGA gets two votes. From the local cafe to an ASX200 listed company.

 

[antycbr]

The bigger threat on NYE is people having house parties and not observing physical distancing and good hand hygeine.

Until Greater Sydney has 28 days of no locally aquired cases Greater Sydney is unlikley to be allowed to go anywhere - except NT who currently letting us in as have only defined NB LGA as hotspot.

House parties were always going to be a problem fireworks or not.

On the 28 days thing, that would mean Queensland loses the entire summer holidays from Sydney. Tasmania loses it’s peak tourism season. Melbourne misses out on the Australian Open crowd from Sydney including the corporate hospitality. Not a good time to be a hospitality or tourism worker who would just have lost another $250 in Jobkeeper.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Not sure why they think they have the right to wave fingers.

If only we could all have a hand in causing 800+ deaths, and then claim the moral high ground too.

Is Dan actually doing what you infer though?

Or is your ire more about someone off to the west?

 

[RooFlyer]

Tasmania loses it’s peak tourism season

Certainly doing damage, but we don't have the "28 day" rule. The govt can switch restrictions off (or on!) at short notice. Most of our tourists are from Victoria.

 

[jakeseven7]

House parties were always going to be a problem fireworks or not.

On the 28 days thing, that would mean Queensland loses the entire summer holidays from Sydney. Tasmania loses it’s peak tourism season. Melbourne misses out on the Australian Open crowd from Sydney including the corporate hospitality. Not a good time to be a hospitality or tourism worker who would just have lost another $250 in Jobkeeper.

QLD will be hardest hit I suspect (again). Especially up north. QF was quick to react and chucked on more QLD flights from VIC pretty quickly but won’t be enough.

Tasmania is full of Victorians, by far their biggest market and a lot of intra state visitors. Only place that is really down is Hobart for obvious reasons, they didn’t want covid participating in the yacht race

With capacity restrictions in place the Aus Open will be more like the Vic open anyway and will easily be filled - there were rumours for a while that only Victorians would get tickets! Thankfully they decided against that. (Personal note I have corp tickets so hoping I can go!)

 

[jakeseven7]

 

[nutwood]

You are welcome to your opinions but personally have always felt that in a state vs individual basis the state tends to win. ‘Believing’ your individual freedom means you don’t have to inform of changes to address to relevant authorities is all very well but won’t get you far with the judge if the law says you do need to inform them.

Totally agree. My point was rather whether this is a good thing? We've come a long way from a "thumbnail dipped in tar" and I suspect that after COVID, we're going to find a few more enhancements to the rules and regulations have mysteriously slipped in.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

With capacity restrictions in place the Aus Open will be more like the Vic open anyway and will easily be filled - there were rumours for a while that only Victorians would get tickets! Thankfully they decided against that. (Personal note I have corp tickets so hoping I can go!)

While they will easily sell what ever tickets are available for the Open, reduced tickets sales will mean less hotel room nights sold as it will mean less visitors to Melbourne. And not just from interstate and obviously internationally, but from regional Vic too.

Ditto for restaurants in precincts that thrive on tourism.

 

[Pushka]

Busted and outed.

Newlyweds pictured celebrating moments before bride and guests fined for breaking lockdown

A bride and her family have been fined for breaching strict stay at home orders to hold a wedding in Sydney’s CBD as images surfaced of the newlyweds celebrating their big day.

www.news.com.au

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Busted and outed.

Newlyweds pictured celebrating moments before bride and guests fined for breaking lockdown

A bride and her family have been fined for breaching strict stay at home orders to hold a wedding in Sydney’s CBD as images surfaced of the newlyweds celebrating their big day.

www.news.com.au

Well apparently they lied to the venue to continue their nuptials.

 

[Pushka]

Well apparently they lied to the venue to continue their nuptials.

The groom was fine, the bride wasn't. At least now they have been named. But 18 cases in NSW today.

 

[jase05]

Dr Chant says…

18 cases

9 linked to NB, close contacts or venue transmissions
6 (3 adults and 3 children) - Western Sydney
2 in the Gong (same household), 1 travelled to CBD
1 from NB

 

[Lynda2475]

Dr Chant has confirmed the two transport drivers who contracted COVID-19, got the virus from a patient with the illness.

Initial testing could not link both drivers to the one passenger, but that link has now been made.

This means there is one less unknown case.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

6 linked to Croydon Cluster. Source not known.
The new Croydon cluster is made up of three adults and three children.

Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant said the six cases were from the same extended family and were linked to a person from the inner west who tested positive yesterday.

"We are expecting that there will be additional cases linked to that cluster just because of the number of close contacts they had over the period of Christmas and the preceding days," Dr Chant said.

The premier said the new cluster was a concern as there were "no direct links" to establish where the cases originated from at this stage.



There are also two new cases in Wollongong, with a woman in her 50s and a woman in her 20s, who is her household contact, testing positive.
The source is unknown, but the woman in her 50s had travelled to Sydney on December 15 and 17 and visited locations in the CBD on the latter day.

The other new case under investigation is linked to the Northern Beaches.

New coronavirus cluster in Sydney's inner west among 18 new cases in city

www.9news.com.au

 

[jb747]

Well apparently they lied to the venue to continue their nuptials.

Which means that a $1,000 fine is just trivial.

Eek, 18 new local cases. Sadly Glady is doing what Dan did. She's not being fast enough to close things down. Right now, is probably the best opportunity for a two week lock down for all of Sydney, Christmas/New Year be damned. It's now, for follow Melbourne's example in the new year.