Just a bit on the Southern Tas lockdown.
A guy flew down to Hobart from NSW (via MEL), despite having his application to enter the state rejected twice. He was nabbed at the airport and taken to hotel quarantine overnight, planned to ship him out next day, back to NSW.
He refused to wear a mask. He absconded from HQ (HOW is a question that hopefully wil be revealed soon) then a positive test was returned.
Immediate known close contacts put into quarrantine, also casual contacts.
He has been totaly uncooperative and it seems has been lying about his movements. A visit to a supermarket after he left HQ and before he was caught again was only realised when members of the public identified him and alerted authorities.
A 'close contact' (I think the household where he went to) also left their quarrantine.
It is all this uncertainty, his time in the community and 2 days gap in clarifying his movements that sparked the lockdown (plus, as I've said before, I think out CHO has been just itching to bring on a lockdown
).
Absolutley everyone I spoke to in the city yesterday afternoon and here in the little town where I live accepted the lockdown with a metaphotiocal shrug of the shoulders and 'oh well, we've had it pretty good up to now'. I'm not so sure it will only be 3 days.
The weather here is absolutley carp this weekend, so that will help
