Coronavirus - Australia
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37 cases today, just keep going
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@Kiwiwomble said in Coronavirus - Australia:
37 cases today, just keep going
How long until that six weeks is up?
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Original six weeks would have been up tomorrow I think
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Queensland will be open to residents of the ACT from Friday 25th Sept. Not bad considering the ACT hasn't had a confirmed case of community transmission for ages. And the last hospitalised case was in April.
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This one really bothered me.
In country Victoria an autistic 14 year went missing during his daily walk. As always, local people who knew the area wanted to help find him.
They were dismissed by the police search party because in helping look for a child lost in the bush, they were breaking a covid law by being more than 5 km from their own homes. Would be searchers were told to go home and spread the word on social mediaThey weren't allowed to help save a kid for fear of spreading covid. Walking in the bush calling out his name.
The boy was found dead without suspicion, 1 km from his home after 30 hours ( of turning willing searchers away)
How do you judge when your government has gone too authoritarian?
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Vic Health Minister Jenny Mikakos resigns as Minister and from Parliament. Doesn’t accept any responsibility but because Andrews threw her under the bus yesterday, she couldn’t possibly go on.
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@Stargazer hopefully they work it out quickly
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here's a puzzle that I stumbled across recently when trying to help 2 octogenarians plan a trip from South Australia to Victoria to visit a dying relative.
Victoria, under a curfew and some of the world's strictest lockdowns has NO restrictions on entering the state. Anybody and everybody can simply drive over any border and the checkpoints just wave them through. No stopping, just slow down.
Vic Government website states no restrictions on crossing the border.
Coming out of Victoria requires forms and permissions and a police checkpoint.
And, getting back to your original state has many "essential traveller" restrictions.
Seems bloody strange to lockdown local people but allow anyone in to roam as they please.
Any explanations?
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really? i thought anyone coming in had to quarantine but is that only from overseas? i guess there is/was the attitude all the COVID was in Melbourne...so very little risk coming from other states
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@Siam said in Coronavirus - Australia:
Any explanations?
It's the same administration that created the second wave mess, but is powerless to find out who was responsible. Every minister in front of the mirror busy practising their Sgt Schultz.
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A modicum of good news out of Daniel Andrew's Victorian dumpster fire
A lot of folk stood up and actually made their voices heard on this. Maybe there is hope for this state yet.
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@dogmeat the SA part doesn't quite play out like that due to the intricacies of " essential traveller" permissions to get back.
But I get you.
By jove he's putting an inordinate amount of faith in the notion that incomers are virus free though eh? No test requirement? ( like the other way demands)
Seems like locking everyone inside with the windows wide open to my pea brain.
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@Kiwiwomble I know bro, I couldn't fathom it off the bat either. I do know plenty of truckies crossing the border and going to the heart of Melbourne everyday, but again, their infection status is only ever recorded by the SA authorities on the way out. Inbound Truckies tell me they get waved on by the cops, and anybody could be the driver. This is not recent either.
Weird eh?
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@Siam said in Coronavirus - Australia:
here's a puzzle that I stumbled across recently when trying to help 2 octogenarians plan a trip from South Australia to Victoria to visit a dying relative.
Victoria, under a curfew and some of the world's strictest lockdowns has NO restrictions on entering the state. Anybody and everybody can simply drive over any border and the checkpoints just wave them through. No stopping, just slow down.
Vic Government website states no restrictions on crossing the border.
Coming out of Victoria requires forms and permissions and a police checkpoint.
And, getting back to your original state has many "essential traveller" restrictions.
Seems bloody strange to lockdown local people but allow anyone in to roam as they please.
Any explanations?
I would have thought it's not that hard to work out.
SA and NSW (and every other state) have no COVID.
So going IN to Vic is zero risk, to either Vic or non- COVID Straya.
But we don't want your COVID addled plague bodies back into our state(s). So stay the fuck in Mexico .