Coronavirus 3 - Al Pacino's turn to mumble

[stui magpie]

some words from a true leader:

“Certain states have a way of doing things and NSW has a way of doing things. I think the way we dealt with the northern beaches cluster is the way NSW tends to deal with these issues," Ms Berejiklian told reporters on Monday.

"We avoid a lockdown at all costs, avoid closing our borders, allow our citizens as much freedom as we can while we're managing the virus.”

Just wanted to quote that again as it's really worth it. managing the virus they do.

Compare the pair, again for those who missed it on the last page.

NSW

125,000 people put into Hotel Quarantine
2910 cases in HQ
2178 cases locally acquired
54 deaths

Victoria

35,000 people put into Hotel Quarantine
1067 cases in HQ
20,469 cases locally acquired
820 deaths.

What was that joke? Australia's pandemic response was like a Spice Girls concert, everyone was doing their part except Victoria who let the team down.

[David]

The checkpoints they had around Melbourne last time only stopped the stupid people.

What, you mean those of us without cross-country vehicles?

[eddiesmith]

They were only on the Hume heading north, 100s of well used roads went unprotected including a major highway.

[stui magpie]

Nah, just those too stupid to realise there's lots of perfectly good roads apart from main highways

[David]

[eddiesmith]

The border checkpoints they had coverage, but the Melbourne ring of marshmallows was only the main 4-5 roads.

[stui magpie]

[think positive]

I wondered if there were any anywhere, stopping movement. none on Geelong rd anyhow! Doing a mad dash as a smoke alarm is blaring, hopefully it’s just malfunctioning

[eddiesmith]

Hope it's just a false alarm, but that would definitely be considered an essential travel requirement!!!

[think positive]

Thankfully it was! All three were going off and they are so LOUD! I could hear it clearly through the ring doorbell app! Hubby thinks 1 is faulty, we had to pull the battery back ups out! Not going home tonight!!

[watt price tully]

The checkpoints they had around Melbourne last time only stopped the stupid people.

How many times were you stopped then

[watt price tully]

So far so good. Cool heads prevailing in Victoria despite the cacophony of henny-penny’s all around the place.

Low numbers so far with very high testing numbers. A responsible government not only preventing spread but not exporting the virus interstate.

[Pies4shaw]

2 new locally acquire cases in Victoria and 2 in quarantine (acquired overseas, says DHHS). According to the ABC blog:

The two local cases are close household contacts of a previously confirmed case linked to the Holiday Inn Melbourne Airport outbreak.

There were 23,950 test results reported.

[David]

Anyone reckon we'll be out of this on Thursday? It's not 0 new cases, but it doesn't exactly look like a massive outbreak, either...

[watt price tully]

2 new locally acquire cases in Victoria and 2 in quarantine (acquired overseas, says DHHS). According to the ABC blog:

The two local cases are close household contacts of a previously confirmed case linked to the Holiday Inn Melbourne Airport outbreak.

There were 23,950 test results reported.

The two cases are close household contacts of known cases. So far all under control. They are impressive testing numbers.