I can see trouble occuring if people are locked in and are told they canāt leave for any reason.
And I noticed this comment on Twitter:
I was staring at those towers the other day and was thinking how bad it would be if covid hit them. The people are packed in and sharing facilities. kind of like a cruise ship on land.
It will be interesting to what happens with panic buying. Havenāt leaders been telling us for moths not to panic buy because they would never do a lockdown like what is happening in fleminton?
Has anyone made the connection that the lockdown suburbs are tracing the Craigieburn train line? The research from New York was that the subway was the biggest spreader. Surely we need to make mask wearing mandatory on at least that line.
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Whatās his problem? His suburb isnāt in lockdown, he is allowed to go leave his home.
There will be genuine anger amongst the community in the Flemington and North Melbourne towers who wonāt be happy with police on each floor. Quite a history of violence between some of those residents and police, although there has been an improvement in recent years.
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First Iāve heard of hard lockdowns of public housing to this level outside of authoritarian countries like China and Singapore (someone please correct me if Iām wrong).
I see the justification for it, but canāt deny that itās a bit scary that a state government has this power, and I think if Victoria is heading towards escalating these kinds of actions further that the Andrews government is at real risk of losing public support.
Just chuck the whole state into full lockdown. Easy.
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The cases (as far as I know) are still concentrated in the north west.
As far as the community housing goes, if COVID spreads through those in Flemington then there will likely be a very high hospitalisation / death rate. My friend does Soupvan to those places and says the health of the people there is already very low, with lots of drug use etc.
Everywhere Iāve been the past 2 weeks panic buying is non-existent. Iāve been to Coles, Woolies and IGA and all are full of toilet paper. At my local Woolworths today I was told that I had too many āfrozen mealsā and could only have twoā¦ When the fridges were fully stocked. I buy these for my lunches during the week and now I need to do multiple trips just to get them which is annoying. I donāt think frozen meals were ever limited last time and I have never seen them low in stock.
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I thought Singaporeās was accommodation for foreign nationals (which wasnt in the best of conditions to start with)
Kieran Gilbert is reporting that sources tell him that the Victorian Government could lockdown the entire Melbourne Metropolitan area as early as tomorrow.
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Why the entire Melbourne metro area? Cases in eastern and southern parts of the city are very low. If we have to go back to stage 3 lockdown, the Victorian Government may well as reduce public transport services, and pause all level crossing removal and other major roadworks, until cases begin to ease again.
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There is likely to be a point where its no longer practical to shut only parts of the city down - it also removes some of the conjecture around how the rules apply.
The important thing to note here is that these decisions arent made lightly - the Government are well aware of the impacts of locking down again
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Because no matter what they say or do, if people still donāt do the right thing, they donāt have a choice. They have to suppress this virus. Iām all for it if thatās gonna do that.
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Because there were people suggesting people from the locked down areas just take public transport to evade the lock down rules.
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There is not that many major roads out of Metro Melbourne to regional areas.
Geelong is easy to cut off with only one road in. Thatās obviously the first place considering population you want to cut off. Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo and itās associated local regional areas can all survive without Metro Melbourne.
I would be more worried about potential riots etc coming from a metro lockdown. People are going to start to lose it.
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These people need to get over themselves.
No one else is acting like this. Why do these Melbourians think theyāre above everyone else?
This is a matter that affects the whole country. Grow up and go into lockdown.
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When the apocalypse arrives, I will be on the first flight out of Victoria.
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I stand by going into lockdown if it helps stop cases, but Iām worried about how the economy would cope. Sadly, the only way we can stop COVID is to develop a vaccine.
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I think it already has. 
I wonder what the Coalition or the Greens will do if they are in government.
Probably exactly the same as the current government 
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No Government has been in a pandemic for a hundred years. The Vic Government canāt plan for 1, 2 or even 3 months ahead in this current climate. Itās a day by day during this pandemic. No one knows what is going to happen next. No one has a crystal ball that they can look into.
For those who are complaining that the Andrews Government should have done a better job, Iād like to see what you can do while youāre under pressure in a pandemic. The Government is doing the best they can do. If the public ended up doing the right thing we wouldnāt be in the mess that weāre in now. Everyone needs to stop their complaining!
This second wave or what it is could have happened anywhere else in the country and it probably could still happen.
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