I hope all our Victorian members get through this okay⌠just try to hang in there, I think things will get better soon.
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Hopefully in the next week or so weâll see a decline in numbers. Seems a lot of countries are heading back into lockdown which is very sad.
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Time to re-consider Dry July 
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Victorian National Party leader Peter Walsh told The Riverine Herald:
This closure is a dramatic and unprecedented move, but Daniel Andrews canât tell us anything about what it means for us, despite being in the meeting with the Prime Minister and NSW Premier.
Our communities and local economies have already been smashed by Victoriaâs COVID-19 shutdowns. We are all prepared to do our bit to flatten the curve and save lives but for us to be dragged into Melbourneâs mess is a bitter blow to people in Echuca and Moama.
(Walsh is the Lower House MP for Murray Plains which covers Swan Hill, Kerang, Rochester and Echuca)
He has a valid point. Rural people shouldnât have to suffer as the consequence of what is happening in the state capital hundreds of kilometres away.
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Unfortunately the suppression strategy is currently not working. No other state is going to open itâs borders to Victoria with this strategy.
There is too much movement in and out of these hot spots. Itâs also evident that itâs too hard to police.
To really drive these numbers down the greater Melbourne area needs to go into a stage 3 lockdown again (or stage 4)
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It makes no sense we have not had a active case in 3 months. The poor business over the NSW side will be forced to shut again as 90% of their work force and customers live in Victoria. The small amount of people living in NSW will be forced to travel for hours to get basic services as their is no supermarket over that side. Our suitation is more like SA why drag us into Melbournes mess
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Unfortunately it takes just one stupid idiot to decide visiting their relatives and getting up close and personal in Melbourne being a fabulous idea for it to explode into the regions, and letâs not pretend that rural communities donât have any contact with the capital cities.
Two people in Albury have tested positive for COVID-19 because one of them went to Melbourne and scrambled back to Albury before hotspot restrictions took place⌠
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Right⌠love the inward thinking. That will solve the problem.
For your information, two people have just tested positive on the NSWs border from returning from a Melbourne trip. So we can see why the Border is closing.
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we 
shouldnât be making decisions on how to fight a pandemic on an economic basis
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It will be closed to all Victorians from tomorrow.
V/Line hasnât said if its train services from Melbourne to Albury and coach services to Canberra will be affected by the border closures. Greyhound tweeted this afternoon that its coach service between Melbourne and Canberra had been suspended until further notice.
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Yep. In light of this news, Iâm pretty sure most residents of NSW (especially considering that such a significant proportion of this stateâs population is in/around the Sydney metro, Hunter & Illawarra areas) would be in support of the Victorian border being closed.
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Iâm sorry but Iâd rather people didnât die.
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Which of your family members or friends do you not mind losing to stop businesses going out of business?
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I really really really donât agree with you. I would rather my mum live and my aunties business go under than the other way round.
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I was talking in more ways than 1. I donât see people driving through North West Victoria on there way to Sydney from Melbourne. More changes of the odd person on their way from Sydney to Adelaide. People driving over the boarder are zero risk here because their just dealing with their local business and they all use Victorian services because NSW has nothing out in the south west
I see the issue here being less about the jump in cases and more about a lack of faith in the Victorian Governmentâs ability to control the outbreak.
Itâs clear the hotel quarantine scheme was bungled. Authorities have struggled to manage postcode lockdowns.
Hopefully this closure will only need to last a couple of weeks. NSW is unlikely to follow the same sort of tactics that other states have in dragging their feet to reopen. Getting NSW and Victoria open to each other is #1 priority for both sides and for the country as a whole.
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More suburbs are predicted to go into Stage 3 lockdown this week.
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Community transmission is out of hand. Surely the whole metro area, if not state will go back into lockdown.
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i think the vic got has lost the ablity to control the outbreak.reading some news arcticles today and there were having an anlasys of his bodylanguage and tone of voice . basically in short he apprears as thought he has lost the control and he knows it . his bodylanguage , his eye and his voice sounded better in march and april then it does now
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