The walls are closing in on the AFL, they should start pumping out games every day while they still can.
270 new cases in Victoria for the past 24 hours.
- 28 linked to known outbreaks
- 242 under investigation
The state now has 1803 active cases. 21,995 tests were completed yesterday. 85 are in hospital with 27 in ICU.
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Hopefully we start to see some of the benefits of lockdown from tomorrow. Not as many tests done yesterday. Donât get me wrong 20,000 tests a day is huge. But the ratio is becoming less than 1:1000.
If cases continue to increase in Sydney, the NSW Government will have to ban people from attending this weekendâs AFL, NRL and A-League matches in the city.
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I think that is the last of the AFLâs worries. According to Footy Classified the AFL has 3 facilities in the Gold Coast on a rolling contract. I think all clubs will be out of NSW by the end of the Round 8 (probably 2 more in WA) and the rest in QLD.
Did the border move overnight?
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The numbers arenât surprising in the sense the CHO said that we probably hadnât hit the peak yesterday, however man I was hopeful 
Letâs hope tomorrow and the coming days is better.
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People donât even know who their own Premier is but are happy to spew vile as directed by Murdoch media.
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Yeah hopefully by around Thursday we could see some benefits in the numbers from lockdowns (thatâs 2 week for localised and a 7-8 days for the wider state). At least itâs stabilised in that itâs usually between 170-270 each day and it hasnât been growing beyond that. Letâs hope it doesnât.
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Wow - really professional!
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What did you think Victoria were using the ADF for?
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Doubling down on the idiocy. Must be a hell of a place to drink in Wagga.
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I was surprised to learn today that it was not compulsory for pubs, clubs, cafes, restaurants etc in NSW to get the contact details of patrons until when Gladys announced the new restrictions this morning.
Here in Victoria that has been the case since pubs, clubs, cafes, restaurants etc were allowed to reopen to seated guests.
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It was intitially, when they had the 10 and 20 group restrictions. But I donât know how strictly it was enforced. I went to a pub, which made me sign in, and on the same night a restaurant, which had more patrons and we werenât asked to sign in there. with a group of 10.
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No establishment I have been in is strictly enforcing the rules, including a cafe I had lunch at today.
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I had to leave my details ordering at Baskin Robbins (in Sydney).
It seems to be a 50/50 thing for me. Some have asked for details some havenât. It is all quite concerning. However, it shouldnât be necessary if that tracing app they launched actually worked.
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There are rumors spreading on building sites that Melbourne Metro could be going into a Stage 4 lockdown as of next week.
I would say this will be likely if numbers donât show signs of decreasing.
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The media seems to be very harsh on the government with the covidsafe app. interviewing a lot of smug tech people to pick it apart and repeating that it has only found one close contact.
my understanding was that the app was supposed to function when we go to a point where there was so much spread that it overwhelmed the human being-run contact tracing system, which hasnât happened yet.
Even if it does turn out to be useless, what have we lost in trying to make it work? a few million to develop it and the 5 seconds it took to download? seems like one of the most low risk, high rewards potential measures made during the pandemic so far.