NSW Health has confirmed today, 18 new cases, with 10 in hotel quarantine and 8 community transmission in the past 24 hours. 44,000 tests were conducted, setting the record in NSW.
Gladys will hold an update tomorrow at 11.00am, detailing what Christmas will look like coming ahead, along with restrictions.
Fingers crossed. NSW canât catch a break this year:
Bega Valley LGA has copped fires, floods, and massive job losses due to the pandemic. (Most of) VIC has only had the pandemic to deal with. The places to be in 2020 are TAS and WA.
Fires?
Yes I was thinking about around Melbourne where most people live, but of course East Gippsland copped the fires as well. SW VIC has had a relatively disaster free year.
There were a few big fires around South West Victoria which were contained relatively quickly. Didnât get the same coverage of what was occurring over in Gippsland and the North East regions. There were quite a few bullets dodged in Victoria last summer, including the fire in the Plenty Valley
Does anyone find this funny?
Or is it just my black, PTSD Melb Lockdown driven heart being grumpy? 
I donât find it funny.
Yeah- a case of think before you tweet and Donât Mention The War. There are jokes to be made once the pandemic is behind us, perhaps, but not right now.
Tacky as fuck.
One was turned away from one Qld border crossing with just a warning and no fine, and then tried to cross at another. No wonder we needed the âhardâ borders. Some people just canât do the right thing.
I should add- they lied about their details on both occasions.
Not funny, also contributes to the laissez faire approach that can contribute to ongoing outbreaks.
I canât find the humour in that. Not even gallows humour.
So it seems that the SA government is now scrambling to compensate all those from Sydney who were wrongly told to isolate before the midnight deadline. What they shouldâve done was to enforce the mandatory quarantine to start from the announcement instead of midnight to save the mess thatâs been created.
Alternatively they couldâve worked on better communications between officials and staff at the ports of arrival (airport, border checkpoints etc).
Cairns, Darwin has essentially come out fairly unscathed.
Itâs a well-worn Twitter trope. Dating back to about here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/10/17/twitter-joke-about-ripping-up-absentee-ballots-draws-attention-of-ohio-secretary-of-state/
Todayâs announcements will be interesting. A bit of the commentary this morning has been around factoring in Christmas and peopleâs mental health. I hope this doesnât blow up.
Theyâve clearly got this under control.
Mental card being pulled out? A few weeks of what I would call light restrictions?
6 months of BS in Melbourne, harshest in the world for the longest, and they want to pull out the mental health card out?
Spare me. I would trade a few weeks over Xmas with what I would call light restrictions for the crap we went through down here anyday