It would be one popular hair dressers.
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How can they police the people who work in those areas but life in other LGAs. It would seem they outbreak could leak from the existing LGAs.
Even if you are honest and stay in lockdown in an area that is not lock down, you are still permitted to shop for groceries so therefore it will just spread. It seems really haphazard and ridiculously chaotic.
The NSW government are fucked in the head with these arrangements.
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Yeah, if it was pretty much any other capital city in Aus, itâd be in a proper lockdown.
This will keep happening until ~80% of the population are fully vaccinated, and whatâs Australia at now, <5%?
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Donât think it is any different from the Northern Beaches lockdown earlier on. Not new.
Donât the Northern Beaches basically have a single point of entry & exit, and so was easier to police?
This time itâs relying on people following health guidelines, and weâve seen what can happen from only a few people not doing so.
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Yes pretty much the spit bridge, Mona vale road and the wakehurst parkway are the main points of entry. Much easier to police. But this lockdown is different as people who work in the four areas actually travel out of them back to their homes in non lockdown areas. How the hell do they know if youâre meant to be in lockdown? What about family members that donât work in those areas but live in the same house with the person in lockdown? Thereâs so many loopholes and non practical ways this canât work.
Another bad scenario is that the person in lockdown in a non lockdown area can also have up to 5 visitors in the home. Schamozzle.
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One of my mates works in the city, so obviously heâs locked down, but his partner works out west and hasnât been in the city. What are they to do?
So much confusion.
This is the problem. Either all in or none in. Or at least try to plug the gaps.
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Itâs very different. As mentioned in the media tonight. Take the main street of Newtown as an example. One side of King St is in the lockdown zone and the other side is not.
So what happens? Will pubs and restaurants be forced to close on one side while the other side is free to trade?
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Victoria tried locking down just some Melbourne postcode areas early on last year, but NSW should know better now.
Our governments should be learning from the past, both from whatâs happened in their own jurisdictions and elsewhere, instead of having this idiotic arrogant notion of superiority, where the reality is chance has been a big factor.
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Welcome to our society mate. Sheâll be right, canât have a police state now.
I personally think there needs to be a metro-wide lockdown over the NSW school holidays and for Sydneysiders to be banned from travelling to the regions during this period.
Wonât be popular but the likely alternative is the possibility of the virus being spread in the snowfields, etc.
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Must have been an incredible bargain. That or some people are stupid - as has been the case for every lockdown in the country, you can still go shopping.
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Police state? I donât know if youâre serious.
The NSW government are happy to restrict and ban all sorts of things, including banning fireworks, having draconian traffic laws (low highway speed limits with heavy enforcement, your car can be impounded by police if you lose traction even if itâs because of oil on the road), and then thereâs the recent allegation of the deputy premier abusing anti-stalking laws to silence his critics (whether those critics may be dickheads is beside the point).
But thatâs nothing; look at what scary stuff the LNP federal government has been up to, including surveillance, metadata retention and use without a warrant, whistleblowers being prosecuted, people being held in secret, followed by secret trials and even when convicted jailed for years without anyone being allowed to know about it.
Thatâs police state stuff.
A lockdown because of a pandemic outbreak doesnât make a police state.
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I think once every person above 12 Years old has been given the opportunity.
Easter 2022.
We need to start having these conversations very soon about how say 1000 cases a day next Easter means nothing (well to the vaccinated)
This is the part of the pandemic Iâm most nervous about. The exit bit.
Unfortunately over half the adult population are still not eligible to get the vaccine and most likely wonât until October.
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That is another question, should it be opened up to at least allow the adults who want it to get it? Even if they continue their 10-year staged approach, but quicker acknowledging potentially limited supply from simply making it available for everyone.
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I donât think thatâs a question. They would if we had enough vaccines but we donât as a nation.
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