This is a bad take.
People won’t travel less, they’ll turn to driving themselves or ridesharing. I’m not sure that a further restricted lockdown is the best idea but it would sure stop a large number of people from moving about.
Consequently, if workplaces are to remain open, you want increased frequency in order to allow people to better social distance.
or cramming into less frequent trains, trams and buses.
The state government has just increased train and tram services to allow better social distancing
I’m meant to be moving home on Thursday next week so no doubt this will impact. I hope you are confident in your source as you have just made my anxiety levels rise so I’d hate for this to be out there and not correct.
I can’t seem to find one bit of this anywhere else at the moment (and most of what I read daily has been correct so far), so I’m in some way hopeful this source is incorrect for now.
Exactly.
The problem is that heavy measures only impact the short term. That’s why I think we need measures that are longer lasting in areas that have had higher transmission. We need to think long term. When we come out the other side environments that had high transmissions (such as particular workplaces/industries) should have to maintain heavy restrictions longer term (such as on number of people able to work at a time or whatever other measures are put in place). Then other areas that havn’t had huge outbreaks and seem lower risk environments can cautiously move forward - whether it be just starting with 2 visitors to homes at first, and then restaurants/gyms with socially distanced measures etc.
I would get my news from the Siberian Times before 6 News. Know nothing…Say nothing.
Once again no new announcements today. 
People need to stop posting these “rumours”. It’s just constant speculation. It doesn’t help anyone.
You can sort of line it up going of his language.
Very vocal around the unknown community transmissions that are active but don’t know it, spreading the virus further. Clearly hundreds or thousands out there that we don’t know about. It would be interesting to see what areas these are in, I assume the west.
There is only one way to stamp that out and sadly that a full shutdown of specific areas. People won’t be able to travel across suburbs if it’s going to be specific.
what i find very weird and strange is why would a person from melbourne want to come herer to ballarat just to get fresh air ???
So they reported mandatory masks before everybody else? Yeah…nah.
Everything reported were based off rumours already circulating. You got masks right but got 5km radius of travel wrong and got a stage 4 restriction announcement wrong. How’s that strike rate? I just don’t think anyone (or media outlet) taking a stab off nothing but rumours just to try and get in 30 mins before a press conference is helpful to anyone.
Dan is pretty transparent that they are considering other options but clearly they haven’t settled on anything yet.
Please remember the age of some of the posters here and go easy.
May I add that I never said it would be announced today? Remember how sudden the lockdown of the Housing Commission towers was?
This is a good article which gives some breakdown of the current status, which should give light into local area closures. Or stamp out the spotfires as Dan claimed.
Intersting that the high numbers are still in the north west, areas that been locked down the longest.
There are only 10 active cases in my suburb.
I’m sorry, if you’re coming to this public forum, making comment about a global pandemic, I don’t think age needs to come into it.
Stay on topic folks.
I do agree that what are essentially unsourced rumours are counter-productive to the purpose of this thread.
I’ll give it a couple days, if it doesn’t happen we will not be permitting unsourced / anon rumours in this thread going forward.
So why even come out with it? Just spreading fear and division. Journalists once reported facts, they didn’t make the story about themselves and spread potentially dangerous misinformation to a community who is living in the middle of a deadly pandemic.
Of course you’re not the only one, the professionals are doing it too, the playing on people’s emotions is becoming tiresome.
Apparently Stage 4 would still mean essential business continuing, but some of the transmission has occurred within essential businesses.
Is she laughing at you or just picked the wrong emoji? Bizzare tweet.