samuraisaint wrote: ↑Sun 21 Jun 2020 9:36pm
Except a lot of the new cases are not even Victorian residents. They just happened to land in Melbourne as that is where their flight from overseas landed and now they are in quarantine here for 14 days. After that they will catch their connecting flight to wherever they are from.
It is while they are quarantining here that security guards and hotel staff are catching the virus.
Not all of them sure, but some of them fall into this category as reported.
BTW, I am on record on the forum as predicting this would happen here in Victoria when winter started. If the govt had stood by their policy of schools staying closed until the beginning of term 3 there would be a lot less people moving around, getting on public transport, etc., and there would be less cases, but the media mounted a public pressure campaign and here we are.
Let's just hope those people who do test positive, or are symptomatic and awaiting test results, stay home until it is safe to go back to work, visit family, etc., because this virus isn't going away any time soon.
You can’t keep people locked down like we were for a further 2 months. Eradication is not the end game according to Sutton, it’s suppression.
We’ve done that OK - a bit of community transmission was always likely to spike at times - we have to live with it - can’t keep destroying to the economy.
Currently 9 people are in hospital in Victoria with COVID-19, a rise from 5 a week ago. That is the number to keep a close eye on.
Hospitals have plenty of capacity. The focus should be on the hotspot suburbs. When Ramadan finished a month ago I wonder how much focus there was from the government re large (illegal sized) family gatherings?
Where was better policing of hotel quarantine health practices?
Sounds like Andrews is talking like Hindsight Harry when the current big hotspots were the same hotspots a month back.
It annoys me restaurant’s pubs and clubs aren’t allowed to have 50 people at a time - they could easily have allowed this but reinforced the need to abide by the four square metre rule and send cops out with tape measures if necessary. I saw with my own eyes last week a restaurant full with 20 people - I doubt they were 80 square metres in size given how packed in diners were.
Enforcing 5 visitors at home though is a good move as it is targeted to the real issue.
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