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    Quote Originally Posted by DiscoMick View Post
    A statewide 7 day lockdown is announced on Twitter, not in person.
    And they're going to hide the daily case numbers and only announce hospitalisations from now on.
    Seriously?
    Haven't heard that Mick. The Deputy Premier made the announcement AFAIK.

    Regional NSW to go into lockdown from 5pm today (msn.com)
    I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food

    A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking

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    Quote Originally Posted by bob10 View Post
    Haven't heard that Mick. The Deputy Premier made the announcement AFAIK.

    Regional NSW to go into lockdown from 5pm today (msn.com)
    My understanding is that the Dep Premier had a conference call with his Nationals regional MPs in the morning notifying them of the lockdown. A few of them leaked it out. The official gov notification was via Twitter at around 3pm. The Premier would have known at her 11am presser but didn't have the fortitude to announce it then...

    This is extremely poor form. Less than 2 hours notice and couldn't even have the decency to announce it in person when she had the opportunity. No words really....

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    Quote Originally Posted by superquag View Post
    Taking a Wild, Unsubstantiated Guess..... reckon we're in for a 'surge' followed by a Lockdown within the coming month... or sooner. IMHO, simply posturing by our Emperor to keep up with his Comrades in the East.

    Like to be totally Rrong.... but the augeries declare otherwise, local supermarkets choked with dunny rolls of a particular high quality. Even a vacuum shop had lots on display.....
    Our turn will come, I'm sure of that.... :-(

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    Quote Originally Posted by cjc_td5 View Post
    My understanding is that the Dep Premier had a conference call with his Nationals regional MPs in the morning notifying them of the lockdown. A few of them leaked it out. The official gov notification was via Twitter at around 3pm. The Premier would have known at her 11am presser but didn't have the fortitude to announce it then...

    This is extremely poor form. Less than 2 hours notice and couldn't even have the decency to announce it in person when she had the opportunity. No words really....
    I watched the 11am presser. A journalist asked the question if NSW was being locked down then. It was not answered directly from the Premier. About the only reason I can think of to keep the numbers quiet is to stop panic in the population. That would have to come from the top. And is the situation much worse than we've been told?
    I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food

    A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking

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    I think the rumours about case numbers being kept secret in NSW may be just rumours. EDIT Ballina MP Tamara Smith from the Greens posted on social media that regional MP's had been told about the lockdown on a video meeting with the Deputy Premier.

    Regional NSW in COVID-19 lockdown, joins the rest of the state (msn.com)

    Edited 15/8/21, makes more sense.
    I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food

    A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking

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    Quote Originally Posted by trout1105 View Post
    It may be your buisness doing what you are doing But if what you are doing is impacting upon other peoples health and welfare (as what is happening in NSW at the moment) then it becomes other peoples buisness as well.

    Caring for animals or properties outside Melbourne were valid reasons to travel during our lockdown last year.

    With holiday properties you were only supposed to be there for 3 hours, long enough to do anything that you needed to.

    Keep in mind that there were roadblocks on the roads out of Melbourne - the "ring of steel" (which anecdotally was a colander of steel, but anyway ...).
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    Quote Originally Posted by cjc_td5 View Post
    The official gov notification was via Twitter at around 3pm.
    Not correct - it was announced through the normal media at about 1pm - I was speaking to my Mum in Newcastle about it at in a phone call at 1.30.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cjc_td5 View Post
    Our turn will come, I'm sure of that.... :-(
    Hate to be a doomsayer but I think your right. A quote you have it or you will get it or you get vaccinated as the only options from a Doctor I know seems likely to be the case. Place who have been able to resist it enables time to take the best option I think.

    Just looking at Texas "
    More than 10,000 Texans have been hospitalized this week and at least 53 hospitals were at maximum capacity in their intensive care units. Hospitals are being taxed across the South in places like Huntsville, Ala., Jackson, Miss., New Orleans and Miami. As with previous waves this summer in Florida, Louisiana and Arkansas, the vast majority of patients who are hospitalized in Texas are not vaccinated.

    The surge also comes as the state’s governor, Greg Abbott, refuses to enact any statewide mandates requiring masks while prohibiting local officials from doing so. To help manage the surge, Abbott has instead asked health care workers outside the state to travel to Texas and help the overloaded hospitals

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    What a mess. Anti mask - Pro Business (to extinction??) and trying to drag in Nurses and Doctors from else where to deal with the **** fight in the hospitals who are erecting tents out side for overflow. I can understand the incredible frustration and pain of closed shuttered business yet think Texas looks an insanity plus pretending they can just ignore it. It must be awful for the medical people dealing with the carnage.

    The real mess in Indonesia to our north and almost every where else even places like Japan and similar who seemed to have beaten Covid and are now seeing cases and deaths rocket up. The kids cannot get a vaccine. Those who can should I think. A picture in Jakarta Post of a baby funeral and the growing carnage in young pregnant women is disturbing plus. I am thinking of trying to hire some more nurses and run a Saturday and Sunday session as soon as the government allows a free for all 12-60 with Pfizer. Almost all my 60 year olds plus who wanted a vaccine have got one now.

    12 weeks plus ago for first doses has us coming quickly to the end of our second jabs at my little place. I would hate to see Perth or WA in the mess we are all in. I assume virus do not care a hoot what I think at all

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    Quote Originally Posted by cjc_td5 View Post
    Our turn will come, I'm sure of that.... :-(

    Unfortunately I think that Vic's cases are about to explode - far too many mystery cases, and they're all over Melbourne. The authorities have already raised this as a problem:


    Victoria COVID: Authorities on alert over mystery cases, Glenroy cluster grows, 21 new local cases recorded



    The eight infections that are yet to be linked back to a source include cases in the City of Melbourne, Glenroy, Melton South, Middle Park, Newport, West Brunswick, Wyndham Vale and West Footscray.
    Health Department deputy secretary Kate Matson said health authorities feared the virus might have already spread widely across the city.


    “These cases in contacts, live and travel across multiple suburbs, and have generated exposure sites all across Melbourne, including some of our busiest shopping centres,” she said.
    “We are very concerned by what we’re seeing across Melbourne.”


    I'm concerned about what I saw yesterday - 5 young dickheads not wearing masks at a souvlaki shop and then two tradies turned up unmasked too - but everyone else was complying. Possibly because I was staring at them, 3 of the dickheads put on masks.



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    Quote Originally Posted by windsock View Post
    shock horror, and what if it doesn't impact on anyone else? The offended will still be offended i guess.

    If someone has to look after the welfare of animals outside of town so be it. In Sydney apparently they now need to get a permit to leave town. Good. Four weeks late but OK, they eventually figured it out. Anyway, if you need to go get a permit, go look after the animals welfare and then go home - all good if done properly, no harm no foul.

    I would be far more alarmed at the person or persons who can wander around doing non-essential stuff. If in Sydney, watch out for those going out getting (or selling) landscape supplies, soft drinks or juice, take away food, newspapers, beers, coffees, garden fertilisers, some more shrubs or the dry cleaning.

    Lock-down Lite!

    Back in my day, lock down meant lock down non essential stuff.



    From Greater Sydney restrictions | NSW Government
    Businesses that can be open

    Businesses providing essential products and services that can be open include

    • supermarkets
    • grocery stores including
      • butchers, bakeries, fruit and vegetable, seafood
      • other food or drink retailers that predominantly sell or display food or drinks

    • kiosks and other small food and drink premises
    • petrol stations
    • banks and financial institutions
    • hardware, building supplies
    • landscaping material supplies
    • agricultural and rural supplies
    • shops that, in the normal course of business, operate as or sell and display
      • pet supplies
      • newsagents
      • office supplies
      • chemists providing health, medical, maternity and baby supplies or
      • liquor stores

    • post offices
    • garden centres and plant nurseries
    • vehicle hire premises, not including the premises at which vehicles are sold;
    • shops that predominantly carry out repairs of mobile phones
    • laundromats and drycleaners.
    And that is one of the main reasons covid jumped to different LGA's, and from there to the regions as people took advantage of loopholes. As for " hobby" farms, I was bought up on cattle and sheep properties in Qld's west & central west, near Quilpie, Longreach. Ilfracombe, and Hughenden . The concept of stocking a property and then leaving the stock to their own devices , without some supervision, is just not on. It's a loophole in the restrictions, like the one the Sydney judge and his wife used to have a holiday at Thredbo during lock down. At any event, the proof is in the pudding, an entire State locked down. A government in denial.
    I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food

    A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking

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