Covid 19 -

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Originally Posted by russellw

I've been supportive of the last two lockdowns but this one seem a little too far reaching (being whole of State) and severe at Stage 4. Counting today, Victoria has had 10 cases in the last 7 days - half the number that NSW has recorded although quite a few of the Victorian ones are community transmission.

Having said that, it is what it is and presumably if case numbers don't get worse it will end next Wednesday so it more a minor disruption than anything major.

Still, it begs the question: is this our future COVID Normal?

I agree it does seem an over reaction. The explanation as I understand it; the Sydney outbreak was standard Covid 19. The Sydney outbreak actually spread here (Black Rock outbreak) and we did not go into lock down.

The latest outbreak at Holiday Inn is the much more contagious "UK variant". The same variant that forced Adelaide and Perth to go into snap lock downs. So that being the case it begs the question, why have we waited this long to call a snap lock down?

Apparently contact tracing is proving difficult because when someone tests positive, their close contacts are already infectious. So we need a "circuit breaker" if the contact tracers have any chance of getting on top of this.

Interesting week coming up, and yes I believe this is Covid normal unfortunately.