In Oz

[George K]

[Jolly]

Insanity.

[Copper]

The air belongs to the government.

Just be happy they don't tax it.

[Mik]

Some idiot bureaucrat's idea. It won't stand.

[George K]

[Jolly]

Law is codified morality.

Now, ponder those morals...

[Loki]

Is this about something more than Rugby and a way of keeping the games going? I feel like I missing something.

[Doctor Phibes]

It looks as though it's a reaction to a breach of Covid protocol

https://wwos.nine.com.au/nrl/news-2021-queensland-covid19-bubbles-dr-jeanette-young-penrith-panthers-apisai-koroisau/e485ced5-abfe-4b39-af6e-7a730438d3be

So I guess what happens is people are breaking the restrictions, passing stuff between bubbles, and somebody invites a girl into his room, so then the authorities clamp down on the use of the the hotel balconies.

[Horace]

If it prevents a single person from getting COVID, it's worth it.

[George K]

@horace said in In Oz:

If it prevents a single person from getting COVID, it's worth it.

Thousands protest lockdown in Sydney

“We live in a democracy and normally I am certainly one who supports people’s rights to protest ... but at the present time we’ve got cases going through the roof and we have people thinking that’s OK to get out there and possibly be close to each other at a demonstration,” said state Health Minister Brad Hazzard.

Here's their cases "through the roof."

Five per million. Five.

Here's the deaths.

But...as far as vaccinations go, Oz isn't doing all that well. Similar to India.

If the Delta variant is the big deal there (and it probably is), they're potentially rough times with such a low percentage vaccinated.

[Copper]

@george-k said in In Oz:

Five per million. Five.

It takes a lot of virtue to shut things down at that point.

[Loki]

It’s the future folks are worried about. One respected predictive analytics firm is represented here:

https://covid19.healthdata.org/australia?view=resource-use&tab=trend&resource=all_resources

Let’s revisit in October.