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I think we really need an angry face react on AFF.

I wish other people would just repost the gem and save the rest of us the pain.

Whatever happened to "looking after your own needs" - you know, what most young men do, most of the time? I mean, come ON! If they can't be celibate for 2 months, what do they do when their wives get pregnant and give birth?

YES it does need a curfew. The police do not have unlimited staff to check every car on the road. Fewer people out of their homes means fewer police required to check on them. During Melbourne's second lockdown, with the 5km limit and curfew in place, people who worked in *essential industries*...

But a question before you order the test: eg, have you had the UQ vaccine recently? (because it's supposed to have been a transitory positive, which means it's only a concern for a period of time, not your whole life) might lead to follow-up testing and less of a panic. Pretty sure it's standard...

I can imagine the War Generation rolling their eyes at our entitlement - refusing to stay home for a few weeks/months because we are sick of it.

Maybe, but really how many people get HIV tests? It's not like it's a common thing for doctors to request.

I still don't understand why the work on the UQ vaccine was abandoned. I don't see transitory positive HIV results as an issue. An HIV viral load test would quickly have sorted out which people really had HIV.

I agree, but aggressive suppression IS achievable. You only have to travel from MEL to BNE to see the benefits of living an almost covid-free life. (ETA: also witness the number of people flocking to QLD for their holidays) And also the recent small outbreaks in MEL and BNE and PER were...

It's clear from the Melb experience last year that the existing rules are not strict enough. Blind Freddie can see that.

The "lockdown" is too soft. All non-grocery retail must be click and collect. Hardware stores open for trade card holders only - otherwise click and collect or delivery. Cafes and restaurants to close everything except a single takeaway window. Florists again click and collect or phone and...

As was demonstrated last year during the Melb lockdown, a business has every right to refuse entry to a person on private property if they will not comply with entry requirements. (Bunnings employee vs "sovereign citizen" has been well hashed out) Unless the laws are very different in Tassie, I...

This is where enforcement and large fines come in. It only took a few well-publicised cases where people copped huge fines for being out of their zone for no reason to make the majority of others fall into line. And as a side note: one of the big reasons they didn't want people driving long...

I still don't understand this. It's been done everywhere else. And on this point: ASKING people to stay home (as Gladys has been) is insipid and ineffective. TELLING them to stay home and REMOVING the reasons they go out by closing retail except essential, and all social events, and gyms FFS...

Except it's not a proper lockdown, is it?

I don't understand the attitudes being posted here. Why not lockdown with the intention of getting case numbers back down to acceptable levels? Melbourne did it last year. To my mind, it's the only way to keep the NSW in the federation. Or there really will be a situation where NSW is cut off...

Not to downplay the work involved, but surely you weren't surprised by this, given the case numbers?

I can tell you that my own hospital is fully prepared should it need to re-open its planned covid capacity. The wards are still there and the equipment is in storage.

Now, Barry is a hedonist who demands the lap!

Barry in the first few years after we adopted him would not sit in our laps. But he DID like Big Cat Diaries.