it appears NSW Health have concerns about testing rates in the hot spots of W and SW Sydney, rather than testing rates overall which suggests perhaps the wrong people are turning up for testing.
Possibly, the main hotspots have remained consistently South West Sydney (Liverpool, Fairfield and Campbletown LGAs) and Western Sydney (Paramatta, Harris Park) - the other areas have 1-2 cases and likely interacted with someone form the West or South west. Those areas have large migrant populations of people who have English as 2nd or 3rd language - so possibly not all the messaging is getting through.
I am wondering whether NSW is focusing on the right type of transmission locations.........is it just restaurants, cafes, pubs, clubs, funeral / religious, gyms, schools, workplaces, perhaps shopping centres?
Workplaces is the one obvious missing category - people living in the hotspot suburbs are likely to be lower income. That said if you look at where the infections were actually acquired (based on clusters) as opposed to just the venues where positive cases visited the highest numbers of cases have been:
* religious gatherings (funeral cluster, our lady of Lebanon, OLMC School, Tangara School clusters),
* Restaurants (Thai Rock, Apollo) and
* Pubs/Clubs that are pokie venues (Crossroads, Mounties, Star City and other pubs) - mixing alcohol consumption with temptation of gambling isnt proving to be wise.
The 2 gym cases were actually from Crossroads and haven't seen any cases confirmed from cafes or supermarkets.
We are seeing fines for pubs and restaurants not following their covid safe plans - time to send the inspectors into places of worship and high schools.
Ive said it many times before if NSW govt introduce more restrictions the first should be to close places of worship (or at least go back to 10 person limit - 100 people is a complete joke) and close pokie venues (only allow the restaurant area of pubs to open with 2 alcoholic drink maximum whilst dininig, not the pokie rooms or common bar) and masks on public transport.