I understand this thread mainly discusses covid 19 in the UK, but for something different, this is what has been happening in my home town of Melbourne
Melbourne accounts for 70% of all infections and 90% of deaths in Australia (over 30K cases and 910 deaths) this is due to an outbreak in July – October of 2020, were daily transmissions reached a peak into the 700s
What caused this outbreak was the poor maintenance of hotel quarantine and aged care facilities protocols
During those months, not only were in lockdown, but we were under a curfew from 21.00 to 05.00, plus we were restricted to travel no more than 5 kilometers (3 miles) from home
I’ve been to some dodgy places in the world, were curfews occur, but the last place I thought I would ever encounter my first ever curfew would be in Melbourne
Since that outbreak in July/October, we have gone about 150 out of the last 200 days without transmission with minor outbreaks in January and earlier this month (both outbreaks the daily transmissions reached up to a dozen)
In my postcode, which numbers over 23K, only 28 people have contracted covid, in the neighboring postcode, also with over 23K residence, only 41 people have contracted covid,
So out of almost 47K people a total of 69 have contracted covid, in the area within a 5 mile radius of me, no deaths
Also, in the whole of 2021, only ONE person had died of covid in the whole of Australia
I would imagine at least ¾ quarters of the world’s population, were the numbers are much more horrendous than ours, would take those numbers, yet whenever someone here gets a sniffle, they send us into lockdown
With these numbers in mind, under the bio emergency act, we have been barred from travelling overseas since March 17, 2020
The current travel restrictions are in place until September 17 and with 98% surety, this will be extended out to December 17
I understand you lads should be able to travel towards the end of July, I hope you enjoy yourselves, as I’m going to have to wait until sometime in 2022
One final note, in March our Aussie rules season kicked off
Up until the most recent outbreak, we were allowed 75% capacity for our stadia, which is 75K for the MCG and 40K for Dockland stadium
We never reached those capacities, but we were getting attendances between 40 to 70K