Holy shitze things move fast here.

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Some people annoyed but that’s it.

Didn’t word it that well, just fact we went from total extermination talk to full lock down in space of a week.

All abiding by measures it seems.

I’m not getting into debate wether it’s right or wrong just what happening.

All cases stem from people coming in from overseas and go to medi hotels.

It’s a bit of a mess by the govt, it came from a medi hotel worker were people are quarantined and they were not or are not tested weekly.

Whereas farmers with land on each side of state border have to be tested weekly but worker’s potentially exposed don’t.

6 days ain’t long to be locked down but is it long enough?

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Anyway I’ve gotta head back down to big smoke in 4 or 5 hours expecting to get stopped by police somewere and asked why I’m travelling and we’re I’m going.

Have to get a part for combine.

Ain’t got any masks sold out so not sure what I’m gonna wear, a some non soiled underwear wrapped around me face I guess

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My bussiness is open.

In the big smoke. Head down soon tell ya about my day tonight.
My protocol.

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Crazy just crazy sanity prevailed eventually but here’s a Piece from today.

Cops have shut our shearing down as of tomorrow deemed non essential unless it’s a welfare issue? Man shrugging Not to start again until Wednesday. I thought Ag as a whole and the businesses that support it are essential services. We’re already weeks late with shearing, added frustration!

Local Kingston cops have spent the arvo visiting individual shearers households telling them not to work tomorrow! Allowed to draft off flyblown sheep and shear them with limited staff though. Our contractor hasn’t had a day off since July and now he gets put back 5 more days!

Few hours later all cleared up stock work deemed essential

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Not messing about our state may be toughest in world at the moment.

Borders closed all around in and out.

Flights in and out domestic and international cancelled. But international basically at 2% of capacity anyway.

Only one family member allowed to leave house for food shopping etc.

No exercise allowed.

Hours and hours in line ups for testing.

No schools no sports.

Farmers though its still almost business as usual.

Funerals wedding banned again until further notice.

But in general people accepting of it.

Students from overseas banned months ago will continue.

Overseas incomers have been thevroot of every outbreak initially.

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Little ole South Australia made the “hannity” programme belive its on fox.

Have seen the content imagine it would be about the harsh measures in a population of nearly 1.8 million

Found it

https://hannity.com/media-room/lock-down-under-south-australia-imposes-virus-shutdown-bans-dog-walking-outdoor-exercise/?utm_source=socialflow https://hannity.com/media-room/lock-down-under-south-australia-imposes-virus-shutdown-bans-dog-walking-outdoor-exercise/?utm_source=socialflow


Edit again not quite right re mandatory masks

The SA Government is now urging all South Australians to wear masks when outside the home, especially when social distancing is not possible, like on public transport. But it has not yet made mask wearing in public compulsory. ... Masks are also mandatory in aged care facilities if social distancing is impossible.

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Out of lockdown tommorow night false alarm. Another 36 hours only normal programming resumes

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-20/how-a-lie-to-coronavirus-contact-tracers-sent-sa-into-lockdown/12904572 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-20/how-a-lie-to-coronavirus-contact-tracers-sent-sa-into-lockdown/12904572

Not sure if ya can join the dots but a saga. You might have to read it twice.

Nutshell the pizza shop was selling more than pizza and delivery man was delivering more than pizza.
Had to lie to cover there tracks.

Police apparently used tracing app on his phone and nothing added up with his story

[burnt]

Sounds like they want to bloody the guy good for lying to the authorities.

Can we do that in return when the authorities lie to us?

Nah, not so much.

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This cut and paste has clarity about mayhem of last few days. Well summarized. Ozzies want to eradicate the darn virus. Different mind set than many countries. Band together for greater good. Right or wrong worse than flu or no worse than flu nobody gives a rats justvwant it done and dusted. Wecan rant and rave like jazz and chuck t4uth is somewere in between. Just have to ban all non essential air travel students etc thats main entry. Bringing it with them. Anyway read on

To those of you who are a little confused by what’s happening in South Australia, and why the Government has announced that their 6 day statewide lockdown will now end after 3 days instead, let me try and clarify what has happened.
By now, you all know that the index case in this South Australian outbreak was a woman who worked as a cleaner at the Peppers Waymouth medi-hotel in Adelaide. It is believed she picked up the virus from contaminated surfaces traced back to an expat who had returned from the UK.
The woman, in addition to passing on the virus to a large number of her family members, also infected at least two security guards at Peppers, who were both asymptomatic.
One of these security guards had a second job working at the Woodville Pizza Bar.
Across town, a young man working in the kitchen of another medi-hotel, the Stamford Hotel, also tested positive to the virus. The contact tracers desperately tried to determine how he could have been infected when he worked at a different hotel without a common link between them.
He informed contact tracers that he had visited the Woodville Pizza Bar to purchase a pizza. He specifically stated that he had not crossed paths with the infectious guard from Peppers who was working shifts at the pizzeria at the same time. Without a direct contact link between the two men, this resulted in contact tracers making the only possible conclusion: that there was an unknown intermediary between the two men who’d had contact with both of them and was now out in the community potentially spreading the virus to others. The concern was that there were other potentially infectious people now out in the community due to this unknown intermediary.
As a result, the Government implemented a lockdown to try and limit movement, and to buy time to trace everyone who might have been at Woodville’s the day the infectious Peppers guard and the Stamford Hotel kitchen worker both attended the pizzeria.
The issue is that the Stamford Hotel kitchen worker had lied. He hadn’t merely visited the pizzeria to purchase a pizza. He had worked several shifts there and was in fact a close contact of the Peppers guard who also worked there. There was no ‘unknown’ intermediary between the men running amok in the community and hence there was no legitimate reason to completely lockdown the state to the extent they did.
We could ask questions as to why a young man felt he needed to lie about having a second job. We could talk about the financial pressures and insecurity that results from holding casual employment in Australia. We can have a conversation about why business owners exploit vulnerable workers with cash in hand jobs.
But it’s not the time for it. So dear South Australians, please put away your torches and pitchforks.
The only important lesson out of this is that brutal honesty is essential if we are going to successfully deal with COVID outbreaks. Lies and half truths endanger the community and will have greater detrimental ramifications than the truth ever will.
We saw it in Victoria with the truck driver who felt the need to omit the fact that he had travelled to Shepparton, hence endangering the entire town.
We see it today in Adelaide, with South Australians enduring a lockdown as a consequence of one man’s dishonesty.
I’ve always loved the saying ‘it is better to be hit with the truth than kissed with a lie’.
In these COVID times please realise that the lies don’t kiss. They kill.
Tell the truth. Always.