After so much sacrifice, Victorians don’t want to move into stage three and find ourselves in the same situation as Sydney, where health authorities have been putting out spot fires for the past two months | OPINION
Victorians are desperate to see a road out of their current situation. After one month of stage four restrictions, including a night-time curfew, and six months of varying degrees of restrictions, Melburnians in particular long for a return to some kind of normal life.
Effective as lockdowns are for the control of COVID-19, there is huge collateral damage and as a result it is very difficult to maintain community support indefinitely. And in any case, the idea of lockdown is not just to reduce coronavirus transmission, but to buy time to strengthen interventions that are proven to work but do not require disruptive lockdown.
After so much sacrifice, Victorians don’t want to move into stage three and find ourselves in the same situation as Sydney where health authorities have been putting out spot fires for the past two months despite an excellent, decentralised test and trace system. In spite of the low numbers, NSW is identifying new mystery cases almost every day. And for those who think Victoria could tolerate this level of transmission, it’s worth looking at South Korea.
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