lockdown (really, this time, I promise)

[tielan]

2000 close-contacts at IKEA. Two freaking thousand.

I guess they desperately needed that home redecoration then?

So now they've turned it into a proper lockdown. The sort where you don't go to IKEA or Westfield out of boredom, or because you wanted that really nice lampshade or a computer game to entertain your kids. The kind where you stay home and don't go out and run around. The type that means you are actually locked down in your location unless you have a good reason to go walkabout (work that can't be done at home, essential shopping - one person per household per day, exercise, or medical/compassionate reasons).

Can't remember if it's 5pm or midnight tonight, but it's not going to make much difference to my behaviour.

Also, dear NSW Chief Health Officer: most people don't want to be COVID-positive out of shame, they don't want to be COVID-positive because it disrupts their ability to earn money.

Also, NSW Minister for Health: go DIAF. Dollars to donuts you suggested we 'learn to live with delta in the community' to stab the Premier in the back: either within your own party, or with the voters who've been taught that 'lockdown' is a dirty thing and they're all going to hell if they participate.

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[kore]

Well shit.

[tielan]

It is an utterly shitty situation and was completely preventable two weeks ago when they realised a delta case had gotten out into the community.

But nooooo, we don't do lockdowns in NSW - 'lockdown' is a dirty word and if you do it, you'll go straight to hell!

[lilysea]

I'm so worried about NSW

both for a very close friend of mine who lives in Glebe, relies on public transport to get to work, and who works in childcare

she wears a mask on trains whether its mandatory or not

but her childcare centre won't let staff wear masks at work :(


I'm also worried about NSW spreading COVID to the rest of Australia :(

[tielan]

Yeah, my sister's in childcare in the city and it's much the same.

And yes, the situation is worrying: Sydney, plague centre of Australia. And all the dice are stacked against us, because now that it's in Sydney's south-west, there's a higher population density, more people in a household, fewer positions that can be worked from home, and a large incidence of ESL. Not to mention that the instructions/directives have been very fuzzy up until now. It was very preventable and is exceedingly frustrating.

[lilysea]

& the COVID communications to the ESL community WERE appallingly inaccurate

I don't know if they've fixed that problem yet

"The Department of Health and Human Services Victoria's (DHHS) website provides COVID-19 information in more than 57 languages.

The ABC has examined the COVID-19 information in Indonesian, simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese.

Those pages were out of date and didn't reflect the information on the English website. They also linked back to the English website for critical information, such as where to get tested and the reopening roadmap.

In one instance, a key point on the Indonesian page was instead translated into Turkish."


Indonesian COVID information written in Turkish is just one obstacle for Victoria's migrant communities
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-27/victoria-migrants-concerned-covid-19-information/12815164

[rmc28]

Oh my fucking god. Going to IKEA when you might have covid?

[ladyjax]

I am so sorry things are spiraling where you are. Messaging is so important in this. Our first lockdowns were tough but looking back, I'm glad that we did. It was Santa Clara County, then Alameda, where I live, then the whole of the Bay Area, followed by the statewide lockdown I know some people poo pooed it (particularly those trying to recall the governor) but it saved a lot of people as well as brought who couldn't stay home in communities into stark relief.

And I had a hybrid in my own home: Shirley stayed home a month but she was still working at home, figuring out the plans to do the limited reopening. It was curiously comforting not to have places to go just to browse around. You get your stuff and go.

We did have multi-language messaging where we are but our highest numbers still reside in East Oakland which is largely Latino in population, followed by African-Americans and others

[jenab]

That sucks. Especially when the government doesn't take action when they should. That happened here with the third wave started.

[ninja007]

This pandemic has validated what I've always thought. There are some damn stupid people on this planet and my country is a hot spot. Infections and deaths are increasing in Southern California. I live in Central California.

[tielan]

It is 100% nuts. 'Common sense is not so common' as they say.