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Sunday 11 October 2020

Hopes of city retail reopening look dashed as Premier preaches caution

Posted to The Age (11/10/2020) on 11/10/2020 (not published by the newspaper)
Commenting on "Hopes of city retail reopening look dashed as Premier preaches caution"

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria-records-12-new-covid-cases-and-one-death-as-premier-urges-melburnians-not-to-lose-hope-20201011-p563xh.html

The opposition leader, medical professionals, and ordinary public have been complaining about and knocking the lockdown and the 5-km limit travel, and yet I have not heard or read anything constructive from all these people. How will they handle the situation and the anti-lockdown and anti-mask protesters?

What should be the travelling distant limit be? It is likely that no matter what the limit is, the whinging public will still have the “give an inch and they’ll take a mile” mentality.

Looking abroad, UK, Spain, Italy, France, Sweden, etc, some previous COVID-19 epicentres, are once again experiencing big rise in daily infection cases, rendering shortage of hospital beds for the treating the serious cases. Even Malaysia statistics is horrifying during the past week, with Sabah, Kedah and Selangor as new epicentres.

I am not defending Daniel Andrews’ tough stance. No one likes to stand at the podium delivering only bad news day after day. If only some minority take heed of the warning of the deadly virus, and “obey” the rules rather than flouting them, Kilmore would not have fallen victim, and the manager of Butcher Club would not have to spend time in ICU.

Thank you for reading.