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Gatherings restricted to two people to slow the spread of coronavirus (Australia)
ABC News ^ | 3/29/2020 | Stephanie Dalzell

Posted on 03/29/2020 7:24:59 AM PDT by Nextrush

Gatherings have been further restricted to two people, under "radical" and unprecedented measures agreed to by National Cabinet to slow the spread of coronavirus.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the previous gathering limit of 10 people had been cut to two, after meeting with state and territory leaders on Sunday night.

Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy said the changes were strong but necessary.

"This is radical", he said.

"The vast majority of Australians have done the right thing in the last week".

"We have seen huge evidence of that, but have also seen some very silly behaviour of people who haven't complied with that, particularly outdoors."

But Mr. Morrison said the measures were not yet legally binding.

"States and territories will determine whether they proceed to make this an enforceable limit in the same way that the 10-person limit is already being enforced, but agreed that in all cases this is the strong advice," Mr. Morrison said.

On Twitter NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the state "will move quickly to enforce additional restrictions on gatherings to slow COVID-19"

Like the old restrictions, the new limit does not apply to people who live together....

(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...


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KEYWORDS: brendanmurphy; coronavirus; covid19; scottmorrison
Clamping down down under.
1 posted on 03/29/2020 7:24:59 AM PDT by Nextrush
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To: Nextrush

They could make the gatherings like my sex life and limit it to one person.


2 posted on 03/29/2020 7:26:04 AM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: Nextrush
Tulsa cops cited two saloons last night/recently for opening in violation of the emergency laws just passed.

One was a fag bar owned by a man (who claims to be a woman). The bar was having a drag queen party and when somebody saw the police, all those stinky high heeled men with their hairy legs made a run for it. The cops cited the owner.

The other bar was a biker bar.

3 posted on 03/29/2020 7:29:08 AM PDT by LouAvul ("Little by little, the look of the country changes because of the men we admire.")
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To: dp0622

I’m not sure if the government has any “guidelines”.


4 posted on 03/29/2020 7:29:55 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Nextrush

The globalist tyrants aren’t about to let this manufactured crisis go to waste.


5 posted on 03/29/2020 7:30:03 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If you don't recognize that as sarcasm you are dumber than a bag of hammers.)
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To: Nextrush

Except for illegals, gays and muslims...of course.


6 posted on 03/29/2020 7:30:40 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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To: Nextrush

The good thing is that they can’t restrict it any more than that.


7 posted on 03/29/2020 7:32:36 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The US media is the most destructive, mendacious irresponsible institution that there is.)
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To: LouAvul

I decided to look for a haircut yesterday. You need to know which rocks to look under. Took half an hour to be 3rd in line. Where do you think the sheriff and local cops go? I felt like I was living in 2019 all over again.


8 posted on 03/29/2020 7:33:15 AM PDT by sanjuanbob (Yes, I CAN take a joke /s)
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To: Nextrush

Well there goes Love Island Australia. I have to say the villa in season 2 and location on the ocean is to die for!


9 posted on 03/29/2020 7:37:06 AM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: I want the USA back

Wanna bet?


10 posted on 03/29/2020 7:40:59 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If you don't recognize that as sarcasm you are dumber than a bag of hammers.)
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To: LouAvul

How long before the lawsuits begin for being “racist”


11 posted on 03/29/2020 7:47:57 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Nextrush

“Gatherings have been further restricted to two people...”

Two people? Well,in that case, at least, the bordellos in Oz can make an argument that they stay open as essential services.


12 posted on 03/29/2020 7:54:09 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: dp0622

; ) Hey now. Keep the proper spacing from your hand to your head...small head.


13 posted on 03/29/2020 7:56:13 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Nextrush

So does that mean a family of three or more is in trouble?


14 posted on 03/29/2020 8:09:20 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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They could make the gatherings like my sex life and limit it to one person.

The NYC Board of Health is way ahead of you, and has put out a bulletin on just that. "You are your safest sex partner," it says, among many other health tips.

Here's a twitter link to the document:

NYC Board of Health Bulletin on Sex in the time of Corona

15 posted on 03/29/2020 8:11:05 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Well there goes the human race!


16 posted on 03/29/2020 8:14:47 AM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: Boardwalk

There’s still hope, sort of:

In France, the migrant communities are too out of control for the authorities to expect or enforce social distancing. Mostly young, they will infect each other rapidly and reach herd immunity. The asymptomatic carriers among them will happily branch out from their neighborhoods, infecting the native French like zombies from “The Living Dead.”


17 posted on 03/29/2020 8:27:16 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: metmom

They say if you live together its OK.


18 posted on 03/29/2020 8:52:04 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Nextrush

How high can we make them jump?


19 posted on 03/29/2020 12:07:18 PM PDT by dljordan
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A major goal of worldwide communism is to destroy the family, and subjugate all individuals to the State. How better to do so than to decree that families may not even gather together?

War is coming. In some places, people will not stand for these things, and will rebel. In other places, the sheep will submit, and their totalitarian government will seek to consolidate their power and perhaps expand their territory.

It's been 80 years since the onset of the last Crisis. They happen about every 80 years. Guess what? It's time. We are in the crisis now.

20 posted on 03/29/2020 3:11:04 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Politics is the continuation of war by other means. --Clausewitz)
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