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same in Victoria, Australia:

12 Feb: news.com.au: Fury as Victoria enters five-day snap lockdown
Daniel Andrews’ announcement that Victoria will enter a third lockdown to avoid catastrophe has been met with outrage by businesses and residents alike.
by Natalie Brown
“I know it’s not the news that Victorians want to hear today. I know it’s not the place that we wanted to be in. However, we’ve all given so much, we’ve all done so much. We’ve built something precious, and we have to make difficult decisions, and do difficult things, in order to defend what we’ve built,” Mr Andrews said...

But many have been quick to criticise the decision, asking why “a small outbreak in Melbourne means everyone from Mallacoota to Mildura has to go into lockdown?”...
Ms Westacott said the lockdown will force small businesses to make “decisions about whether to lay-off staff or destroy inventory” and airlines to cancel “thousands of flights and shifts”...

#DictatorDan quickly began trending on Twitter in Australia, while one news.com.au reader asked, “Why do Victorians put up with this garbage?”...
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/fury-as-victoria-enters-fiveday-snap-lockdown/news-story/76afdc6d5e9524e36499bde468290e2a

12 Feb: Australian Financial Review: Victoria goes into five day snap lockdown
Victoria goes into five day snap lockdown
by Timothy Moore, Natasha Rudra and Tom Burton
Mr Andrews says regional Victoria is also being placed under lock down even though there are no cases there to prevent the highly infectious virus spreading from Melbourne...
Here’s what he had to say:
There are 13 cases linked to the outbreak
Three are returned travellers who are in hotel quarantine
Ten cases are locally acquired...
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/victoria-goes-into-five-day-snap-lockdown-20210212-p571st

Australia has had only 909 alleged covid deaths in total; 820 allegedly in Victoria. only one other state has deaths in double figures. 655 of Victoria’s covid deaths were in aged care facilities (or 79 percent+)

covid is POLITICS.