Posted on 08/05/2021 10:57:17 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s second-largest city, Melbourne, went into a sixth lockdown on Thursday, with a state government leader blaming the nation’s slow COVID-19 vaccination rollout.
Melbourne joins Sydney and Brisbane, Australia’s most populous and third-most populous cities respectively, in locking down due to the spread of the highly contagious delta variant.
Melbourne and surrounding Victoria state will lock down for seven days after eight new infections were detected in the city, Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews said.
Andrews gave less than four hours’ notice that the state would lock down from 8 p.m. He said his government had no other choice because only 20 percent of Australian adults had been fully vaccinated by Wednesday.
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Not too much irony.
because the first five lockdowns worked so well...
The hospitals there have had more than a year to prepare for any “surge.”
Everything should be fine.
And Australians have no other choice because they volunteered to give up their weapons.
For more:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3982373/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3982363/posts
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Eight new infections out of 5 million people.
As Barney Fife would say, Nip it! Nip it! Nip it!
For perspective, 170,000 people die each year in AUS for all causes.
The rank stupidity of this is breathtaking.
Mass punishment until all comply.
Ghinghis Khan would be proud.
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