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Sydney lockdown extended for one month as NSW records 642 COVID-19 cases, four deaths
ABC News Australia ^ | 8/20/2021 | Kevin Nguyen

Posted on 08/20/2021 2:55:41 AM PDT by Nextrush

Greater Sydney's COVID-19 lockdown has been extended until the end of September and a raft of new restrictions--including a curfew--will be introduced after NSW recorded 642 new infectons.

It means that the lockdown, which has already lasted eight weeks, will run for at least 13.

A curfew will be introduced for people in Sydney's 12 local government area (LGA's) of concern, which are currently subjected to extra restrictions because they are virus hot spots...

It will also be mandatory for everyone to wear a mask while outside their home unless they are exercising.

In Sydney LGA's of concern, people may only exercise outdoors for one hour per day from Monday.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian described the new restrictions as "final measures."

"The reason we are extending lockdown for another month and the reason we are imposing these additional measures in those local government areas of concern is because the vaccine takes two to three weeks of the first those who have effects," she said.

"We are throwing everything at this and doing everything we can now it is time to bunker down"...

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


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KEYWORDS: coronaviruslockdown; gladysberejiklian; lockdown; sydneylockdown
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Well its gets tighter in Sydney Australia with Premier Gladys Berejiklian saying things like:

"final measures"

and

"bunker down".

What the....

1 posted on 08/20/2021 2:55:41 AM PDT by Nextrush
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To: Nextrush

Thanks for the update, NR


2 posted on 08/20/2021 2:58:49 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Nextrush

Lock it down. Lock it all down. Hard.

Nip it in the bud.


3 posted on 08/20/2021 3:00:40 AM PDT by Fury
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To: Nextrush

“We are going to save your lives, even if it kills you.”


4 posted on 08/20/2021 3:28:11 AM PDT by exnavy (grow some thick skin, i do not care for whiners)
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To: Nextrush

If, after 8 weeks in lockdown and mandatory mask wearing, cases of COVID are going up then the Aussies ought to come to the conclusion that neither lockdowns or masks matter.


5 posted on 08/20/2021 3:54:56 AM PDT by Russ (I )
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To: Nextrush

“In Sydney’s LGAs of concern, people may only exercise outdoors for one hour per day”

Except in prisons, where people have greater rights and freedoms.


6 posted on 08/20/2021 4:12:12 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: Nextrush

The ChiComs need a little more time..for what?!


7 posted on 08/20/2021 4:14:16 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Nextrush

“”The reason we are extending lockdown for another month and the reason we are imposing these additional measures in those local government areas of concern is because the vaccine takes two to three weeks of the first those who have effects,” SHE SAID.”

Sorry, but there is a difference between the sexes (although the men down there are quite neutered). If you want to elect a mommy to ‘take care of you’ like your mommy did when you were a baby, guess what, that also includes GROUNDING you. Seems a lot of grownups in Australia forgot that part of their childhood.


8 posted on 08/20/2021 4:14:20 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: Russ

CoupFlu has NEVER been about public health.

Anywhere on the planet.

Note to Australia: Something very wicked your way comes. Pull your damn fingers out.


9 posted on 08/20/2021 4:15:46 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Nextrush

Extended, as we knew it would be.


10 posted on 08/20/2021 4:21:01 AM PDT by I want the USA back (We have more to fear from our government than from the bug that the chicoms made for us. )
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To: exnavy

4 deaths, insanity


11 posted on 08/20/2021 4:35:28 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (“When the people fear the government you have tyranny, when the government fears the people you have)
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To: BobL

Women shouldn’t be allowed to vote, let alone hold public office.


12 posted on 08/20/2021 4:47:00 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Nextrush

taxpayer-funded ABC Australia doesn’t question this, or even critique it:

20 Aug: ABC Australia: Sydney anti-lockdown protest organiser Anthony Khallouf sentenced to jail
By Jamie McKinnell
Today, in Hornsby Local Court, he pleaded guilty to four counts of not complying with a direction and one count each of encouraging the commission of a crime and making false representations resulting in a police investigation.

Magistrate Robyn Denes sentenced him to eight months in prison with a non-parole period of three months.

He will be released on parole on November 18.

According to police, Khallouf was involved in planning an unauthorised rally in Sydney for this weekend...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-20/nsw-covid-lockdown-protest-organiser-jailed/100395322


13 posted on 08/20/2021 4:49:56 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: EEGator

“Women shouldn’t be allowed to vote, let alone hold public office.”

Any reasonable conservative women, including my best friend, agrees with that. The evidence is in, Europe is being DESTROYED because of ‘equal rights’, and so are we.

I have no issue with women having power elsewhere, but the ONLY result that’s coming from women having power in the West is the destruction of the West by counties that are run by men...what’s actually accomplished?


14 posted on 08/20/2021 4:51:03 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: Nextrush

15 posted on 08/20/2021 6:00:11 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: All

6 million + people essentially under home arrest because 4 die? (assuming that those 4 deaths ARE REALLY from Covid,)


16 posted on 08/20/2021 6:04:04 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Russ

Just in time for flu season....again


17 posted on 08/20/2021 6:44:06 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Nextrush

Four deaths out of 642 cases is a very small percentage, and 642 cases in a city of millions isn’t very many either. It’s just an excuse for totalitarian government.


18 posted on 08/20/2021 8:04:00 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem by far is that most of the news media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: BobL

They get their hour like in a maximum security prison for terrorists.


19 posted on 08/20/2021 8:58:14 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Lets hunker in the bunker....sarc

Berejiklian is of Armenian ancestry and out of the suffering of the Armenian people are many wounded and hurt people.

And that woundedness has consequences for the wounded and for those whose lives they touch.


20 posted on 08/20/2021 9:01:20 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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