SA Quarantine issue caused this lockdown. During the testing blitz, they discovered there had been another breach, which is the Delta variant. Which thankfully appears to have been contained.
That is no different than what happened with the BBQ man in NSW a few weeks ago. A breach that luckily didn't have the transmissions to cause a lockdown.
QUARANTINE
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FEDERAL
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RESPONSIBILITY
We are in a situation where the FEDERAL Government is shirking its responsibility and forcing states to use commercial hotels for a purpose they are not meant for. It is the government passing the buck, because they know it's a system that will and does have leaks. We should not be quarantining people in hotels in the city. We are forced to because ScoMo doesn't want to take the responsibility his role requires him to.
Point to what is incompetent.
Last year there was improper training of staff. Which from what I gather is more to do with idiots unable to follow the rules. The improper training was not teaching people things like, "Hey that person quarantining in there because of a pandemic, don't breach quarantine and have sex with them."
The incompetence of Government with this current one is things like the Federal Government dropping the ban on aged care workers, working at different age care centres. With a policy to put the restriction in place, only after there's the virus spreading.
That's a policy failure. Not the State Governments. One we can point to. Not just going, "there must be one somewhere in how Vic does stuff."
We know breaches happen in this shitty quarantine system. They aren't just limited to Melbourne.
We have two leaks here. One was not the fault of Victoria. This caused the lockdown. The second is the Delta variant leak, which seems similar to BBQ man in NSW. A leak, that is hard to pin down how it occurred. That didn't spread enough to cause an issue. With the implication being, these kinds of small leaks have probably happened before and never been detected.
Contact tracing has been superb this time around. That's not an issue with this outbreak. I believe there were issues last year. Not to make excuses, but it wasn't exactly an established practice when the pandemic hit. You would expect issues. It's foolish to assume that could be launched at the drop of a hat with no problems.
The only reason this lock down got a second week, seems to have been because of some false positives. Not the state Governments fault. Then the detection of another cluster with the Delta variant. Which seems to not require a lockdown.
Since last year like everywhere else. That got rolled out across the place. Some states are a bit stricter than others. To reiterate, contact tracing isn't an issue this time.
The issue is a person left SA quarantine with the virus. Then had symptoms and didn't go get tested for many days. Once they had and it was discovered. Contact tracing showed exposure sites all across Melbourne. Requiring a lockdown. The risk of widespread transmission was high. It wasn't a case where you could geographically just lockdown a small area.
I have heard people say Melbourne's urban design, being more CBD focused, means people move around more. Although I can't evaluate that. So it wasn't that you could just lock down a Northern Beaches area. People move around too much here.