We have no reason to believe that the testing is all accurate. The days are long gone when we could believe politicians, public servants or the media. The fact that people refusing to be tested or those border hopping are fined, and not jailed or forcibly detained, is proof that the politicians are not serious; they are just using non-compliance as another money-making exercise. A fine is not going to stop a person who might have the virus from spreading it.

punitive unempathetic attitude
Yuyutsu,
It's the only attitude morons could possibly get some sense shaken into !

Victoria's problem is the lack of a credible Opposition. A lunatic like Andrews could not survive if there was one.

Hasbeen,

IMO, once the virus got into community, rather than mostly being confined to returning people from overseas, it became tenfold harder to contain.

We are still lucky up here in Albury Wodonga. All we can do is hope that numnbers stay very low and Melbourne gets back to very low numbers.

But it also relies on vitually everyone doing the right thing.

It appears as if the White House is advocating the scrapping of all testing and tracing of the Covid-19:

http://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/world/coronavirus-news.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-coronavirus&variant=show&region=TOP_BANNER&context=storylines_menu#link-3ff7f41a

With more than 70,000 new cases each day, more than two million over a month at that rate, that may be one way to massively reduce the number of recorded cases, and also the need for more hospital beds later.

Who needs 'science' ?

Joe

Dear Hassie,

I've just re-scheduled some of my appointments
for various heart scans that were to be done now in a
nearby hospital. I've made them for September because
I don't think it's a good idea to go to a public hospital
for scans right now. I admit that I'm too nervous to
go into a public hospital in Victoria right now unless I
have to.

I'm probably being silly. But I feel - better safe than sorry.