Sunfish:
Latest advice is that the melbourne outbreak is caused by a mutation that makes its C19 strain the most infectious so far on the planet. There are thus national and global reasons for the lockdown....
Your mate must be keeping it pretty secret, because it seems nobody has told Victoria's Chief Health Officer...
From:
ABC live news blog:
Professor Sutton said there was no evidence that Victoria's uptick in cases was a result of a new strain of coronavirus, but more down to behavioural fatigue.
"There is no suggestion we have a tougher virus in terms of its transmissibility or severity,' Professor Sutton said.
"We have a challenge that the world has of second waves, behavioural fatigue, the ability to penetrate the message, to sustain those behaved over such a difficult and long period of time.
"That's why Israel's second wave is four times bigger than its first, why Spain is looking at a second wave, almost as substantial as its first. That is why Iran never really moved through its wave, they couldn't get those changes to come into place.
"We are working hard to make sure we can ship those behaviours are make the structural differences that limit the interactions people have so we can get through it."