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Old 29th Mar 2021, 00:07
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blubak
 
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Originally Posted by DirectAnywhere
The problem they've got now:

- Four new community cases today, two are currently unlinked to the previous positive individuals.
- The brother of the first positive last week was unknowingly infectious in the community for up to two weeks.
- Two of today's positives travelled to Byron while infectious.
- One of today's positives travelled to Gladstone while infectious.

QLD health KNEW last Friday that they had unknown community transmission going on. It was confirmed genomically that it was linked to the cluster from two weeks prior, meaning it had potentially been going on for that period. This was always a far riskier situation than a single positive cleaner being out in the community, which led to the previous lockdown. God only knows, when the risk was clearly higher, that there was no lockdown last week and masks weren't mandated until today.

It’s also amazing how we’ve gone from being ‘very comfortable’ on the weekend to the now standard ‘this is highly transmissable, tricky virus etc.’.

You’d also have to question the timing of the lockdown. Done by Thursday, all set for the Easter weekend. Sorry Anastasia. The damage is done to QLD tourism for these holidays - again.
If they had called it on friday when indeed they had many of the facts they have today we may well not be in this mess.
They have blatantly let it get a head start on them whilst once again screwing tourism,wonder if she is still keeping queenslanders safe!
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