Dutchy wrote:Get the feeling our lockdown is being driven by Canberra and we are the Guinea Pigs to test a short/sharp/harsh lockdown for the rest of the country.
Not far off the mark - Canberra guidelines are deliberately high level to allow for local application based on that jurisdictions situation. its one of the reasons why NT went early with allowing border travel as with our low population it was an opportunity to see how interstate travel from non hot spot areas would work.
Its also due to the fact hat there are variations in the COVID and based on current information this is largely limited to the Northern suburbs and one particular cohort of people. Therefore as I've said previously the six days is to: 1. minimise community interactions to prevent transmission, 2) allow for testing results from Sun-Tue to be processed to determine how wide spread this is (update information in first line of this paragraph) 3, allow for contact tracers to do this job on current confirmed tests.
LAst thng you want is a hybrid restriction that still allows community contacts and next thing this out and about for months.
Everybody is hopefull that this is a six day thing not a two week plus thing.