On August 10, I wrote about a potential health disaster looming for Victoria, Australia, following a statement made by its premier Daniel Andrews about mandatory self-isolation. You can find that article here: Lock Up Covid-19 Quarantine Repeat Offenders Two weeks prior, the premier had said that 25% of those meant to be self-isolating at home with Covid-19 had not been found when door-knocked: that roughly, a couple of hundred known people with Covid-19, were potentially walking the streets each day. Shortly after, on August 2, with Covid-19 infections out of control, he placed Victoria in a State of Disaster with Melbourne under the country’s harshest lockdown called “Stage 4” and the State’s first ever curfew. In doing so, he made the point of announcing that self-isolators…
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