South Australia began a lockdown today where everything done outdoors is banned. No exercise, no dog-walking, nothing. Only one person per household will be allowed to leave home each day and only for essential reasons. Everything is closed: schools, universities, cafes and restaurants. No weddings or funerals are permitted. I guess when someone dies their kin is sposta sling them out the door.
It’s a shame these folk gave up all of their weapons, now they have to eat whatever shit sandwich their benevolent leaders toss their way.
Updated at 14:20 Central:
On Friday, embarrassed officials said they would lift the restrictions two days early because they discovered the entire panicked “circuit-breaker” lockdown was triggered by false statements made to contact tracers.
South Australia’s two million residents said they were “shocked” and “angry” when the harsh new lockdown was abruptly imposed after months of zero coronavirus transmissions. A “cluster” of 36 coronavirus infections linked to a returning traveler from the United Kingdom raised concerns from local health officials.
The state went into panic mode when a man who tested positive for Chinese coronavirus told contact tracers he got sick after stopping to buy a pizza at the Woodville Pizza Bar in Adelaide, where several workers had become infected.
Concluding that a highly contagious strain of the virus was leaping from pizzeria employees to their customers, officials declared a six-day lockdown and very literally placed the entire population under house arrest. Only a single person from each household was permitted to leave home and only for a very narrow list of purposes, such as buying groceries. Weddings and funerals were canceled as virtually every business was shut down.
Residents were told they should ask the government for permission to go outside so they could exercise, get a little fresh air, or walk their dogs. To the amazement of both South Australians and observers around the world, the government started telling them “no.