Never seen somebody narrate their own posting before

Can you take your fake expertise on this somewhere else? 

Write down the opinion I'm allowed to have and I'll sign to it

This is important to note. The approach Queensland is taking is the approach that was agreed by the AHPPC if a case of the new UK variant was out and about in the community. The three days gives the contact tracers a lot of time to find out where close contacts have been and put the necessary people in isolation. 

One of the problems with the haphazard lockdowns, restrictions and rules we have seen over the last few months is they become indistinguishable to the general public as to which lockdowns are for fun and which ones are warranted. Like Victorians being mandated to wear masks in all situations for 35 consecutive days without a case, and being thrown back into them because of 3 generation 1 passes to known contacts

People get weary, skeptical and upset over the constant needless hardship and over reaction. You honestly cant blame people for getting emotional and see this as "yet again another fucking lockdown"

If this was a pre planned purposeful agreement that met a threshold then I apologise. I accept I was wrong on this point at least

But the broader premise of my view point stands. Australia need to get a handle on this because there is more to this virus than lockdown and masks. Every single measure, rule and law needs to be backed by substantial medical science and only implemented if it is proven to have a significant effect on driving numbers downwards

If Queensland need 3 days and they have been given 3 days as part of a prior approved agreement then lets see how this unfolds. If this just sets the precedent for lockdowns every time we see the new strain, of which there are already half a dozen in Victorian hotel rooms, then Australia are playing a dangerous game with a public that is currently 90% compliant

These border closures, these state leaders doing what they want because its a pissant constitution ofcourse, has ripped the A League a new one.
So, from me to the leaders, eat shit and get diarrhea mongrels!
That Alsatian with three chins from Qld would Not do this while State of Origin is on.
Do-gooder on this site goodbye, don't post again, not interested in the closures and whats good for me.

Fair play by bluebird he/she explains themselves well and doesn’t get caught up in the emotion of it. 

So..... For all those who feel/believe the steps taken currently is overboard/overreacting due to the current extreme low number of case(s), what is YOUR magic number of cases (and/or deaths) before you believe that these types of steps should be activated/taken by the government(s)??

This isnt about numbers and statistics

Australia has a suppression approach. There are 22 million cases world wide bombarding our shorelines every day. Having some enter the community is inevitable, even the new strain, or which there are already 6 in Victoria (by last count I read). We have to learn to live with this. Thats the reality of it. With the strict quarantine measures we have in place, compliance on social distancing and hygiene, awareness programs, compliance with isolation, and small numbers allowing contact tracing, we'll never be in a position we are overrun by this (one botched outbreak aside which was the exception, not the rule). We saw 50 cases in Adelaide, about 180 in Sydney, currently 1 in Brisbane. We saw about 30 or 40 in Tasmania at one stage. Not devastating stuff

The majority (more than half) of cases are asymptomatic which means by the time the patient presents it is already too late. It has been bubbling around for 1-2 weeks and may have passed 2-3 generations. But it is not too late to contact trace, send messages of awareness, and get on top of things before hospital systems are overwhelmed. We cant stop it, but we can control it. Thats why we have a suppression approach

I dont think people here appreciate how difficult they are making life for people by throwing borders shut on a whim, throwing people into lockdown on a whim, rule after rule, restriction after restriction, not even waiting a day to see if things are effective before trying something else. The response is being driven by panic, fear and politics. It is not practical to bounce in and out of complete disruption. The cure can't be worse than the disease and whatever is going on overseas, we shut our borders for a reason

If I had to put a "magic" number on it, I'd say 5 unrelated* infected households in a region is declared a hot spot. Restrictions should be containment (nobody allowed to leave or enter without a permit) and reduction of upper threshold of numbers only. As for a definition of an outbreak, it has to be an uncontrollable number of community transmission (stranger to stranger)

This virus move slowly. There is a good 2-3 weeks after the last case before we can say it is definitively eliminated. Rules and restrictions for 5-6 weeks at a time simply isnt sustainable. QLD is in a prepare to act stage. Nothing more

*any friends, family, work mates or close contacts - predictable people who are likely to be called into isolation as with Victoria's latest - is a related household and a count of 1

Single figures in cases, go away, another match taken away. Three chins is determined to keep ambushing my sport. Sell your story to the leftie ABC.

Apart from the game getting postponed, how is any of this related to Football or the Roar v Victory game? Yeah that's right, nothing. Keep the comments on here to football related discussion - there's plenty of other places where you can have a sook & crap on about politics

The game got postponed did you know or what? That other post had too much detail, yes.

This has nothing to do with the game, but corona chat is here. My friend got a call from Vic Health telling them to isolate, because of a supposed contact 16 days before! WTF. Also no info on what or who was the contact. Does this sound right? 

Oh, but it has everything to do with the game, the fact the match got postponed on a whim.
What you found out, 16 days might be alright.

Contact tracing has been established to deal with small numbers of cases. It was successfully used in Brisbane when we had tens of cases, in SA, and in NSW. But now a single case is enough to lockdown 3 million people. 

New lockdown is a joke 

This is the part people dont realise. Yes lockdowns can be a bit of a laugh but there is no threshold for ending them

Take Victoria for example: Threshold for going into lockdown - 50 cases a day. Threshold for coming out of lockdown - complete elimination. Penalty for outbreak - being fined for not wearing a mask for the duration of the pandemic

And lockdowns as a precaution like what we have now are worse because there is always an element of risk and uncertainty

As I said, this virus takes shape slowly. You need 28 days of no transmission to be sure this particular outbreak has been beaten. Now let me explain the significance of the words in bold:

Melbourne had an outbreak late October, Adelaide had one mid November, Sydney had one mid December, and now Brisbane may be facing one. There are 22 million cases worldwide and the outbreaks we are having as a result are increasing

Now if the response is going to be a standard 5-6 weeks of precautionary hardship then Australia, like Victoria, will be in a permanent state of heavy handed rules, restrictions and regulations. By the time the lockdown rules have finished the state is ready for the next one. Victoria had 3 weeks of freedom before our "2021 like no other" promises were taken away from us in fear that 3 contacts sitting in isolation would turn us into America

Australia has lost its grip on this thing. We're not like other countries where they are dealing with thousands of cases each day, constant introductions of patient zeroes, hundreds of dead each day, non compliance, chaos etc... We have a simple cycle of quarantine to cut out 99.99% of infections, small outbreaks, contact tracing to manage it, and precautionary social distancing and hygiene practices for the public

If the response doesnt match the risk people will simply overreact to match the energy of the decision makers like we have seen with panic buying and fleeing, or stop complying like we saw during the Melbourne outbreak

Victoria closing their borders to people travelling from greater Brisbane, I wouldn't expect this game to be held in the next week now.

The person who “travelled widely on public transport” with this new super-fast spreading virus has so far failed to pass it on to anyone ... a week later.
No. cases in Brisbane today = ZERO (same as yesterday)
No. cases in Brisbane in last 115 days = 1
No. People in lockdown = 2,000,000+

I think people tend to forget we have a good system in place for stopping this from spreading before we even know its there. Its not too much to think the rule makers will have faith in their own systems

How many times has your house burnt down? 

3 day lockdown to prevent a much longer lockdown later

Are you sure three days lockdown is enough Waz? Perhaps we just should never go out again ... that’s the safest option.
Insurance is why we have quarantine, testing plus contact tracing. This lockdown is more like you having house insurance but then never cooking or lighting a candle in your house ... just in case your house burns down.
I suppose you’re all for wearing masks inside your car when driving alone ... just in case, right?

Do you pack up your stuff and your family each night and evacuate? Becuase if you did, in the event there is a fire, you'll stand a much better chance

Insurance doesnt stop your house from burning down. It gives you money in the event it does

If you're talking about a physical emergency response being undertaken by the general population then it has to be tied to an active threat

If lockdown is an insurance, and insurance is warranted, then it should be permanent. because the point being made is the risk today for Brisbane is the same as it was over 100 days ago, and the same as it will be 100 days from now

literally people all over the world hoping their governments were as strong as ours in having the balls to go into hard lockdowns. Some people don't realise how lucky we are. The US is on fire, the UK is on fire. Why? because they didn't do enough to eliminate the tinder, we are eliminating the tinder and any other form of flammables.

You wouldn't live in a burning house and then realise, should i get the hose now, or should I wait until it's in my bedroom?  Do the hard yards until we get a functioning vaccine, then we can start harping on about how many numbers is too much for a lockdown. 

If there really are people wishing this, why wouldn’t they simply go into their own hard lockdown? Or are you suggesting that these governments are mandating that people leave their homes or not wear masks?
If I thought I needed to keep my family locked down I would not wait for the government to tell me to do it. Is this what society has become? Seriously?

That simply isnt true:
1/ Australia has quarantine at the border where as other countries dont. This means we dont have a continual influx of patient zeroes
2/ Australia has regulated social distancing nationwide with an estimated 90% compliance which is enough for our low viral activity

To say that the other countries can beat the virus by lockdown is naive. The minute a country comes out of lockdown they are simply hit by another wave and thrown back into it. The situation other countries are in you simply cannot fathom and it doesnt change for another 12 months. To say this can be beaten by rules and nagging is an insult and implies their leaders are simply watching their citizens dies because they dont have a red panic button

Australia simply doesnt have the viral activity to warrant the response some people are demanding. Like ClockworkOrange said, this woman was on the same magic carpet ride tour of the state that everybody with the virus seems to take and not a single person infected. We have a system that eliminates the virus that other countries simply dont have the luxury of

Once we destroy compliance with non-sensical or heavy handed laws then all we are left with is quarantine and prayer books

You mean like you wouldn’t have people working in a quarantine hotel, but let them catch public transport to and from work ... oh, wait. 

The people who are hoping for that probably are. 

And no. Quite obviously.  I think the majority of people know why these places have found it difficult to stem the flow, if you don't, I can only suggest some catching up of current affairs.

Question: do you think we should automatically go into hard lockdown every time there is a single COVID case say in the next two years?