The last match of the weekend 

The round is over bud 

They play again in Brisbane Sunday night but you could argue we could use the same match thread 

Oh wow - my bad! 

We were supposed to play you guys but due to nsw being declared a red zone . We now play Brisbane again 

Gotcha. Feels super weird seeing the identical match up back to back in the league. 

3:1 Roar

3 Day lock down announced for Brisbane 

game will be off. 

But apparently Redcliffe isn't brisbane according to some fans? Lol lol 

It isn't. It's in Moreton, which is one of the areas lockdown, along with Brisbane and three others.

Can we stop this debate though. Dolphin is the closest alternative stadium - where it is isn’t the issue

Officially postponed now.

Perhaps only until mid next week, neither team have a game the following weekend.

Hope you didn't pay for flights Pala.

Nah I held off, all good.

Dont be surprised if the lockdown is extended.
They should move the game to Sunshine Coast.

Given the standard window for understanding the virus is 14 days I'd be very surprised if there wasn't an 11 day set of restrictions on the way to round off the current 3 day lockdown. We saw this with Adelaide

We also know throwing a region into a lockdown is the easy part. There are no thresholds or plans for getting a region out of lockdown

I know the govts. are being ultra cautious here with these lockdowns and border closes but this cant be a reliable solution for 2021, unless the vaccine program is ramped up to the point where the population reaches herd immunity levels.

We need better solutions, by this rate the season won't be complete not by June by later down the track later in the year and this is bad because the of Fox sports contract.

From memory there were more active and new cases in Qld in October when they had the AFL final than what we have today.  Nothing beats the consistency in govt and bureaucratic decision making.

It's because it's the UK variant. 

.... and because contact tracing has established she moved widely throughout the city on public transport. So they actually can’t target one suburb with testing as they did with the last outbreak. 

So the 2.8 million people who haven't used public transport are still probably not at risk, right? Same goes for the people that weren't actually on her train/bus (unless the new variant has super powers)?

Seems Sydney's contact tracing is able to identify specifci bus routes and train trips so they simply tell those on those servcies to isolate. Brisbane's tracing has narrowed it down to "she moved widely throughout the city on public transport". Magnificant use of technology.

Hilarious. One case in 113 days and known to have come from overseas quarantine.  What to do? Do we stop people bringing the virus back to Australia? - No, international flights still coming in - bring it on. But let's shutdown a city of 3 million people. Better still - let's tell people they will be in mortal danger after 6pm tonight so that shopping centres are totally packed for the next 6 hours!! 
But the virus was apparently not contagious yesterday when they first knew of this and in fact is only contagious after 6pm tonight so all good.

The good news is this highly contagious virus strain that is an extreme risk is only going to be so for 3 days

Australia have really lost the plot with its response. Ever since the Victorian outbreak, overcautious haphazard rules have become the normal

The WHO specifically said lockdowns arent a mechanism for beating the virus and only serve the purpose of buying time so regions overwhelmed by large numbers have time to get their resources in check. But what do they know?

1 fucking case and a major city is shut down. And we see the standard response of half the city panic buying while the other half try to flee

The virus isn't contagious until 6pm, so it is quite ok for Brisbanites to flee for the Gold Coast and Sunshine coast before then.

This is actually a textbook response and is perfect. It maybe could have been done last night starting today that’s all. 

Australia has a suppression strategy, not an elimination strategy. There is 1 fucking case and by the time they get contact tracers out over the next 48 hours they might find 2 or 3. Big deal

The situation is far from dire

I dont think you understand how impractical it is for every major region to yoyo in and out of lockdown everytime there is a case. We have seen this with Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney and now Brisbane. 4 major lockdowns in a 2 month period, with an estimated 12 months before our circumstances change

Panic buying, economic hardship, closures, disruptions to life and sport, inconsistency, fatigue, mental health issues etc...etc...etc...

We have never been in a situation where 1 case has been deemed too overwhelming and worthy of keeping things in check until contact tracers get on top of things. Australia has changed tact and it is the furthest thing from a good response

For 9 months as a Victorian I have been waiting for the day we catch up to the other states. It has become increasingly apparent we're at the standard and you guys are going to come to us

Fuckwit after Fuckwit posting their ignorance and hatred.

Absolutely no respect for the familys of the 820 Victorians who died of Covid in the last uncontrolled outbreak.  No respect for the pain and suffering of millions of Victorians that stood and followed the rules and brought that horror to a halt.

Now we face a new and greater threat from a new direction and the callous pieces of shit want to see more death and suffering because somehow a game of football is important.

Even the Trumpist simp that is the Nation's Prime Minister gets it:

'This isn't any ordinary strain'

"I know they will be some in Brisbane today asking 'why is this necessary? There is only one case. '" said Prime Minster Scott Morrison."Well, this isn't any ordinary case."This is a very special case and one that requires us to treat things quite differently until we know more and we will learn much in the next few days.

"What Queenslanders will be doing over the next few days, they will be doing not just for themselves and their own communities, but for the rest of the country.

"So again, I thank you for the patience you will have to show in relation to disruption, we know it causes disruption. But we're also quite short that it is the prudent course action given the circumstances.

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

So now that we know that the person had the amazingly contagious UK strain and had more than 140 ‘close contacts’ but only passed it on to her partner, how about we reduce the level of alarmism?

Better stock up on dunny paper Brisbane its gonna be a bumpy ride....

I know .... just imagine what restrictions the government will impose if cases double (to 2) by Tuesday? Hardly worth thinking about.

I just checked and 206 countries have more than 1 active case

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.

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. 

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

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.

New lockdown is a joke 

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? 

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

3 day lockdown to prevent a much longer lockdown later

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?

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? 

We have set up our Covid response where a case is treated like the end of the world, especially ifs it’s outside NSW.

This all goes back to the start where most of the country eliminated Covid by fluke, we never learnt to live with it.

it will be absolute chaos if the UK strain gets us.

Do you understand the difference between 1-3 infected people leaving quarantine vs thousands of infected people entering a country each day. The situation for us vs other countries cant even be compared. You're talking as if other countries havent worked it out yet

As much as you want to think other countries are in the wrong by simply not staying in lockdown, I bet there are plenty of people around the world scratching their heads as to why the 3 biggest cities in Australia are under restrictions on a day where there was 1 case new announced. We're fighting a war simulation with paintball bullets

I have friends in the UK, one of them fit as fiddle. Does iron man and shit like that. Has covid now says it absolutely fuckin wrecked him, has completely lost his sense of smell and taste, feels exhausted a lot. Don't know about you, but I'd rather deal with the lockdowns and shit for a few more months until the vaccines roll out rather than deal with potentially permanent damage to my lungs and losing 2 of my 5 senses in my 30's. I couldn't give a fuck if people over seas are scratching their heads.

Ok. Meanwhile numerous premier league players get COVID, do their quarantine and go straight back into the starting line up. But let’s lock down the world because your mate felt poorly.
In Australia there’s  currently more chance of dying in a car accident than dying of COVID. Better stay under your bed.

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. 

Howe the hell have MV only played 1 game 3 weeks in to season? I understand one game postponed wasnt it? Or have two been postponed? This is ludicrous

No it’s not. If Victory and Roar had played, Australia could now be in the same situation as the UK. You know it’s true.

It was a GOOD GAME though 😁

MV were shell shocked and are in hiding still recuperating 😂 

If the FFA (or whoever is in charge of scheduling), had moved the Sydney teams and Wellington to somewhere like the gold coast on a temporary basis, this would not have occurred. it would have been full steam ahead. The cynic in me wonders if this would have happened if it was Melbourne. anyway…

From a Victory POV, this is probably a good thing. We have been able to get a few solid weeks of training in together and we will be going to Adelaide with a full squad.

Also, spare a thought for Perth who are yet to play.   

The amount of disruption is insane, countries where the virus is 100x worse aren't facing this 

There’s a clue in what you’ve said as to WHY Australia isn’t 100x worse.