The Victorian Government has extended Melbourne’s lockdown for another two weeks and imposed a raft of new restrictions.
From midnight tonight until 2 September:
- A nightly curfew will be imposed between 9pm and 5am.
- Public playgrounds, basketball hoops, skate parks and outdoor exercise equipment will also be closed.
- People will not be allowed to remove their masks to drink alcohol in public.
- The two-hours of daily exercise is only limited to those within the same household in their 5km radius.
- Essential worker permits are also being reintroduced from Tuesday.
As someone with two young kids, this is devastating news. Playgrounds were one of the few things keeping them (and us) sane.
I view these new rules as overly harsh and a good way of losing faith with the public. A few idiots doing the wrong thing should not lead to punishing 99% of the population doing the right thing. Especially when we’ve already suffered through six months of lockdowns. Why not simply punish the wrongdoers?
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I’d be interested in readers’ views.
