The universities have been starving for their Asians, so they must come in. Grieving Victorians, bah, you can stay home. Don’t you know that the universities need the cash, Australia needs its Asians or it ceases to exist. Asia, Asia, Asia … say it as a religious mantra. It is worth being hung for.
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/coronavirus-south-australia-lets-in-chinese-students-bans-grieving-victorians/news-story/7595581e8cd9d8c62a895cd420fe4113
“South Australia will let in 300 foreign students, many Chinese, but it won't let in Victorians desperate to comfort their sick or dying mothers. Meanwhile, Victoria extorts land tax from private businesses going bust from its bans, to fund pay rises for public servants. My editorial from The Bolt Report.”
It makes sense to me. As much sense as what is happening here in Victoria:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/aug/24/melbourne-stage-4-restrictions-and-covid-lockdown-rules-explained
“When can I leave my house? You are only allowed to leave your house for four reasons: shopping for food and essential items, care and caregiving, daily exercise and work. Employers must support you to work from home if you can work from home. Unlike stage three, there is now a curfew on Melbourne residents between 8pm and 5am. Caregiving includes managing shared custody arrangements, using a babysitter, leaving home to care for animals housed elsewhere, visiting someone in an aged care home and visiting someone in hospital. Specific directions apply. You can leave your house if you are at risk of family violence or to apply for an intervention order, and to attend court or a police station. You can also leave your house to access medical services. This time around, that explicitly includes leaving your house to give blood. Access to medical services is unrestricted: you can access them anywhere in Victoria. How far can I travel from home? Shopping for food and necessary supplies must be within 5km distance from your home, except if the nearest supermarket is further than 5km. Only one person per household can leave to go shopping per day. Exercise must take place within 5km of home, and must be in metropolitan Melbourne. Exercise is limited to one hour, once per day. What are the rules for exercise? Exercise is still a permitted reason to leave your house. But you will not be allowed to leave metropolitan Melbourne to exercise, meaning long bush walks or leaving Melbourne to go fishing or golfing are no longer permitted. Exercise can only happen within 5km of home, and must be in metropolitan Melbourne. Exercise is limited to one hour, once per day. As of 19 August, you are allowed to drive to a location in order to exercise there, but your destination must be within 5kms of your home and must be the closest practicable location.
Time spent in the car driving to and from your location included in the one-hour time limit. Swimming pools, playgrounds and gyms will be shut, and community sport will also stop. You can exercise with one other person, including members of your household. What are the rules for wearing masks? It has been mandatory for people in metropolitan Melbourne and the Mitchell shire to wear face coverings in public since midnight on Wednesday 22 July. That rule was extended to the entire state from midnight Sunday 2 August. People must wear a mask or covering whenever leaving the house. There are a few exceptions. People with a medical reason are exempt, as are children younger than 12. Those who have a professional reason are also exempt and “if it’s just not practical, like when running”, but those people will still be expected to carry a face covering at all times “to wear when you can”. In schools, teachers will not need to wear a face covering while teaching, but students attending classes will. Both teachers and students will need to wear a mask on the way to and from school. Andrews said “common sense” would guide how the new rules are enforced. Breaking the rules is punishable with a $200 fine. Is my municipality or suburb included? All local government areas within metropolitan Melbourne are affected. That includes:
Banyule, Hume, Moreland, Bayside, Kingston, Mornington Peninsula, Boroondara, Knox, Nillumbik, Brimbank, Manningham, Port Phillip, Cardinia, Maribyrnong, Stonnington, Casey, Maroondah, Whitehorse, Darebin, Melbourne, Whittlesea, Frankston, Melton, Wyndham, Glen Eira, Monash, Yarra, Greater Dandenong, Moonee Valley, Yarra Ranges, Hobsons Bay. Regional Victoria returned to stage three restrictions from Thursday 6 August. Can I have visitors to my house? Can I see my partner? You cannot have visitors or go to another person’s house unless it is for the purpose of giving or receiving care. You can leave your house to visit a person if you are in an “intimate personal relationship” with them. That is, there is no “bonk ban”. If your partner lives outside Melbourne and/or 5km of your home you can still visit them. If you stay at your partner’s place after 8pm, you must stay there until the next morning. That is, you can’t go home from there between 8pm and 5am. Cleaners, tradespeople, gardeners, painters and renovators are not allowed to visit your house for work. Exceptions exist for emergency issues like a burst pipe, and for providing care for welfare and wellbeing like Meals on Wheels . But “it’s not the time to be painting your house or having unnecessary, non-urgent work happen,” Andrews said on Monday. Do I have to stay in Melbourne? The stay-at-home rules apply to your main place of residence so you will not be able to get out of Melbourne and stay in your holiday house. The government says this is to stop the virus being spread to other parts of the state. Can I still dine in at a restaurant or cafe? No. Restaurants and cafes will only be able to trade as takeaway and delivery businesses.’”
Clearly these measures do not go far enough. Victorians must have even these freedoms taken away, no shopping at all, no exercise, not being permitted to leave their house, wearing a mask while showering and sleeping, toilet functions only permitted by special permit, and confinement to air-proof steel safes, the rest of the time, and if bad children, all of the time. Only then might we be able to control the deadliest threat facing Victorians since Ned Kelly, a relative, I think. Most importantly, all political satire must be punished by being hung by the neck until dead. But, we cannot do this in public, unfortunately … social distancing. We need to get deadly serious, at least until the next gold rush.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8657179/Dan-Andrews-says-Victorias-lockdown-extended-September-stay-place-YEAR.html
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-17/qld-hospital-rejects-nsw-mother-of-sick-newborn-amid-covid-fears/12564936