Thread by @GrayConnolly

Welcome to the Sydney Lockdown day 79 ….

[Sydney Harbour Bridge and northern CBD from Luna Park]

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Gladystan 11am briefing with Gladys & Dr Chant - New South Wales in the last 24 hours:
- NSW now at 45.6% fully vaccinated
- NSW now at 78.1% first dose
- NSW has 1262 new local cases

NSW remains on track for 70% fully vaccinated by mid October

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Dr Chant emphasising that even healthy people who are unvaccinated can get Covid and die. Also on current trajectory, NSW should get to 80% first dose by Wednesday

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Dr Chant says the sewage surveillance shows the virus is now all over NSW and again is why our future solution is only (and was only ever) getting vaccinated, not lockdowns that seem to just not work (unless you want to resemble a Warsaw Pact member)

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This is awful and needs fixing @GladysB @BradHazzard - recall that @JimWilsonMedia was very good on this last week. Sydney is already too stratified as it is now.

"Basketball hoops were taken down in the south-western suburb of Greenacre this weekend."

sbs.com.au/news/sydney-re…

Even the ABC evening news is now running special segments on postCovid reopening of Australia & the damage done by lockdowns - in case you had doubts on the national mood changing

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Not sure who runs the Sydney ABC news but that segment on obvious disparities between coastal and western Sydney smacked of people in the western suburbs should make the best of the gross inequities they are subjected to right now re beach access

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