Thanks. I don't want to overstate what Melbourne's facing, nor undersell it either. Obviously 200-250 new cases per day is tiny compared to what some parts of the US and elsewhere have been through, but we never really had a proper first wave here, and it's now mid-winter, so I guess the situation is ripe to become much worse unless we manage to get on top of this quickly.
Some politician who's probably been watching too many superhero movies perhaps unwisely declared the city to be in a 'ring of steel'. It's not that extreme, but it's certainly unprecedented that every major road out of Melbourne now has a police road block on it preventing anyone from heading out of town without valid cause, while I'm currently sitting here 50 miles away typing this looking out over one of my local beaches in near-complete freedom. Weird times.
