Research has shown high compliance is better achieved with high population awareness of the pandemic and high trust in leadership.
Update: Now Melbourne is in lockdown stage four
I'm wearing a mask whenever I leave my apartment, for four essential reasons only. We have an 8pm to 5am curfew. I cannot visit anyone.
Note to all Australia. Do not be complacent. The pandemic moves with you.
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As the US experience shows us:
First the virus came for the elderly and vulnerable, But I was not worried because I was not old or a Victorian. Next it came for the poor and disadvantaged, but I kept partying because I was not poor or disadvantaged. Next it came for me; but it was too late to contain it.
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