There have long been concerns about overcrowding in the blocks, which often have shared laundry facilities and small units."Some public housing tenants have fled war or family violence," Victorian Council of Social Service chief executive Emma King said.
Australia's Deputy Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly said the tower lockdown was similar to approaches earlier this year in other parts of the world such as New York, China and in Europe.
In a choice of corruption and his job as opposed to avoiding the human toll of his ineptitude Chairman Dan put himself ahead of Victorians
Chairman Dan celebrates a pay rise while Victorians commit suicide at record levels.
Really
Over population.
Because people in there have no right to live. In fact none of the bottom 99% .
Here is a great facebook post description of life inside the flats:
A: We have DictatorDan in charge of this zoo.
CoronaBoner by DictatorDan auspol
Good
ugly tower block with small windows like prisons As humans have emotion living in a depressing tower would drag your mental state to being depressed
We need to get rid of politicians, why do we need them in the year 2020? what do they do for their enormous pay? there shouldn't even be kings and queens anymore! There's no way to question this government about anything and their well paid scientist. Please question everything.
😡 What a disgrace Victoria. Now the most vulnerable, many of whom are already on the edge and that need their freedoms to continue to work, have to pay the price of lockdown. Unbelievable. Hold yourselves to account and get it done.
'locked down'! They should be knocked down!
Well, may We say God save Victoria bcz Nothing will save the Health Min. JennyMikakos melbournelockdown
Racism? I'm sure that's the answer.
Because the fear torture has worked. Every decision made is out of fear, fear of dying, fear of friends dying, fear of spread, fear of gov. Fear. And so no one lives. The walking dead.
Because their welfare payments weren’t enough. This will get them more handouts.
Probably because the gov can’t trust the people in these places to follow the rules. The same reason why many (not all) of these people end up in the terrible situation that puts them in these horrid places to begin with
Why has it taken this long?
To further the propaganda of this fake virus........
Because security guards with 5 mins covid training, finish their shifts and go home to households where 3plus families live communally before heading out to drive taxis and Uber’s
We wonder what will happen when other towers get infected. The planning panels of the Greater Sydney Commission have and still are approving many dangerous and virus vulnerable high density 'developments'
Here in Sydney there's free Covid testing outside of at least one of our big public housing buildings. They're pretty obvious points for hotspots IMO. Not sure if who exactly is doing the testing though.
Hmm, not sure about this, those buildings look ominously like a stack of petri dishes 😟
Hmm, not sure about this; those buildings look ominously like a stack of petri dishes 😟
Let me think 🤔
With shared laundries and no balconies these people need respect and caring support. And whatever comforts they need to make the lockdown bearable.
Thanks to the BLM protest marches which were held 3 Saturdays in a row.Thanks to the Premier for allowing it. no 1 will admit it.We are not stupid. When those protest marches happened we ALL said the same thing.'Wait the 2 weeks and see what happens'and here we are
As if living in them isn't punishment enough.
I know the menu du jour is eat the rich, maybe for good reason. They’d eat the poor, but they’re infected.
Coronavirus cluster.
Why only the less well off and not the well to do? Are the rich not at just as much risk from this virus? Or does money have some strange unknown protective power?mistearious
MELBURNIANS!! The Pr...S that are promoting the spread of COVID are probably LNP motivated!! OUR Footy players having to go NTH. & our BUSINESSES delayed re- opening because of them!! FINES etc. cannot be BIG enough!!😡😷
when this happened in China, ppl said it was discrimination 🤔
WgarNews Don't you know?
Maybe because they have continued to ignore qmaybe because they ignored the restrictions.
Because they are poor and desperate people who got wind of the government's carrot of $1500 if they were positive for Covid or a close contact of someone who was. Now they are feeling the government's stick.
More importantly why do these fucking things still exist.. build fucking houses .. ffs
Time to be done with state politics. Get rid of them, give power to shires. This whole situation shows how useless a the system is
Because it is virus hot spot
Because they are poor.
Conflicted science, vested interests taking precedence over the truth. All based around inaccurate PCR test and terrible computer modeling by imperial college. In other words, a monumental FU!
I’m sure it will be racism 🙄
Because of this
Why are you asking this question when you know the answer.
Now watch the rate of home invasions drop. Great news
Prolly because they are full of lower socio-economic oiks who don't give a f**k about anyone else than themselves or their next meth hit?
To create a distraction from comrade Dan and his corrupt government of course.
Because the bogans can’t be trusted to manage themselves?
Lock down all of Victoria, instead of just picking on the most vulnerable.
Ummm maybe cause they’re a major source of the outbreak 🤔
Hope they don't miss work...
Dangerous Dan.
Because DicDan is an egotistical maniac who only knows locking everything up stupidly even just for a common cold virus that kills about 1% of the infected individuals BUT ignoring the detriment caused by unscientific approach using useless lockdowns. FEAR over FACTS dominates!
I'm an ABC fan... however, the strap line headers for their news grabs have been atrocious just lately. I do recall giving them a serve about 2 months ago, but...
BlackLivesMatters
Probably because the Melbourne public are on lock down.
If the abc has to ask that question no wonder there a reason 4 DefundTheABC
God, I hope they're giving those poor people adequate support.
Massive government overreaction fuelled by dodgy data modelling and media hysteria. DefundTheABC
pretty simple - to stop the spread of the virus