CV and mad panic behaviour

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Opening regionally is interesting, because despite case numbers being low or zero, vaccination rates in some regional areas are low as well. There is no uniform uptake of vaccine in NSW and Vic regional areas, and it's even worse in SA and Qld.

I presume that governments are happy to accept the risk in low population density regions, as they can handle the case load using city hospitals, but that assumes the suburban regions don't have any significant outbreak. I'm not sure what happens in Vic if the modelling turns out to be true, they got the counts  95% correct in NSW but were out in the timing duration. In Vic the modellers are saying we will get to 3000 positive cases a day.

Up in NSW apparently there were some nasty scenes overnight when some of the big chain stores opened, people cracked it when they rolled up to find they had to join a queue and numbers were still being restricted on entry, social distancing measures were still enforced, I'm not sure why they would think it wouldn't be that way! They must have thought they could role up at midnight and waltz into the department store like they were back in 2019. I appreciate this might be a minority of trouble makers, some needing genuine assistance while others are deliberately trying to stir up trouble. We will know in 10 to 14 days if this turns sour, I know the UK suffered a significant spike after opening that took many weeks of public health hell to resolve.