Of course NSW has lockdowns. Sydney in particular - which is where most of the cases are - has been in increasingly strict lockdown since June, and I think they've spent more time under lockdown than not since the start of the pandemic at this point. The lockdowns just haven't worked there.
Their lockdowns haven't worked because they have not been anywhere near strict enough.
As a Melburnian, looking at Sydney, I can't believe they call that a lockdown. Even right now with 200± cases daily, only 8 LGAs are in lockdown and even they are nowhere as strict as what we experienced in Melbourne. The rest of Sydney can only be described at what we here call Stage 2 restrictions.
We learnt this the hard way in Victoria last year, you need to go early, and you need to go hard. Since then we have managed to stamp out the virus using that strategy everytime it has entered our state. I just don't understand why the NSW government is reluctant to accept lessons from Victoria's experience in 2020.
If you talk to anyone in NSW, their lockdowns have been mockdowns. Nobody wearing masks, jewelry shops open because for some reason they are "essential" workers... no wonder their lockdown isn't working.
Compare that to Victoria. Last year, you would be stopped by police if you went out onto the road, and be fined without an essential working permit.
It's absolute insanity. One thing we know after 1.5 year of dealing with this is that outside in the sun is the least likely place one would catch the virus. Yet they are forcing people to stay locked in, not get sun, no gym, order eat out food and stay away from society. This would have been a perfect opportunity for governments to encourage healthy living, eating healthy, exercising, losing weight, doing cardio, going out and getting sun etc but they did the exact opposite.
