Everyone I know in sydney is quite frustrated but also fairly compliant, it’s a reasonably relaxed lockdown compared to others or Melbourne’s (unless you’re in

Everyone I know in sydney is quite frustrated but also fairly compliant, it’s a reasonably relaxed lockdown compared to others or Melbourne’s (unless you’re in one of the 8 local government areas at the epicentre). Personally, and as a doctor with many colleagues who are treating patients in this outbreak, we’ve had like 2800 positive cases (with a test positivity rate of ~0.01%, so we can be fairly confident we are reporting most of the cases) but have 150 patients in hospital and 58 in ICU at present including quite a scary number under 50. So, it’s warranted in my view, and for me personally, I’m 5 minutes walk to the beach and a swim every day in the middle of winter (there are no limits on hours of exercise) is quite a good life, but I’d like to be more free than I am now. However my livelihood hasn’t been affected, and it’s not overly affecting my mental health, and I sympathise with those who are at risk of losing their business or who are doing it hard psychologically (or trapped in abusive relationships). I should also point out that there is a fair bit of government support, but it’s been a bit slow coming and is being unevenly applied (ie Melbourne’s last lockdown basically got told to go suck it, liberal governments playing favourites). Generally, there is a lot of anger at the government’s bungling of the vaccine rollout which probably would have meant this whole thing didn’t have to happen