XPost: alt.global-warming   
   From: noneof@yourbusiness.com   
      
   On 6/25/2020 3:43 PM, MrPostingRobot@kymhorsell.com wrote:   
   > For the past couple weeks cases in Melbourne have been spiking up.  It   
   > started with a couple days with more than 10 new cases.  That kept up   
   > for a week and yesterday there was another jump up to 33 new cases in   
   > a day.   
   >   
   > Testing is free and mostly run on a drive-thru basis.  (Do not get out   
   > of your car, say the signs).  On TV news there are lines starting   
   > early morning that grow to miles long.   
      
   Where I live (Texas) testing is conducted in sparsely scattered   
   drive-through spots and you can get it only with a doctor's order.   
      
   > And in the past couple of days we've seen a return to hoarding.   
   > Yesterday went to local PLAZA and dozens of old people were streaming   
   > out with baskets full of toilet paper. In the supermarket 1/2 the   
   > place had been taken over with a single brand of paper that was   
   > stacked up to the ceiling and on special. No *intending* to create any   
   > panic, of course.   
      
   Same here, the daily case count soared and paper products immediately   
   disappeared from the shelves. 2-item maximums were implemented.   
      
   > And today authorities are targeting 10 mostly outer Melbourne suburbs   
   > and will go door to door conducting what I assume will be compulsory   
   > covid19 tests under the state emergency laws which have been extended   
   > for another month. They had been due to end sometime around now.  The   
   > door-knock will last for 10 days.   
      
   A wise policy. Here in redneck countryside (chock full of guns) the   
   door-knockers might need an armed police escort, "ain't no gubmint   
   gonna stick a swab up mah nose"!   
      
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