Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "7NEWS Australia"
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Umm, what?
Singing, dancing and speaking loudly in and of themselves DO NOT spread CoVID-19, what an absolutely anti-intellectual, pseudoscientific thing to say.
Gladys is emotionally driven, she doesn't make her decisions based on medical evidence.
Greater Sydney currently has multiple clusters underway and sporadic isolated cases. Of course Sydney's new year's eve celebrations shouldn't be going ahead. The last thing Sydney needs is a bunch of people close to one another.
But that has nothing to do with singing, dancing or speaking loudly. Even if I'm yelling as loud as possible, the evidence is that CoVID-19 can not be flung a distance greater than 1m. That's why we have the 1.5m rule.
The ONLY exception is if the person is subject to deep spasmatic coughing, such as that brought on whilst testing for CoVID-19, whereby that deep lung coughing can project the virus up to 5m.
Small, at home get togethers with groups of 10 or fewer, pose little risk even if they sing, dance or ... Speak loudly. That's what should be announced. Public events cancelled, up to 10 people in a home max, restrictions on travel outside of neighbouring suburbs.
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Large sporting matches create millions in revenue for the host city via spectator spending.
A 1/4-1/2 of spectators will travel to a large sporting venue by public transport for example. That generates large percentage of revenue for public transit that is integral to their operating budgets. Without that money public transport ceases to be a viable service to offer.
A portion of those who drive to the venue will try to get cheap or free parking by parking in the surrounding streets. This generates significant revenue for council via parking fines. An event like this is always part of their enforcement strategy because it's such a large part of revenue. There will be a team of inspectors dedicated to the area who arrive about 30-40 minutes after the match starts.
Spectators overall tend to do more than go from home/office to sporting venue then straight back home. They tend to go from the sporting venue to pubs, bars and restaurants injecting money into the hospitality sector.
As it's a test match it draws in interstate tourists (and usually international ones as well), who spend money on accommodation, restaurants, retail, transport, entertainment, sightseeing, etc.
Large annual events like this test match represent a massive clunk of a states economy, and of a host cities operating budgets.
When QLD took the AFL & NRL earlier in the year they stole a chunk of the economy from Victoria and NSW. Berejiklian was upset over the cricket because she was worried QLD would do the same to cricket.
To be clear, the budget Sydney councils and NSW state government released earlier in the year rely in part on money from these sporting events. Without it, those budgets no longer work and it effects services.
That's why they're so adamant that the test match goes ahead. And why QLD is all too happy to create special bubbles for large sporting matches and host all of the teams.
It's money, but it isn't coming from Cricket Australia. It's coming from the fans.
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