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The New York Times reports:
Defying a statewide stay-at-home order and a worsening local outbreak driven by the Delta variant, 3,500 mostly maskless protesters clashed with police officers on Saturday in downtown Sydney, Australia’s largest city. The protest, against the city’s month-long lockdown, raised fears of adding to Sydney’s caseload.
“You don’t have to be an epidemiologist to work out that if this is a superspreader event, we can forget about lifting restrictions next week,” David Elliott, the minister for police and emergency services of New South Wales, told reporters.
Officers arrested 57 people with more under investigation, facing hefty fines and penalties. There were also protests in Melbourne and Adelaide, which are under lockdowns, and in Brisbane, where there are no restrictions.
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Some tweets below are from right wingers.
People are saying Enough is Enough in #Sydney.
Let your voices be heard. We’ re all fed up with governments protecting us to death. pic.twitter.com/qr5WcoQ1dq— Abir Ballan (@abirballan) July 24, 2021
Americans, when you watch Australian cops bashing the crap out of Aussies for exercising their right to protest, I just want to remind you that Australians are completely disarmed.
That’s all 🙂pic.twitter.com/NTMeTi2sOq
— Sydney Watson (@SydneyLWatson) July 24, 2021
For comparison, here was the mask wearing during last year’s Sydney #BLM March. pic.twitter.com/A4oxZLGPPr
— Hugh Riminton (@hughriminton) July 24, 2021
Australians can do better than mob rule.Yes the Morrison Govt has failed us all badly on vaccines. But that does not justify breaching public health ordinances like we saw today in our major cuties and creating a larger threat. We’re all in this together. https://t.co/dshMlBz8oh
— Kevin Rudd (@MrKRudd) July 24, 2021
The chant as maskless masses confronted police in Sydney – “you serve us.”
There’s just a touch of January 6 about all of this.#sydneyprotests pic.twitter.com/tEMTTF1Cnr— Hugh Riminton (@hughriminton) July 24, 2021
Anti-lockdown protests in Sydney Australia pic.twitter.com/lulDEL7iFg
— Flaco (@frankadak01) July 24, 2021
Statement from NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian on today’s lockdown protest in the Sydney CBD. pic.twitter.com/vsNxGRslUs
— Michaela Whitbourn (@MWhitbourn) July 24, 2021