I’m fascinated by how many people are breaking the lockdown rules in New South Wales at the moment.

Every day, when the NSW authorities report the number of new cases, they also include the number of those infected people who were running around town while sick. 

And every day that number is double digits: today 20, yesterday 34, Saturday 29

Then you’ve got the seven people who got together at a field to play soccer against the rules, suspiciously without a soccer ball. 

You’ve got the three removal guys who knew they had Covid and travelled from Sydney to regional New South Wales anyway. 

You’ve got the crowds at Bondi this past weekend. 

And you had the truck convoy blocking the Harbour Bridge in protest at the lockdown.  

In just one day 20 people were charged and will be before the courts. 

240 people were given $1000 tickets.  

At this point you obviously ask: why are they ignoring the rules?

And the only conclusion I can come to is that they are not seeing enough people dying to frighten them.  

In this outbreak NSW has only suffered four deaths: two in their 90s, one in their 80s and one in their 70s. 

If you’re a young person much less likely to die from Covid that’s probably not sufficiently frightening. 

This puts the authorities in an awkward situation. 

Because they now face the worst possible situation. 

Which is a heavy drawn out lockdown that has to continue because it’s not effective because too many people are breaking the rules. 

These guys have just gone into a full noise lockdown for the first time this pandemic.

From today even construction and building maintenance have been shut down.

These guys are already more than 3 weeks into their lockdown and the spread of Covid shows no sign of slowing.

So the fascinating thing is watching what happens next? 

Do they give up and let Covid rip like some of their state politicians have suggested they should?  

Or do they stay in a semi-effective heavy lockdown for weeks or months until they finish rolling out the vaccine?