Proper lockdowns do work as evidenced in every other State. If the lockdown is not working as you claim in NSW it means that it cant be a proper lockdown and of course the idiots that protested in Sydney and not wearing masks will have contributed to the failure.
At these levels only an extra hard lockdown will work and if there was no form of lockdown, the figures would already be in the thousands and the hospital system would be stuffed for everyone.
This is going to be a long haul for NSW and there will be a lot of pain. Unfortunately they could have been better placed if they had locked down hard earlier like in other States, but they had deluded themselves that they had gold standard contact tracing which would be enough. The gold turned out to be fools gold!
