@billybongo; when nine extra local schools are impacted in just one day the situation for the local community is anything but under control - kids take the virus home to their parents and grand-parents.
Those local business people and Coalition pollies who demanded a premature opening when Albury's double-dosed vaccination rate was below 60% will now have to deal with locals refusing to leave their homes - the place was like a ghost town when I made my weekly trip there yesterday.
The Albury-Wodonga Region does not have a major public hospital like the Alfred in Melbourne - the pressures on local health professionals is enormous with previously retired staff and those on leave being asked to return to duty. Testing lines are long and many people are having to be turned away even though additional staff have been called in from elsewhere in Victoria.
It appears Helen Haines pleas to Morrison have been ignored / denied - along with her right to vote in Parliament.