Sydney's Christmas Disaster

A COVID alert sign at Dee Why on the northern beaches.CREDIT:JAMES BRICKWOOD. Four days before Christmas, Sydney faces an outbreak of SARS-COV-2. Half of all such infections are asymptomatic, rendering infected people invisible. Forty new cases today may become 120 new cases by Christmas Day. Half of them will have no symptoms and the rest will have mild symptoms so will carry on as normal. People infected today and tomorrow may travel half-way across Sydney for the family Christmas lunch and maybe to another household for dinner, possibly infecting a minimum of 360 new people. The 360 people infected on Christmas Day will be at their peak infectiousness on New Year’s Eve, and could infect more than 1000 others. We could be looking at 3000 cases by January 8. You could not plan a disaster more perfectly if you tried……. https://www.smh.com.au/national/yule-be-sorry-why-sydney-is-facing-a-super-spreading-disaster-20201220-p56p0r.html