Authorities say they are "dumbfounded" and "disappointed" in the organisers and attendees of a dance party that saw more than 1,000 people gather on a private property at Wilson's Creek, near Byron Bay, in a gross violation of statewide coronavirus rules.
He said on the same weekend, police were also called to a house party in Byron Bay, where the number of people was estimated to be around 200 — 10 times the legal limit."You can still have a good, smaller party, but certainly don't go to the extremes that we've seen in the last few days." "At least on these occasions those people, once they were spoken to, saw what the issues were and those parties were closed down."
"[We have] an amazing level of concern that people believe that they can congregate to 1,000 people and disregard physical distancing and put at risk not only themselves, but the entire community of the North Coast," he said.Mr Jones said there would be enormous challenges for trace contacting should even one of the attendees test positive to COVID-19.
We collective avoided transmission at the Melbourne Black Lives Matter protest of 500,000 people. Why wouldn’t a group 1-2,000 not be able to?
Viruses would not have survived in their systems that night.
What a joke!
But i’m in complete lockdown in my building? Make it make sense!!
BLM protest party?
'doof' is not short for 'doofus'? qui vive OED
Geeze Louise, and here I was thinking Byron would be a nice safe getaway spot for a holiday 😬😬😬
Once again, the survival rate of Corona virus is what? We don’t hear that much because it generates more fear to talk about case numbers.
Dirty hippies
If only they took a piece of cardboard with BLM written on it, they would be immune..
They didn’t invite 1000 people. The people just showed up to a ‘party’. As there are acres per household in the Byron Hinterland the crowd numbers can fast swell. I know from previous parties I’ve run and been to in Byron.
Pubs. 👌🏽 ✔️ Brothels. 👌🏽 ✔️ Doofs. 👎 ❌ ( writing notes 📝 ✍️)
These Boomers.... when will they learn, massing on the NSW-QLD Border in their caravans, bush doofing to pass the time away-will not make us open our border any quicker... It's Friday...not before. Go Shawty...it's your burfday!
TraceySpicer Doofuses
Headline should read: 'Despite early shutdown of gatecrashed private party, no accidents were recorded on roads due to generosity and sensitivity of land owners to situation as crowd peacefully dispersed over number of hours chilling peacefully without music.'
Byron Bay is virus free. It’s all a conspiracy and vaccines are just to track you with microchips auspol
y'all fake as your stats jeez
shanghaishawty1 that u?
Are you going to alter the news article, or just leave it be to fester division?
Bright sparks 😒
There were probably between 300 and 400, 70% uninvited... it was a testament to the property owners and holders of the party that they didn't force everyone to leave and risk accidents on the roads. The party was shut down as soon as majority backpacker crowd became obvious.
Qld_Mythbuster Quickly adding bush doof to my bucket list.
And you all laughed at Victorians
haha there wasn't even close to 1000 people there ... it was meant to be a going away party for close friends and was posted on social media accts of Hostels as far as Brisbane
Good thing there aren't active community cases outside of Victoria.
Byron was ruined 10 years ago, they can have there Covid_19 parties ... Ruined, Sodom and Gomorrah B side these days lol I miss the old Byron Bay, beautiful memories..
I'd be more worried about catching herpes at a Byron Bay doof
TIL: Coronavirus can spontaneously generate where people gather, but are not protesting
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GeoffThomson3 A doof in the Bush is better than ten on the roof
Some people just want to drive the economy into a deeper recession, increase unemployment and risk health services collapsing. So irresponsible, but hey, they’re the ones who’ve got to pay for this debt so if they want to increase it, up to them.
did you guys have the same concern about the blm protests
GladysB
We need law and order
The ones that get covid will somehow manage to blame it on us Victorians even tho we weren’t allowed there
Idiotic behaviour
Blame and responsibility rests solely with GladysB and LiarFromTheShire. The young are egged on to rage and to ignore social distancing by these two throughout the Australia.
Lactose free Kale 🥬 smoothies and anti-vaccine social media posts will save them all, I reddit online 🤷♂️
The peeps of BB consider themselves to be special.......... arrogant bastards
NSW just as stupid as Victoria.
If there's no spike in Byron we need to test the medical benefits of ecstacy in curing Corona.
An enormous breach, but Police chose not to issue fines? Amazing.
Why...were there anyone without a functional immune system?
BiG_LEXiE_
These people are wonderful hippies who introduced to us all kinds of conspiracies. They’re good people at heart. These anti-vaxxers will be alright, let them party, they might be doing a trial of some sort of an anti-COVID-19 herb in the bush.
And yet you reported the massive spike after a much larger gathering had nothing to do with it. Perpetual mixed messaging and its time it stopped.
Black Plastic Matters
Yet protests 10,000+ people are ok? Communism doesn’t work. Ever.
Based on the kind of people who attend a bush Doof, I’m not too concerned.
Couple of pingaz in ya should kill it
Just tell the authorities that you're black lives matter or a union and you'll be fine
AustralianStory They were all medicated already , all good I say !
They should've called it a protest.
Are they all from the white European community of Australians such as blood Anglo ScoMo and blood Armenian Berijiklean?
Bush oof
I guess the name Bush doof says it all...