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Data's in: Melbourne's snap #COVID19 #lockdown has been massively effective - the largest one-day drop in mobility since monitoring began. #COVID19Vic
Policy-makers and commentators weren't sure this kind of compliance was even possible in the beginning. Vic gov has learned that strong measures - earnestly justified, widely communicated, and rapidly implemented - can win the cooperation of the people.
Sourced from my mobility portal - play with the data yourself, broken down by council and socioeconomic band: https://rsbyrne.github.io/mobility-aus/
One reassuring detail in this data is the uniformity of the trend across socioeconomic groups. People dropped from their all-time highest mobility to their all-time lowest mobility in a day - and unlike public holidays, which also see drops in mobility, the trend was universal.
I think it really bears emphasising, the scale and speed of this response. Look at the left end of the plot: a transition that took MONTHS back in the first/second waves can now be achieved instantly. But what about the transition *back* to normal - can we accelerate that too?
