This is what happens when you try to police your way out of a pandemic. Vic Pol has basically been told to shirtfront a virus.

People can& #39;t hear that contact tracing =/= fines over the sound of all those police helicopters. https://twitter.com/joshuabadge/status/1315775978249940993">https://twitter.com/joshuabad...

We know that police-led responses to public health crises drive down testing rates, drive up stigma, and lead to fear and misinformation spreading through communities. There& #39;s a reason HIV activists fighting criminalisation have for years had to say "take the test, risk arrest."

This isn& #39;t some lefty Melbourne invention. We know this due to work done around the world by legal and public health experts, and social researchers: https://www.hivjusticeworldwide.org/en/covid-19/ ">https://www.hivjusticeworldwide.org/en/covid-...