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't hear that contact tracing =/= fines over the sound of all those police helicopters. https://twitter.com/joshuabadge/status/1315775978249940993

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's a reason HIV activists fighting criminalisation have for years had to say "take the test, risk arrest."

This isn'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/