NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian‘s earnest plea to people to “tell the truth” to contact tracers followed by NSW Police announcing a shit tonne of fines they’ve issued in the last 24 hours is giving me whiplash. Earlier today at this morning’s daily COVID press conference, NSW Health confirmed 50 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 today, 26 of which were infectious in the community. At least 13 of those total cases are under investigation, which prompted Berejiklian and NSW Chief Medical Officer Kerry Chant to call on people in NSW to tell the truth to contact tracers. “Please tell the truth from the first minute rather than after repeated conversations, because otherwise, you put your closest family and friends at the greatest risk, and that is something we don’t want to see,” Berejiklian said.