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The true impact of the Sydney lockdown protest won’t be known for days, with one medical expert warning the thousands of people who attended could plunge all of NSW into lockdown.Greater Sydney is already preparing for another lockdown extension announcement this week, with editor of the Medical Journal of Australia, Professor Nick Talley, saying there is a high chance demonstrators who travelled to the protest from outside Sydney could spread the virus into regional areas of the state.Thousands descend on Sydney’s Town Hall for anti-lockdown protest. (Photo / NCA) “This was an idiotic thing to do, just idiotic. Yes, we risk a superspreader event,” he told 2GB on Monday morning.“There were people from, not only across Greater Sydney, but I understand people from also outside of Greater Sydney at those protests.“That means we might even risk outbreaks outside of Greater Sydney that really lead to the whole state locking down. Just a disaster.”Thousands of people converged on the Sydney CBD on Saturday to prote