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So, on Saturday, there was an unmasked protest in Sydney and Melbourne (and one in Brisbane, but the virus isn't quite as loose out there as it is in Sydney).
Let's just say that the odds of 0 in (reportedly) 7000 people not having COVID are infinitismally small.
The protest was a combination of muh freedumbs, antivaxxers, people who've bought into the fears of a 'new world order', people who are buying into the "we were not saved to live in fear" Christian narrative (with a side helping of 'freedom in Christ'), and probably a lot of people who were just angry that their livelihoods have been shut down during this lockdown.
Whatever prompted it, the practicalities of a super-superspreader event in the city is going to hit the city hard. Not that our numbers were going down before this. Today we had 172 new cases and over 60 of them were not isolating - ie. they either didn't know (or didn't care) that they were possibly infectious.
In even more local COVID news, it turns out a local PT trainer attended the super-superspreader event (SSSE) and posted about it on two social media feeds, then realised her clients might not have been entirely happy about that and took them down. But she refuses to acknowledge the risk or isolate. Meanwhile, the clients who are unhappy with their PT's personal choices have cancelled their appointments with her, and someone is reporting her to the police, so they can decide what to do about it. NSW Health would probably want to keep an eye on her at the very least.
There's also a case at the local Westfield bottle-o (liquor shop) and they were there Saturday night - just as half of the local area was probably looking to buy some alcohol. So I expect that our bubble is about to burst, bigtime.
And we've just received the word that tomorrow another 4 weeks of lockdown will be announced.
Frankly, I still think that one week of hard lockdown at the start would have saved us all this piffle-paffle now. Also, without an economic plan, the disaffected and desperate are going to continue their protests on lockdown, thereby further locking us down (at least until they all get sick and are hospitalised).
We're gonna be here a while.
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Work has been utter shite. I'm not getting anything done, I should just take a week off or something. I can't concentrate, I can't think. It's not anything particular, I'm just struggling.
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Writing has been similarly shite, although at least today I worked out the next scene for this thing. It's all piecemeal, though, and I have a thousand questions.
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Otherwise, I've been watching a lot of Olympics. Hockey, mostly, via the free streaming services provided by one of our broadcast channels. All the AUS games, and here and there other ones.
I haven't really watched the swimming finals - I always miss them, exciting as they tend to be. Although I did just watch an Australian tie in his heat after trailing for most of it. That was freaking impressive.
Let's just say that the odds of 0 in (reportedly) 7000 people not having COVID are infinitismally small.
The protest was a combination of muh freedumbs, antivaxxers, people who've bought into the fears of a 'new world order', people who are buying into the "we were not saved to live in fear" Christian narrative (with a side helping of 'freedom in Christ'), and probably a lot of people who were just angry that their livelihoods have been shut down during this lockdown.
Whatever prompted it, the practicalities of a super-superspreader event in the city is going to hit the city hard. Not that our numbers were going down before this. Today we had 172 new cases and over 60 of them were not isolating - ie. they either didn't know (or didn't care) that they were possibly infectious.
In even more local COVID news, it turns out a local PT trainer attended the super-superspreader event (SSSE) and posted about it on two social media feeds, then realised her clients might not have been entirely happy about that and took them down. But she refuses to acknowledge the risk or isolate. Meanwhile, the clients who are unhappy with their PT's personal choices have cancelled their appointments with her, and someone is reporting her to the police, so they can decide what to do about it. NSW Health would probably want to keep an eye on her at the very least.
There's also a case at the local Westfield bottle-o (liquor shop) and they were there Saturday night - just as half of the local area was probably looking to buy some alcohol. So I expect that our bubble is about to burst, bigtime.
And we've just received the word that tomorrow another 4 weeks of lockdown will be announced.
Frankly, I still think that one week of hard lockdown at the start would have saved us all this piffle-paffle now. Also, without an economic plan, the disaffected and desperate are going to continue their protests on lockdown, thereby further locking us down (at least until they all get sick and are hospitalised).
We're gonna be here a while.
--
Work has been utter shite. I'm not getting anything done, I should just take a week off or something. I can't concentrate, I can't think. It's not anything particular, I'm just struggling.
--
Writing has been similarly shite, although at least today I worked out the next scene for this thing. It's all piecemeal, though, and I have a thousand questions.
--
Otherwise, I've been watching a lot of Olympics. Hockey, mostly, via the free streaming services provided by one of our broadcast channels. All the AUS games, and here and there other ones.
I haven't really watched the swimming finals - I always miss them, exciting as they tend to be. Although I did just watch an Australian tie in his heat after trailing for most of it. That was freaking impressive.