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Welp. Canberra has gone into lockdown after a number of positive cases ran through the city, and there are now in excess of 3000 close-contacts in a city of maybe 500,000 people. (2016 census said 390,000.)
Which means a lot of offices in our capital are scrambling. A few things that were going in over the weekend have been put on hold, and people who were previously coming into a (very sparsely filled) office in a no-transmission area have been instructed to remain home. And of course, it's the day that the password for my private account stops working, the weekend before we were due to go live on a couple of things.
The go-lives have since been pushed back, but my password is still in limbo, alas.
So the day is definitely not ideal.
The state of NSW today recorded 390 new cases in the past 24 hours. The running total is 5,000 cases. There are over 300 people presently in hospital, and another 2 people are dead. One of the dead is a woman in her 40s.
I know that 5K cases doesn't seem like much anywhere else in the world. My father in Vietnam says that there are 3K cases a day and deaths in the hundreds. But it's worrying here in Sydney. And also worrying because our state government is treating this like it's the alpha variant, and can be dealt with solely in vaccination rates. But the indications are that it can't. (Atlantic article: Delta has changed the pandemic endgame)
Frankly, I'm okay in my little bubble, tired and grumpy and over it, but a lot of other people aren't okay and aren't doing okay. And, too, I'd like people to be able to focus on things outside of the pandemic and the numbers and 'mah freedumbs' - like the climate change report that just came out, and the Australian election next year. *sigh*
I've said I'm going to make chocolate cake all week. I think I'll make shortbread instead. And chocolate cake tomorrow. Maybe.
Which means a lot of offices in our capital are scrambling. A few things that were going in over the weekend have been put on hold, and people who were previously coming into a (very sparsely filled) office in a no-transmission area have been instructed to remain home. And of course, it's the day that the password for my private account stops working, the weekend before we were due to go live on a couple of things.
The go-lives have since been pushed back, but my password is still in limbo, alas.
So the day is definitely not ideal.
The state of NSW today recorded 390 new cases in the past 24 hours. The running total is 5,000 cases. There are over 300 people presently in hospital, and another 2 people are dead. One of the dead is a woman in her 40s.
I know that 5K cases doesn't seem like much anywhere else in the world. My father in Vietnam says that there are 3K cases a day and deaths in the hundreds. But it's worrying here in Sydney. And also worrying because our state government is treating this like it's the alpha variant, and can be dealt with solely in vaccination rates. But the indications are that it can't. (Atlantic article: Delta has changed the pandemic endgame)
Frankly, I'm okay in my little bubble, tired and grumpy and over it, but a lot of other people aren't okay and aren't doing okay. And, too, I'd like people to be able to focus on things outside of the pandemic and the numbers and 'mah freedumbs' - like the climate change report that just came out, and the Australian election next year. *sigh*
I've said I'm going to make chocolate cake all week. I think I'll make shortbread instead. And chocolate cake tomorrow. Maybe.