Vaccines have arrived in Australia and are being dispensed. Old people and politicians to the front!
I have said before, if there's a list of people willing to get vaccines, ordered by need of the vax, I'm pretty much the last person on the list in Australia. Oh, I'm not complaining at being in the totally healthy category! It's a humourous comment (well, intended to be droll). I'm not in a rush to get the vaccine, but when the opportunity comes I will absolutely take it. I'm happy to be one more brick in the wall of vaccinated herd immunity (the two of which go together: no population has reached herd immunity without a vaccine - they just die by the overly-large percentages) but I recognise that I won't be the first, have no intention of pushing to the front, but when they offer it, I'll take it.
Maybe that's an Aussie thing: to trust that the people who are organising this know what they're doing (even if they sometimes don't) and following the rules because even if the rules are stupid, running amok will help nobody at all.
Parents will be in the 1st or 2nd wave. So will sistren (childcare and healthcare). Quarantine workers - people working in our quarantine hotels - are also high on the list. Thank the Lord above that someone got a brain cell and decided that, yes, WE WANT FRONTLINE WORKERS PROTECTED AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
In the meantime, my state has had over a month without a community transmission case and while we're allowed to sing in church now, it's only with masks on and you can have less people per volume of space.
*looks sideways at Texas*
Yes, we can still recite the creed, the preacher can preach, the front stage singers can sing - all without masks. The restrictions are not entirely logical. They are still there for the moment; and everyone recognises that things could change at the drop of an outbreak.
It would be nice to see more people still taking precautions, admittedly. But with community transmission way down, I can see why people are just going with the lowest level of requirement. I mean, if transmission was way up then some people would still go with the lowest level of requirement because inconvenience is, like, the new cancel culture or something. *eyeroll*
Anyway. That's COVID, the Vaccinations, And Everything. Life is shifting back to more or less normal - more people going back to work in the city. I'm hoping I don't have to move down to Canberra, because WFH is really doing it for me.
I have said before, if there's a list of people willing to get vaccines, ordered by need of the vax, I'm pretty much the last person on the list in Australia. Oh, I'm not complaining at being in the totally healthy category! It's a humourous comment (well, intended to be droll). I'm not in a rush to get the vaccine, but when the opportunity comes I will absolutely take it. I'm happy to be one more brick in the wall of vaccinated herd immunity (the two of which go together: no population has reached herd immunity without a vaccine - they just die by the overly-large percentages) but I recognise that I won't be the first, have no intention of pushing to the front, but when they offer it, I'll take it.
Maybe that's an Aussie thing: to trust that the people who are organising this know what they're doing (even if they sometimes don't) and following the rules because even if the rules are stupid, running amok will help nobody at all.
Parents will be in the 1st or 2nd wave. So will sistren (childcare and healthcare). Quarantine workers - people working in our quarantine hotels - are also high on the list. Thank the Lord above that someone got a brain cell and decided that, yes, WE WANT FRONTLINE WORKERS PROTECTED AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
In the meantime, my state has had over a month without a community transmission case and while we're allowed to sing in church now, it's only with masks on and you can have less people per volume of space.
*looks sideways at Texas*
Yes, we can still recite the creed, the preacher can preach, the front stage singers can sing - all without masks. The restrictions are not entirely logical. They are still there for the moment; and everyone recognises that things could change at the drop of an outbreak.
It would be nice to see more people still taking precautions, admittedly. But with community transmission way down, I can see why people are just going with the lowest level of requirement. I mean, if transmission was way up then some people would still go with the lowest level of requirement because inconvenience is, like, the new cancel culture or something. *eyeroll*
Anyway. That's COVID, the Vaccinations, And Everything. Life is shifting back to more or less normal - more people going back to work in the city. I'm hoping I don't have to move down to Canberra, because WFH is really doing it for me.
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