The main street of Terrigal, NSW, Church Street, on Sunday morning. Not a parked car, no traffic and no people. A town locked down, a region locked down and now a whole state locked down.
The Delta variant of Covid-19 marches on despite greater and greater restrictions on the population. The police ask for additional powers and are given them and more. Mask wearing is now compulsory across the state except when exercising. I am sure that the level of compliance with this directive out in the bush is zero. Every day at 11.00am there is a press conference when the latest grim news is presented. The daily ritual is rating so well that commercial channels may soon be bidding for exclusive rights to televise it.
Stuck in the house alone unable to go out apart from exercise and essential shopping is very tedious after 8 weeks. Marvel the new cat is proving to be an absolute treasure. Three weeks ago there was a minor relaxation of the rules-probably against the wishes of the police -to allow people living alone to create a 'social bubble' with a nominated bubble buddy who can visit. So I now have my bubble buddy and that has made things a lot better.
There seems little hope of this ending soon.The economy is suffering and the only source of real pleasure is that the Scott Morrison, the totally incompetent Prime Minister, is being thrashed in the opinion polls as he is directly responsible for this state of affairs due to making a complete hash of the vaccine roll out. Now, at last, the vaccination rate is rapidly climbing but the damage has been done. At last Morrison is being widely recognised for being the smirking, shirking, incompetent facsimile of a leader that he is.
Meanwhile some don't have a care in the world.......
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