The Pommie Plague

[izmeina]

It's been such a weird week so far
Sunday started a string of 37 Celsius days which sucks when you don't have air conditioning
I decided to leave the Lair to go for a coffee crawl and was quite surprised to find 3 cars parked on the verge next to the bus stop

I assumed someone on the street was having a party
As I got closer to the bus stop, I realized that it wasn't just 3 cars but 10 or more all the way up to the local Hungry Jack's
I then assumed there was a football match at the local oval. But that doesn't seem likely on a hot as hell 37 degree day

It was only when I saw people taking chiller bags out of the car boot that I realized they were just going shopping
It was only then I made the connection to the unexpected announcement on the 11am news that there was going to be a snap lockdown from 6pm that day until 6pm Friday 5th
Apparently a hotel security guard had tested positive for Covid and was suspected to have the more virulent strain from the UK
This was the first case of community transmission in 10 months

So the government decided to go early and go hard instead of just wait and see

So I guess half the city decided to do some last minute shopping. It was the first time ever that the local shopping centre parking was so full that cars were spilling over on to the side streets

When I got to my final destination and noticed the shops there also had s long queue of customers
In contrast, the local cafe was almost empty. I had to make the most of it since all cafes and restaurants would be closed this week

I had originally been wondering where to go today as it's my day off taking into account needing to be in the city for s Fringe festival show at 6.30pm. One of 3 shows I had lined up this week

Of course all Fringe shows have been cancelled this week so I went from too many choices to none at all

So since Sunday I've done not much else than sleeping and watering the weeds

When it's so hot, I simply have no interest in doing much at all
Not even reading or going on the computer especially since it gets so cranky in such hot weather

All the day jobs have been cancelled too. So there's actually no reason to leave the Lair at all

Tomorrow is supposed to be cooler do maybe I will stick my nose out the door and venture down to the shops

While the quarantine hotel had been all over the place while infectious and they've ramped up testing for people who had been in those locations, luckily there's been no more positive cases in the community since

I guess we got too used to our almost normal lifestyle here in the wild west of Oz

Comments

[ozfille]

Hopefully the outbreak will stay at one over there. Unfortunately the outbreak of snarky comments from the NSW Government about the WA Government should decline as well. Without Queensland to complain about they've swapped to another Labor State Government to whinge about. I note that it happens round about the time some more dirt is uncovered by ICAC about dear Gladys. But she seems as teflon-coated as Scotty from Marketing. It's kind of sad that there is no one as leader of the ALP that is in any way charismatic that might provide some competition in the early election I'm sure Scomo will be calling trying to trade on his undeserved good standing in the polls. The Premiers of the states did most of the hard work and copped most of the flack went something went wrong usually around hotel quarantine, border controls and private aged care facilities, theoretically within the domain of the Federal Government.

We had an outbreak of hot and sweaty weather last week but this week has been rainy and pleasantly cool. The Sydney Festival went on in January in a cut-down form. Been to see a few films but my life is mostly home-centred as it has been for most of the last 12 months.