Our supermarkets have now installed line and cross markers on the floor showing where individual persons are to stand in order to maintain the required minimum distance between themselves and the leading and following shopper. Bus loads of raiders continue to hit certain regional targets. Chicken is unavailable and other meats are scarce.
Public transport and schools are still shoulder to shoulder which is a bit stupid. The Bondi Beach fiasco over the weekend has generated a shut-down of sorts with confused people trying to guess if they are essential services or not. Similar to your situation Phil, Pubs, Clubs, Bars, Churches, Casinos, Restaurants etc. are all shut down as of 12.00 noon today. Restaurants can provide T/A and delivery only. No dine in.
The immediate job losses caused shoulder to shoulder queues of people trying to line up at the Government Welfare Benefit registration offices around all 4 corners of complete city blocks. Some wore masks. The Government website collapsed under the load.
14 day isolation is now required crossing State borders within our country. Lucky Tasmania. It's an island State with very little infection at this point.
Test kits have nearly run out so they are now doing random symptom based tests, as opposed to targeted risk group tests, in an attempt to predict how many community spread cases have been missed, and from there extrapolate the actual extent of infection. This figure is unknown and there are many sick people un-diagnosed, who will remain so.
The Senior Health Officials of Government have been out-voiced by practicing doctors who are advising citizens to ignore Government advice and rules / orders and go into voluntary isolation in discrete family units. They are predicting Italy like situation within 2 - 3 weeks.
Teachers and Health care workers have been thrown under the bus but others still appear to think it's all a bit unfair to be imposed upon in such an undignified manner.
The most unexpected thing is that the largest hardware chain store has all but sold out of Home Renovation materials. People are preparing to do renovations while they are in forced lock-down.
Subversive reports out of China indicate that the figures we are seeing from them are not accurate at all and the people over there are in desperate fear of the Temperature test guns. A high temperature means you are on the bus. On the bus means you are gone.
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