Here they come!
I will have to start rationing flickr uploads as Brisbane has just been declared a National Level Hotspot with a three day emergency lockdown starting tonight. Of course, there has been immediate panic buying and toilet paper has no doubt run out already, even though shopping is permitted. Apparently the lines at supermarkets are way long - will people not listen and learn? In fact, as I write this my wife has shown me an online news story of supermarkets in Brisbane stripped bare.
A Quarantine Hotel worker tested positive to the new, more transmittable UK mutant of the virus and before symptoms, caught trains, went shopping etc. etc. So we are now suddenly the centre point of Australian COVID focus with borders locked all over the country to Queenslanders and who would blame them? One just has to look at the Melbourne lesson and what is happening with utter chaos and high death rates in the UK right now. Do the right thing, protect yourself. This thing does not take prisoners, especially among the vulnerable.
National Cabinet has decided that return overseas travel numbers are to be reduced with some 46000 Australians still waiting to come home, many from the UK and pre-flight testing and quarantine protocols to be enhanced. We have suddenly many people in isolation with the UK variant from returned travellers.
We should have expected it, this is a smart and deadly disease and just a molecular amount will start a forest fire.
Meanwhile, back at the farm, a photo jaunt for tomorrow with friends has been cancelled. Mind you, it's raining, windy, inclement at the moment but we will never knock rain.
These ducks make their home at College's Crossing on the Brisbane River near Ipswich, no doubt all rather oblivious to the world at war around them.
Here they come!
I will have to start rationing flickr uploads as Brisbane has just been declared a National Level Hotspot with a three day emergency lockdown starting tonight. Of course, there has been immediate panic buying and toilet paper has no doubt run out already, even though shopping is permitted. Apparently the lines at supermarkets are way long - will people not listen and learn? In fact, as I write this my wife has shown me an online news story of supermarkets in Brisbane stripped bare.
A Quarantine Hotel worker tested positive to the new, more transmittable UK mutant of the virus and before symptoms, caught trains, went shopping etc. etc. So we are now suddenly the centre point of Australian COVID focus with borders locked all over the country to Queenslanders and who would blame them? One just has to look at the Melbourne lesson and what is happening with utter chaos and high death rates in the UK right now. Do the right thing, protect yourself. This thing does not take prisoners, especially among the vulnerable.
National Cabinet has decided that return overseas travel numbers are to be reduced with some 46000 Australians still waiting to come home, many from the UK and pre-flight testing and quarantine protocols to be enhanced. We have suddenly many people in isolation with the UK variant from returned travellers.
We should have expected it, this is a smart and deadly disease and just a molecular amount will start a forest fire.
Meanwhile, back at the farm, a photo jaunt for tomorrow with friends has been cancelled. Mind you, it's raining, windy, inclement at the moment but we will never knock rain.
These ducks make their home at College's Crossing on the Brisbane River near Ipswich, no doubt all rather oblivious to the world at war around them.