here we go again
South Australia has been on stage 4 restrictions for a few days now, but we are going into a hard seven day lockdown from 6pm tonight.
The reason?
A fifth person has tested positive to the highly contagious Delta strain and one of them was at at restaurant function recently, where quite a lot of people were also attending so all of those people need to get traced and tested, and one or two of the others were out and about in the community, so there are 17 possible exposure sites.
Lockdown means schools, restaurants, pubs most shops and clubs are all to be closed. Supermarkets, chemists, will be open, but masks are mandatory, check in with the QR code is mandatory and only a certain number of people in the store at any one time, so there is a person monitoring the line up of people waiting to get in. Masks are also mandatory on public transport and in taxi cabs.
People will have to work from home again for the seven days.
They have said that people who have their second vaccination dose already booked can go out to get that.
The QR code is an app on people's phones, and there is a printed sheet at the entrance to every store, you open the app on your phone, scan the code and then "they' know where you have been so you can be contacted if that place becomes and exposure site where an infected person has been. Then of course you go and get tested.
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Good luck.
ReplyDeleteI hope the hard lockdown works and wish that NSW had gone that way much earlier than it did.
Elephant's Child; I hope it works too and like you, wish other states had gone as hard with lockdowns sooner. I'm thankful to be a homebody and not a social butterfly. Staying home is no hardship for me.
ReplyDeleteFor your sake I hope it is only a week. Our week down lockdowns have a certain habit of extending.
ReplyDeleteAndrew; I noticed that and get concerned each time for my grand daughter living there with her fiance, they're young and getting a bit sick of it all.
DeleteSounds tough, but better tough than pandemics. Curious me asks: what do you do if you do not own a SmartPhone? I don't.
ReplyDeleteCharlotte; I guess you mean about the check in codes? There are tear off sheets you can sign with your name and phone number, then put them in a closed box similar to voting boxes, but most people here have smart phones.
DeleteFingers crossed and toes that there are not many cases even though there are many exposed sites.
ReplyDeleteCertainly a worry.
Take care..
Margaret D; the exposure sites are more worrying because people may have been there then gone off anywhere else not knowing they are carrying the virus, until they get sick. The known cases are already in medi-hotels now. I think there should be a dedicated quarantine centre instead of using the city hotels, which are too risky in my opinion.
DeletePraying for you all.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Victor SE Moubarak; thank you.
DeleteI've had the feeling for some time now that things are heading back to the way they were previously thanks, in no small part, to the mass of sh*t on the airwaves and elsewhere. Just my two cents.
ReplyDeletepresstfortime; I was hoping it wouldn't happen, but could see it coming. I'm well prepared to stay at home, just like I have been since March 2020.
DeleteI know how hard this seems but I think it is necessary and REALLY wish the US would go that way. Our numbers are really ratcheting up quickly. My area only has a 20% vaccination rate. We keep shooting ourselves in the foot.
ReplyDeleteHope this works for you and doesn't last too long.
Arkansas Patti; Lockdown is hard, but I do believe it is necessary. Our vaccination rates are climbing too slowly, mostly because in the beginning there wasn't enough doses available and then the government decided people should be done within age groups. Those with a second dose appointment already booked will be allowed to leave home to get that done.
DeleteAlot of people don't trust the vaccines - it's hardly been a year. Medical stuff needs more time, to make sure it's atleast reasonably safe.
DeleteI wonder if we'll ever get out of this, what with all the damn super spreaders freely circulating in this country. Good luck to you, I hope it works.
ReplyDeleteJoanne; we might get out of it if whole countries went into lockdown and things like football games and the Olympics weren't allowed to keep going. That's an extreme measure, but maybe it is necessary?
DeleteOh. Not again!
ReplyDeleteThis is horrible!
It´s a big joke somehow.
They talk about data security and now we´re like glass...
Just saw a very loooong docu on this.
Is it politics and - or health? Who fights whom?
Glad it´s but 7 days....
Iris Flavia; it is horrible, but the virus can only spread if people carry it around. If we all stay home, the ones affected can be treated and isolated until they are negative again.
DeleteI don't know what data security has to do with it, it's a people virus not a computer virus. I hope it is just for 7 days, but can cope okay if it goes longer.
Like everyone else, i do hope it really is only a week.
ReplyDeletemessymimi; me too, but if we need longer that's what we will do.
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