indigohex3
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Hi everyone, and welcome to the sequel to last year's "Postcard From Lockdown" (a sequel no one asked for). In case you are wondering, starting at 23:59 tonight, all of Victoria will go back into lockdown for at least the next five days (until next Wednesday at the earliest). Since my last post, several new variations of coronavirus has emerged, including the UK strain and the South African strain, with the UK strain becoming more prevalent here in Victoria. In the last couple of days, there has been an outbreak of what looks like the UK strain spread at the Holiday Inn near Melbourne Airport in Tullamarine, which was being used for quarantine, and there are around 13 active cases linked to this cluster.
It looks like this is more likely to be a circuit-breaker to slow down the spread, and as our Premier (Daniel Andrews) said, the UK strain spreads much more quickly than other strains, hence this lockdown. If you want to know about the conditions for this circuit-breaker, please click on the following link (https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2021-02/210212 - Table of restrictions.pdf). And sadly, like last time, there will be far-right wingers protesting against this lockdown, claiming that it will take away their rights and freedom, yet these protesters don't care about the rights and freedoms of other people (where were these anti-lockdown protesters when the housing towers tenants were in lockdown last year?).
Today, I went to the pharmacy (drug store for the North Americans following this thread) to get some medication, and I just went for a walk (after the press conference from Daniel Andrews).
I was planning to visit Ararat sometime next week to do some research for a book I am writing about the relationship between Australia and North East Asia, but this visit is now on the backburner due to the latest lockdown (and starting at 23:59 tonight, I will not be able to travel more than 5 kilometres from home) so I hope to do it not long after the end of this lockdown. I will also be studying Korean, and as mentioned in the previous thread, I hope to teach English in South Korea one day.
Until tomorrow.
It looks like this is more likely to be a circuit-breaker to slow down the spread, and as our Premier (Daniel Andrews) said, the UK strain spreads much more quickly than other strains, hence this lockdown. If you want to know about the conditions for this circuit-breaker, please click on the following link (https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2021-02/210212 - Table of restrictions.pdf). And sadly, like last time, there will be far-right wingers protesting against this lockdown, claiming that it will take away their rights and freedom, yet these protesters don't care about the rights and freedoms of other people (where were these anti-lockdown protesters when the housing towers tenants were in lockdown last year?).
Today, I went to the pharmacy (drug store for the North Americans following this thread) to get some medication, and I just went for a walk (after the press conference from Daniel Andrews).
I was planning to visit Ararat sometime next week to do some research for a book I am writing about the relationship between Australia and North East Asia, but this visit is now on the backburner due to the latest lockdown (and starting at 23:59 tonight, I will not be able to travel more than 5 kilometres from home) so I hope to do it not long after the end of this lockdown. I will also be studying Korean, and as mentioned in the previous thread, I hope to teach English in South Korea one day.
Until tomorrow.