No, not really - the Sydney pan(dem)ic hasn't spread farther south than Wollongong yet - but we might as well because, with a view like this, why would you want to be anywhere else? We've got plenty of books and plenty of toilet paper!
The Greater Sydney area, including Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Wollongong and Shellharbour, is under Stay-at-home orders until 11.59pm on Friday, 9 July 2021. For the rest of NSW, click here.
No more singing (even in church), no more dancing (except at bridal parties), and one must be seated when consuming alcohol which removes the one useful test of knowing when one has had enough.
(Dan Murphy just sent me an email assuring me they are open as usual and home delivery is an option. Good to see that Big Liquor is on the ball. Must have access to our daily soma.)
Contact tracing, curfews, mandatory business closures, movement restrictions, fines for going to the beach, mandatory facemasks, millions put under house arrest at the whim of politicians ... isn't it incredible how fast the unthinkable has become normal and simply accepted as a necessary part of life? Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World Revisited"?
Meanwhile, at Woolies in Batemans Bay ...
