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WELP all my pride of being the state that never actually went into lockdown has just dropped off a cliff. As of midnight, it's just me and the cat for the next six days, and then we'll see what happens.
For context, we got our first community case since April on Sunday, four new cases. Monday there were 17 and SA Health hit panic stations. Yesterday there were four and today there were two. It's linked to hotel quarrantine, specifically a cleaner who's had no contact with the guests, so they suspect they picked it up by touching a surface.
I'm scared! I'm scared that we've had to do this, but at the same time I'm pleased we've gone this hard to early. When Victoria exploded, they fartarsed around for, like, a month before they bit the bullet and shut everything down. SA Health not taking ANY chances. They're being paranoid of everything and I am okay with that. I'm scared, but I have a lot of state pride right now. All the other state premiers and epidemiologists and such are praising our government and SA Health, and in turn Marshall and St Nicola are praising us. They're going with the carrot not stick method, telling us they trust us all to do the right thing and praising everyone for going to get tested, all the associated businesses for having their Covid-safe plans.
It's such a wild contrast to Victoria, where DAndrews took forever to really do anything and then enforced his restrictions with fines of many thousands of dollars. All stick, no carrot, and that was a big reason why shit got so bad over the border.
I'm scared, but we're not going to be Victoria.
IN NICOLA WE TRUST. 'narti originally stuck this at Dreamwidth cos she lives there now.
For context, we got our first community case since April on Sunday, four new cases. Monday there were 17 and SA Health hit panic stations. Yesterday there were four and today there were two. It's linked to hotel quarrantine, specifically a cleaner who's had no contact with the guests, so they suspect they picked it up by touching a surface.
I'm scared! I'm scared that we've had to do this, but at the same time I'm pleased we've gone this hard to early. When Victoria exploded, they fartarsed around for, like, a month before they bit the bullet and shut everything down. SA Health not taking ANY chances. They're being paranoid of everything and I am okay with that. I'm scared, but I have a lot of state pride right now. All the other state premiers and epidemiologists and such are praising our government and SA Health, and in turn Marshall and St Nicola are praising us. They're going with the carrot not stick method, telling us they trust us all to do the right thing and praising everyone for going to get tested, all the associated businesses for having their Covid-safe plans.
It's such a wild contrast to Victoria, where DAndrews took forever to really do anything and then enforced his restrictions with fines of many thousands of dollars. All stick, no carrot, and that was a big reason why shit got so bad over the border.
I'm scared, but we're not going to be Victoria.
IN NICOLA WE TRUST. 'narti originally stuck this at Dreamwidth cos she lives there now.