A new milestone. 10 million cases, half a million deaths.
It’s really looking like Australians will not be doing any overseas travel until maybe September 2021.
Victoria has had a big outbreak. Seems people are not following the rules, or that they are not quarantining when returning from home instead going to a big family gathering, or they get tested then hop on a train from Melb to Sydney without waiting for the results or security guards sleep with people quarantined in hotels… yep it’s crazy stuff. Apparently lots of people in quarantine refuse to be tested. WTF?? Why is this allowed?
Borders are starting to open everywhere but no-one wants to let Victorians in! NSW people will be allowed in QLD for the 2nd week of the July school holidays – why the Premier didn’t let tourism have the whole 2 weeks holiday who knows. You have to fill in a declaration form and are stopped at the border to check. WA holding form and not letting anyone from ‘over east’ in. The rules are really hard to keep up with – things changing all the time.
The Black Lives Matter protests and the repercussions from this have also dominated June and into July.
There were lots of protests, lots of tearing down statues. I personally think if a statue should be removed it should be done in an orderly way through the correct channels, or at least try that first before putting a rope around it dragging it through the streets and checking it in a river.
It has also meant that movies like Gone With The Wind were suddenly banned, then allowed to be shown with a 4 minute intro explaining the problems in it. Lots of TV shows pulled.
Then lots of products were encouraged to change their names. Colonial Beer. The Dixie Chicks became the Chicks. Lollies were next.
Things are not going well overseas, UK and USA the worst with highest deaths per million of population.
