Uh oh it’s lockdown time for us again

Sorry to hear that your holiday has been postponed. I don't know what the answer is, this virus isn't going anywhere. So the only option is to ban all travel or deal with the consequences. Is Australia self sufficient? I imagine that eventually it will be mass vaccination as a way out? Although I am starting to have doubts that about the effectiveness of that.

Glad to see that the creators of rumours are just as prolific in Australia as anywhere else...

Tourists from the UK? Going to Australia? Highly unlikely I would have said. But you know, blame the Poms.

Plague hotels? That's nice.

Blame the tennis players and their entourages? Try again, it was nothing to do with them.

Maybe take a look at the quarantine hotel worker who was walking around the hotel without PPE they had been told to wear.

I'm told by my brother in Victoria that it is the new strain taken in by tourists from the North East UK. Why on Earth are people still travelling?

Our latest lockdown comes because there are now 19 active cases in Victoria. Nothing compared to UK numbers but I do question why other Australian States have less stringent restrictions and yet have less infections.

Calendargirl there are different quarantine setups, each State runs their own and the New South Wales contact tracing seems to be good. The Victorian Govt was supposed to be following the NSW model after the last huge stuff up which saw our cases soar and peaked at 750 in Victoria in a day. However I maybe cynical but as different political parties govern in NSW and Victoria there seems to be a reluctance by our government to do what is proven to work because of politics. Personally I wish the Federal Government would take over control lock, stock and barrel.

Indeed it is, nanny8! I know Barwon Heads from when we stayed with my family at their previous home in Grovedale. Coincidentally, their nearest beach is at Torquay which is where I live in the UK!

Thanks Ashcombe. Funny enough our holiday was to be at Barwon Heads near Geelong in the caravan park there. It’s a small world isn’t it ?

I’m so sorry to hear this, nanna8. My daughter in Grovedale, Geelong, had just texted this news to me and then rang for a catch up. Their son is 12 and has just started high school but doesn’t seem to mind home schooling for a few days.

It is disappointing about your holiday but you are fortunate to have a decisive government. Here in the UK ours seem to react too slowly each time action is required, apart from with the vaccination programme which is going well. I had mine yesterday.

I hope you stay well and can rebook your holiday for another time. Take care. ?

We have had nearly a year of it , starting at the end of March 2020 so we are all really quite used to it and totally sick of it. As soon as we get on top of it they let people in who are known to be contact with it. Madness. The number of businesses who will go to the wall is huge and all because of stupidity.

Don’t want to sound flippant, nanna8 but welcome to our world. My husband and I have cancelled a total of 9 holidays away over the past year, just as we think it’s ok, we book somewhere then we are back in lockdown. I will not book anything for a long time.
So sorry you are back in lockdown and just for a few elite tennis players and their entourages ?

Interesting to read this, as Australia is always held up as a country who has got the quarantine situation right.

On a lighter note, my DD lives in Oz. When I spoke to her recently, I told her that unfortunately, our DIL had contracted Covid, as had 10 colleagues, she works for the NHS.
DD said “Crikey, if that were over here, they would be closing state borders with that number of cases!”

DIL thankfully seems to have had it very mildly.

I agree nanna8 to go through another lockdown albeit only for 5 days we will see how many times this is extended all because of lack of control in quarantine hotels. This is the 2nd time, it would seem our government has still not learnt how to control the people in quarantine and the workers.

Tennis players and their cohorts have been allowed to come in $$$$$'s talk. Meanwhile our schools are yet again disrupted as are so many businesses. Why are tennis players considered essential workers and other businesses are not.

We are settling on a new home on Monday, fortunately the process should not be delayed but it has meant our final inspection had to be done today and only one of the owners could be there so we still have many unanswered questions to be sorted out.