Had to get out of the house today ,the isolation is driving me absolutely crazy , I'm here at home with my 5 year old who must think the world has gone mad ,she is bored .
So I jumped in the Ute and drove out to Hume Dam .hmmm when I got there they had put a fence around it stating no access due to coronavirus. I then followed the river road through a tiny town on the lake called Bellbridge. I continued along the river road and just enjoyed the beautiful country side .
So good to get out of the house ,it's been so long .
I didn't see anyone out there and if cop had pulled me over I would of just said ,hey I'm going crazy at home!

if cop had pulled me over I would of just said ,hey I'm going crazy at home!

... and from what I've been reading the cop would have replied: "Tell it to the judge. Here's a $1,000 fine."

I've stopped driving to my workshop outside of business hours because I have to travel mainly on a main road prowled by police. At least during the day I can say that I'm going to work and invite them to come and see me at it, but at night when there are very few vehicles on the road, my chances of being pulled over to explain the reason for my journey are greater.

Well ,for a 1000 , it probably worth it ,!
Hard to cope with this ,no body is going to work,no body is making any money , can't stay at home all the time ,it's not healthy for the mind

There's a lot of people breaking curfew, for want of a better expression. In the flat next door to me, the occupants have gone on holiday for the weekend and via AirBNB there's a couple of sheilas in there, which is also against current regs.

I am not sure how the occupants will fare, as there were dozens of highway patrol cars on the road today and all are fitted with number plate scanning cameras which can each read six number plates per second. These are normally used to track expired licences, expired rego and outstanding warrants. The police are now using them to track those on the road out of their suburb. If you are towing a caravan, you won't even get asked why is my bet.

I got called into work today to repair lighting in one of the lifts. Aside from that I've been to Rotten Ronnies for brekky (where I saw two highway patrol cars, funnily enough), the servo once and Woolworths twice. In a general sense, I don't like being cooped up either, so I am using the rules to get around being inside.

highway patrol cars on the road today and all are fitted with number plate scanning cameras

Today, there's been a cop sitting on the main road near here doing nothing but that. He parks his car at the entry to a turning lane.

These days I try to stay within my postcode.

These are normally used to track expired licences, expired rego and outstanding warrants.

Guy I know ran up enough points to have his licence suspended. Not long afterwards his brother, towing a speedboat, was pulled over with the cop saying: "The reason I pulled you over is the owner of the trailer you are hauling has a suspended licence". Fortunately, said owner was in the passenger seat while his brother towed his boat to the river for him.

I read an Article that said we may have a big problem on our hands and that is that we have been able to stop the virus or reduce the spreading of the virus in Oz, but that leaves a big problem in the months and future because the mass of people have built up no antibodies etc to protect themselves from it.
Counties where the infections ran up the numbers will have immune systems to cope with it
Seems like there is no good way out really!
Vaccine is what we need . I think perhaps the government did it this way to give them time to get the hospitals ready perhaps.

Pete
On phone ,having trouble typing

Hard to cope with this

The news seems to be good on that front. The number of reported cases in Oz is falling. Some states may progressively relax the lockdown rules sooner than later.

Yes G ,but that still leaves us with a immune system that has never come in contact with any strain of that virus.
The other issue is of course ,how long can Oz afford to shut down. I don't know anyone who's going to work anymore.

I don't hold out hope for an effective vaccine for a long time yet. Apart from the significant difficulty of creating a vaccine that works, vaccines always need a huge amount of testing to ensure that they don't seriously affect or even kill otherwise healthy bodies. Vaccine producers work in a very litigious arena.

And then of course you have the loony tunes 'anti-vaxers'.

that still leaves us with a immune system that has never come in contact with any strain of that virus.

Some (maybe all) of these highly contagious respiratory viruses change their "signature" so frequently and so quickly that antibodies don't really help. Take the the common cold virus. No one seems to become immune to that -- no matter how often they've had it.

Sometimes I think that viruses are the natural inhabitants of planet earth, and that animals (including humans) are simply convenient hosts for them.

Bloody uncivilised wet markets !

There was something said yesterday that China had reclassified dogs as domestic animals instead of "livestock" - yes, livestock. The problem is, the virus didn't start in a dog and the rest of the weird "livestock" is still being sold and slaughtered in real time in these markets.

Yes and thousands have died because of it ! The world has been thrown into recession because of it ...... And no end in sight as yet

I'm optimistic. Unless something crazy occurs, I think that given the encouraging downward trend in new cases being reported, the end is definitely in sight here in Oz, but that doesn't mean that a new round of infection can't emerge courtesy of people entering Oz from elsewhere. I think there will need to be severe inbound travel restrictions for some time yet.

Yes G, They will have to restrict poeple coming in .
I think the government did the right thing closing up shop and putting people health first .
No pockets in a Shroud .