Within hours of the first planes arriving when Tasmania opened to the world on December 15th, we had two confirmed cases of the Omicron variation of Covid. It’s not surprising: the Government must have known it would happen and the systems were already in place to deal with it. The two victims are in quarantine, contacts have been isolated and safety measures have been tightened.
Mostly, in our little bubble we remain unaffected by what’s happening in the real world but we can’t stay immune for ever. Tomorrow is our Probus Christmas lunch and we’re going to a pub in Latrobe for a change. Because of the Omicron scare, the government has decreed that masks will be mandatory for people meeting in public indoor spaces, like hotel dining rooms. Of course, we can remove our masks for eating but it’s still a pain. Two or three people have pulled out of attending because they don’t want to take any chances.
We’ll still be there; you only live once and we’ve had our booster shots.
We have decided, though, to cancel our trip away to Richmond. With regulations in place, lots of places will shut and having to wear a mask everywhere we go is just too much bother. We could see ourselves tired of going out and forced to sit on the bed in our hotel room watching rubbish on a small TV when we would be much more comfortable in our own home, watching the same rubbish on a bigger screen.
Shame really, but we’ve cancelled the hotel booking and will stay home. When we rang the hotel to give them the bad news, the manager said that everyone else was cancelling too. It must be hard being in the tourism business.
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