I do hope that you are correct. However that jump today will probably have cost me at least a $100K as it will drive sentiment in my customers and their employers and probably further delay free interstate travel (and not just from state restrictions, but from company travel policies and also personal willingness to travel).
And while I do understand that the misery is spread far and wide, my personal reaction this morning in terms of its business effect on my wife and I is most grim and I do now have great apprehension of what may be over the next week.
2020 is a year where I had to cancel every single work project (I need interstate borders open, or at least the big 3). So that is a whole year's worth of income gone, but not all the expenses.
Late Nov and first half of Dec things were taking off for 2021. Things were looking healthy. That has all come to a screeching halt again. I was hoping that Jan 1 that new cases would be near zero and only in the northern beaches. Today sees a marked rise and cases are in multiple areas. If this is not largely all quenched in about a week then it is hard to see myself being able to progress anytime soon at a meaningful level, and that unfortunately may have dire consequences as there is only so long that one can continue to operate a business in limbo.
Retirement now beckons, but retiring on a low note is not what I had envisaged.
PS Evidently the Croydon family have mixed a lot all over Sydney and have 34 close contacts.
