No thankfully. Although not a cruise person!
We can check in again in 2/3 months when the rest of the western world is back to normal and we are sat here trapped watching the world through youtube clutching desperately to our zero figures.
No one is denying that our vaccine rollout is appalling and most definitely it will be disappointing sitting here trapped but anyone saying how good it currently is in other countries especially the UK are kidding themselves. Most of my friends and rellies in the UK would give their left arm to be in Australia at this point in time and we are the envy of many.
Ahhh so you didnt think i was talking about the rollout when i said
I haven’t been into the ACT recently but in the last month I’ve been to Tasmania, QLD, NSW and Victoria and the pubs, restaurants and clubs have been packed. We eat out in Adelaide 4-5 nights per week and most have been packed too. Yes some states have capacity limits which I agree is madness.
Yes and I even have (previously globe trotting) friends who have decided not to vaccinate and accept that this means no further overseas travel
.I wouldn’t swap the U.K. for Aus right now, even if I am freezing my proverbials off right now al fresco dining. I’m originally from Vic so still would have done a huge lockdown last year. But now in the U.K. cases are plummeting, deaths even more so and the difference is that our restrictions will actually get removed - government is signalling we’re on track to be “back to normal” (without masks or social distancing ) on June 21, i’ll be fully vaxxed in the next couple of weeks and I just got an invite to my first in person conference this summer. Plus everyone is basically ignoring the restrictions now (except for the ones you can’t ignore, like going inside pubs!). Culturally this thing is O.V.E.R in the U.K., and hopefully on Monday we’ll have our international travel announcement too.
Well, in 2 weeks and 2 days we can do that.
Not sure that's true - all of my friends here, and 100% of my Aussie friends here have been posed the question, they've all responded in the same way. No desire to go to Australia with it's new Communist state policies.
It's more likely to be the following Monday; but yes, not long now. Unfortunately the list is likely to be fairly low and a Green list country still requires an expensive PCR on return, but prices are slowly coming down so hopefully that trends continues. My first trip which is coming up shortly is West Africa and there's no way that will be on the green list regardless of their 'low numbers'
so will be self-iso for 5 days and then test to release for me, or 10 days self iso if I don't TTR.
If the very rightmost icon is a "floppy disk" icon, click it and options to save/delete appear.Yep. I get that. Can't really delete a part post on a phone but on ipad it lets you delete the draft. I was hoping you'd found a loophole
Also those going from HK to SG need to be vaccinated but not so for SG residents.
In a situation where that’s the only way for an Australian citizen to get home then tbh I don’t think it should. But I also don’t think the Australian government should be able to abdicate its responsibilities to citizens and leave them stranded in the middle of a pandemic, which apparently is also not a majority view in Oz right now.
100% agree with your comments on both these posts; Melburnian currently living in the US. Here I have been vaccinated with pfizer since March, NYC is planning to open, Disneyland is open again (albeit at limited capacity) and there is a general feeling that we are moving forward (although I was surprised the TSA extended the mask mandate through September).
No one likes the idea that Aussies are stranded. Unfortunately the practicalities of quarantine dictate otherwise. We only at the very beginning of the vaccine roll out and we don't have adequate quarantine facilities either in terms of capacity or people to staff them. Until one or more of those is resolved, there's not much we can do
And I am the opposite. I would not go to the UK. I have lived through this pandemic in regional NSW, my parents in the UK. Apart from the original lockdown in March 2020 my family’s life has gone on pretty much as normal except for being able to visit our extended family including my parents in Scotland. In contrast my mum and dad have until very recently been confined to their own local government area, no visitors to their home and outside supermarkets/ banks / post office nothing has been opened. Many Weddings/ Funerals/ Milestone birthdays have been conducted via zoom. My mum has been cutting her and my Dad’s hair. Things are starting to open up for them but most of 2020 and the beginning of 2021 has been extremely difficult.
