We're much the same over here in Australia...
My state, Queensland, has been very good with the virus! Hardly any outbreaks out all, life was normal, everything was open, no masks necessary. But then just a week ago the government opened up our state up to the rest of the country... and now we're getting so many cases of the virus, need to wear masks, can only enter certain shops and things if you can prove you're vaccinated...
Just in time for christmas! 🎅🎄
My christmas plans haven't been affected at least. Still plan making lots of yummy foods and seeing friends and having drinks and a good time. Unless they restrict gathering sizes in the next week... ☹️
(Some of those gingerbread shapes look interesting!!! 😅😂)
Wow, so you have to be vaccinated to enter? They have talked about it over here, but they don't think it's a part of the democracy at all. And I kind of agree, even tho it would be reaaaaally nice 😅 I remember they talked about making curfew legal during the first corona outbreak, but if we got a goverment in the futura that didn't want our best they could use the curfew in bad ways.
Hope corona just take a chill pill soon. It's great that your christmas plans haven't been affected! It's important to be social and have fun even tho it's a lot of bad things going on. But of course with distance and a mask hahaha.
Hahaha, I was hoping someone would recognize it! I actually removed it when I took the picture on snapchat, but my boyfriend put it back without me knowing before I took the picture for hive! HAHA.
Yep! If you want to go out to a restaurant, bar, club, retail shop, museum, you need to be vaccinated. You can still go grocery shopping if you're not vaccinated, but most things are heavily restricted.
That gingerbread shape is fantastic! 😅 I want to buy some molds like that now. My partner will get a good laugh out of them. 😂
That's hilarious! 😆
I didn't know that anyone had that rule actually. But does it work well? What does the unvaccinated people say about that?😄
Most people are annoyed, of course, haha. Our state is about 80% vaccinated but that's mostly the cities and larger areas, not these smaller country areas. So the restaurants and clubs and shops are mostly empty so the businesses are suffering. But they have no choice but to follow the rules or be fined a lot of money they can't afford to lose.
We need to have this app on our phone to "check in" to places, and have our vaccination information linked to it, and when we scan in it'll show up as a green tick. If you don't have a modern phone, you can show a vaccination card instead.
There are already reports of people being threatened and shouted at because unvaccinated are not allowed entry. But they're just doing their jobs. It's all very unfortunate. 🙁
I can see that😳 I think it's an ethical problem because it's splitting the people. It's not the same rights for everyone if some cant go to a bar (or anywhere) because they aren't vaccinated.
But by having it it's also saving people and their health, and also instead of closing the bars (and everything) they don't need to go without jobs and the economic isn't getting bad (or worse) either. So I kind of want it, so bars and clubs don't have to close.😅