New Years, The Omicron Beginning

 Woah, it's been a hard slog over the silly season. If you hadn't seen my last posts, I'm documenting the COVID-19 pandemic.

Since last time, we've had a big lockdown in the ACT, and we finally got off it. I studied during it, and got passes. It took a bloody smart hombre to get a pass online. We did practical assessments in person, because lockdown finished in early November, 2021.

The reason why I blog is that we have a new mutation. It's called Omicron. It's 30/12/21, the day before NYE, and Sydney recorded 12000 cases. We thought it was bad during Delta strain, when we got in the high 2000s of cases. The weird thing is how fast this has happened, and how it's bowled us all over because it's Christmas. It's damn-well happened in a fortnight! I really think the world is on the back foot. They aren't locking us down yet. They have lots of us vaccinated.

Do you know what I thought was nice about their message? I liked how they said it was a very hard time for much of us. Life is hard for me at the best of times, so I don't know if it's COVID or my life, but it's been increased, the hardness of my life, in the last two years. COVID-19 has the nineteen in it because it started in 2019. It's 22 one day away!

I'm a little scared about catching COVID. I seem to always be sick and I don't know how I'll take COVID. I made a booking for a Vaccination, but I have heard nothing about it lately. I've just seen astronomical increases in case numbers. I am socially isolated. My friends seem caught unaware too, but they are not accurate cross-sections of population.

It is a worry, because with the fast spreading variant, it might develop resistance to the vaccine. I actually think you might be at an advantage to catch the disease now, too, because it might mutate, and then if you get the new strain without catching Omicron it might be more severe.

It happened at Christmas. I think everyone has got over the honeymoon period, and we are getting complacent. I definitely have. I wore a mask for the first time at the Small Shops today, because I couldn't get the messaging about masks, and get around to putting them in my car. It's bloody killing me, life. I got a little card that they take a photograph of this little grid, they call a QR square. It will ultra quick give the database my details, by just taking a photo.

I resolve from now on to have good practices with COVID. You can only do your best!!!!

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An Belated Update, in January 2021

 Hi guys, Australia is doing quite well with the Corona Virus. There was a big lock down in Victoria, and it stamped out the virus. I think they had 2000 cases in one day, and after 2 months of lock down they had it fully under control.

Today, I went to Canberra Connect or the Roads and Traffic Authority, and they made us wait in a line. The Government take it very seriously, but at the cafes it is almost the same. They have seats far apart, and there is a limit to how many people can be in the cafe at one time.

I don't know if it is just me, but times are tougher since the start of Corona Virus. There was no New Years celebrations. But it is not as bad as at the start. All my friends stopped visiting. One friend said I couldn't come around her house, and another stopped visiting me, because his mum was a busy body.

In America it is bad. My pen pal is a teacher and he has to wear a mask all day long. That would piss you right off. Let's hope they get a vaccine up. In Britain they have started rolling it out, and they're also doing it in America, but because Australia is going so well they've decided to wait until March here. It's the start of January, right now.

I hope that America get it under control, and I hope not one more person gets sick of Corona Virus. I know they will, but let's all chip in and get this vaccine going. Everyone will have their jab and everyone will be safe & happy again.