@Emiel1 @Sarah977 @Anonymous @Sandra126
I am a bit concerned about our state of South Australia. We have not had a new COVID-19 cases since August 23rd and we are letting our guard down. Restrictions have been lifted, social distancing here has all but stopped.....patrons can mingle cheek to jowl at the front bar in the local pub or in any restaurant! We can have 150 at weddings and funerals, 20,000 at the local football match, we have gone back to normal, and we are playing right into the hands of this virus. I have not seen one person in public with a face mask on in the last month, and people everywhere, (me included) are hugging and shaking hands with our relatives and friends!
Just across the border to the east the virus is rampant, there are still double digit numbers of people dying every day and they are experiencing more new cases every day than we in this state have had in the last 5 months. I am not blaming them in VIC but, I think we are headed for the same scenario because we are starting to feel this whole COVID-19 thing is a storm in a teacup and doesn't need to be taken seriously. Every day we have someone illegally trying to cross the border into our state and it's only a matter of time before one or two of them succeeds and we will be thrust into a second wave here as well.
There is all this big deal about testing, but a COVID-19 test is just a snapshot in time, it proves nothing.
It needs 3,000 replications of the COVID-19 virus in the body before it will show up as a positive test! A negative test does not mean you don't have COVID-19......it simply means you don't have enough of the virus to test as positive!!!
Please do your bit and make sure there is no possibility of you either passing this virus on to someone else or contracting it from someone else.
We have been exemplary in my state but, I fear pride cometh before a fall, and the thing that this virus feeds on is apathy .....and there is apathy in bucket loads here at the moment!
Don't do what we are doing, keep your guard up and do what all the medical experts say is the right thing to do, take this virus seriously and stop it from doing what it does best....jumping from one human to another!
Cheers........Rob