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Also "speaking for Australia", or at least my small inner-west Sydney microcosm of it - which is all my own anecdata really covers... We are quite a way from b
by bigiain 6y ago
Also "speaking for Australia", or at least my small inner-west Sydney microcosm of it - which is all my own anecdata really covers...
We are quite a way from being "almost back to BAU". This weekend we allowed cafes, restaurants, and food serving areas of bars to reopen, but only to 10 people at a time (so many have not reopened, since only 10 customers is completely unviable financially for many places). Bars (for drinking) and entertainment venues are still closed. The cafe nearest me is playing with fire right now - they have 8 outdoor tables, all more than 2m apart, but had al of them filled with 2, 3, or 4 people around each - easily 20-25 people seated while I was there. And there were still people crowding around the door clearly not "social distancing" waiting for a table to open up, and ignoring the cafe owner's request to spread themselves out to comply with the health advice...
The plan is to get back to "everything open as normal" by the end of July, but it'll only take a serious "second wave" for that plan to be found unworkabe, I suspect...