12-07-2020, 02:57 PM
(12-07-2020, 01:46 PM)Genuine Realist Wrote: How normal is normal, I am not sure, because the Australian Open has been postponed three weeks due to restrictions and quarantine.In NSW at least, things are "pretty normal" according to the people I do business with. Everybody is at work, even people who could actually work from home. The "second wave" was almost totally confined to Victoria. The legalities of all that were pretty interesting. Melbourne had a 112 day shutdown. Travel to/from Victoria was prohibited.
Finally, Australia is in the Southern hemisphere. It's summer there.
Australia never had anything like the number of cases we had here (in either wave) and was able to stamp out the virus in their country almost (but not absolutely) totally. That makes operating the country in an "normal" situation reasonable. Their challenge is to keep the virus out. It still isn't easy to travel in or out of the country. Take a look at
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/25/tennis/au...index.html
It is pretty clear that keeping the virus out is the priority. You can judge the degree of "normality" by looking at
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...cing-masks