Australian racing
It's good to see the crowds are back at Randwick and read about Oz finally opening up to the world again. A change in mindset for Australia and New Zealand is going to be needed moving forward. I think that will be tougher in New Zealand than Australia given how little Covid they have experienced. Hearing the crowd roar at Randwick in the last was great.
Just like one of those dreams when you wake up wondering if you really did win that £3K, I had to check my P/L just in case the money somehow made it into my account.
now and windy.Australia is a Federation. The change in mindset will be just as tough in Tasmania, Western Australia, South Australia and Northern Territory where there's basically been no covid. There's very strong political pressure not to open up. This makes it hard for pollies. Southern Tasmania is in a 3-day lockdown because 1 person, who tested positive, somehow escaped quarantine for a day. So who knows how these states will go about it once 90%+ of 12+ are vaccinated and the inevitable needs to occur.
Yeah, I agree within Australia itself it is going to be interesting how it plays out. For example it is going to be pretty tough opening up WA when they have pretty much lived Covid free but opening up means you are going to guarantee getting cases, illness and ultimately death, though thankfully it will be much less now than pre-vaccine. But as a politician and with elections around the corner it is a pretty tough sell to a lot of the electorate.
The escapee hasn't been cooperative (unsurprisingly) as I understand it, a bit like the recent case with the sex worker in Nz. The Jab'athon today in Nz is errrr interesting viewing!
The escapee hasn't been cooperative (unsurprisingly) as I understand it, a bit like the recent case with the sex worker in Nz. The Jab'athon today in Nz is errrr interesting viewing!