finally

so we are finally open, to some degree after being locked down for so long. I have to say that it feels really strange. There is a large volume of traffic on the road and with so many stores open, it all feels frenetic, busy. Speaking of busy, I ventured into the local JB hi-fi to look for a compact disc. Because they had been closed for so many months, the was a large queue for returns that was greater than purchases. Because returns take so much time, they decided to create a dedicated queue. A weird variation on a theme, rather than queuing up to control the volume of people in the store, K Mart is by appointment only.

the feeling of late has been beyond the pace of a Sunday but not quite the pace of a Christmas day. It felt somewhere in between and how strange it was I got used to it. Or moreover, how it was imposed upon all of us.

yesterday, your leader ( I won't call him my leader; I didn't vote for the nut job. I voted for another nut job) came up with this convoluted plan about visitation involving people not visiting more than one relative or significant other. How they are going to monitor such behavior or enforce any breach of said behavior is god's private mystery. It seems like he has become addicted to the control he imposed in the giddy days of recent times. This feels like one last stab at control.

I can only hope that this goes well because if the powers that be make some attempt at locking down the state again, there will be a rage generated beyond any description of the term. Anyway, the restrictions imposed were convoluted, prohibitive and dumb.