Constant vigilance is the price of not running out of ventilators.

 As I get on the train people are sitting close to one another. As I enter a shopping mall, I'm the only one that's using hand sanitiser.  

 

I go into Coles or Woollies or IGA. I'm still the only one using hand sanitiser.  There are no trolley wipes, so I suppose that's good in a way, it shows it's being used, but no one's on watch for it. People crowd close to me in the checkout queue. 

 

We never really needed to get into the mask thing here.

 

And I understand why people have slumped back to normal with some relief here. It was scary and inconvenient.

 

Trouble is, I know, and you know that it only takes one mistake for this thing to get out into the community. And here in  "Bubble-you-eh" this complacency might come back to bite us, especially with an increase of people coming in from overseas, and soon from interstate. I don't want to keep the people out, but I wish the public's response to them coming was a return to the sensible habits of when we had community spread in W.A.

 

It just takes one mistake. Normally, this might be buffered by people who might be exposed maintaining distance, hand sanitising and taking precautions. 

 

But our fear has gone  because we've been protected.  So, my fellow Sandgropers, if you're reading this blog you'r probably already a well informed person.  All we can do is practise these habits ourselves, and hope to influence those around us. Otherwise, what else can we do? I'm really worried about the complacency I see around me, I scoffed at the silliness of the people in this article hugging and kissing in Victoria back then https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-26/coronavirus-melbourne-testing-blitz-underway-in-hotspot-suburbs/12393984 , but now I think we've got the potential to have it spread here like lightning because we've become too slack. 

 

What else can we do?