Welcome to the forum from Chicago the Windy City.
And, I heard on the news that Australia, or 99 % of it is Covid-Free.
Is that correct? We have people here that still believe it's not real. with 250,00 deaths already. People here are still having large parties, don.t give a darn about their neighbours. Please respond just curious. Oh, and fly safe.
Yup, as Mentioned, I live in Queensland, south side of Brisbane, soon to move to Coomera Waters, which is north side of the Gold Coast (about a 40 minute drive from here).
Just after I got the
MA2 we had about 4 days of torrential rain, and the last couple of days have been high winds. Not flying weather.
Re Covid - yup, very much a non-event, mainly because we did the easy bits.
Queensland has a popn of 4.6M, and Australia about 25M (1/13th of USA). Queensland has had 6 deaths, and about 1200 cases so far - there are about 18-20 active and hospitalized cases at the moment (none in ICU) all associated with people coming from somewhere else. Compare to Louisiana, similar popn - running at about 7000 deaths, from memory. We haven't had a death, either in this state, or all of Australia for about 2 months. (908 deaths in Australia total. Last Sunday the USA had more die between Breakfast and Lunch, then Australia has since the whole thing started.
The "protocols" - simple - sanitizer everywhere. Supermarket checkouts have sneezeguards. Restaurants and coffeeshops etc, have QR Code - scan for contact tracing. Keep the 1.5 M Social distance. Self isolate and report if Symptomatic. The only places I have seen people insisting on masks are the Nespresso store, the apple store, and most hospitals. Health Care is optionally free here, so no worries about the costs if hospitalization is needed (You can still have health insurance - it just gives you more choices). Our government has enough stock of 3 vaccines on order to cover every one in the country for free, as well as some close neighbours. Rather than a one off stimulus check, everyone who has lost a job has been getting a weekly amount.
Not Rocket Science, not even drone science.
