I think I must have entered the twilight zone at my local shops today. Either that or, I am living through a bad dream at the moment. Everywhere I looked, young and old alike, were casually walking around like zombies with their masks compliantly fastened over their faces. As of midnight last night, new mandatory rules are in force for the wearing of masks in the Greater Sydney area (including Wollongong, Central Coast and Blue Mountains). The wearing of masks will be mandatory at the following places:
• shopping (retail, supermarkets and shopping centres)
• on public/shared transport and waiting areas for public/shared transport
• indoor entertainment (including cinemas and theatres)
• places of worship
• hair and beauty premises
• visiting an aged care facility.
Compliance will start from Monday 4 January 2021 with $200 on the spot fines for individuals for non-compliance...What a brave new world we live in.
I find it amazing how this was all predicted exactly how it’s turned out to be by a “Conspiracy Theorist” on YouTube almost a year ago now. I remember watching this guy and the way he spelt it all out moment by moment is almost uncanny how spot-on he was. He started off by reminding everyone how odd and random it was to see the occasional Asian wearing a mask on public transport not that long ago. We would laugh to ourselves and think how silly and strange they looked. That was even before Covid 19 was a thing. Then the virus slowly crept into our lives and the masks started to appear more and more. The expert advice at the time evolved from “unnecessary”, to “personal choice”, to “strongly recommended”, to finally, “mandatory”!
He went on to predict that this would become the new “normal” and that we would long for that other normal that we all took for granted. “Where All in It Together” was the slogan. If we all comply and do what we’re asked to do (i.e. told to do) we will get out of this and things will get back to normal. We just need to stay the course and persevere was the pep talk they gave us. And, sure enough, the cases dropped to zero, the restrictions came down and, for a while, the masks came off and we went back to a semblance of the old normal. But wait…Oh no, the second wave comes along and the masks have, all of a sudden, become mandatory. Not to worry though. Humanity’s saving grace will be the upcoming vaccine. If you want to go to the shops or catch a bus without a mask on, then you will need to prove that you’ve received the jab.
Just repeating, this was all predicted about eight or so months ago by those crazy conspiracy theorists out there.
• shopping (retail, supermarkets and shopping centres)
• on public/shared transport and waiting areas for public/shared transport
• indoor entertainment (including cinemas and theatres)
• places of worship
• hair and beauty premises
• visiting an aged care facility.
Compliance will start from Monday 4 January 2021 with $200 on the spot fines for individuals for non-compliance...What a brave new world we live in.
I find it amazing how this was all predicted exactly how it’s turned out to be by a “Conspiracy Theorist” on YouTube almost a year ago now. I remember watching this guy and the way he spelt it all out moment by moment is almost uncanny how spot-on he was. He started off by reminding everyone how odd and random it was to see the occasional Asian wearing a mask on public transport not that long ago. We would laugh to ourselves and think how silly and strange they looked. That was even before Covid 19 was a thing. Then the virus slowly crept into our lives and the masks started to appear more and more. The expert advice at the time evolved from “unnecessary”, to “personal choice”, to “strongly recommended”, to finally, “mandatory”!
He went on to predict that this would become the new “normal” and that we would long for that other normal that we all took for granted. “Where All in It Together” was the slogan. If we all comply and do what we’re asked to do (i.e. told to do) we will get out of this and things will get back to normal. We just need to stay the course and persevere was the pep talk they gave us. And, sure enough, the cases dropped to zero, the restrictions came down and, for a while, the masks came off and we went back to a semblance of the old normal. But wait…Oh no, the second wave comes along and the masks have, all of a sudden, become mandatory. Not to worry though. Humanity’s saving grace will be the upcoming vaccine. If you want to go to the shops or catch a bus without a mask on, then you will need to prove that you’ve received the jab.
Just repeating, this was all predicted about eight or so months ago by those crazy conspiracy theorists out there.
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