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it's here in Australia now as well. new restrictions for all international flights. Multiple infections (7 or 8 so far) coming through on the last flight allowed in from SA. desperately trying to travel down other passengers from that flight etc. and all the time having to deal with those in hotel quarantining doing stupid things to try to get out of it. home quarantining gone again and so on. one woman with 2 young kids has just set fire to her room to try to get out... the blaze wasn't small. she'll end up with a prison sentence for that, along with massive fines and won't be allowed into Australia again if she's not Australian. it's not the first time it has happened even recently. plus there's the guy who jumped out of a 3rd floor window to escape hotel quarantine... he just got to quarantine in a prison hospital bed instead.New variant now named Omicrom. Its being widely reported on the UK news and has to date one case detected in Europe. It will spread further. Its very worrying indeed.
as for my 3rd shot (confusingly the so called booster shot is actually shot no. 2 here...). i rang my doctors yesterday to ask if they can now do it at the surgery. previously pfizer want available so i had had to travel into the capital to get it last time (another state/territory so different rules) but now they have it. I wanted to get the shot a few days earlier than the 6 month mark to get it away from Christmas and us going away into a high risk area (aka Sydney) over Christmas. the moment they heard we planned to go to Sydney over Christmas it was a case of, 'you're in the at risk group anyway, you've been able to have shot 3 since month 2 after 2nd shot. you didn't need to wait until 6 months' and so I was give a slot for tomorrow, that was yesterday. my doctors want me protected well ahead of time so I'm as covered as I can be...