A Decline Among Seniors: Americans over 65 remain the demographic most likely to have received the original series of Covid vaccinations.Updated Boosters for Kids: The Food and Drug Administration broadened access to updated Covid booster shots to include children as young as 5.Warnings of a ‘Tripledemic’: An expected winter rise in Covid cases appears poised to collide with a resurgent flu season and a third pathogen straining pediatric hospitals in some states.Is it our weather? Our state’s policies? Bad luck? (The Guardian today has a good article examining these questions.) But that appreciation doesn’t make the lonely claustrophobia of lockdown any easier.Īnd it’s easy to wonder: Why Melbourne? Other Australian cities have managed to make it through the entire pandemic with only brief restrictions and tiny outbreaks. Folks I know are glad for rules that aim to keep them safe. Enforcement last year was strict there’s no reason to think that this will be any different, although most people are compliant. We are not allowed to travel more than five kilometers from our homes. In Victoria, it means we are not allowed to leave our homes except for a few essential reasons. Much of the world has experienced some form of lockdown, so much so that the word tends to lose meaning when used outside of a local context. (In February, a snap lockdown kept us at home for five days around Valentine’s Day.) But we know that if things go the wrong way, we could be in for a longer haul. With 39 active coronavirus cases in the state and hundreds of exposure sites, including sports arenas and crowded bars, we’ve been told we’re in for a seven-day “circuit breaker” lockdown. Today, Victoria entered its second lockdown since last year, when the state - and Melbourne in particular - spent many months with a variety of harsh restrictions. The dreary, fearful, resigned uncertainty of it all. Birthday parties canceled, holidays postponed. The rumors of restrictions, followed by the reality of lockdown. The obsessive checking of exposure sites. So much so, picnic-related conversations were up at least 1300% when Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced that as of September 13, up to five fully vaxxed individuals can gather outdoors in NSW for an hour.The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. In the past week, Aussies have taken to Twitter in droves to discuss new freedoms on the horizon for fully-vaxxed Sydney-siders. Our partnership with the Australian Department of Health to launch the #KnowTheFacts search prompt ensures the community has access to credible information related to immunisations, including COVID-19 vaccines, at the top of their search experience. With Australia’s vaccine rollout expanding, Aussies are participating in varying conversations around this topic. It has been humbling to see people using Twitter as a real-time mental health and wellbeing helpline. People have also taken to the platform to share their personal experiences in lockdown, including how they’ve adapted to homeschooling and working from home.
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Since the onset of the global pandemic, Twitter has played a critical role in keeping Aussies informed, entertained, connected, and in amplifying authoritative information from credible sources.ĭuring these trying times, Aussies have turned to Twitter to find the latest developments on COVID-19, from quarantine regulations to tips on how to stop the spread. From #StayHomeSaveLives to #ToiletPaper to Picnic led conversations, Twitter has been where Australians have turned to over the last year and a half to find out what’s happening.
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