A slew of COVID-19 restrictions will ease in Victoria and New South Wales tomorrow. While we all want this blasted pandemic to be over, the eased restrictions are frankly ableist and reckless.
We have it pretty good in Vic and NSW: everything is open and we’re allowed to go about our regular lives. But a bunch of pretty crucial restrictions will be walked back on Friday including the requirement for household contacts to isolate for seven days. Instead they will be required to take a rapid antigen tests every day, wear masks while indoors, work from home where possible and avoid high-risk settings like hospitals. Basically they will be able to go about their lives provided they don’t have symptoms.
