Covid

I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later, but we got a text message stating that we’d been to a venue also attended by someone had tested positive to covid, and that accordingly we were “casual contacts”.     We were told to have a test and instructed to self-isolate until we got a result.

All very well, except that (a) the venue was the Coogee Bay Hotel on a Saturday evening, when there would have been hundreds of people present; and (b) we got the message exactly 10 days after we’d been to the venue!

During the intervening 10 days, we were out and about around Sydney, on a plane to Melbourne, on a couple of Uber rides and then out and about around Melbourne!

Nevertheless we dutifully headed off for our test.  I ought to have checked wait times on the website before leaving, because at the two testing centres in our part of the city, the queues were horrendous.  We gave up.   Later in the day, the Showgrounds testing centre was showing “no wait time”, so we set out across the city, and, for once, the website was correct:   there was indeed no queue (just multiple layers of “bureaucracy”).

At the time of posting, we’re waiting for our results.  Time will tell!