“No-one needs to drive more than 10 kilometres to have a Covid test.”
Right.
We’ve just returned from a 90km round trip to comply with the Victorian Passport requirement that we have Covid tests three & thirteen days after returning home… so we have to do another 90km in ten days!
This despite the fact that we were in outback Qld for the previous nine weeks, and drove through outback NSW, stopping only for refuelling before reaching home just 10km from the border, where we’ve never had a positive case! We have been effectively self-isolating for nine weeks, yet we have to self-isolate for a further two weeks.
Good thing we’re honest people… there was NO-ONE at the NSW/Victorian border to check our state passports, so officially no-one would know that we are home, or that we are required to have the tests.
And as I write this, SWMBO has received an email from the gummint telling her that because they couldn’t get our passports processed before the stated travel date, (two weeks beyond the application lodgement!) they’ve cancelled our applications, threatening dire consequences if we enter Vic without a passport.
We won’t let on that our other applications were successful automatically, without needing human intervention.
ps. I suppose we could have driven 10km to Corowa IF there were somewhere there to be tested (there isn’t) but that would have required entering NSW, and another application for a passport to re-enter Victoria’s precious turf and a re-start of our 14 days self-isolation and new requirements for Covid tests on days 3 & 13.
This had the potential to become tedious.
