During the pandemic, Australia had been until recently one of the luckier of the western countries. We still had the virus, but compared to the US and UK we were keeping our numbers low with a few half assed lockdowns, contact tracing and a relatively compliant mask culture.

Well, I hope you liked all that not getting sick while it lasted because daddy US and UK said the virus is over, so rather than keep playing it safe we've now stopped enforcing most of our restrictions. Within days the virus has spread like wildfire, the government has announced they can no longer do contact tracing because there are too many cases. Rapid antigen tests are sold out everywhere, you can't get them. Hospitals are now struggling and lines for testing are so long that they're turning people away.

So yeah, Australia is no longer managing to contain the spread as well as they were.

Anyway, I started getting COVID symptoms yesterday, and today lost my sense of taste. I tried to get tested today and was told they're full. My boss wants me in tomorrow. Not quite sure what to do.

Edit: Going to call in sick and try to get tested again tomorrow. I feel bad for the nurses, it must be hell dealing with this surge. Also, I'm up to date with my vaccine so even if I do have COVID I'll probably be fine.