Silly Covid rules instead of common sense rule in Victoria
Brazilian waxing on the footpath, a change room in the park and a ban on outdoor chardy sipping all signs that safety has turned to silliness.
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On Monday, businesswoman and skin expert Gry Tomte summed up the wider disbelief with the residual restrictions of escaping lockdown.
She was talking about outdoor beauty initiatives, as spruiked by the Andrews Government.
“I can just imagine Brazilian waxes being carried out on the side of the road,” she said.
Don’t scoff. For 19 months, we have been subjected to strange sights because of silly rules.
A Minister For Making Sense has been sorely absent throughout the lockdowns. The idea may sound like something out of Monty Python.
Yet this person could have adjudicated upon, if not eliminated, the more ludicrous medical decrees which have defied both reason and the prevailing science.
How could a playground ban – complete with the taping up of all those naughty monkey bars - get out of discussion, much less be defended?
The Minister for Making Sense could have ensured that teachers could have taught online without managing a two year old painting their face with baked beans at the same time.
And have banished the Fun Police edict against dropping your mask to sip a sneaky chardy in the park.
And have said no when staggered school returns means that many parents will do school drop-offs and home schooling on the same day.
The Andrews Government calls the chasms between restrictions and common sense as “transitional anomalies”.
Others might call them the smoking gun exhibits in the case against rampant catastrophising.
This adherence to pettiness will hit retail later this week, when you’ll be able drink a beer in the pub but not buy your kids return-to-school shoes in a shop.
Obviously, no one behind these rules needs to go shopping. Perhaps they have never ventured outside their parents’ cellar, much less an ALP bunker room.
They should get out more, if only to be waxed in public.
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