Mask rules are back
Mask rules have come back to Perth and apparently the Delta variant of the covid-19 virus has appeared. We've entered a 3-day semi-lockdown, where masks are required indoors and some kinds of businesses are closed. People are hoping restrictions will lift after that, but I think we've been extremely lucky to contain all of our mini-outbreaks. Western Australians are feeling pretty smug about it. But I've seen a lot of maskholes around and I don't think the "success" has been due to complete compliance. It's just a matter of time until covid is loose in Western Australia. Yesterday, the mask restrictions went into place at noon. We had already bought tickets to see The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It at 2:40 in the Palace Raine Square Cinema downtown. The theatre required masks and already had social distancing built into their seating assignments, so we opted to go. I saw several people in the bus and downtown not wearing a mask. It's plausible they...