Numbers are irrelevant. You know that when you start to count the months because it hardly seems possible that we are at the end of 2021. Really seems like we didn't have 2020- and this year? But numbers are thrown at us constantly: numbers of cases, deat

Numbers are irrelevant. You know that when you start to count the months because it hardly seems possible that we are at the end of 2021. Really seems like we didn't have 2020- and this year? But numbers are thrown at us constantly: numbers of cases, deaths, vaccinated people once/twice, lockdowns... The shop I work in should open next week. We've barely kept afloat thanks to web and phone orders and I wonder how many other shops in the CBD will actually reopen? Though walking through the QVB there were hopeful signs: lights on in places that have been dark since late June, staff checking shelves and spreadsheets. Yet I wonder how on earth we are supposed to check all the customers are double-vaxxed before they come into the shops? Who of us are going to say no to customers with money and the desire to spend it, even if they are those most anti-social of all consumers, anti-vaxxers? Why are retail staff expected to be police? (Why should police be expected to do this either?)There have been no sensible instructions. Just numbers. And they are irrelevant...