With governments resistant to further Covid restrictions, we spoke to six members of the public to see how they are living with Omicron
Some that the Guardian spoke to reported pandemic fatigue. Ken McLeod & Karen Sorensen, Elly Bruin and Prof Mike Toole.Some that the Guardian spoke to reported pandemic fatigue. Ken McLeod & Karen Sorensen, Elly Bruin and Prof Mike Toole.Last modified on Sun 24 Jul 2022 18.32 BST
“I’m not being cautious about contracting Covid. I don’t see it as being as serious as the health organisations are making it out to be,” Leanne says. “All in all, I will continue to travel as much as I can, providing I can get the time off work, will continue to cruise – I have another four cruises booked and am researching a further cruise.”‘People don’t really understand if you’ve got an elderly relative or an immunocompromised, you’re still as frightened as you were in the beginning’ … Karen Sorensen and Ken McLeod.
He is also concerned about the daily death toll from Covid. “If that happened in an alpine crash there would be heads rolling, a royal commission, grandstanding in parliament. There’s a Covid fatigue.”Sign up to receive the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning. “It hasn’t stopped me from doing anything. I have booked a bunch of tickets to the film festival in August and I am going away, so there’s this part of me that worries I will get Covid.”Photograph: Mike Toole“I’d say, it’s not much different from during lockdowns,” he says. “The difference is about once a month I go to the local pub and I sit out in the courtyard. I wear a mask when I got to buy a drink.
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