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What Ashley Robinson has learned during the coronavirus pandemic

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What have I learned from COVID?  Wash my hands more, don’t touch my face as much. I can now take my temperature accurately and the economy is far more resilient than I thought it was.

Those selling cars, boats, motorbikes, bicycles, gym gear, TVs, clothes and surf equipment appear to have only one problem: not enough stock.

Sure, I would like to own a toilet paper business with what I now know, but I didn’t see that coming.

Real estate in regional areas is another thing I didn’t see coming and most long-time locals on the Coast could make a killing, but the problem is where do you move to?

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I have also learnt that politicians, health officials and our community leaders have made decisions to try and keep us healthy for the right reasons, which is all I can ask for. Sure they aren’t all 100 per cent correct, but at least they are trying. I don’t agree with some of them, but have complied.

Take masks, for instance. I don’t see how they help much. We touch the mask, we take it down to eat or drink, we put it back we touch our glass or plate with the same hands that touched the mask, air comes out of the side of the mask. How does any of this actually help? But that’s what we were asked to do, so we did it.

Actually, I am a far better looking man with a mask on, so I didn’t mind wearing it, but I could have got an exemption if I wanted. My exemption would possibly be for claustrophobia. If that was a fail, then I could have tossed up vestibular issues, but I went with the masses and wore the mask because that was what I was asked to do by our officials.

Now, some folk didn’t go with that, and just flatly said they had an exemption but didn’t have to prove that they had one as it was an invasion of privacy. If I was operating a business, I would need to protect staff and patrons from this awful virus and would think I would have every right to ask someone why they aren’t wearing a mask?

There is contradicting information on what is right and what is wrong, but surely human decency would rise to the top after what has been a very trying period for everyone and it wouldn’t be too much to ask for someone to carry a card that said, ‘John Smith Medically Exempt’.

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