Was getting prepared to travel 3.5 hours away to attend my aunt’s funeral on Tuesday. Due to distance I’d booked in to a local hotel for the night.
Then an hour later the announcement goes out the the state is going back into Stage 4 COVID lockdown for five days, which included the funeral date. No travel outside your 5 km home bubble. Only leave home for four reasons: shopping for food/essentials, exercise, work or caregiving.
No more than 10 attendees at a funeral.
That really screwed things up. My cousins & their families frantically rescheduled things & now the funeral has been postponed by a week.
Mum can’t travel now, she’ll have to watch the video stream from the funeral chapel. She missed her older sister’s funeral three years ago because she was in rehab following shoulder surgery.
Annother really annoying thing about stage four restrictions is that even though, for example, my sister as chief caregiver for our mother can leave her home bubble, she can’t visit the aged care place.