- but surely if you sing, you are causing air to be removed more forcibly from your mouth, so that rules is a bit silly, in my opinion. I’d rather stay silent anyway and wear a mask
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Ha ha, you need stricter rules. Singing was banned in public spaces for months, much to the annoyance of religious organisations in particular. It is OK now for vaccinated people to sing but the unvaccinated are still not allowed to sing or dance in public indoor spaces. (and certainly not in the supermarket)
https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Pages/public-health-orders.aspx
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That’s interesting…!
According to the article, the new measures appear to have several idiosyncrasies. As with the singing, some will encourage the spread of the virus rather than inhibit it.
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It never ceases to amaze me how policies from all political parties throughout history are thrown out there with so many inconsistencies, holes and vagaries, given the number of trained barristers and lawyers who are politicians.
Complete lack of quality control!
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Yes, but really this is just people being smart Alecs and looking out for possible ridiculous scenarios because they’re fed up with being told to mask up again and are having a strop
If we go with the spirit of the guidance rather than nit-picking, then we wear masks in public places but can take it off to eat, sing hymns in church etc
Having been to a few lockdown funerals, that will be a mercy.
Would anyone really go round the supermarket singing to prove a point and defy the mask ban? Pointing out a stupid potential loopholes doesn’t mean the new rules on masks aren’t a good thing
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Forget Covid - we seem to be dealing with a new plague - total insanity!
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You’ve got to feel sorry for the supermarket staff,not only do they have to deal with anti mask morons now people who think they can sing!
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I have avoided the shops today, and shall do so until the novelty wears off! Its bad enough going shopping without someone warbling down the aisles looking for their cheesy crisps 
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If singers had to wear masks all the entertainment venues would be closed and thousands of people would become unemployed.
They just shut them here under public health orders, at the moment they are slowly reopening.
Well yes…but they can in their own places, not supermarkets 
I like peace when I’m shopping, not Les Misérables
The ladies where I live go off to choir practice at the local church on Mondays … I doubt they’d want to go shopping at the same time.
@Maree … as you say, she’s just a smart alec … and a professional singer according to the article so doubtless trying to enhance her employment prospects.
If you mean theatres etc … I could be wrong but I think they benefited from rather generous grants at the very first lockdown.
Sing? I’ll just wear my mask and shop quietly.
Is that because of the Omicron variant?
I don’t think so…staff were put on furlough, some of which was government funded, but I don’t think the theatres were given anything. Andrew Lloyd Webber campaigned for help for the entertainment industry as he felt they’d been ignored by the government.
I believe the government has pumped money in the Culture Recovery Fund which is currently on it’s third round of financial support, which filters down through the various Arts Councils to theatres, museums, galleries and any other of the performing arts.
It’s inevitable that a few shall fall by the wayside as they tend to survive on grants anyway as they’re not economically viable at the best of times.
No, they shut them down at the start of the pandemic, they are only now opening because of the percentage of the population vaccinated. The arts, entertainment and hospitality industry was the hardest hit by the pandemic. Sport fixtures were originally played in empty stadiums with the teams in isolation “bubbles”
In the current Ashes series the Test normally played in Perth will be played in Tassie because of WAs ongoing restrictions.
The advent of Omicron has made no changes (so far) to the blueprint for reopening.
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I recall that museums and galleries received funding, but not live entertainment e.g. theatres.