3 years, 8 months ago

Intimacy in a time of pandemic

Sydney’s roosters have well and truly come home to roost. That is perhaps why it’s a good thing that, while a Public Health Order cannot definitively settle the age-old question of whether Kmart truly is the storehouse for all of life’s essentials, it can provide us with certain answers about the types of relationships to be considered essential. It’s time for the NSW government to emulate their counterparts in places like the UK and, yes, even Victoria, by officially enacting “lockdown support bubbles” for people who live alone. When the only specific Public Health Order example of a compassionate reason why person A might be allowed in person B’s house is if A and B are in a “relationship” with each other — which is to say, they are having sex — what else is the “intimately un-partnered” person to think other than that their relational needs aren’t essential? Now think of person X and person Y, both of whom live alone, neither of whom are essential workers in the community and who, under a “social bubble” exception, would only be permitted to visit each other’s houses, perhaps even with the expectation of maintaining some semblance of social distancing between their bodies.

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Health Live Know Sydney Person Essential Able Nsw Lockdown
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