Lower Than A Snake

Whilst for some today marked the longed for return home, spare a thought for those people who have been locked down for six weeks, nursed their horses back to health, but who are still confined to Parkes Showground. “Our morale was lower than a snake this morning, when we saw the others drive out the gate,” declared Nerida Corbett, one of the Parkes detainees not permitted to move. “There are still six families here and 23 horses. We have had two tests done and all the horses are clear, but because we come from Amber and Green Zones we are not allowed to move. It’s a joke really and it is so depressing getting no answers. We can’t get any sense out of anybody.

“We are doing it pretty tough here. I come from Peek Hill just 50 kilometers away and the virus, if it were heading that way would have well and truly been and gone. We are just so looking forward to sleeping in our own beds, but we can’t move and we are not in a position to agist anywhere off site in the Red Zone. People here come from, Bega, Nowra, Candelo and Numbaa. If we thought we would spread the virus we would not think of moving. They told us we would be out of here on the 28th September and that has been and gone, perhaps they meant 28th September 2008?