Vigilance, common sense plus a smoother run over the border have at least made the ongoing COVID-19 crisis a bit more bearable.
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When NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian stepped up to the microphone at a press conference on Wednesday, the chances of the Border's restriction regime not being tightened looked on shaky ground.
Ms Berejiklian repeatedly warned that even the slightest upsurge in cases from our region could lead to more stringent lock-downs and other restrictions.
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One was even the possibility of, for the sake of quarantining the area from the rest of NSW, moving the state's border with Victoria to north of Albury.
It is said that a lot can happen in 24 hours and in some areas, that has come to pass.
But fortunately for Border residents, that has been reflected through that common sense of the community.
In another welcome development, the monstrous queues that snaked across the Lincoln Causeway when the border closure first began had eased considerably by Thursday morning.
The combination of police fine-tuning their processes at the check-point and more people having downloaded their permit had made an enormous difference.
But problems will still crop-up and people will, quite understandably, remain ill-at-ease over the spectre of this terrible virus hanging over our community.
Again, it is extremely heartening - and also of no surprise at all - that those who can help have stepped-up with gusto to assist those on the Border having trouble with our new daily regime.
Among those have been the Albury-Wodonga Communities Council, which has been to the fore in helping those who simply cannot access that information they need because of language barriers.
Problems will continue to arise, but we can also be confident that we all will continue to stick together to come up with the solutions.
