" If infected people touch items in the store and come into proximity to infected people there is risk of transmission. It wont discriminate hardware from hair. "
There's massive difference. First is proximity.
Your barber is touching you. Presumably you're also having a conversation. So, simply because you are closer together there is a greater chance of airborne transmission ( through speaking ).
And then there's the physical touching bit. The barber has much more physical contact during a haircut than you picking up a pot plant at Bunnings.
When I go to Bunnings I am not touching other people's heads. Nor am I physically close enough for airborne transmission.
If everyone that walks in the door at Bunnings sanitises their hands then they reduce the chance of bringing it in and putting it on to a surface by a massive amount. They are also physically distanced from others. If I sanitise on the way in ( and on the way out in my case ) and touch the same object, the chances of me getting infected are so low it's ridiculous.
Hence , the success of Bunnings and others not transmitting Covid.
Waiting 2 weeks doesn't mean there won't be any Covid in the community. It just means that we haven't found it by testing. When we haven't seen a case for a month or two then we can be reasonably confident that it has died out completely.
I would rather still have a hygiene plan that includes masks for a month or two that helps us eliminate Covid altogether rather than constantly manage a number of cases for months.
The sooner we can say that Australia has zero community transmission the better for everyone.
