So I guess it is really down to all of us to take the matter seriously and protect ourselves.

There is a massive flaw in the biosecurity protocol put in place on race days and it's incredibly dangerous.

The problem is with race cards.
The stewards are issued with gloves.
Those gloves handle every race card in the meeting without being disinfected.
There is a massive problem here because those gloves are accumulating and spreading micro-organisms on every single card.
What this means is your card is potentially infected with billions of germs from cards held previously by those gloves.
Those gloves that aren't disinfected are a potential loaded gun, and so is your race card.

Another name for this is Russian Roulette.
With the alarming escalation of infections around the country it is only a matter of time before a live bullet lands on one of those cards.
When every health authority around the world is drumming it down everyone's throat that hygiene and disinfecting your hands is absolutely IMPERATIVE, we're not doing it.
It's the very basic of basics in avoiding cross-contamination.

If you never heed another warning in your life, heed this one...it may save your life or one of your loved ones.
If you aren't taking this virus seriously, you'd better start now.
The virus is a master at taking opportunities to spread and multiply, and it does it ferociously.
It's going to get a whole lot worse.

Take this matter into your own hands and it's simple to overcome.
Carry a small bottle of hand sanitiser/disinfectant in your pocket EVERY TIME you go racing.
Every time you are handed back your card IMMEDIATELY wipe it down thoroughly with disinfectant/sanitiser THEN disinfect your hands before touching anything else.

It will only take one positive case to shut down the industry and that will probably happen sooner or later.
At least if you do this small thing it may help to make it later and more importantly, save your ass.

What would be an even better solution is to do away with race cards completely.
Microchip matching gives them all the info they need coupled with a system to show last race weight.
Now is the time to throw them out the window.

Stay safe.

Someone on f/b commented on my post saying shops are making the same mistake.

I went shopping today. Went to 3 stores.
I remembered what he wrote...so I watched...
Two stores had no hand sanitiser for their checkout workers.
One did but didn't bother to use it.
With the products I purchased and the change I received, I've just shaken hands with ten thousand people.

And authorities are trying to work out how community transmission is occurring?

Something to think about...
Take your bloody little bottle of disinfectant/sanitiser to the shops too!!

...Trying to work out how to disinfect my apples...

Wash your hands boys and girls.

Stay safe and bogie free.