Vaccinated, masked up, Mitty Davies ventures to Dubbo shops after reopening

Mrs Davies had a mask on and hand sanitiser ready as she ventured into Dubbo's central business district on Monday as NSW came out of lockdown.

The Narromine woman was visiting to buy essential goods in preparation for harvest.

Mrs Davies was alert to the seriousness of COVID, and identified vaccination as key to the way forward.

"Yes, you've just got to learn to live with it," she said of the virus.

"I've got hand sanitiser in the car, I've got plastic gloves, and you've just got to be sensible, you've got to take personal responsibility, and we've just got to get used to it.

"But I know a lot of people are worried about it - well I am too, it will be interesting to see how it all works out.

"But I think you've just got to be vaccinated, it's a no-brainer."

Mrs Davies called on earlier life experience in considering the COVID threat.

"When I was a child, we had the polio, and there was no choice, you just lined up [for vaccination] or you died," she said.

While Mrs Davies' shopping list included work clothes for harvest and a motor, there was also the possibility of a browse.

"You can see the store owners are so pleased to see you, and pleased to be back, and pleased to see us in the shop, supporting them," she said.

NSW reached 70 per cent of its population achieving double-dose vaccination against COVID last week, triggering the easing of restrictions for those twice-jabbed, the first of three stages under the reopening road map.