I have been quiet for the last few days, mostly observing, reading, or playing Black Desert Online and self isolating in my own home. For me life hasn't changed much under COVID-19 restrictions. In the last few months I have only left home once a week to do essential shopping and I still do that... Continue Reading →
“…the only means of fighting a plague is common decency”
"...there’s no question of heroism in all this. It’s a matter of common decency. That’s an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is common decency." - Dr Rieux in Albert Camus' The Plague ...of course a little pre-planning in anticipation of such event doesn't go astray.... Continue Reading →
The Virus – Waiting For Change In Pattern – Estimation Not Required
I'm kind of over the reporting of coronavirus until something changes in the pattern. I took a break yesterday in hopes that it would. But apart from the totals still rising, nothing has altered significantly in the structure of the outcomes. We are still on track for a 2 million reported cases in around another... Continue Reading →
Oh my, oh my. What’s to become of us?
Kunstler lays it bare. "Money Minus Value, No Limit" - Kunstler I love him when he's in this mode. I also have a soft spot for Wile E. Coyote and, like Jim, I also don't buy into the conspiracy theories. There are plenty enough real ones of those around, but not concerning this virus. Though... Continue Reading →
Beginning of Societal Breakdown – Unsafe For Nurses to Wear Uniform in Street
On the other side of the world to my previous post is a different story. Public abuse makes it unsafe for nurses to wear uniform outside the hospital. Fear, frustration and anger in my own country, not to mention supermarket brawls over toilet paper, show the beginnings of societal breakdown as COVID-19 imposes tighter grip... Continue Reading →
No Space For The Dead; No ‘Comfort’ For The Living – New York’s Coronavirus Fuck-up.
"Coronavirus has seized control of New York. Here's why the city may never be the same again" - Australia ABC News And this thing is nowhere near over yet. I have no other comment. What else is there to say? Or at least I have no appetite for getting into saying it.
Beauty And The Beast
It appears that Russia is not alone in organising to have its Foreign Ministry represented, as spokesperson, by a woman of natural beauty, intelligence (under the word's primary and proper meaning) and possessed of a cutting wit. China too has such an appealing and rational female asset occupying that same role, in Hua Chunying. And... Continue Reading →
Some Adjustment Required
Another day, another +80,000 new COVID-19 cases reported. Nothing else has changed. At least nothing in the general ratios that mark the progress of the global health crisis we are living through. Nothing other than the growth in total cases. Which clearly indicates that at the moment we, humanity, are passive passengers on the trolley-bus... Continue Reading →
COVID-19 News April 4, 2020
I keep trying to write about other things. I want to write about other things. But everything else keeps getting overshadowed by The Virus news. I could more or less write the same things I wrote yesterday. Another more than 80,000 new cases, bringing in the prospect of reaching the second million cases within the... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 