"Victorians report feeling 'intimidated' by police enforcing coronavirus shutdown measures" - ABC News Poor souls. Some Victorians are marshaling the forces of community legal groups because they 'feel' they are being 'unfairly treated' by police enforcing coronavirus restrictions. Police have been told to target "blatant" breaches of physical-distancing directives. Well, I have a message for... Continue Reading →
How Bad Can It Get?
In my previous post today I tried to give out the message that the next few weeks will open not a few eyes to just how bad things are right now in our one and only world of substantive existence. In different apsects of the same theme, Kunstler this week rambles on - mostly good... Continue Reading →
The Virus – A Personal View Update
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 →
Not Something Else 