Ramblings and Curated Info For "Interesting Times"
I’m just writing these as I go but will post after I finish the course. Day 3 So third day, I’ve found myself to still be irascible and irritable and a bit moody. Perhaps that’s just natural for my situation (wife 200km away also with COVID, unable to leave home to go out for groceries … Read more
Reflections in the middle of a recuperation. There are a few things that have struck me as I sat around waiting to expire or revive. Some of them reflect what an anticommunal society we’ve become, some are just reflections that ACAC, All CopsErrCapitalists Are Counts. (Extra “o” in there, oops…) I’ve had spontaneous pneumothorax (collapsed … Read more
Antivirals and you – what you were too afraid to ask so I experience it for you. Wife and I got the dread purple line within days of one another. We’d both had Influenza A for five weeks at that stage, just been feeling well enough to go shopping before the weekend and that must … Read more
… don’t grieve when it’s gone, The band played Boogie and the people danced on…— CCS “The Band Played The Boogie” We’re good at supporting good initiatives. Until we’re no longer. In this case, the initiative for food-sharing makes sense because people can save some food costs, and prevent food from going into the waste stream while it’s still … Read more
A hospital is no place to be sick… Picture it – an early(earlyish, for a retiree pensioner) start to the morning. Picture it. Someone was going to shove a camera up my willy to check my bladder for – things. No pre-admission instructions, but I read up on Dr Google and Dr CHatGPT, and just like last … Read more
Health Minister Spahn (Germany) made what I think is one of the most quotable quotes a year and a bit ago. He said something along the lines that by the end of Winter, everyone would be “vaccinated, recovered or dead.” I thought about that a lot, and I couldn’t really work out why any sane … Read more
Things That Make Me Go Hmmm #2 “… given it feels like we have emerged from the worst of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic …” — David Elliott, Deputy MD, Ipsos Australia Mr Elliott is a deputy MD for Ipsos, a survey company. \ So why is his opinion on the pandemic so worthy … Read more
What’ll Scott Morrison, erstwhile (disastrous, devious, and deceitful) PM of Australia, be remembered for? Situations like this one. He cut the heart and soul out of income supports for disabled people, pensioners, and job seekers, he pursued the most defenceless people with automated and almost always unjustified dunning letters, threatening letters that actually caused some … Read more
I’m not saying it was the COVID Zombie Virus, but . . . First, let me be clear. This is a dead sobering lesson we should all take to heart. Because the Halloween crush in Seoul is terrifying to contemplate, or it should be. It shouldn’t have happened, and yet – it did. I’ll just … Read more
In A Post-Industrial World Presented without sources – you can look each of these things up online yourself and there are quite literally tens of thousands of articles, news items, or papers – if you can be arsed to wade through a few thousand words apiece of densely-packed terminology. Or you can take my word … Read more