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On Sunday night, I booked a flight to Darwin to visit my cousin and his wife, who've been living up there for the last year, and whom I briefly saw while travelling through Darwin on my way to Indonesia after being on the Ghan.
Reading all the posts about the advice to Americans this holiday season, I feel vaguely guilty. Also, a little anxious: 4.5 hours flight in a small tin tube with IDK how many other people, any of whom could be carrying COVID-19...
And we have a 'very nasty' cluster of cases in Adelaide c/o a quarantine that went wrong. The current number of cases? 24.
I'm not dismissing it as 'small' - after all, this worldwide pandemic started maybe a year ago with a handful of cases. There's...rather more than a handful of cases in most countries. And yes, in Australia (and NZ) we have a better chance of keeping it under control than plenty of other places because we're islands and a long way off. But...yeah. It's concerning.
Terrible as it might be, I am amused that this has happened to an conservative-led state, without Dan Andrews at the helm, with the ADF in charge, and basically all the accusations/arguments that the conservatives levelled at the Victorian situation completely turned around so they're utterly invalid. Honestly, if I ever doubted that God Almighty enjoys the comeuppance of the smug, 2020 would leave me certain of it.
Anyway, I'm praying for the US, for you guys to stay safe, for your families to be sane this holiday season, for you all to look after yourselves.
I'm also actively at the point where I'm praying for Mitch McConnell and Trump to die so someone with even a fraction of sense can take the helm. Yes. I am going there. I doubt the answer will be yes but I'm asking all the same.
One of the cats has just perched herself on my belly and her butt is about to land on the kyeboard , typing is going to be an effort so I"ll just ring off. here,
Reading all the posts about the advice to Americans this holiday season, I feel vaguely guilty. Also, a little anxious: 4.5 hours flight in a small tin tube with IDK how many other people, any of whom could be carrying COVID-19...
And we have a 'very nasty' cluster of cases in Adelaide c/o a quarantine that went wrong. The current number of cases? 24.
I'm not dismissing it as 'small' - after all, this worldwide pandemic started maybe a year ago with a handful of cases. There's...rather more than a handful of cases in most countries. And yes, in Australia (and NZ) we have a better chance of keeping it under control than plenty of other places because we're islands and a long way off. But...yeah. It's concerning.
Terrible as it might be, I am amused that this has happened to an conservative-led state, without Dan Andrews at the helm, with the ADF in charge, and basically all the accusations/arguments that the conservatives levelled at the Victorian situation completely turned around so they're utterly invalid. Honestly, if I ever doubted that God Almighty enjoys the comeuppance of the smug, 2020 would leave me certain of it.
Anyway, I'm praying for the US, for you guys to stay safe, for your families to be sane this holiday season, for you all to look after yourselves.
I'm also actively at the point where I'm praying for Mitch McConnell and Trump to die so someone with even a fraction of sense can take the helm. Yes. I am going there. I doubt the answer will be yes but I'm asking all the same.
One of the cats has just perched herself on my belly and her butt is about to land on the kyeboard , typing is going to be an effort so I"ll just ring off. here,
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As for Mitch and Trump, I only want to go To The Pain. "To the pain means the first thing you will lose will be your feet below the ankles. Then your hands at the wrists. Next your nose.... The next thing you will lose will be your left eye followed by your right. ,,, Your ears you keep and I’ll tell you why. So that every shriek of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish. Every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out, “Dear God! What is that thing,” will echo in your perfect ears. That is what to the pain means. It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery forever."
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Also, with COVID relatively contained here and both govt and citizenry willing (reluctant and screaming bloody oppression in some cases, but still largely willing to knuckle under) there's likely to be a lot of travel this Christmas, given how many people have had to refrain from it through the year...
Anyway, I will wear a mask and it's only four hours.
I hope you're safely back home as you read this and enjoying your time with Eilidh!
(And yes, "TO THE PAIN" would be perfect.)