A sad day - entering COVID year 4
In Queensland as for the rest of Australia (and the world at large) today is a sad and inauspicious day as we enter the 4th year of COVID. This horrible virus that has killed untold millions and impacted the lives of virtually everyone on the planet was first announced to us this day in 2020 in Queensland. A day that will also live in infamy. I had this terrible feeling, an innate feeling on that announcement that it wasn't going to be good and was that an underestimation! It's truly hard to believe what we have been through in the last three years, the lives it's wrecked and the damage done to our little world on this Earth and we haven't licked the darn thing yet. This photo shows a shot taken only a week ago of what was once known I guess as a "soup kitchen" but is now mainstream as the economic woes unleashed by COVID have damaged the world's economic stability, taken us to the edge of recession which may come this year and meant that many cannot find a roof over their head nor afford the basic necessities of life.
And with all the knobs and switches available to governments around the world, they have faltered in many ways. It was just too big. And now, we try to live with this thing while the numbers dying, especially in Australia where we fought the good fight for two years and then gave up, continue to be high. But that's the cost of trying to live normally so someone will always have to pay the ultimate price, often the old, the weak, the sick, the poor, the immunocompromised.
But it's good...no more lockdowns, no more, at the moment unpleasant jabs in the arm (if you hate them like me, buy some Emla* cream!), no more toilet paper wars, no more of those pesky masks that are such a bother! The cost of supposed normality.
This shot is taken at St. Andrews Uniting Church in Ann and Creek Streets, Brisbane. We thank those who have served, who have sometimes given their lives to help the sick, the doctors, nurses, paramedics, researchers, churches and volunteer organisations and volunteers, the unknowns, families, friends, police and decent politicians and those I can't even think of right now who have helped in any way. I know we will continue the fight until the race is π, it's the human way.
* Emla cream is a topical anaesthetic cream, applied to the upper arm where the injection is given that takes away the sting that vast numbers of people fear, many of whom are so traumatised they will refuse life saving vaccination.
And here is our story in Queensland from. the ABC news this morning.
www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-21/qld-coronavirus-covid-time...
And some other thoughts from todays news.
www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-21/covid-wreaking-havoc-austr...
A sad day - entering COVID year 4
In Queensland as for the rest of Australia (and the world at large) today is a sad and inauspicious day as we enter the 4th year of COVID. This horrible virus that has killed untold millions and impacted the lives of virtually everyone on the planet was first announced to us this day in 2020 in Queensland. A day that will also live in infamy. I had this terrible feeling, an innate feeling on that announcement that it wasn't going to be good and was that an underestimation! It's truly hard to believe what we have been through in the last three years, the lives it's wrecked and the damage done to our little world on this Earth and we haven't licked the darn thing yet. This photo shows a shot taken only a week ago of what was once known I guess as a "soup kitchen" but is now mainstream as the economic woes unleashed by COVID have damaged the world's economic stability, taken us to the edge of recession which may come this year and meant that many cannot find a roof over their head nor afford the basic necessities of life.
And with all the knobs and switches available to governments around the world, they have faltered in many ways. It was just too big. And now, we try to live with this thing while the numbers dying, especially in Australia where we fought the good fight for two years and then gave up, continue to be high. But that's the cost of trying to live normally so someone will always have to pay the ultimate price, often the old, the weak, the sick, the poor, the immunocompromised.
But it's good...no more lockdowns, no more, at the moment unpleasant jabs in the arm (if you hate them like me, buy some Emla* cream!), no more toilet paper wars, no more of those pesky masks that are such a bother! The cost of supposed normality.
This shot is taken at St. Andrews Uniting Church in Ann and Creek Streets, Brisbane. We thank those who have served, who have sometimes given their lives to help the sick, the doctors, nurses, paramedics, researchers, churches and volunteer organisations and volunteers, the unknowns, families, friends, police and decent politicians and those I can't even think of right now who have helped in any way. I know we will continue the fight until the race is π, it's the human way.
* Emla cream is a topical anaesthetic cream, applied to the upper arm where the injection is given that takes away the sting that vast numbers of people fear, many of whom are so traumatised they will refuse life saving vaccination.
And here is our story in Queensland from. the ABC news this morning.
www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-21/qld-coronavirus-covid-time...
And some other thoughts from todays news.
www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-21/covid-wreaking-havoc-austr...