Scotty from Coverups

[izmeina]

There are just layers and layers of hidden Easter eggs in this wicked work. Aside from the obvious Covid cover ups and stuff ups, there is also a new book spilling the beans on the creeps in sQomo's Old Boys Club cabinet.



Menacing Controlling Wallpaper

In the meantime, I have been having my own dramas with tradies. No wall paper jobs. Just plumbers. First thing I have learned is that they operate in a world with the wierdest clocks.
A 9am job is considered EARLY if they turn up at 10am. 12.30 is more like it.

But beggars can't be choosers. It is a seller's market. I guess it always has been and don't they know it.

Meanwhile, over in the Badlands of Sydney, it turns out that the Gold Standard of contact tracing and containing the virus without SHUTTING DOWN THE ECONOMY has turned into lead. They are averaging 30 cases a day and with the more infectious Delta variant and exponential growth, those numbers are going to explode any day now.

Over here in the west we are the other extreme - going into short sharp lockdowns with only a couple of cases which has happened 3 times so far this year. I suspect they could safely up that number to 4 or 5 before triggering the nuclear option. But the virus and its variants have been around long enough now for people to see what happens when you just let it rip because The Economy. People who get sick don't go working or spending nor do people who are afraid of getting sick.

Look after people's health and the economy will take care of itself.

I have to wait another 6 weeks before getting my second dose of AZ. Since it's the first one that usually causes the trouble, if there is trouble, I guess I am pretty much out of the woods on that one.

Comments

[ozfille]

Tighter restrictions have been imposed and probably an extension of the lockdown will be coming if the numbers don't go down. The problem now is that a lot of the infections have spread to communities in the Western/South Western suburbs who translate don't let anyone visit the family home "who is not a resident" to "who is not extended family", so covid has been spreading among large family groups. This was what happened down in Melbourne. Perth has had one other advantage in that it has been taking much fewer returned overseas travellers while Sydney has been taking the lion's share.

I need a plumber at the moment for a minor fix but can't get one because no one other than myself under covid rules is allowed to pass the threshold.