Good Evening Chewsday

Here we are again, happy as can be! Still in one piece. As predicted, wearing of masks will be compulsory outside of the house as of 11.59pm Wednesday, otherwise it’s a $200 fine!
My grocery delivery today contained a box of 50 masks for $40;
Type: Disposable Protective Masks
Instructions; Open the bag, take it out and wear.
Main material; Inner layer; Outer layer; Filter layer non-woven fabric. 3 ply.
Storage period ; 2years.
Made in P.R.C

Package further instruction; “Prevent pollution and reuse.”
I think another “prevent” should be in front of “reuse”, but at less than $1 each I’ll chuck it away. Staying locked up solves that!

We had our second-worst day today, 375 cases and 3 more deaths.
NSW appears to be getting worser too, so border controls and lockdowns seem set to continue.

Ellan If your elderly neighbour is living on his own he’d be wise to wear his emergency alarm. If he has a fall after opening the window how would anybody know?
Our system involves 3 contacts having keys to the house and that was how it worked yesterday.
A few years ago, we were 1st. contact for a couple opposite, now dead, who often forgot to press their button when they went out, to let “Control” know, so we’d get a phone call asking us to check things out. Vera hated doing that, prowling around inside a house not knowing if someone was flat out! Fortunately that never became a problem, except the time Peter collapsed in their toilet and nobody could get in because it had an inward opening door and he was wedged against it. Emergency Services had no choice but to smash the door to pieces.
That’s why I always never shut the door, as I read once that toilets were a high-risk location for having strokes etc!
What a topic, but one worth thinking about!

Saw a fox crossing our back lawn a few days ago and wondered where they hang out in the middle of suburbia. My garage could have a skulk of them amongst all the unused rubbish as I often forget to shut the door at night, after it’s been open all day and it’s highly unlikely a wombat would settle down in there; possums possibly, but being nocturnal, I’d hate to shut the door at night, locking them in!

Good news from Oxford. I wonder if there will be a queue of frantic patients when the vaccine becomes generally available? Frontline emergency people will be first and then it will be interesting to find how long immunity lasts! Probably become an annual jab like current ‘flu shots.

Michael Portillo was on trains in Thailand earlier this evening; lovely scenery, but when heshowed film of fishy things, roasted crickets etc. etc: . put me right off my dinner. even though it’s Chewsday. He was there late 2019, so pre-Covid.
Anyway, nearly Wednesday so Good Health

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