Day Zero

A 364-post collection

Monday (Day Zero Secundus)

It's Monday, there's two new cases today, which is less than the alarming nine of yesterday. I feel secure in allowing Miss Chaos to keep attending school, but I shall be keeping a weather eye on the case count.

A very paranoid weather eye. My firkin life is on the line. Even though it feels like I'm the only one who cares about that, I'm probably the most important person who does. If that makes sense, then what are you doing in my head?

When you are the only person who cares about you, then that's one person who cares about you. That person is therefore the most important person who cares about you. So look after yourself.

Yesterday was shopping for essentials. Food for the cats, ice cream for my continued sanity, and real cream for my diet. I have two cut loafs of homemade sourdough bread in my freezer, wrapped and ready for whenever we are in a sourdough mood.

In the news:

  • Nurses and Doctors are begging us to stop hugging or shaking hands so we can keep the virus spread minimised
  • Affluent neighbourhoods can look forward to a more "artisinal" Coles experience where staffers make things fresh on demand so the ppl who live there can flex
  • TikTok is now in a legal battle with the Muppet
  • There's an asteroid that will be passing close to Earth at about US election day (stahp)
  • Company wants 'Karens' to review products. I'm sure this is going to melt down in an apocalyptic disaster in no short order
  • Lockdowns have caused a spike in divorces and I blame toxic heteronormativity
  • China has a secret submarine batcave

I got about twenty minutes before Bus O'Clock and I want to spend it faffing about. Story later.

Day Zer- OMG

Nine cases today. NINE! Three of them are from overseas and isolated, but the rest... The rest of them are linked to a youth prison. A youth prison that is linked by staffers with aged care and disability care homes.

Huzzaaaahhh...

Queensland is now in severe lockdown and the message is out - the longer this goes on, the more restrictions there will be. Stop these shenanigans at once or we shall all be bricked into our homes.

Meanwhile, the two covidiots

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Groundhog Day Zero

There's been an outbreak in Brisbane and it may be linked to the person who tested negative all the way to Japan. Investigations are proceeding at all due speed. Contract tracing and massive testing is about to spring forth.

Google doesn't want to give even one red cent to news sources it gains literally billions of dollars from advertising surrounding their searches. They're also up in arms about forced transparency behind their almighty algorithm. As a direct result, they're threatening Australians with

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Groundhoggening: Day Zero

Once again, someone turned up in Queensland with symptoms. They're in isolation, but it's still Day Zero and I'm starting to get ropeable. I want to feel free to just go out and wander around and see what's what again. Instead of the laser-guided Get The Thing missions that have been all of my shopping since March.

I miss being able to just browse. I miss looking around and getting ideas from things. I miss D&D nights. I miss being

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