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Thursday, Day 0, Mor Nonsense!

Two imported cases, making it day 10 without local transmission. There's fifty-one active cases, forty-eight of those in hospital. Three remain to potentially sic havoc on my sunny state.

"Sunny" because it's been raining on and off. I can feel a cyclone somewhere within my range [whatever the straight-line distance is between Burpengary and Rockhampton, that's my radius] and it's making my entire left face hurt. The painkillers are not currently cutting it so my life sucks a bit.

HOWEVER, because sleep issues, there's another Scams of My Life up on my Peakd account. Enjoy my account of the Spanish Prisoner. Next up, its real-life counterpart - The Eternal Sponge. Stay tuned for next Thursday's shenanigans.

In the news:

  • Even if the vaccines succeed, the long-term disaster caused by the Plague are going to go on even longer than you may think
  • 11-month-old baby found dead in the grounds of a prestigious Christian private school in Perth
  • Rest of the world turns against Aus because emissions. ScoMo's coal buddies can't save him from this
  • Fauci warns Aus they have more bullshit coming because Plague
  • EverGiven confiscated as Suez officials sue for $900Million
  • Aldi's the only place you can get Bertie Beetle ice creams
  • Grimes, famous wife of Elon Musk, has an artistic tattoo that looks like she got hit by one of the coast's jellyfish
  • News article says Bitcoin's hit 80K. You're over by 20K there, journo

And now I shall make fiction.

Sunday, Day 0, It's Loose

There's another case of local transmission this morning. Six new cases. Seventy-one total. Sixty-two in hospital. Two in the ICU. That's seven with the potential to cause even more trouble.

I'm not looking at the news this morning because Toasty's streaming already and there are untold PLNs of Beloved happening later on after sunrise. So now I'm trying to get as much done before I find out what else is going on.

I may be required to drive after minimal sleep -_

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Wednesday, Day 0, the Germans have a word for this...

Three new cases this morning, sixty total, fifty-seven in hospital and one in ICU. Which means that two of them are apparently waiting for the inevitable. Argh. At least they're all from other places and we don't need to worry until one of them escapes the security measures.

What the Germans probably have a word for is "the sensation that your life has become needlessly complicated". And to be honest, there's a definite sense of "the house that Jack built" to the

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