A Parlour for a Plague

I’m feeling as though I should be helping local restaurants by getting take away....but I can’t afford that sort of thing any more!

It’s taking time to get used to being poor!

I've been trying to get fruit/ veg at the tiny independent greengrocers Keep them going as long as possible. I'm not a big take-out fan at the very best of times. I've probably ordered food delivery less than a dozen times in 24 years of living here.

There's a website called "Catalog Choice."

You can use it to stop unwanted catalogs and mailings.

I started working on it a few ago, and already the amount has diminished.

Restaurants and cafes here can only serve takeaway, normally I’m not a fan either.

I feel very glad that my eco village has its own farm to supply veg and eggs. The people running it sell any excess at the local farmers market....which will doubtless be shut down after last night’s new restriction announcement. They have capacity to deliver so I hope they aren’t too affected.

same thing here. actually a lot of places aren't even doing take-out. delivery only. a local chocolatier is only mailing her product out. I've read that a lot of restos are using their regular staff doing local deliveries to keep them employed until government money comes through.

Our government is promising money, but I’m not seeing how they can do it in time, even though they are hiring some of the thousands of social security people they got rid of and re opening offices they had just closed.

It took four months for them to process my claim a year ago.

Social Security people they got rid of? Not sure exactly what that means, but this old guy has got enough to worry about without the fear of being 'got rid of'.

Staff!

Wow Chai, I’m shocked

I have a cold - yes, I'm sure it's just a cold - but I work in an aged care facility and if you so much as sniff at the moment you're not allowed to be there.

So I have now joined the rapidly growing ranks of the unemployed.

Oh

About what?

Most, but by no means all, were young people. Apart from the tendency of the young to think of themselves as invulnerable, I suspect a lot of them think of it as a disease of the elderly. (The news here just reported on an infant who had died in the U.S.) But a lot of them were middle-aged and either oblivious or indifferent. Some even seemed resentful when I'd get off the sidewalk to walk around them. After two days of rain and cold, this afternoon the sun came out, and there were a lot of people out on the streets. Maybe twice as many as I'm used to seeing.

I walk in alleys when I can, but that's not everywhere. Also, there were a lot of people in the alleys with their children. But even in our neighborhood, only about a block from the house, there was a knot of people with a couple of kids playing ball hockey, and they looked surprised as I tried to navigate a path between them and the kids in the street. One older man who was out in the street with a hockey stick with the kids looked sheepish as he realized that they were, between them, blocking the entire street.

I’ll tell you what. I do like to go out for a ride in the car.
I go to the post office most days and I find myself driving the long way around there and back.

Cabin fever in the spring . . . crazy, eh?

Just heard on the radio that more than one million Australians have been thrown out of work. It's going to get rough all over. All my best wishes for the Wabbit and her fellow citizens.

Oh no! Can you be tested ASAP?

About what you are saying about people not distancing.


Did you know that if you click on the blue name above a reply it takes you to the post that is being responded to?

Oh yeah. It’s going to be rough everywhere.