Thursday, March 19, 2020

Reference :- What will the country be like after the coronavirus pandemic ?

Reference:-  Will everything return to normal after the pandemic has run it's course ?  

Let's hope not . The pandemic has shown us the fragility, and ghastliness of the electronic hallucination we have mistaken for an actual culture .  It has revealed the lies of our economists and leaders . And while it has identified the incompetent and the greedy, it has also revealed the capable and the unselfish among us , sometimes to our surprise .  

Locked down in our homes , we will have time to reflect upon the society we have created . We will enjoy those few weeks of respite from commuting to work in a car we are paying off that will soon be scrap .  We will spend time at home with family and friends . We will cook healthy food , and enjoy the comforting smell of a roast sizzling in the oven , and rediscover the flavours that can't be found in takeaways. 

Satellite photos have shown the air clearing above our cities , worldwide , as industries shut down .
The environment is getting a much needed rest .  People who have not seen a blue sky , or a galaxy of twinkling stars in their entire lives can look up in wonder .  And perhaps also wonder if the loss of clean air was too high a price to pay for all the unnecessary consumer items that clutter our lives , distracting and stressing  us.   That unnecessary crap is paid for with too much of our precious time as we race towards our demise .

 Mr Morrison's quavering voice tries to reassure us that when the crisis is over we will be well positioned to return to normality . I hope he is wrong .  I hope a great change takes place .
 The pandemic, the bushfires , and the state of economy alone ( there is much more ) show us that we haven't been doing things right for a long time .

Anyway , with the lockdown and all that , The Sky Reply team has been writing limericks madly .
 There has been some debate about whether we should publish the funniest limerick of all time . It has some very obscene language , which some might find offensive , so we are undecided .   More on that later ,  but for now , here is one that Gabbo wrote .   He wrote it after learning that South Korea has three times more  hospital beds per capita than Australia .   Who would have thought ?

                                                     The Pandemic         by Gabbo

                                       The funding they wouldn't supply us ,
                                       Let spread the terrible virus ,
                                       Oh the budgets austere ,
                                       That we suffered each year ,
                                       At the hands of ministers pious .

       Your comrade , Ken



 





 

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