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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