Diary Entries

Perspective It's all about your perspective! From a young persons point of view pre-school and school life has become technological based as face to face time has evaporated. From a wedding and new family viewpoint people have lost deposits and must still wait to tie the knot. This has been no honeymoon. There are always winners and losers. On-line sales have mushroomed. Conventional retailing died in March, but may be resuscitated in June or July. Health workers have been swamped. They have had to learn new skills and enhanced abilities for an unseen enemy virus. The whole supply chain from PPE, gowns and ventilators has been open to profiteers and new medical broker abuse. They must also live in fear and conquer thier own family's fears. Older people may have longed to travel and cruise through retirement. Some may now need to supplement their diminished incomes while others hope to recover. Local and regional manufacturing may enjoy a resurgence but then face a skill shortage after years and years of neglect. Government action or inaction or ballooning debt may suffice. The lessons are there from Taiwan to America. There was a mantra to prepare for a rainy day. That rainy virus day has come and we have been found wanting. Wanting toilet paper, wanting foodstuffs, wanting PPE in healthcare, and wanting vision in government in place of short term thinking based on an election cycle. Local village, town, city, state, national and international travel will take years to recover. Along with new manufacturing, upskilling and investment in the workforces and offices of the future actions speak louder than words. Human quarantine stations existed for a reason in the 1800 and 1900s. Animals still face quarantine when moving between counties today. The answer is to learn from the Covid-19 first wave.

This is the most joyous of days. The day I have been dreaming about has finally arrived! My humans are home. I am not sure why, but I am thanking my lucky Dog Star Sirius. Best star for a lucky Whippet. Home. Home. Home. I have spent many years waiting as a loyal work-from-home pet. I have to confess that they are looking a little sad. I feel their nervousness and can smell their Adrenalin. They also seem to be playing with their shiny screen toys A LOT. But that's no matter. I know what will cheer them up! They must like toys. I will take all of my toys to them and drop them on their fuzzy slippers. YIPPEE!!! Whew...that was fun! The smaller ones with their uniforms on their top halves and their jammies on their bottom halves will play with me! Oh, no...Now the female human is making them sit in front of their small talking TV screens. Spoil sport Mum! Okay, let's get all of my leads and harnesses in my teeth from the wicker basket where they hide them. Let's see what happens when I put these in their hands? Oh, oh, the human looks at his big circle on his arm and then clips me into my harness. YIPPEE!!! He lets me pull him down the driveway to visit our Kangaroos munching on the lawn. They smile at me for a while and then they keep chewing the fresh grass. I bark at them just to let my male human know that I can do my security job even if he's home. I am always on the job!! And when we return to the house, he opens the shiny cool box with the food. This is my favourite part. Roast Chicken for me!! YIPPEE!!!!