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The last day of the year...

I know we are all looking forward to putting this particular set of numbers behind us & there's a lot of magical thinking about how 2021 is somehow going to be back to the good old days of being able to enjoy wine & roses without a face mask & with some friends...

I don't (magically) think so. This is not the end... maybe just the end of the Overture, now the real Symphony starts. And it's not going to be an uplifting Mozart one either - probably something more akin to Gorecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

In the last few weeks, Covid19 has taken David Prowse, Harold Budd, Luke Letlow - a recently elected US Congressman who never even got to sit in his new House & now Dawn Wells... should have stayed on the island Mary-Anne!! And, of course, 3000 more every day just in the United States, let alone the daily tolls in the UK & Europe. This is not slowing down & wrapping things up in time for January - more like ramping things up to hit January running at Bolt-like speed

Here in Sydney, the Plague is popping up all over the place. Remember a few entries ago, when I mentioned how Long-Suffering Partner & I were thinking it hadn't got bad enough in Australia & Sydney in particular, so there was an air of complacency & "can't happen here..."? Well it has. There has only been one more death added to the National tally, which is now 909 since the start of the shitshow, but I think the first thing we'll see in 2021 is that number increasing to 4 digits. Especially now that the more aggressive & contagious 'South African' strain is on the loose in a couple of States...

Next entry will be less doomy, I promise
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