Plague Proportions
Jun. 5th, 2021 06:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingmanThere has long been a rivalry between Australia's 2 largest cities - Sydney & Melbourne, with each laying claim to be the best one because... well, insert your parochial pride reference points here...
Since the Plague began, that rivalry has largely been put aside, as the whole country mostly pulled together to bring the damn thing under relative control. No thanks here to the state governments of Western Australia & Queensland, who have used the Plague as an excuse to lock up their borders & then complain that the rest of Australia either ignores them, or doesn't take them seriously... then threaten to take their mines & reefs, go home & start rumbling about secession
Anyway, this is all a rambling introduction to an article about how the Plague has affected Melbourne more harshly than Sydney, with our Southern cousins going into another week-long lockdown, while we in Sydney go about life as (new) normal
I do have a vested interest in this, as not only do I have many friends in Melbourne, but the luthiers making my custom 12-string acoustic guitar are down there as well. Its completion has already been pushed back from May to July, due to the huge backlog caused by last year's long lockdown down south & I'm wondering if my 'Christmas' present for 2020 will be ready for this year... or not
Readers overseas will, of course have a different perspective on the article & wonder why we're getting so worked up about this latest outbreak when it hasn't killed anyone... yet, let alone a few thousand per day. The simple answer being that, as a country of only 25 million or so, we can't really afford to be losing thousands of people at all, especially every day!!
Since the Plague began, that rivalry has largely been put aside, as the whole country mostly pulled together to bring the damn thing under relative control. No thanks here to the state governments of Western Australia & Queensland, who have used the Plague as an excuse to lock up their borders & then complain that the rest of Australia either ignores them, or doesn't take them seriously... then threaten to take their mines & reefs, go home & start rumbling about secession
Anyway, this is all a rambling introduction to an article about how the Plague has affected Melbourne more harshly than Sydney, with our Southern cousins going into another week-long lockdown, while we in Sydney go about life as (new) normal
I do have a vested interest in this, as not only do I have many friends in Melbourne, but the luthiers making my custom 12-string acoustic guitar are down there as well. Its completion has already been pushed back from May to July, due to the huge backlog caused by last year's long lockdown down south & I'm wondering if my 'Christmas' present for 2020 will be ready for this year... or not
Readers overseas will, of course have a different perspective on the article & wonder why we're getting so worked up about this latest outbreak when it hasn't killed anyone... yet, let alone a few thousand per day. The simple answer being that, as a country of only 25 million or so, we can't really afford to be losing thousands of people at all, especially every day!!
