With ers Without You

Real talk, it’s been 17 months today since the first restrictions on what I call, the Australian Beforetime. Since then our every day has simply been different.

How long until we all collectively lose our minds?

I keep on seeing signs of the dam wall breaking.

Hey, does anyone know how Sia feels about cheap thrills?

Scientific evidence that social media makes us sadder and angrier. Why do we do this?

Hey, if masks are going to be a thing, could we at least use them to remind me who you are and how I know you?

For most Australians, before March 2020 we’d never identifed as a Queenslander or a West Australian, outside of the odd game of sport, or in a fleeting moment of pride.

We identified as Australian.

Will the new Covid-lead state-based patriotism continue after Covid?

Everyone has their little covid skill they’ve learned. Some of you might have sourdough, or knitting. I have the ability to clearly and concisely respond to emails from the Office of Fair Trading in under 6 hours.

On ABC radio this morning I predicted that the cost of weddings will rise post-covid because the wedding industry has been one of the hardest hit by Covid and received the least amount of support, financial, or political.

I haven’t got a job because of a resume in over 18 years (thanks Ali and Sea FM Mackay!) but I made one today because I think the pandemic has fired me from being self-employed ¯_(ツ)_/¯

When consumed moderately, whisky’s many medicinal benefits include preventing the “head from whirling, the tongue from lisping… the hands from shivering, the bones from aching.”

— Sixteenth-century English chronicler Raphael Holinshed