the nothing ,anything ,everything thread

[opmania]

This is a thread with no particular

Topic so no one can be off topic 🙂

So if anyone out there has something 

To say about anything you like now

Is your chance

Keep it clean 

And be nice 

See how long that lasts

Can we keep politics and religion out 

Of the conversation 

[imastawka]

I got everything I ordered from Wooolies, so all good here

[ecar3483]

It's an old news story, but it got me thinking...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-24/why-canberras-coronavirus-field-hospital-was-built-on-an-oval...

There's a perfectly good, purpose built Coronavirus field hospital sitting idle, here in Canberra.

What kind of Faustian pact would be entered into, should Victoria find that their medical facilities were overwhelmed, and they needed "Overflow capacity"...?

Or, indeed, would such a thing ever take place?

I can imagine the logistics would be nightmarish, to say the least...

Let us hope that things never reach the point where that might have to be an option...

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[ecar3483]

That's good to hear, Stawks.

Then the fiendish trickster in my mind chimed in with "She didn't really order that much... ha ha...".

It's good to know that life is as close to normal as normal can be, given the circumstances...

Stay well..

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[icyfroth]

We live in hope.

Nice to see you're still keeping Opmania's old thread going 

[ecar3483]

Before she left, she asked me to keep it running, so I'm doing what I can.

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[ecar3483]

I went round the long way into the town centre, yesterday and noticed that the local Salvation Army op shop has closed.

That's hardly a good sign, in these times.

It's much the same with the big metal bins that used to be at every local shopping centre, where you could drop off stuff for charity - they've disappeared, too.

I can understand with the virus, and social distancing, that running shops, let alone warehouses or sorting centres'd be a fair challenge but it beggars the question - Where do people go?

Either to buy, or to donate...

I can see I'll have to add that to my list of things to keep an ear to the ground about, if only to satisfy my own curiosity.

I suppose, at a pinch, there's always the Green Shed at the tip. They'll take just about any saleable second hand items, but it's still sad to see a building standing empty...

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[imastawka]

Forget the op shops and wondering....

If we have to stay home.........what about the homeless?

And if they've found somewhere to put them, why couldn't they have done that before?

[ecar3483]

The silent epidemic...

Twenty years ago, when I was homeless, life consisted of couch surfing, of relying on the kindness of friends, as much as of strangers.

Even though it wasn't a golden age of prosperity, people had money "to spare", they could afford to donate to charities, people had jobs, charities had room to spare, there was a "safety net" of sorts.

If I didn't mind that I very rarely slept two nights consecutively in the same place, I got by okay...

I don't know that things are like that, now.

Back then, a mate would say "You can sleep on the couch, tonight... My housemate might grumble a bit at there being a stranger staying under their roof, but I think they'll be okay with it... It's only one  night...".

Nowdays I imagine the housemate would hit the roof "There is no way a stranger is staying here... Have you not the first clue about how easily transmitted this virus is?", and fair enough, it's a  very real concern...

I don't know how the homeless cope, I don't know where they go, I don't know if they have stable, reliable accommodation, and if that is the case, why it wasn't available beforehand.

There are so many unanswered questions that come with this silent epidemic...

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[ecar3483]

Dom, I forgot to ask... Did you get your friendly local electrician around to sort your power problems out?

It reminded me of the anecdote about the time I tried to repair a bed lamp, but omitted to unplug it first...

Some things are best left to the experts... ha ha...

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[ecar3483]

It looks, from all accounts, as though it's going it's going to be a wet weekend.

Once again, my imagination drifts...

I wonder if I should put the walking stick to one side and employ something a little better suited to the weather... ha ha...

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