You've probably noticed that things have been a bit quiet at this end, of late.
Sorry, maybe I should've said something sooner... Embarrassed face emoticon... ha ha...
The reason is quite straightforward - "Parrot fever", as outlined in the article, below...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-14/parrot-fever-warning-blue-mountains-psittacosis-bird-disease/...
I've been quietly reducing the amount of time they spend here as a means of slowing the potential spread of the bacteria.
The simple truth of it is that I don't want to get sick, I don't want them to get to get sick, and I don't want the community at large, to potentially be exposed to this bacteria, not if I can do something about it.
Just because, fingers crossed, all of us appear to be asymptomatic, at the moment, means very, very little...
The bacteria could raise it's ugly head and pop up at any time... Controlling the spread of an infection means just that...
Sometimes you to have to put aside your Wants, your Perceived Needs, ahead of the Common Good.
But I'll leave the ranting aside, after all, we've all heard it all before in relation to the Coronavirus outbreak.
So, sorry, birds, sorry, Dear Readers, the birds aren't here as often because I'm making an effort to reduce the amount of time that they are here.
I consider them my friends, and I love them dearly, which is why, perverse as it may sound, I think that it's in everyone's best interests that a form of avian social distancing is practiced.
It strikes me that it's simply common sense.
Certainly enough, the bacteria can be treated with antibiotics, but isn't some measure of prevention a Better Cure than a course of tablets?
Yes, the birds have noticed... They're not being spoilt within an inch of their lives any more, ha ha...
But at the risk of repeating myself, I think it's in everyone's best interests that I do something to try to reduce the risk, to all of us.
Things are somewhat quieter, here, but I think it's for the best.
To some degree it feels like the World's been turned on it's head, but rather than try to carry on as though it's "business as usual", I've chosen to, to use a well worn phrase, to Improvise, Adapt and Overcome.
Don't go thinking that won't be any more bird stories, they'll just come fewer and further between, ha ha...
Sometimes you have to change your life in order to keep having one.
I know, it's a bit of a scroller, sorry, ha ha...
The shorter version being that there is the potential for the spread of a disease, and the easiest way to slow that spread is to act, no matter that it means a relatively minor disruption to the otherwise easygoing flow of life.
I'm sorry that things have been a bit quiet, but that's because things have been a bit quiet, of late, ha ha...
Keep smiling, and don't forget to wash your hands regularly, ha ha...
🙂
