Free child care! New industrial awards! Pandemic leave and double leave on half pay! The announcements from the PM flow like lava for the worried and the wise. He is talking confidence in the Australian way and that we have achieved the metric of one thousand tests per one hundred thousand population.
Yesterday, Arya Crocodilis Muscio had chronic fatigue syndrome, so no walk for the fleecy brown love ball. It was raining most of the day anyway and still is. It was good to get in 45 minutes of human-interface-free walking this morning.
I continue to enjoy the middle chapters of Bryan Magee’s Confessions of a Philosopher: Popper, Russell, Political Philosophy, Search for Meaning and Mid-Life Crisis. I will finish this book in the next few days.
I find to do procrastination well you need a good preliminary set up; the ready-set part of ready-set-go. Accordingly I have my essential resources splashed along the dining table ready for action on Mildred. This talent for procrastination has already been genetically transferred so will not be lost if I am taken by corona.
With great clarity of purpose I have decided which chapter about Mildred I will plunge into next. It will be her contribution as a Royal Commissioner for Child Endowment or Family Allowances in 1929. Against majority opinion, she and John Curtin advocated, in their minority report, for a system of child endowment to provide supplementary assistance to families of more than two children.
A lot of time is absorbed following ABC’s coverage of the virus. NSW monitors and reports daily changes as at 6am whereas national figures come much later at 3pm. Are we connecting yet? My echo chamber is a dialogue free space so far. Why not fill the void with some feedback?
Australia picked up 269 new cases for a total of 5,108 and 24 deaths. NSW found 116 of the new cases for a total of 2,298 and still 10 deaths. The global count has risen to 937,170 cases and 47,235 deaths.
Awesomely Astute 