wanneroo wrote:There is now one case of "the thing" in the next county over about an hour away. The person is now isolated at home.
Went out today, everything is chilled out, which this is the mountains and small town life, so it's typical. Went to the Dollar General, got a few things and then went to one of the local supermarkets. If you squinted your eyes, most stuff looked as normal, a few parts of the store a little lacking, the cookies all ransacked and a few other spots, beef a little dried up but tons of chicken, pork, bacon, etc. I came around the corner to the paper aisle and spied like a sniper about 6 packs of Cottonelle toilet paper with six big rolls each, limit of 2, so I grabbed them to add to the pile as I think I might be staying in for a while. Store was busy enough, everyone polite, a lot of the old folks seemed at peace with everything.
All the charts point to another Great Depression and I guess one good thing is we are headed into summer and this state is a major food producer. Crops are already getting planted, chickens are laying eggs, cows always need milking and we have sort of a micro industry locally with lots of small farms, orchards, dairy farms, hog and cow farms, etc. I've got a dozen deer in the backyard, I can get a hog from a family friend, I've got 50 apple trees, maple trees for tapping for syrup, a mile of blackberry and raspberries, etc. If things are pretty grim I'll need to be looking at using summer to prepare for winter.
Stay frosty mate. We"re heading into winter, which on the Highlands of central QLD means warm days, cold nights but on the up side, the humidity drops to 20% or lower, which is supposed to be better for reducing the transmission of viruses.
Rifle stock and pistol grip reproduction.
and Tasmanians... 
silly thing to do 
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