Subliminally yours: The COVID "Cute" Factor

"Friends aren't food"

-Bruce the Great White Shark, Finding Nemo.

Of Ayn Rand and Audio Books

 

Been reading more during the lockdown since COVID 19 hit, and by "reading" I mean audio books because I still gotta work and, let's face it, I'm still working every day and just as easily distracted by everyday life to sit down and enjoy quietly reading a novel... 1st world problems, are still problems. 

The Day the World Stood Still: China, Australia, New Zealand, COVID19 and the Global Sick Day

 

As the herd immunity increases and the hysteria fades, for most healthy individuals the worst part will be the "Great Toilet Paper Shortage of March" and the worst will be practically having your brain skewered through your nose like it was the obligatory probing in every alien abduction story.

Being in a relatively low risk area my experience was the former...

New Zealand however wasn't so lucky, still luckier than most, but first female Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, a woman who bears more than a passing resemblance to a young Shelley Duvall (the actress who played the mother from the 1981 Stanley Kubrick adaptation of the Stephen King novel "The Shining") was riding high on her flawless, over achieving babysitter style of of governing, and, up until last week (I would've posted this sooner but the nature of my business can come in intermittent waves) was about to announce her reelection campaign.

Then "IT" struck...

Suddenly a small, unexplained, family cluster of the virus was discovered, the panic buying kicked in, the entire country went into "standby" mode (this included the South Island, but to a far lesser extent but even they were forced into the bunker)  

Miss Ardern, her co-prime minister and the rest of her team have since shelved the plans for now and, despite experiencing nowhere near the level of craziness that is happening across the pond...  

How to Trump your Dragon: The 2020 U.S. Election

 

In 2016 the phenomenon that is the Donald Trump presidential campaign came into existence, bright amazing reality, berated in the mainstream media (to this day) but something unique, something amazing and something truly historical... is happening again...

Stay tuned