The Mezzanine

We are about to book in our Ballarat caravan park visit for April. If this plunges Victoria into our third lockdown, I will call that trip cursed, apologise profusely to everyone, and never again attempt it.

For all our sakes I hope it goes ahead with no issues.

Murdoch-owned newspapers, who can go die in a fire if they would be so kind).

I am amused to see that there are now businesses who will not stock them because they are so angry. The old "is that the truth or did you read it in the Herald-Sun?" is still accurate.

Our Prime Minister was missing in action

Still is. Jacinta Adern suggesting she might negotiate with states has been amusing me a lot. Also, apparently immigration is only Dutton's responsibility when he feels like being sadistic, and certainly quarantine is nothing to do with his dept. /eyeroll

(One of the outraged tennis players tested positive for Covid halfway through her "totally unnecessary" quarantine. And all Melburnians were immediately stricken with a sudden case of schadenfreude.)

Between that and the NSW/QLD/SA outbreaks showing that yes, it is in fact a very infectious virus and that they had escaped as much due to luck as anything else... yeah schadenfreude is sweet.