Blog Day 17: Thursday 09 April 2020


When I was heading out for my lockdown friendly walk today I happened to notice this in the sky.  It took me a little while to work out that it was an Easter message and I think it was saying that God/Jesus loves us.  That set me to thinking, which is sometimes a dangerous thing, if God loves us so much why has he or she inflicted this terrible pandemic upon us, his/her subjects.  Its a funny way of showing your love.



Then, what about the Pope, god's representative on earth.  Does the Pope still have infallibility, if so why doesn't he use his infallibility to invent a vaccine to fight this virus that his boss has inflicted on us.  Or maybe the Pope was allegedly too busy defending alleged kiddy fiddlers to worry about the rest of us.  Crikey, this is getting complicated. And so endeth the lesson.  (The extent of my theological studies was 3 years of Sunday school at the Burnie Methodist church, pre Uniting Church.  As you could imagine the Pope didn't score much of a mention there).

Due to popular demand I have included today another in the exciting but irregular series of "What's In The Pantry Graeme"?


 Funny, it doesn't have a use by date.  By way of a competition I am open to suggestions of what I can do with this product.  You might have a serving suggestion or a suggestion that you think is amusing or even what wine could be served with it.  Roger, maybe it could feature in your next virtual Hump Club dinner.

That will do for today, got to save some of the really exciting stuff for Good Friday.

Cheers and keep safe.


Current Virus Stats Day 94

Vic: 1,228 infected (+16 from previous day) - 12 deaths (increase of 0)
Aus: 6,089 infected (+92 from previous day) - 51 deaths (increase of 1) Recovered 1,080
World: 1,514,866

 (The Australian "recovered" figure has not changed for a couple of days, hopefully this is just a glitch in the collection of the figures from the states).


Comments

  1. Andrew9 April 2020 at 16:31

    This gets updated daily and is more accurate than worldometers:
    https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-at-a-glance

    Currently we have more people recovering that getting covid-19 so pretty soon we should be in a position to think about lowering restrictions in some way.

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    1. Graeme10 April 2020 at 10:51

      Thanks Andrew will have a look at that site.

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  2. Clair9 April 2020 at 17:25

    Yet again more interesting than my day, “ no god loves you in my skies”.
    Maybe back to basics and just tomato sauce.

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    1. Graeme10 April 2020 at 10:51

      All the same I am sure that whichever god you have he or she loves you.

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  3. Roger10 April 2020 at 11:05

    Just catching up. I liked your dissertation on the values espoused in Zulu. "Zulus sir, fousands of 'em." I think that was PTE Smiff.

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