These are remarkable and unheard of Times. It will take awhile, months, before the impact sinks in, and the world of people won't be the same as it was in say December 2019. I wish us all the best and to find value and meaning in relationships with others, or peace in solitude, as either best suits us...perhaps time with others, and time alone. I guess the natural world will be slightly improved with less toxins around for awhile. What we might notice, and I have noticed just recently, is the general quietness of the world when a lot of people are removed from it. The incidental things, quiet journeys with hardly any traffic, quiet walks, quiet parks etc. More birdsong. The damn infernal noise of Melbourne City is greatly reduced in many cases and places. I've noticed that most colleagues are worried about their work wise fate, of course, as am I and my wife, and we expect the times will grow harder as we move into a cold winter here with both corona virus and flu virus needing us for them to live their virus lives. I don't have a lot of faith, well, I don't have any faith or trust at all in our Government, Federally, as I don't think the ideology of Conservatism is useful to humanity at this time, and I think those leaders are ill-equipped in thinking competence about what is best for the people. One just hopes that the arising need may force the Federal Government, belatedly, almost criminally belatedly, to do what is best for the whole, not just their protected friends and their ideologies. I expect they will need to be forced and beaten into Reason. This is the first time I've considered that this really is a new century with problems very much of its own making and solutions, if any, are quite some distance away in time.

Australia, Victoria:Victoria's public exposure sites Sunday, March 8 T20 Cricket World Cup Final, Melbourne Cricket Ground, MCC Members Level 2, between 5:15pm and 11:30pm Myrtle Oval, Macleay Park, North Balwyn between 10:00am and 4:00pm Ramsden Street Oval, Clifton Hill, between 8:30am and 5:00pm Virgin Australia flight VA24 from Los Angeles to Melbourne which arrived at 7:00am Saturday, March 7 Albert Park Hotel between 6:00pm and 10:00pm South Melbourne Market between 2:00pm and 3:00pm Coles Waurn Ponds between 1:00pm and 6:00pm AAMI Park (Rebels vs Lions rugby game) in the evening Ashburton Park, time unsure Virgin Australia flight VA24 from Los Angeles to Melbourne, arrived 7:00am Friday, March 6 Malaysia Airways flight MH0149 from Kuala Lumpur to Melbourne arrived 9:00am Pho Hung Vuong 2 Vietnamese Restaurant in Richmond between 6:00pm and 7:00pm Qantas flight QF94 from Los Angeles to Melbourne arrived 9:40am Coles Waurn Ponds between 8:45am and 10:00am South Melbourne Market between 8:30am and 10:00am Emirates flight EK404 from Singapore to Melbourne arrived at 12:15am Thursday, March 5 Cinema Nova, Carlton, Movie: The Amber Light between 7:30pm and 10:30pm V/Line train from Southern Cross Station to Geelong departing about 5:40pm Tuesday, March 3 Wine by Sam in Seymour between 12:30pm and 3:30pm La Trobe University, Bundoora Campus: March 3 between 9:00am and 12:00pm March 4 between 11:00am and 1:00pm March 5 between 1:00pm and 4:30pm Monday, March 2 Virgin Australia flight VA682 from Perth to Melbourne which arrived at 4:20pm VLine train from Geelong to Southern Cross departing about 5:40pm Metro train from Southern Cross to Camberwell departing between 7:00pm and 7:15pm Toorak Clinic, 575 Malvern Rd, Toorak for patients and staff that attended the clinic any time between March 2 and March 6 United Airlines flight UA0060 from San Francisco to Melbourne arrived 9:30am Singapore Airlines flight SQ237 from Singapore to Melbourne arrived 10:50am Malindo Air flight OD177 from Denpasar to Melbourne arrived 10:50am (Singapore time)

I recall a Kurt Vonnegut novel where the Chinese, because they had such a big population and thus a big food problem, decided to scientifically make themselves smaller, and smaller in size in each generation...thus each needing less food...to the extent they became the size of microbes drifting in the wind...and they drifted across the world and everyone inhaled them...and then they grew colonies inside people. It was a fun story. It had great elements of creative imagination and the essence of western psychotic paranoia about China in it...I like Kurt Vonnegut. He told a damn good story.

I think the only way to rid ourselves of noxious folk like Donald Trump and Scott Morrison, and that English Idiot, is to stop reading about them, and for journalists to stop reporting the stupid things they say. As Kurt Vonnegut noted: they are simply a 'grand falloon... 'what you get when you take the air out of a balloon'.

Ah, well, with Scott Morrison as our effervescent conservative Prime Minister, I'm going to bed happily tonight, and will have a good sleep and wake up to personally determine the impact of 'the new normal' of whatever it is that is so important that he has to be on tv talking about it all day, every day, without saying what he means about all the things we can't afford because he gave all the money to the banks and his mates. Sad beleaguered man obviously needs a holiday. Hawaii sounds nice.

As for a good possible Australian Prime Minister, I can only see Penny Wong, from the Labor Party/Senate Leader, as a real possibility. She is a hard, driven, committed person with great mental alacrity and capacity...and far more a true bureaucrat than a matinee idol. I think she would do well. She could bring both consensus and clear direction. At least you would know that the serious responsibility was in the hands of someone who you knew was a serious being & who knew what they were actually doing. Wow, wouldn't Fox News be upset!

As for the um... Senior Royals ... standing back from Royal duties, I think there is a B grade movie in that story. The talentless useless Prince and the fast ageing cable TV ex-star facing the hurdles of real life in 21st century California, with Trump as President...having afternoon tea in the caravan park with his relative, the Royal Sweaty Pizza Eating Rooter, on the run from paedophilia and rape charges...yes, that film could work, it could work, if Disney does it nicely. It's the Royal Family, it's American Ambition, it's about Freedom; it's got it all.