branmuffin
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We are definitely due for a paradigm shift. There will be a new normal. We don't know what it will be yet. But we will adapt. We always do.
My mom and dad worked in a bomber factory in England during WW2. That's where they met. Because they manufactured airplanes they were always a bombing target. Air raid protocol was that in the event of a raid they were to take shelter under these enormously heavy lathe machines to protect themselves from falling debris. My mom's best friend, Renee, spent most of her money on film star magazines, chocolate and black market nylon stockings. At one point during an air raid she refused to get under the lathe because she 'was damned if she was going to get a ladder in her stockings that she'd paid two pounds six pence for on the black market'.
Going to the pictures was a welcome distraction but because the films were shown at night it meant that any time an air raid could happen. If the sirens wailed everyone would jump up and file out the theatre to get to the air raid shelters. So they didn't always get to see the end of the movie. Eventually, though, if a siren went off and the projectionist turned off the film, the audience would sit there stamping their feet, refusing to leave until he'd crank it up again and the audience would sit there in the dark watching the movie until whatever end came.
We are definitely due for a paradigm shift. There will be a new normal. We don't know what it will be yet. But we will adapt. We always do.
My mom and dad worked in a bomber factory in England during WW2. That's where they met. Because they manufactured airplanes they were always a bombing target. Air raid protocol was that in the event of a raid they were to take shelter under these enormously heavy lathe machines to protect themselves from falling debris. My mom's best friend, Renee, spent most of her money on film star magazines, chocolate and black market nylon stockings. At one point during an air raid she refused to get under the lathe because she 'was damned if she was going to get a ladder in her stockings that she'd paid two pounds six pence for on the black market'.
Going to the pictures was a welcome distraction but because the films were shown at night it meant that any time an air raid could happen. If the sirens wailed everyone would jump up and file out the theatre to get to the air raid shelters. So they didn't always get to see the end of the movie. Eventually, though, if a siren went off and the projectionist turned off the film, the audience would sit there stamping their feet, refusing to leave until he'd crank it up again and the audience would sit there in the dark watching the movie until whatever end came.
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Isn't the whole Ruby Princess situation devastating. So many infected! Heads are probably going to roll over the decisions make. IMO Australia is going to have rolling waves of outbreaks, states are all at different stages. I think we are yet to see the worst - I'm quite worried about the impact our elections had last week here in Brisbane - I am staying home most of the time now! 