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I am so angry right now. What have we done to our older, decent, kind and caring older citizens around the world?  This is not about America or Australia or New Zealand, the UK or elsewhere  - this is a global situation that needs to be addressed poste haste and our Governments need to sort it YESTERDAY.

I have been corresponding with an older person in Victoria, Australia, who has an appointment with her cardiologist. She had to postpone before and now is seeking help on twitter to find out if she is safe to travel from her home in regional Victoria to her cardiologist in Melbourne. 

She has rung her cardiologist's office and they don't know. Telephoned  the local MP and he was not sure. Rang the Police and no luck. 

THIS is bloody ridiculous!

thanks to Maggie

My father's small failed mission and its members will never be mentioned anywhere.

Just blips in history.

Z Special Unit His small group 'Platypus VII' of four Commandos sent off in a botched raid at almost the end of the War, to help with an invasion that was mostly for vanity whether for Australia's or for General MacArthur's benefit I'm not sure.

The Japanese in Borneo in July 45 should have been a 'mopping up' operation rather than an invasion from what I've read. The US had broken their fighting forces in the Pacific and sent most back to Japan, where the possibility of a long, difficult fight still looked very likely, before the Atomic bomb was dropped.

Is this Virus a regrettable and unexpected escape from Wuhan or a training exercise? Is the virus world-shutdown part of a live training and simulation exercise run by the World Health Organization and United Nations? 

I wonder. But let me take you on a journey, which started back in 2005.

When I was a kid, being a member of the school drama or tennis club was important to me. I belonged to the school debating club, the school choir, the school almost anything club... I just loved belonging to a club. With school closures and disruption to life, are we doing something dangerous to our children? 

Removing their ability to be part of a club and replacing it with the membership of something much worse: the membership to an online club? Like Tik Tok?

My clubs, as a young girl, were fun, harmless and positive. 

“I would expect it to be as mandatory as you can possibly make it,” the PM said.

Mr Morrison had better rethink that statement fairly smartly - it is not something that many of us will take lying down.

According to reports, The Prime Minister of Australia is confident that a vaccine will be available as early as next year and he has apparently put an order in for 25 million doses. The vaccine,  he assures us, be FREE. 

Well, thanks but no thanks. We must have a different understanding of the word FREE. 

In 2011, British Illusionist Derren Brown conducted an experiment that I have never forgotten.

In Remote Control, audience members for a game show are asked to wear anonymous masks and dictate the ongoing fate of an unsuspecting, secretly filmed member of the public.

The show takes a look at the horror that emerges when people are allowed to make anonymous decisions as part of a crowd.

It caused a degree of shock and horror at the time and was designed to show us how being anonymous in a crowd can, in his words, “turn perfectly nice people into internet bullies, or rioters, or hooligans”.