Sad news today about the death of Tricia the elephant at Perth Zoo.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-06/perth-zoo-elephant-tricia-dies-aged-65/10...

Without taking anything away from the sadness of Tricia's passing it's interesting to see today's West Australian with Tricia making front page news plus a 2 page story inside about her and a 'centrefold' souvenir photo in the middle of the paper.

All very nice, of course. But, there isn't a single word about the ongoing Covid deaths around Australia including the 8 WA deaths reported today making 399 deaths for WA since February.

Even Mark McGowan paid tribute to Tricia but he still has nothing to say about all of the Covid deaths or even offer condolences to their families.

I believe "Rowee Rainbow" here sums things up pretty well:

https://twitter.com/ermahhgod/status/1544892413906649089

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We truly are a messed up society these days.

flip page x2.

Ah, this is very interesting. Mind you, it wouldn't be the first time this has happened and I'm sure it won't be the last.

And, probably the same thing also happened in the other States.

‘Appalling’: WA govt accused of preferencing political donors

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Yeah, sure they were. I've heard several people claim that G2G passes were being automatically rejected during WA's border closure (except for the rich, "celebrities" and sports "stars", of course). Same as I heard they were being automatically approved when WA went from a hard to a soft border on February 5th prior to the full 'let it rip' disaster a month later.

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Might explain why McGowan kept us safe for 2 years then did a complete turn around with his let it rip attitude that’s killing dozens of Western Australians weekly, hospitals and schools in crisis, etc., etc. but let his mates do whatever they asked for.

Greedy, corrupt b@stards, the lot of them. Labor and Liberal. The real tragedy is that I'm sure none of them will ever be held accountable for the Covid disaster currently engulfing Australia.

Well, well... wasn't that a surprise? Finally some rare, truthful reporting from our newspapers.

From yesterday's Sunday Times:

From Doctor Andrew Miller:



Closeup with the most important thing I have seen (I've highlighted it in yellow) printed in our media about Covid in a long time:



As I said yesterday, I hope many people have read this and we'll hopefully see more people wearing masks this week.

I was pleasantly surprised when I went out for a drive with my elderly aunt on Saturday afternoon (despite the rain) and we called into the Eric Street Shops in Cottesloe. After we had a look in IGA we took the lift down to the basement carpark and when the doors opened a young man (probably in his early 20's) got in after we got out and he was also wearing a high quality mask the same as we were.

We exchanged smiles and said hello as we exited the lift and he got in... it was that "knowing" smile which conveyed the message that we hadn't swallowed the "pandemic is over" Kool-Aid like almost everyone else has.

Carl D wrote on Jul 11^th, 2022 at 10:56am:


I'm off to get my fourth shot today.

Not sure where though.

Carl D wrote on Jul 11^th, 2022 at 11:26am:


I might just get mine from my GP.

Looks like the Perth Convention Centre clinic has closed down.

Or, I have to go to RPH later today - might see if I can just walk in there.

Had another awesome display this morning of that "Personal Responsibility" which we are now all supposed to have (which has apparently now replaced "Public Health" Australia wide)-.

Spent 10 minutes on a Transperth bus (oh, the horror!) and we were all "entertained" by the 3 maskless swearing teenagers (every second word seemed to be the F word) on the back seat with their 'boom box' blasting out rap "music" non stop.

Bus driver didn't do anything about it, of course. I thought she might have radioed Transperth Security and I was expecting them to appear in one of their patrol cars but that didn't happen either.

Masks are still mandatory on public transport here in WA, by the way.

Not sure how much more of this "Personal Responsibility" and "Community Spirit" I can take.

I long for the 'good old days' when I caught the bus to and from school in the late 60's and early 70's. Transperth was called the MTT (Metropolitan Transport Trust) back then.

I remember the prominent signs on the buses which said something like "Children must stand for adults or pay full adult fare" or words to that effect. Not "should stand" like we see today. However, I think the only ones now are the signs for the seats at the front for the elderly and people with wheelchairs and prams.

Same as school students and their concession fares being told they must stand for adults in my school days. Mind you, back then the majority of young people would give up their seats for adults regardless of whether there were signs or not.