Dodging Bullets
From Edward Lear's limerick There was an old man of St Bees You'd better get a cup of coffee. This is going to be a long one! This past week has certainly tested South East Queensland residents. (Pun unintended) In one week we went from 37 to 169 cases of Delta in the community. This probably seems a laughable figure to the rest of the world and indeed parts of Australia like Sydney but it does demonstrate how quickly the virus can spread. And the fact that contact tracing included at least half a dozen schools, a university, at least three major shopping centres and a couple of hospitals did tend to put the wind up us. I was very sorry to see my first library listed. Til now I've been rather foolishly reassured by the fact that no bookshops or libraries have been listed to date . Here's a map of the close and casual contacts close to where I live. I've included Ipswich as well as that is where my daughter and I were on Thur...