Texas is short of beef? The South is limiting pork? The USA is in deep trouble.
Given that China is punishing Australia on every trade and tourist front for us daring to request an independent investigation into its handling of the Wuhan / COVID19 issue (because we’re a little guy China thinks it can bully in its usual fashion and China isn’t willing to take on its real enemy directly, being USA), we’ve probably got a bit of beef and pork to spare for our starving cousins in Texas. No Longhorns here, just black Angus as best beef.
You buy fresh meat at the grocers? Like what we call supermarkets? There’s your problem. Support your local butcher, like some of my local butchers.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Shopping---Retail/Weightmans-Quality-Meats-148950505743995/ (In case you’re mystified by what appears to be standard but confusing English in this butcher’s description of his delectable comestibles, the term “laughing gear” in Australia is a synonym for “mouth”, so that his encouragement to “Wrap your laughing gear around this” kabana sausage means “Put this in your mouth”, which is an unduly wordy way of saying “Eat”. Let me know if anything else is unclear.)
https://www.facebook.com/Langesmeats/
Meanwhile, on the first day we’ve had zero COVID19 reports in my state, a few thousand arrogant ****wits infected by something that happened in the USA and has bugger all to do with us do their usual jump on the bandwagon attention seeking public protest (which won’t change anything here or in the USA) and put the rest of the community at risk of infection while we’ve all been in lockdown for the past few months, and in doing so the rest of us have probably and hopefully ensured that this mass gathering of ****wits won’t be the source of a major outbreak. Then again, it would be ironic justice if they all got the bug, but ideally without infecting anyone else.
This is how these ****wits protested today, nominally about 434 indigenous Australians who died in police or prison custody over the past thirty years, not least in some cases because of a failure at various levels to implement the recommendations of the 1991 report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody . No fair minded and well informed Australian disputes that Aborigines have a legitimate grievance about these issues. Nor that there are serious problems in the USA with law enforcement against black people (and that, as in Australia, most black people are victims of domestic violence and murdered by other black people, but apparently they’re not black lives that matter and you won’t find a white or black politician that’s going to raise these issues as a race issue). That’s not the immediate point, which is that for about upwards of 90% of respondents to a newspaper poll and 100% of people I know this isn’t the time to have mass demonstrations that put the rest of the community at risk of COVID19 infections. Anyway, here are the well-intentioned ****wits who should have a net thrown over them to be removed from the community as health risks.
The following is how we honoured our service men and women on ANZAC day, similar to your Memorial Day but probably much more sacred here, by people standing with candles at dawn in front of their houses and in their streets because the traditional mass dawn services and marches couldn’t occur because, surprisingly, those of us who honour our service people lack the arrogance of the arseholes who think it’s more important to put the whole community at risk of infection to make a pointless point about something that everybody already knows about. And which their public demonstration won’t change.
For Australian service men and women, including a small number of indigenous Australians, who died in WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan etc: Let’s just start with 60,000 in WW1, which is about the same number America lost in that war from a very much larger population. And this is how we remembered them this year, because the much larger number of the sort of people who respect their memories are clearly very different to the much smaller number of arrogant arseholes who occupied our cities today in defiance of warnings from our health officials that that these arseholes were putting the wider community at risk of a growth in infections.
