Our local hospital is the regional site for COVID-19 testing.
Though we have no local cases, testing required due to people who live in proximity to the border with Victoria crossing back and forth has seen increased numbers at the drive up location.
Yesterday and today there were people waiting for hours, all day long.
The strain on our local health care providers is immense.
This 2019 animation provides a time frame and sense of visual scale for successive holders of the distinction of being the world’s tallest building.
Of interest is the gap between the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center Towers; the idea that the world’s tallest building could have been in Chicago; and the move from West to East of the current and recent past holders of the title.
There was a time in the 1980s when it was mooted that the then world’s tallest office building would be constructed in Brisbane.
The project got some way toward commencement, and if the political upheavals of that time had been delayed by only a few more years something probably would have proceeded.
Mount Gambier’s tallest building was a six story hospital that was opened in 1961, superseded in 1997 by what seemed to be a far smaller replacement, and which fell derelict and was totally demolished in 2014.
The contractual obligation season continues to introduce novel ways of providing product and fulfilling requirements to produce necessary amounts of product.
I don’t know how it would be possible to study whether the injury rates players are experiencing this year are as a result of all the changes or whether they are coincidental to that.
It would seem the only way would be to do it again, and I don’t really expect that to happen.
Except the beginning of next season is getting closer all the time, and crowd gatherings and movement around regions or between regional areas look like they’ll be inhibited to some degree next year.
I’m dirty that Newcastle cost me a perfect round in the NRL too.
(Draws count as correct)
NRL (last round 7/8; season tally 61/88)
Souths
Wests
Cronulla
Easts
Canberra
Penrith
Paramatta
Melbourne
AFL (last round 5/9; season tally 42/71)
Richmond
Port Adelaide
Carlton
Brisbane
Adelaide (will win sometime, and North Melbourne are the sort of team they’ll beat)
Saint Kilda
West Coast
Greater Western Sydney
Collingwood
In case anyone else is thinking of forwarding, linking, sending or otherwise bringing this to my attention, I have seen it.
I’m not saying don’t do it, though.
I enjoy reading it out loud, every time.
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