Writing this blog is a challenge to me. I’m trying to do two posts a week and the broad idea is that the posts will be about good things, as per the name of the blog. I do find it edifying trying to think of good things but it also highlights to me that I am naturally quite a pessimistic person because it does not come naturally.
So, today I want to share firstly something good about what’s going on at the moment and then some things I’m looking forward to this year.
Novak and Jonathan
I am very pleased to see Novak Djokovic standing up to the Australian government and exposing to the whole world the authoritarian madness that is going on there. In general I get the feeling that the tide is turning on the response to Covid-19 and this feels like a significant moment in that transition. In many parts of Australia the population have been under some form of lockdown for coming up to two years now, the aboriginal people there have been force vaccinated and rounded up and put in quarantine c…
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