This is why we donât really care for Americans* 
- various disclaimers apply of course
Fingers crossed, we mightâve dodged a bullet. Iâm still planning on avoiding Launceston for a few weeks, though.
In other news:
On one hand, Iâm glad that the gorillas seem to be getting the best care available, and that theyâre scheduled to receive vaccinations, but Iâm also infuriated that this happened at all, and that this is the world we are living in. 
That is just wonderful. Iâm sharing!
Itâs weird enough that republicans are asking homeless people for medical advice, and the advice being spot-on really tops it off.
I wish I could pull a Josephine Baker and adopt as many kids as I could care for.
Jeffrey Burnham told his mother he had to confront his older brother, Brian Robinette, because he was poisoning people by administering the COVID-19 vaccine, telling his mother, âBrian knows something,â according to the new charging documents filed against Burnham.
Generally speaking, Iâm less bothered by the small minority of antivax fools than I am by the malicious bastards pushing the âas soon as people get vaccinated, we can go back to acting as if Covid doesnât existâ line.
Fortunately, the Tas government has so far been fairly resistant to that garbage.
Animation warning.
BTW:
It may even turn out to be a positive, in the end. Now nobody else in Launceston wants to be the fuckwit who breaks quarantine and ruins things for everyone.
Full statement here:
Status of Tas medical system:
Both of those statements are partisan political press releases; sceptical reading required, especially for the second.
Tasmania only has three proper hospitals (Hobart, Launceston, Burnie), and all of them are small, underfunded and mismanaged. Plus we have the oldest/sickest/poorest/least-educated population of any Australian state.
He seems to reissue this executive order every couple of weeks.
Hobart, OTOHâŚ
A Wisconsin brewery that says itâs fed up with âanti-science,â âTucker Carlson-watching zombiesâ is funding a series of lawsuits against school boards that do not follow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines on COVID-19. So far, the Minocqua Brewing Companyâs Super PAC has helped parents sue two school districts and says it plans on âsuing every school board in Wisconsin that doesnât follow CDC guidelines to protect the spread of COVID in schools.â
In a Facebook post Sunday, brewery owner and Super PAC founder Kirk Bangstad answered a question that he said he was asked in âevery interviewâ he did with news outlets last week: âWhy is a brewery funding this lawsuit?â
âOur Super PAC should NOT be funding these lawsuits,â Bangstad wrote. âWe always thought that our government, the teacherâs union, the ACLU, the hospitals, the nurseâs unions, or any other number of progressive groups or âacademies of smart people who understand stuffâ should be stepping up to block the alt-right, anti-science, and anti-history nonsense that has overcome school boards across our state. Wisconsin communities have exploded with the Delta variant because many school districts have dropped all forms of COVID mitigation that were in place last year due to the shrieking hordes of Tucker Carlson-watching zombies separated from their cerebrums and driven only by their lizard brains.â
Little weird, but makes sense for a brewery to support science in microbiologyâŚ