Kindly Yours

  Do we manage an  infectious epidemic by the following key ways, or are there more alternatives? 1.   Allow continuing leakages of Covid 19 into the local community - and provide cause of having to allow for sufficient economic activity and minimal restriction of physical freedom for human beings. 2.   Allow continuing leakages of Covid 19 into the local community  - and manipulate the situation for socio-political purposes like increasing controls over the population for self empowerment purposes. 3.  Strictly disallow leakages of Covid 19 into the local community - go hard, go early to strictly impose lockdowns  aimed for short time periods and target for elimination of the Coronavirus> 4. Allow leakages of Covid 19 into the local community and raise expectations of relying on Vaccines as the saviour to be utilised on a mass scale. 5.  Always quote reliance on medical and scientific advice, but selectively take such ideas to fit into what au...

 

Setting the tone - side shelves near the entrance. A cluttered rustic look and creating a homely trendy atmosphere. Emphasis on fresh produce.     

  It is now the fourth wave of Covid spread in Sydney. Once Covid leaks through from overseas arrivals on plane or ship to the local community, it is harder to contain, without hitting hard and early on focused movement restrictions for an interim period. Once Covid reappears in the local community, better mental health is attained by confident and reassuring measures to stop its spread, much better than attending the much respected cricket games. The risks of Covid spreading from the latest Avalon, Croydon and Berala clusters can impact on inadequate infrastructure and resources to optimally manage further infection break outs beyond the borders of the Sydney Basin. In almost 4 weeks since the reporting of the Avalon cluster in Sydney's northern beaches, around 270 exposure sites have been traced for NSW and another hundred in Victoria - and counting. Despite this reality, the free movement of people continues, even when for NSW residents, up to 200 infections have been ident...

  On the Illawarra coast, we live a relatively free lifestyle devoid of severe movement restrictions related to Covid 19. Eating outlets have been reopened for dine in from July 2020. Fresh produce markets, cafes and supermarkets have witnessed bounce back in business.  There are no caveats on travelling north to Big Smoke Sydney and south, further north or west to regional areas. So in gratitude, I list the outlets that still operate and carry on the good work they have been doing even before the arrival of the Coronavirus - and which I still drop by   from time to time. Nowra - The Deli on  Kinghorne. Berry - Queens Cafe. Lake Illawarra - Fish and Chips. Warilla Mall - Baker's Delight and Mitchell's. Warrawong Westfield - Country Grocer, Fish Feast and the Coffee Emporium. Figtree - Coles. Wollongong -  My Lan, Kurtosh, Kinn Thai, Da Orlando, Lagoon, Harbourside, Aqua Cafe, Utopia Cafe and Boston Espresso. Fairy Meadow - Broken Drum Cafe, Fedor...

  Singapore is surrounded by a peninsular, islands big and small, trading routes, channels and seas. It is an island itself, albeit with reclaimed land fringes, but it is also an island beyond the geographical meaning of the term. Singapore thrives on differentiation.  Its dynamics, governance drivers and ability to grow thrive on offering something which its neighbours cannot, to the same degree. Myanmar just had a military coup.  Vietnam is communist, together with Laos.  The Phillippines and Kampuchea have had more tumultous experiences in politics.  Thailand and Malaysia are technically constitutional monarchies in varying forms.  Timur-Leste and Papua New Guinea became fledging democracies after independence, but have not reached maturity in governance.  Indonesia is a federation of several cultural regions that has so much land size and population in comparison to the city state of Singapore. So what captivates the rest of South-east Asia to o...