lockdown

 

opportunity cost: the loss of other alternatives when one alternative is chosen.

W S Burroughs: Control needs control

so when discussing the political, here is my standard apolitical caveat; don't take anything I say as embracing or dismissing any inherent bias or affiliation - that's your baggage and I don't give a shit.

so where do I start? Let's begin the press conferences.I really couldn't care less for your gratitude and words of thanks, using phrases like "hard yards" and the like. The media questions are bad enough, I mean, really? Are they written in crayon? I thought they closed down all the kindergartens. The next press conference I feel I deserve, no demand, one of the most grovelling and humbly cowering apologies ever given. Why? The tool drawer.

why didn't this happen earlier, or moreover, why did so many of these things happen now and at the same time? Three things magically broke themselves and the one shifting spanner I own doesn't open wide enough to tighten the nut. The hacksaw all of a sudden has ran out of blades and all the Phillips head screw drivers don't fit. I take a break and open my server and the first email is an apology from Australia Post about delivery delays, before I have even tried to order anything online.

But there's more in the form of my favorite T-Shirt ripping as it has reached the end of its life - now. I need a new pair of shoes - now. It's not like I have no money. There's not one place to buy them. What I would give for a K-Mart to be open. What I would give for the two dollar shop across the road from Franco Cosso on Sydney Road to be open, if only for an hour - now. Instead we have your approach to opportunity cost, no alternative whatsoever.

Instead we have daft and punitive restrictions like no face shields. I have been wearing one for months, what makes them so defective all of a sudden? Pure and simple - control.

As an exercise, get a copy of Ah Pook Is Here by W S Burroughs. Go to the sections about control and replace the word Control (with a capital 'C') with politicians.

Plus there is an interesting entry in the diary of Samuel Pepys from October 1665 discussing that there is no inherent logic to the transmission of the Plague - like now.

One final perspective in regards to your approach to opportunity cost consists of two words in the form of a sign - you can see it everywhere.

For Lease.