The Easter long weekend is looming – and while it’s hardly a typical holiday break, there will still be plenty wanting to spend their days at home indulging in good food and chocolate.

   If the coronavirus ends up killing off the comic book industry, it will be a grave they’ve dug themselves.

“The country was lovely in the spring. The upland were green with tall grass, the ponds were full, and the whole valley bursting into life.”

Anglers and boaties hoping to escape to the sea for a break this Easter need to think again.

I don’t know why but the new Aussie submarines seems to be suffering from irrelevance, obsolescence and workforce deficiencies. The French made some very unhelpful comments about the Australian commitment of the Adelaide shipyards.

 

As it looks we’re going to stay home for the long haul, until the Trumpo/Scomo cavalry sounds the all clear, we oldies, have to borrow games designed for the yoofs to keep our mind young.

 

Larrikinism — with its mixture of irreverence, playfulness, some satirical elements of love and of loss, nostalgia for the sounds and trousers styles of the past such as flares, and the sobering subjects of epidemic disease and delusions — is an Australian English term meaning "a mischievous young person, an uncultivated, rowdy but good hearted person", and/or "a person who acts with apparent disregard for social or political conventions"...

 

This free-spirit is about to die...

 

As loony cartoonists, we have to ask what would great thinkers, such as Voltaire, Freud, Einstein, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Marx and others, make of the present corona19-situation… 

Scott Morrison committed the Australian nation to god during times of great need and suffering... Carrying his budget surplus like a cross, Scomo thanked god for saving his arse in the face of Sports Rorts, Angus' watery affair and other fiddles that involved Clover.

 

Full of his own Coalonascopic climate change disbelief and on his way to Mount Corona, where he would be nailed by the Toilet Paper Army, he knew he would resuscitate by Easter, which was just around the corner.

 

The Federal Government has struck a deal with the country's 657 private hospitals, giving the Commonwealth access to another 34,000 hospital beds to help tackle the coronavirus crisis.

"Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Corona and all the odious apparatus of Virus rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be."

 

As the world tries desperately to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, Brazil's president is doing his best to downplay it. 

As of midnight tonight, gatherings in Australia will be restricted to two people in a further attempt to contain the coronavirus pandemic.