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It’s Raining Mice!

A problem of biblical proportions — I hope not.

a. a. gallagher
ILLUMINATION
5 min readJun 4, 2021

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Raining Mice. Fact. Not a euphemism!

In the past two years we — as in Australians — have endured drought almost continuously; huge, devastatingly terrifying fires; the wretched pandemic and, now we have a plague of mice, rodents that are relentlessly moving down from Queensland and heading via New South Wales towards Victoria.

And really isn’t it enough that the poor Victorians are suffering through their 4th lockdown since this whole Covid crap thing started. Plus, it seems the spread of this disease here in the main, comes down to the lack of proper quarantine facilities. Really it quite obviously could have been predicted that when the systems of air-conditioning installations in hotel situations are combined with the vagaries of human nature, the predicted, desired outcome will not be achieved. A given if you will. There will be lumps and bumps in a public health situation that will inevitably lead to the possibility of becoming dire with overriding, consequential, and lethal outcomes. As has proven to be the case. Individual State-run quarantine hubs should have been implemented immediately after this disease raised its ugly head. We are an island continent and as such extremely lucky, especially compared to other less fortunate countries. But, we could have been luckier! OK…

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a. a. gallagher
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Thank you for reading & following. I love a jolly good story: I write short stories, enviro. poetry, and kids’ rhymes. Prev. Education includes a. Dip. S.R.M.

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