Incompetent Twits and the Trailer

With the delivery of the drawer slide the last modification to the camper trailer has finally been completed.  Two mounting plates were required which I manufactured from some spare scrap metal.

I’ve mounted a folding shower screen across the front of the trailer underneath the folding hard shell bed.  It needed to be inside the dimensions of the trailer to avoid it being struck by trees etc.

When extended it needed to be clear of the side of the trailer.  This meant the drawer slide required an extended length of 2.4 metres.

Extended

The next photo shows what it look. like when open.  I haven’t pegged down the base.

Of course I have now realised I need to make a bracket to go on the side of the trailer for the gas instant hot water heater. 

Now for the “incompetent twits” comment.  I am (of course) referring to the federal government’s vaccine program.  This morning I was up and off to meet my 8.00am appointment for my second Astrazeneca injection.  On advising the surgery receptionist I had arrived for my appointment I was informed I didn’t have one!  Well I did….. and Jan was with me when I was last at the surgery and was advised of the date and time for my second shot.  The receptionist then told me they only take COVID vaccine appointments for a Friday morning (today being Wednesday) and I didn’t have a booking.  No point in arguing with the receptionist so I enquired when I could book.  “We are fully booked until Late September” was the reply. I informed her I’d get the injection somewhere else.

That has proven to be very difficult.  Most of the vaccination centres are doctors surgeries and they are fully booked for the next month.  How that can be reconciled against the urging of our political leaders to get vaccinated NOW defeats me.  This vaccination rollout is painfully slow and too dependent upon local GP practices.  There should be mobile vaccination centres with leaflet drops into letterbox advising the population when and where to get vaccinated.  I won’t be voting for this lot at the next federal election.

Meanwhile a sizeable percentage of the local population has become very blasé about the COVID threat and isn’t interested in vaccinating.  The pandemic has scarcely touched Western Australia resulting in people not seeing the threat.  I suspect that will change when there is a major outbreak and then there will be a chaotic scramble when all the unvaccinated panic.