Pottery Chatroom Board

I sell my images on shutterstock, which pays peanuts per pic (less than a buck, and often only 50 cents, depending on the purchase plan the buyer is on - the buyers are mainly magazines, newspapers and other communication-type corporations, and those who pay, say, $500 for a 12 month subscription get unlimited images for that $500.)
But the upside is, I get to keep ownership of the image, so I can sell it again and again, and not just on shutterstock.
So if an image is really popular, the shutterstock sales may run into the hundreds per year, at an average of, say, 65 cents each, which is a handy amount, especially as I have hundreds of photos selling there.
These days, at 75 years old, I honestly can't be bothered printing and framing my photos to sell in markets, and that's without the pandemic stopping me going into crowded places.
I guess you could say that I'm not "maximizing my assets" to use the business term.
But y'know what? I don't care.

RATS covid testing kits are free to people on Concession Cards in Australia, which includes the elderly, the disabled, low-income and students.
As those groups may include some who get easily confused by written instructions, it's also free for the pharmacist or other professional helper to administer the test for them, with the government paying them to do it, though as Katie mentioned, going into a place that's full of potential covid patients is not necessarily a safe thing to do.
Laying hands on the test kits is another matter, with a massive shortage right now. Though I noticed our local pharmacy advertised they had a batch delivered yesterday, and there was an almost immediate line of elderly folk all down the road until the tests were sold out again - it took less than an hour to sell and administer the test.
Right now Australia's outbreak makes it one of the world's most affected countries, which is a far cry from 3 months ago, before we opened our borders.
I think that governments around the world are now deciding that it's herd-immunity time, and those who haven't been vaccinated have themselves to blame. Trouble is, Omicron infects the vaccinated and the boosted.

Sylvia's stll recovering in hospital. I don't know how long she'll be there for.
Because I'm here to cook etc, they'll probably release her earlier. Sylvia said that this time when the social worker (she calls them 'do-gooders') came to chat to her, which they always do as she's 82 this May, there was no pressure for her to go into residential care, because I'm here.
The over 75s are on the mandatory hospital reporting list, where the hospital must report patients. Other things on the list include bullet wounds, stab wounds, people who have no Medicare card - this world really is Big Brother these days, but then we get the governments we voted in.
Susan, you're right about her bad hand and other injuries healing slowly or not al all, because of the diabetes.
Yes, my own hand has healed from the wild-cat attack now, which I guess proves I don't have diabetes.

The photo is a King parrot at the sunflowers. It's a female; the males are more brilliantly colored.