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The economy is fucked. Next business to go under ?
Flight Centre ?
Already closed 100 shops ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Brothelcreeper
Qantas has grounded all international planes and laying off 20,000 staff !
Alan Joyce rang the Woolie CEO asking him to hire some of his staff to help stack the shelves !
Was always going to go up exponentially.
But it's still mostly imported cases - we are seeing the impact of the Europe and US cases
From next week the 14-day quarantine should cut into that growth, and we just have to worry about local transmission, and hopefully all the hand washing and no touching rules will begin to reduce that.
What am I gonna do when the fucking corona virus blows over (do it with a lot less than a mil too):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9t3ez_LU6Y
Yes sir I do! :slobber:Quote:
Originally Posted by Climax598
Virgin is a goner
Great Coronavirus moments in history. :shout:Quote:
Originally Posted by moz
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I think this self isolate 14 days is failing as the government or state authority can’t control the movement of those supposed to be isolated people.
In Hong Kong , people arriving from overseas who are subject to the 14 days isolation have to wear smart wristbands so that their movement can be tracked, more than 10,000 bands have already been activated. Many returning from higher risks area are being quarantined in government provided buildings , apartments and hotels. And yet their number of infected cases are still rising to 256 since all those overseas students are coming home !
What do we have in terms of control movement and quarantine facilities ? And we already have 785 and 392 in NSW alone in like a week.
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Originally Posted by Pleck
I believed in you sir. That is why I copied this quote on my notes hoping and praying that it is wrong but it is spot on.
“On current growth rates the 370 cases in Australia today will be 750 on Friday, 1500 on Tuesday next week, 3000 next Saturday, 6000 on the 1st of April, 12 000 by the 4th of April and 24 000 by the 7th of April. This is 3 weeks from now and puts us in a worse position than Italy is currently in,” the letter says.
I do hope that the Govt will ramp up their measures before it’s too late.
Simply put. Lack of testing capabilityQuote:
Originally Posted by retrospect
(And on a per capita basis our test levels are higher than pretty much every Euro country, and the US)
Even with symptoms, and overseas/ direct contact, we've had over 100,000 negative tests - over 99% negative.
So that means there is a crap load of other viruses/bugs etc giving people flu like symptoms.
Expand the testing and you'll have 1m+ hypochondriacs in a queue at your testing centre.
I agree our quarantine regime needs better enforcement - too many will ignore it
So much for social distancing
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/he...5c5981654b8077
Also, if you look at arrivals at the interns airport, there are still dozens of international aircraft arriving. I thought a lockdown on arrivals started last night?
That picture is really sobering - the sheer "it's not my problem i dont give a crap" about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by quackm2002
The wristband sounds like those ankle bracelets that criminals wear under house arrest which I think is the way to go if people who are supposed to be self isolating keep flouting their civil duty. The police need to doing more to enforce this and not expect Aussies to "do the right thing". Instead of patrolling toilet paper aisles and rationing it out, do something more useful like contact tracing investigation. Introduce fines for those not adhering to social distancing and stricter monitoring for people meant to be self isolation.Quote:
Originally Posted by AHLUNGOR
Places like Singapore have round the clock police investigation units interrogating trace contacts for 3 hours and make them sign a quarantine contract forbidding them to go outside their house until their isolation period is over and any violation could result in fine and/or jail time. And people who've been caught lying about their movements have already been penalised. 5 days ago they had 243 cases and now they have 385.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51866102
Now compare that to Aus where Red Cross callers are checking in on self isolators but only to check on mental welfare and even they know they are out and about but won't dob them in. This is exactly how not to flatten the curve.
I wound say yes - unfortunately. But remember it’s everyone , especially those returning from abroad.
With the incubation Period of COVID 19 we can’t be sure who has it and who doesn’t
Would love to see my favourite establishments put some communications out about how they’re managing this ! I’ll still be punting but I’m definitely likely to gravitate to the places with some standards I place
Those numbers are conservative! the way we are all living at the moment the number will explode more than doubling per day as people carry on interacting. some pubs, restaurants, workplaces, cafes and schools are packed and ideal breeding grounds.Quote:
Originally Posted by SexyBoi
The numbers being reported are not accurate either, some people not being tested at all and being recorded, a lot of 20 something not even bothered, I over heard a group last week saying 'they don't care it is only a cold and will get over it'
the same was happening in Italy just a few weeks ago
Have to get ahead of the curve, implement measure one step ahead. If they are thinking about a lock down, then do it now. Always feels we are one step behind in what we should be doing.
Letting everyone off the cruise ship in Sydney that had confirm Covid-19 cases and then asking the rest of them to self-isolate seems irresponsible. Do we trust them to do the right thing?
Have read Police are randomly visiting homes of people who are supposed to be in isolation. Is this enough?
The government had perfect fucking chance to take action when there was only few cases , and they blew it , self isolation means jack fucking shit! How many of them are actually isolating, I bet everyday Morrison and his crew wake up and be like : how could we fuck this country up today ?
Money over lifes
My regular have stop work from yesterday after seeing a cruise ship ( infected 4 persons) with few thousand people go home on self isolation. She say the risk is too high. This self isolation is B.S.
Few popular shop has closed temporary. One in burwood and one in Campsie
I was with a regular ML yesterday and she told me both shops she works at are closing for a couple of weeks (or more) from this coming Monday. I'll drive past next week and see.
I'll be interested to see Sundays 60 minutes where some researchers claim that an old HIV drug could be a cure for the virus.
Whilst on this, I don't know if any of you remember back in the early years of HIV a couple of our scientists from the good old CSIRO claimed to have found a cure for the disease and called it "gene shears". They claimed they could also modify it to attack the genes of any virus from the common cold to HIV...they disappeared off the face of earth soon after and nothing more was ever heard of them or their discovery. Conspiracy theorists at the time said they were paid off by the drug companies as they make more profits treating the symptoms than curing us.
The various papers so far suggest an old malaria drug, and a general antibacterial work best at minimising the symptoms.
HCQ/ Hydroxychloroquine/ Plaquenil is the old malaria drug also currently used for some form of arthritis seems the best.
This was the one that those Qld scientists were trying to get money before, despite it already having been used in China, and in French studies, and also seemingly in Australia
Other from the French study is athrimozine, a anti-bacterial.
But note these are not a cure, just minimise the symptoms and lower the mortality rate.
The WHO has set the record straight about a common misconception people have when it comes to coronavirus and how it is most commonly spread. Respiratory diseases can spread efficiently in winter not necessarily because of the temperature but because human beings come together in closed environments and therefore transmission is more facilitated. This is supported by the rapid spread of the virus in Singapore, where it is typically hot and humid, to illustrate how temperature was not a factor consistent with more cases of the condition. This is why the Government is urging everyone to take up social distancing to stop the virus spreading quickly.
Thank you linemen, thank you ballboys, game, set and match !
This is it, it’s time ! It’s all over and they all have to stop and stop NOW !!
Can’t bear to watch any more of our elite players tackling each other on the fielding . What messages are NRL and AFL is sending to the public? That’s just undo what the government is trying to achieve in social distancing! We can’t wait for the first case of player infection then closing shop, it needs to be closed now !
Preserve our most valuable resources and try again in 2021 !
Won't be long for the AFL I suspect. Guaranteed some of the players or WAGS went to some of the F1 events and mixed with some people recently arrived from Europe.
Symptoms this week you'd think.
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Originally Posted by moz
There are lots of pubs advertising that : we have the footy ! To attract customers which you can’t blame them in order to survive! But that alone is counterproductive on the social distancing? I think all the restaurants and bars and pubs and casino is gonna be shut down next week, alongside no more footies !
The Macau government right from the start of outbreaks back in early January, shut down the entire areas casinos, restaurants, bars, night clubs and sauna for two weeks when they had - wait for this: 10 cases!
They didn’t have any more new cases for 45 days, and today they still only have 17! In case anyone don’t know where is Macau? It’s located at the southern tip of China near Hong Kong and the Chinese people can just walk across the border!
Channel 9 and 7 can start replaying the entire 2019 seasons week by week !