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  Virus Sub Forum
  • Duluth  

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  FYI, I made a homeschooling thread in light of covid19 but put it in other stuff...
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  Coronavirus - Overall
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  @barbarian said in Coronavirus - Overall: @pakman said in Coronavirus - Overall: Going forward, care homes everywhere ought to be configured to enable quarantining when a pandemic hits in future. That means in the UK an end to homes being reliant on sharing workers, in particular agency staff. Needless to say it will be a major exercise. It's a nice idea but impossible to implement. There are thousands of nursing homes here in Aus, each with hundreds of staff. Given the nature of the work it would skew female (I'm guessing) and many of those nurses and carers would have families of their own. So some sort of quarantine for that many people for that length of time would be straight out impossible, IMO. I'm not sure we're really disagreeing. With the current haphazard methods of provision of elderly care, and a range of facilities from the hospital-like to B'n'B, prolonged quarantine would be near impossible for all (but possible for some). The lesson from all this should be that pandamics can and will happen despite all the wonderful medical advances over the last 100 years. Hence the need for EU-14 to regulate future care homes so that they can quarantive if and when required to in future. It's a massive undertaking, with very substantial cost implications. However, lockdown until vaccine is simply unaffordable in most scenarios.
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  Coronavirus - Australia
  • NTA  

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  @Kiwiwomble said in Coronavirus - Australia: as for your last two points, maybe listen again, yes he said ultimately the police wont be fucking around...but in the first few days they will be more lenient and give direction where people are confused Read them again, he's saying two distinct contradictory things. This from the same people that made a nonsense of what constituted prohibited activities the first time around. I just hope this debacle ends quickly and with the minimum amount of pain for those of you in Victoria and we can go back to life as normal.
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  Coronavirus - UK
  • Catogrande  

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  @Bones said in Coronavirus - UK: the same people blaming the government for not locking down early enough are now the same people complaining about governnment restrictions In NZ it's called doing a Hosking
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  Coronavirus memes
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  Coronavirus - New Zealand
  • Donsteppa  

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  the postive testing of this virus seem to be all over the show?? A second possible positive Covid-19 case, involving a traveller from Auckland to Sydney, is being investigated, and two new cases have been caught at the border. The women travelled on July 20 and tested positive on day 2 of their stay in managed isolation in New South Wales. Prior to departing Auckland and since being in Sydney, the woman, who has been in quarantine for 12 days, has displayed no symptoms. The ministry has already spoken to her and said she appeared to be a previously unconfirmed case from March. “This is likely to have led to the positive test result.” https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/122318573/coronavirus-second-case-investigated-from-auckland-to-sydney-flight
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  Lockdown Check In
  • taniwharugby  

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  @Snowy I've genuinely had dengue fever (all four strains). Most unpleasant. I suspect I've had marburg, ebola and rotavirus. But that could've been a shared dodgy vindaloo.
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  Corona and Sports
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  Major League Baseball has been up and running for 4 days and is already looking fucked as half of the Marlins team tests positive. And plays anyway. NBA back this week promises to be interesting.
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  Covid-19 and keeping fit
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  @voodoo said in Covid-19 and keeping fit: @MN5 said in Covid-19 and keeping fit: @voodoo said in Covid-19 and keeping fit: @JK 8mins is insane Not really. I can not do these for months and still easily bust out 3 or 4 minutes. I think you get to a stage then when it’s more sensible to move onto harder variations. @JK from memory she made having Shortland Street on in the background extremely tolerable even if her skin was the same colour as Donald Trumps I couldn't do more than 90 seconds. I also can't understand why you'd want to. No probs.......are you ok at doing planks though ?
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  Coronavirus - South Africa
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  Correct... last column daily new cases ... And no I don’t think cruise liner contributing as far as I’m aware. Hard to say as a layperson why WC so much worse ... and naturally politicians playing ping pong with reasons and blame while people keep getting infected. I think we are doing ok considering some very different circumstances to NZ but the elderly and other vulnerable groups are probably looking at more severe permanent changes to their lives than the rest. Limited domestic air travel going to be allowed again too and borders still closed. And most importantly ...I can buy BEER again from Monday
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  [Poll - Complete] What would you like the Govt to announce today
  • Duluth  

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  @Hooroo and we know for sure that @mariner4life is trolling and/or drunk. No, wait. He's both!!
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  [Poll - Complete] What will the Govt decide today?
  • Duluth  

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  @voodoo said in [Poll] What will the Govt decide today?: Barely though. I haven't ordered anything online from a butcher because the choices are so limited under current conditions. Every cafe and restaurant here is closed. I'm fucking gagging for a takeaway coffee and a vindaloo. You don't think 4 days of business will be important to them? We got our usual meat order last week, free delivery too, which was great given Dominoes dont even deliver out as far as we are, the booze shop wont either. I am sure it will be, but I just think this wil be thier (the Govt) 'happy medium'
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  Coronavirus - Media Discussion
  • MajorRage  

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  @MajorRage said in Coronavirus - Media Discussion: Govt told the Times to fuck off. Terrible use of their time. https://healthmedia.blog.gov.uk/2020/04/19/response-to-sunday-times-insight-article/ Embarassingly comprehensive rebuttal. Journalist and editor should resign.
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  Coronavirus & Messaging Apps - Help wanted.
  • Victor Meldrew  

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  Has anyone been using Syncplay or similar apps to watch movies or listen to music with friends? I've been using https://www.airtime.pro/ to stream music to friends. Any app or service suggestions? Would love to be able to stream music to friends easily from my desktop.
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  Drivers Licence Expiring During Lockdown!
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  @Crucial said in Drivers Licence Expiring During Lockdown!: Do you peasants drive yourself or something? Funnily enough, we haven't been for the first 2 months of 2020 - and have hated it! Bali roads, licenses, insurance etc, all leads to expats renting a car + driver. And it's kinda fun for a week, and kinda crap after that! Can't put a price on independence.
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  Coronavirus - China
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  @Baron-Silas-Greenback I think that's the point. The China numbers are totally fucked but hardly anyone's can be trusted. Everyone has different testing regimes, the US had hardly done any testing (proportionately) before they had community transmission - some cases are still only testing hospitalised patients. That's what Bloomfield said today - the fact the we are now testing much more but the number of cases is stable is good news and suggests that while it is out in the community not to a massive extent.
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  Public Holidays
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  @Stargazer said in Public Holidays: When I discussed ANZAC Day with a mate of mine (via Skype) a few days ago, his youngest girl heard it and suggested that everyone should put a poppy on the bear they have in front of their window (she still counts them every day on their daily walk around the block). It was very cute to hear an 8-year-old actively think about it, this way. that story just broke me.
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  Potential Positives to Look forward to
  • Hooroo  

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  @Stockcar86 said in Potential Positives to Look forward to: Absolutely inline with an earlier post I made about NZ approach to Covid.
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  COVID Testing. Anyone?
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  @Machpants said in COVID Testing. Anyone?: Stories of some staff moving to headbands with buttons sewn on, as the over-ear masks are starting to chafe. One of the oldies homes here in Sydney is going through 800 sets of PPE a day.
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  Home Schooling
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  @nzzp I got an email from my sons school (high school) which gives me access to see what work they are giving him and what he has done...