Coronavirus - Overall
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i'm not racist, i am just treating him differently because he is Asian...
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@raznomore said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
One of my co-workers lost $150k in stocks because of the mass media-driven hysteria coronavirus.
Also I was in Australia Fair last week at an Asian grocery. In a hairdresser at that mall one of the workers there, recently returned from Iran, has tested positive. She saw 40 people in the time it took her to realise she was ill. There is a chance I have come in contact with someone that has it.
Well stop bloody posting then , I don’t want to catch it too
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@jegga I'm ok, I have anti-virus protection!!
I’m on my phone, is he even wearing a mask ?
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@jegga said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
I think some countries in Africa will probably be on top of a epidemic faster than most due to the experience they have with shutting down Ebola outbreaks
A lot of the Arab countries never got on top of MERS though so I’d say they are in the shit.
The Gulf countries will be fine (Yemen aside), but the countries further north and west are likely to struggle once it hits their territories
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@raznomore said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
"One of my co-workers lost $150k in stocks because of the mass media-driven hysteria coronavirus.
Also I was in Australia Fair last week at an Asian grocery. In a hairdresser at that mall one of the workers there, recently returned from Iran, has tested positive ..."We use Australia Fair regularly, it is less than a kilometre away just along the Broadwater.
"Hair Plus (first floor opposite the Pacific Hotel entrance) have decided to self-quarantine as a precautionary measure until further notice." says centre management, closed for two weeks said the Channel 7 News.
Southport "Chinatown" has been largely unattended for weeks now - one of us is from SE Asia and we sort of notice that stuff, like.
Two weeks ago I sat with a smart young surgeon for a regular check on me and he foreshadowed a venue for the future monthly reviews other than the most modern hospital in Queensland. The management and the medical experts running this top drawer facility were planning ahead for sudden, heavy demand on their services; and they were also seriously concerned about the risk for patients and staff moving about in the interim.
He was not strutting about enjoying being glib and clever and more knowledgeable than everyone else, and he was keen to question what I was hearing back from family in SE Asia in my phone contacts every morning, every day of the year; and how I saw impacts of this thing evolving over there in the transport field and in the bureaucracies. I'll not bother recounting them here.
On March 1 there were 51 new cases reported in Germany, Spain 26, France 30, 573 in Italy (and 239 the day before) Iran 385, South Korea 586. On March 1, in just one day.
Some broad brush statistics:
Totals to date are 89,240 cases, 3,058 deaths (3.4%), 45,206 recovered.
These figures one month ago were 17,931; 362 (2.0%); and 504.
Two weeks ago - 73,332; 1,873 (2.6%); 12,712.
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@Mick-Gold-Coast-QLD said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
On March 1 there were 51 new cases reported in Germany, Spain 26, France 30, 573 in Italy (and 239 the day before) Iran 385, South Korea 586. On March 1, in just one day.
Some broad brush statistics:
Totals to date are 89,240 cases, 3,058 deaths (3.4%), 45,206 recovered.
These figures one month ago were 17,931; 362 (2.0%); and 504.
Two weeks ago - 73,332; 1,873 (2.6%); 12,712.
The numbers don't look good and China's figures have stalled and my money is on their figures can't be trusted anyway.
I don't understand why Australia is waiting until Sunday to shut down Iranian travel, seems most new cases here have an Iranian link and the higher mortality rate and infections amongst politicians suggest their infection rate is significantly under-reported (or their strain significantly worse).
60 new cases in France today, don't speak French so unsure how many clusters this is but that must be arguably close to being an Italy in a week or two.
Only shining light (unless you trust China figures) is Singapore and Hong Kong who seem to have this contained showing maybe it is possible.
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@antipodean And Donald Trump thinks it's fake news and a construct by the Democrats meant to discredit him....
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My impression on different platforms:
Facebook - 'Just a flu bro, nothing to see here'
Youtube - 'This is signifcant, prepare but don't panic it will all be ok'
Telegram - 'It's happening!!! Imminent world collapse'
Aussie TV Media (via glancing at TV screens at the gym) - Coronavirus pandemic breaking news! Deadly virus claims first Aussie victim! Human to human transmission!Something for everyone I suppose.
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@Rembrandt said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
My impression on different platforms:
Facebook - 'Just a flu bro, nothing to see here'
Youtube - 'This is signifcant, prepare but don't panic it will all be ok'
Telegram - 'It's happening!!! Imminent world collapse'
Aussie TV Media (via glancing at TV screens at the gym) - Coronavirus pandemic breaking news! Deadly virus claims first Aussie victim! Human to human transmission!Something for everyone I suppose.
MSM definitely topping the list in terms of generating hysteria
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@canefan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Rembrandt said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
My impression on different platforms:
Facebook - 'Just a flu bro, nothing to see here'
Youtube - 'This is signifcant, prepare but don't panic it will all be ok'
Telegram - 'It's happening!!! Imminent world collapse'
Aussie TV Media (via glancing at TV screens at the gym) - Coronavirus pandemic breaking news! Deadly virus claims first Aussie victim! Human to human transmission!Something for everyone I suppose.
MSM definitely topping the list in terms of generating hysteria
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@canefan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Rembrandt said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
My impression on different platforms:
Facebook - 'Just a flu bro, nothing to see here'
Youtube - 'This is signifcant, prepare but don't panic it will all be ok'
Telegram - 'It's happening!!! Imminent world collapse'
Aussie TV Media (via glancing at TV screens at the gym) - Coronavirus pandemic breaking news! Deadly virus claims first Aussie victim! Human to human transmission!Something for everyone I suppose.
MSM definitely topping the list in terms of generating hysteria
Well, a conference i was due to hop over to Sydney for next week has been cancelled/postponed. People are taking it seriously (or at least risk avoidance seriously).
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@nzzp said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@canefan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Rembrandt said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
My impression on different platforms:
Facebook - 'Just a flu bro, nothing to see here'
Youtube - 'This is signifcant, prepare but don't panic it will all be ok'
Telegram - 'It's happening!!! Imminent world collapse'
Aussie TV Media (via glancing at TV screens at the gym) - Coronavirus pandemic breaking news! Deadly virus claims first Aussie victim! Human to human transmission!Something for everyone I suppose.
MSM definitely topping the list in terms of generating hysteria
Well, a conference i was due to hop over to Sydney for next week has been cancelled/postponed. People are taking it seriously (or at least risk avoidance seriously).
Yup. And so they should. But coverage has been over the top a lot of tines
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@canefan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@antipodean And Donald Trump thinks it's fake news and a construct by the Democrats meant to discredit him....
@canefan No he doesnt. Don't make shit up or even worse mindlessly believe the bullshit you are fed by the Democrat biased media.
FFS
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@canefan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@antipodean And Donald Trump thinks it's fake news and a construct by the Democrats meant to discredit him....
@canefan No he doesnt. Don't make shit up or even worse mindlessly believe the bullshit you are fed by the Democrat biased media.
FFS
The words came out of his mouth so for once I was inclined to believe he said them
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@Rembrandt said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
I don't understand why Australia is waiting until Sunday to shut down Iranian travel
"Why" could be to curry favour with GetUp or the ABC or the Greens or the AFL; to craft a useful concession in a relationship not necessarily to do with Iran; to sacrifice common sense on the altar of political correctness - it could be anything.
Blind Freddie can see it has nothing to do with practical community health protection.
Already there will have been visits to Canberra by lobbyists submitting, successfully, that their client really ought to be excluded from the excluded class.
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@canefan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@canefan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@antipodean And Donald Trump thinks it's fake news and a construct by the Democrats meant to discredit him....
@canefan No he doesnt. Don't make shit up or even worse mindlessly believe the bullshit you are fed by the Democrat biased media.
FFS
The words came out of his mouth so for once I was inclined to believe he said them
No they did not.
Show us the actual clip then, with full context.