Coronavirus - Overall
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@Mokey said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
Well. I went to two supermarkets today, fully anticipating opportunities to unleash pent up pissiness...and nothing.
Everyone was civil, all shelves were fully stocked, I am ready to hermit in style. Only thing that made me scowl was the supermarket employee who told an elderly gentleman that the whole virus thing was a bunch of bullshit. I pointedly got a sanitising wipe and gave the trolley handle and my hands a good scrub while giving them the evil eye.
Yay! You left me some for when I go tonight! Cheers
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@Mokey said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
Well. I went to two supermarkets today, fully anticipating opportunities to unleash pent up pissiness...and nothing.
Everyone was civil, all shelves were fully stocked, I am ready to hermit in style. Only thing that made me scowl was the supermarket employee who told an elderly gentleman that the whole virus thing was a bunch of bullshit. I pointedly got a sanitising wipe and gave the trolley handle and my hands a good scrub while giving them the evil eye.
So no blood spilt then?
Have to admit that’s kind of disappointing
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@Mokey said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
@Virgil Not even a drop. It's like...not even one pissy rich bitch to slap? Not even one dipshit with 10 packs of loo paper to foot trip? Womp womp.
Clearly you need to head further up the motorway and do your shopping up here
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@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
@barbarian said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
@chimoaus said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
@barbarian If a lockdown is on its way does it really matter if that is today or in a week or two. Judging by Italy etc, waiting to see if the first measures worked is what got them into the crises they are in. Countries that have successfully halted this have gone into lockdown. Happy to be proven wrong and I guess we will wait and see how these new measures work.
We've only got 400 cases in Australia, and 5 deaths. Yes that is climbing and yes we should take precautions, but IMO a full lockdown creates a raft of other problems that it might be wise in trying to avoid.
Think of all the tradies, shift workers, and other people who can't just 'work from home'. How are they putting food on the table?
As it stands, we're coping with the demand, we've tested more people than anywhere else in the world bar South Korea and Bahrain. I'm willing to trust the experts here who seem to be very much in charge of things, not the politicians.
Exactly, I would rather put my faith in a government plan, than the scared natured internettters in dealing with this.
Each country is going to have different outcomes, just because Italy spat the dummy on this, doesn't mean Aus or NZ will.
Italy had other factors at play as well. They were very slow to react and people didn’t take it seriously to start. The deaths are mainly among smokers and others with heart and respiratory problems. Luckily we don’t have quite the same number of smokers and have cleaner air
It will be different for us
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Those of you that have young adult children, as I do. How are you finding it trying to convince them to take this shit seriously?
I came home early yesterday and the womanchild had made herself pancakes(got the first batch wrong which I found in the bin), toasted sandwiches(which she did not fully eat) and several fruit smoothies. All in all she used 6 eggs, half a pack of bacon, a can of spaghetti, 3 apples, half a pack of frozen blueberries, 2 banana, half a loaf of bread and half a pack of flour.
It was like Danny Mcbride in this is the end.
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@raznomore That's annoying, I think it would be hard enough to get adults adjusted to the concept of not having enough food let alone teens. I had a chat with my Mrs last night regarding this, we are prepped for an easy 3 weeks but as there is so much unknown we're going to start reducing portions immediately. Nothing drastic but just try and get an extra few days out of it..not to mention family that suddenly realise that maybe the folk whose warnings weeks ago you thought were alarmist bs might actually have some spare food.
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@nzzp said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
@dogmeat nice work,
I just kegged a NEIPA, with another 35L ready for the boys at the weekend. Can't wait to work from home too... overdue to do another brisket.
I didn't realise I was a closeted gay man until just now
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
I've made another 20 litres of beer, got three more bags of charcoal and have a lamb and half a beast in the freezer.
I'm ready to ….work… from home.
You sound ready to lead the charge on the BBQ/food thread
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@Old-Samurai-Jack We are pretty bad for diabetes (about 2x the rate of UK). China's age adjusted rate is even higher than ours. Not sure of it in the elderly population (lot of smokers though).
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@Catogrande said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
It's difficult for them to pass on interest rate cuts for fixed rate lending, over and above the fact that it's fixed rate The lenders will have borrowed long at a fixed rate and then leveraged that to their borrowers. It will take time for the lenders to arrange new long term fixed rate money to offer new borrowers at lower fixed rates. if this is possible at all in the current climate.
Well ANZ have cut fixed ..... others to follow in due course
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@Tim said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
@Old-Samurai-Jack We are pretty bad for diabetes (about 2x the rate of UK). China's age adjusted rate is even higher than ours. Not sure of it in the elderly population (lot of smokers though).
Non insulin diabetics are generally of poorer health because their lifestyle choices got them there. They will be at significant risk
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Quite a good piece on assessing the risk:
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So I flew into Queenstown today from Bali via transit in Sydney. Single temp check at the airport in Bali. No checks in Oz in transit, but that's not surprising.
In Queenstown we had an extra form to complete at arrival in terminal, then they had a couple of nurses advising the self iso procedures. No temperature checks, and no proof required of our self iso plans (we have14 days accom booked here in QT).
Pretty easy to bluff your way through if you planned to ignore the rules.
The worst thing - my 11yr old gets to our accom and realised he has left his phone on the plane. Of course there is no chance of getting someone at the airport on the phone to help find it, and as I'm isolating I can't go back to the airport.
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