Coronavirus - Overall
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THis is about Rio Giardinieri, a Florida man who was near death and asked for hydroxychloroquine:
*Rio Giardinieri, 52, told Los Angeles’ Fox 11 that he struggled with horrendous back pain, headaches, cough and fatigue for five days after catching COVID-19, possibly at a conference in New York.
Doctors at the Memorial Regional Hospital in South Florida diagnosed him with the coronavirus and pneumonia and put him on oxygen in the ICU, he told the outlet.
After more than a week, doctors told him there was nothing more they could do and, on Friday evening, Giardinieri said goodbye to his wife and three children.
After about an hour after taking the pills, Giardinieri said, it felt like his heart was beating out of his chest and, about two hours later, he had another episode where he couldn’t breathe.
He says he was given Benadryl and some other drugs and that when he woke up around 4:45 a.m., it was “like nothing ever happened.”
He’s since had no fever or pain and can breathe again. Giardinieri said doctors believe the episodes he experienced were not a reaction to the medicine but his body fighting off the virus.*
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@dogmeat no shit! Unnecessary, and super-close proximity to people
laugh it up, my friend just layed all her staff off and is close to shutting her salon, because people are cancelling their appointments hand over fist
whoa, I'm definitely not laughing - just not sure that this should be deemed essential if this shutdown is as necessary as the authorities are telling us it is.
Its a deadset disaster for stacks of people, nothing funny about it
as i said, we are not at "essential services" stage yet. The government has been very clear about that. What they have shut down are places where lots of people congregate. The full lock down is coming, probably this week. And then the beauty shops will go too.
However that hasn't stopped people taking themselves away from the salon, with good reason.
so, to your original point, Australia isn't classing hair salons as "essential" they are just not places where lots of people get together under the same roof.
Seems ScoMo has closed the loophole!
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So the measures here are little tighter than announced Sunday, particularly weddings (celebrant, couple, witnesses) and funerals (max 10) but then it gets confusing...
You're not allowed to congregate outside in groups of 10 UNLESS you're a personal trainer in which case 10 is fine as long as you observe the distancing rules of 1.5m
Beauty treatments are out BUT barbers/hairdressers are fine IF the appointment is 30 minutes.
Adult entertainment venues: out.
The press conference is much like Sunday's - confusing as fuck. But then I don't expect much else from this lot.
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@pakman said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@dogmeat no shit! Unnecessary, and super-close proximity to people
laugh it up, my friend just layed all her staff off and is close to shutting her salon, because people are cancelling their appointments hand over fist
whoa, I'm definitely not laughing - just not sure that this should be deemed essential if this shutdown is as necessary as the authorities are telling us it is.
Its a deadset disaster for stacks of people, nothing funny about it
as i said, we are not at "essential services" stage yet. The government has been very clear about that. What they have shut down are places where lots of people congregate. The full lock down is coming, probably this week. And then the beauty shops will go too.
However that hasn't stopped people taking themselves away from the salon, with good reason.
so, to your original point, Australia isn't classing hair salons as "essential" they are just not places where lots of people get together under the same roof.
Seems ScoMo has closed the loophole!
Dunno that seemed soft actually. We're getting a very drawn out lock down. I think they really want to get to the school holidays
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
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@NTA said in Coronavirus - Overall:
(loud, inconsiderate HR people who will spend all fucking day talking about nothing, but tell senior managers they saw you drinking a coffee for 10 minutes and what is up with that? etc).
Is that really a thing at your office??? Fucking HR time police narks watching you like a hawk?
That's extraordinary in this day and age. That's the stuff of law firms 5-10 years ago.
It still happens in law firms, mate
You can't take as many breaks as you want, provided you hit your targets?
Sure, but when you're not hitting your targets (which can be quite often over the course of a year, even if you hit your target at the end of the year) people tend to keep an eye on you
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - Overall:
This is gold. Watch until the very end with the sound on.
I think you'll find that's a Welsh 'shut the fuck up'
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@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus - Overall:
I think you'll find that's a Welsh 'shut the fuck up'
Nid oedd yn saesneg?
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@NTA said in Coronavirus - Overall:
So the measures here are little tighter than announced Sunday, particularly weddings (celebrant, couple, witnesses) and funerals (max 10) but then it gets confusing...
You're not allowed to congregate outside in groups of 10 UNLESS you're a personal trainer in which case 10 is fine as long as you observe the distancing rules of 1.5m
Beauty treatments are out BUT barbers/hairdressers are fine IF the appointment is 30 minutes.
Adult entertainment venues: out.
The press conference is much like Sunday's - confusing as fuck. But then I don't expect much else from this lot.
I thought Sundays was very clear. Today's was a mess
My mate's theory is they are staggering this to ease the burden on Centrelink. It has merit.
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
My mate's theory is they are staggering this to ease the burden on Centrelink. It has merit.
Centrelink is already overwhelmed, so they can't even do that right.
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
My mate's theory is they are staggering this to ease the burden on Centrelink. It has merit.
Centrelink is already overwhelmed, so they can't even do that right.
So imagine it if all the non essential retail workers turned up tomorrow?
But who knows. I just don't get it.
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I went into Watches of Switzerland this afternoon to pick up an order and the shopping centre was sparsely populated. Some shops had closed too - Apple, Nescafe etc. doors shut, lights off and a note on the door.
The scenes captured yesterday are really worrying and if you're in an affected industry it must be terrifying.
That's the queue at Surrey Hills Sydney. The MyGov website crashed because they thought 55,000 concurrent users would be sufficient capacity whereas 95,000 tried to log on.
State and Federal governments are making this up as they go along. Terrified of their own incompetence after a cruise ship of all things docked and the sick wandered off into the populace.
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Overall:
I went into Watches of Switzerland this afternoon to pick up an order and the shopping centre was sparsely populated. Some shops had closed too - Apple, Nescafe etc. doors shut, lights off and a note on the door.
The scenes captured yesterday are really worrying and if you're in an affected industry it must be terrifying.
That's the queue at Surrey Hills Sydney. The MyGov website crashed because they thought 55,000 concurrent users would be sufficient capacity whereas 95,000 tried to log on.
State and Federal governments are making this up as they go along. Terrified of their own incompetence after a cruise ship of all things docked and the sick wandered off into the populace.
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Tubeway blues.
Put police at the stations or we'll WALKOUT! Tfl staff demand Sadiq Khan takes control of public transport farce or they will strike after Tube, trains and buses are STILL rammed on day one of Britain's shutdown
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@Salacious-Crumb Love it. Threat of strike action during these strange times.
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Anyone heard of symptoms of loss of smell and taste? Two colleagues are off with usual viral symptoms one has lost smell and taste and apparently its a symptom of covid19??
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@R-L said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Anyone heard of symptoms of loss of smell and taste? Two colleagues are off with usual viral symptoms one has lost smell and taste and apparently its a symptom of covid19??
According to Gary Linneker, if you can't taste Walker's Salt n' Vinegar Crisps you've got it.
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@Salacious-Crumb said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Tubeway blues.
Put police at the stations or we'll WALKOUT! Tfl staff demand Sadiq Khan takes control of public transport farce or they will strike after Tube, trains and buses are STILL rammed on day one of Britain's shutdown
As Heath Secretary intimated: Sadiq Khan 'go' and DO your [insert expletive] job and run a full service. What a fluffybunny.
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