Coronavirus - Australia
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@canefan said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@barbarian the curfew doesn't make sense. If you have a valid excuse why not be allowed to travel around after hours?
But also some people want to minimise their pandemic risk and do their shopping after hours when the supermarket is quieter. Or exercise after hours when the park is quieter.
Seems weird to force those people into riskier behaviour.
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@barbarian said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@canefan said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@barbarian the curfew doesn't make sense. If you have a valid excuse why not be allowed to travel around after hours?
But also some people want to minimise their pandemic risk and do their shopping after hours when the supermarket is quieter. Or exercise after hours when the park is quieter.
Seems weird to force those people into riskier behaviour.
For sure. When we were in lockdown I preferred to do the supermarket shop at odd times, like 8 or 9pm at night
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@canefan although for a period ours started to close earlier and open later to allow staff more time to re-stock shelves.
Yup. I always waited until just before close or first thing to minimise traffic
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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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The curfew just seems to make no sense and smacks of a govt who are panicked and want to look "decisive".
Same with the confusion over definitions etc. They act as though this has caught them on the hop and hasn't been escalating for a month.
It appears like every plan has been made in isolation from the others i.e. we will do this and we'll be right Oh Fuck and then they start planning what to do next rather than Plan A, B, C etc You can argue the pro's and cons of what happened in NZ but we did have a very simple easily understood plan laid out and that was a big part in getting the population to buy in. Sure there were inevitable issues but it all seemed very measured.
As opposed to
Good luck Victoria.
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as an indicator of how serious this is, it is expected 1 in 7 people in Victoria (or melbourne, i can't remember which) will be out of a job by next week.
This will be a bitter pill to swallow. Businesses that already got through 2 months of no turnover, then 2 months of limited turnover, now have to shut the doors again. The toll that will take on people will be enormous.
Also people can't exist on limited wages indefinitely. We're already at 4 months, Victorians will be for months and months after this.
And just to muddy the waters, the WHO have now come out and said there may never be a vaccine, ad certainly won't be a silver bullet vaccine that gets us all out of this. So how does that affect government thinking?
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Australia:
the WHO have now come out and said there may never be a vaccine, ad certainly won't be a silver bullet vaccine that gets us all out of this. So how does that affect government thinking?
yep, governments need to be looking at a plan to live WITH the Virus.
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Australia:
the WHO have now come out and said there may never be a vaccine, ad certainly won't be a silver bullet vaccine that gets us all out of this. So how does that affect government thinking?
yep, governments need to be looking at a plan to live WITH the Virus.
good luck changing that narrative in Australasia.
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@mariner4life or NZ, but it is a sad reality.
I think it is only a matter of time before it gets back out in NZ, we have been very lucky so far with the breaches we have had.
Maybe Govt's are banking on something being available by year end, if not, then re-evaluate?
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@mariner4life or NZ, but it is a sad reality.
I think it is only a matter of time before it gets back out in NZ, we have been very lucky so far with the breaches we have had.
Maybe Govt's are banking on something being available by year end, if not, then re-evaluate?
when's your election?
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@mariner4life September?
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@Kiwiwomble said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@mariner4life at least the Highlanders are wi....oh...at least the swans are wi....never mind
I got a rare treble last weekend - Crusaders, Saints, Warriors - that latter is what makes it rare...
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@mariner4life September?
so i would imagine a change in tact in October then
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@ACT-Crusader said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@Kiwiwomble said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@mariner4life at least the Highlanders are wi....oh...at least the swans are wi....never mind
I got a rare treble last weekend - Crusaders, Saints, Warriors - that latter two is what makes it rare...
FTFY
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@mariner4life 3rd on the ladder with a healthy percentage thank you very much. And I can’t even take my 6yo who asks me, are we going to be able to watch the Saints Dad?
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@mariner4life possibly, if Labour stay in, I'm not sure they have a plan or if thier plan is the status quo...
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@ACT-Crusader said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@mariner4life 3rd on the ladder with a healthy percentage thank you very much. And I can’t even take my 6yo who asks me, are we going to be able to watch the Saints Dad?
2020 is a fucking weird year...