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McLaren pulls out of this weekend's race. I get the feeling we're not going to see a lot of sport over the next few months.
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
McLaren pulls out of this weekend's race. I get the feeling we're not going to see a lot of sport over the next few months.
How long before Super rugby and the Chappell Hadlee series is affected?
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@canefan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@antipodean said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
McLaren pulls out of this weekend's race. I get the feeling we're not going to see a lot of sport over the next few months.
How long before Super rugby and the Chappell Hadlee series is affected?
I give it two weeks tops.
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@canefan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@antipodean said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
McLaren pulls out of this weekend's race. I get the feeling we're not going to see a lot of sport over the next few months.
How long before Super rugby and the Chappell Hadlee series is affected?
I give it two weeks tops.
The word I have is that things are worsening in Oz, what are you hearing? I just cancelled a class reunion I was organizing in Sydney for May, too much bad juju right now and no end in sight
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@canefan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@antipodean said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@canefan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@antipodean said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
McLaren pulls out of this weekend's race. I get the feeling we're not going to see a lot of sport over the next few months.
How long before Super rugby and the Chappell Hadlee series is affected?
I give it two weeks tops.
The word I have is that things are worsening in Oz, what are you hearing? I just cancelled a class reunion I was organizing in Sydney for May, too much bad juju right now and no end in sight
Every State and Territory now has confirmed cases. We've left our border open for too long, so numbers are only going to climb as people infect others, feel sick and then wander off to the hospital.
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@canefan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@antipodean said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
McLaren pulls out of this weekend's race. I get the feeling we're not going to see a lot of sport over the next few months.
How long before Super rugby and the Chappell Hadlee series is affected?
Interesting discussion with one of the UK government advisers on TV last night.
Their view is that it could be more dangerous to cancel events in the open air as people will then migrate to clubs, bars etc and spread the virus even more - particularly in winter. It's a fine judgement call apparently and very dependent on the weather.
Personally, I'm going to order a case of '02 Barossa Shiraz & one of Chateau Musar '01 and wait this thing out...
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@canefan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@antipodean said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
McLaren pulls out of this weekend's race. I get the feeling we're not going to see a lot of sport over the next few months.
How long before Super rugby and the Chappell Hadlee series is affected?
Interesting discussion with one of the UK government advisers on TV last night.
Their view is that it could be more dangerous to cancel events in the open air as people will then migrate to clubs, bars etc and spread the virus even more - particularly in winter. It's a fine judgement call apparently and very dependent on the weather.
Personally, I'm going to order a case of '02 Barossa Shiraz & one of Chateau Musar '01 and wait this thing out...
Lots of home time I reckon. Why chance it
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@canefan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@antipodean said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@canefan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@antipodean said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
McLaren pulls out of this weekend's race. I get the feeling we're not going to see a lot of sport over the next few months.
How long before Super rugby and the Chappell Hadlee series is affected?
I give it two weeks tops.
The word I have is that things are worsening in Oz, what are you hearing? I just cancelled a class reunion I was organizing in Sydney for May, too much bad juju right now and no end in sight
Every State and Territory now has confirmed cases. We've left our border open for too long, so numbers are only going to climb as people infect others, feel sick and then wander off to the hospital.
In NZ the whole self quarantine thing seems to be going well so far once the initial panic died down. Patients at our clinic are being told not to enter the building if they have covid 19 symptoms, to call and warn ahead so they can be isolated appropriately. The risk of infecting the staff and therefore forcing closure of facilities is real. A GP down the road had to close up and is in the middle of a 14 day quarantine because he came into contact with NZ case #2. And 40 nurses from North Shore hospital in Auckland were forced to self quarantine for a similar reason. So far we have held stable on 6 cases for 4 days. But doctors in our clinic are bracing themselves for the worst.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@canefan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@antipodean said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
McLaren pulls out of this weekend's race. I get the feeling we're not going to see a lot of sport over the next few months.
How long before Super rugby and the Chappell Hadlee series is affected?
Interesting discussion with one of the UK government advisers on TV last night.
Their view is that it could be more dangerous to cancel events in the open air as people will then migrate to clubs, bars etc and spread the virus even more - particularly in winter. It's a fine judgement call apparently and very dependent on the weather.
Personally, I'm going to order a case of '02 Barossa Shiraz & one of Chateau Musar '01 and wait this thing out...
So, you're anticipating this to be a short term thing?
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@Catogrande said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
So, you're anticipating this to be a short term thing?
10 days max...
No, I think we'll be peaking until end March here and I'm going to be following the government's advice.
Actually quite impressed at how it's been handled so far by the politicians (all sides) and public officials. Seem to have a plan in place, good information being given out and letting the experts take centre stage.
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@canefan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Patients at our clinic are being told not to enter the building if they have covid 19 symptoms, to call and warn ahead so they can be isolated appropriately.
Had a txt from our GP surgery yesterday saying pretty much the same thing.
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Blimey, Boris seems to be taking the sit back and let the people get sick.
I have to admit, there is actually quite a lot of logic in this. Ireland panics and closes the schools causing untold amounts of disruption to everywhere. UK says kids don't really get that sick with it, science says no need to do anything.
Who do you believe?
I wouldn't have a clue.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback So plunging the world into recession is a good idea - how? Trump's playing his normal it's all Johnny Foreigner's fault card, when basically the US has had a pitiful response to COVID-19.
The travel ban is pointless anyway - it won't contain the virus in the US but is already causing financial chaos
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback So plunging the world into recession is a good idea - how? Trump's playing his normal it's all Johnny Foreigner's fault card, when basically the US has had a pitiful response to COVID-19.
The travel ban is pointless anyway - it won't contain the virus in the US but is already causing financial chaos
I'm guessing he's playing to his audience, the US voter. Mind you the financial meltdown that's happening might come back to bite him.
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@Catogrande That or it's part of his grand covfefe strategy.
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback So plunging the world into recession is a good idea - how? Trump's playing his normal it's all Johnny Foreigner's fault card, when basically the US has had a pitiful response to COVID-19.
The travel ban is pointless anyway - it won't contain the virus in the US but is already causing financial chaos
So Trump is to blame for the virus.. cool story.
Travel ban is pointless? Ok... but i ahve heard form experts that apparently travel bans are necessary... andother say they are unnecessary, so I dont know. But I guess it was easy for you, as soon as Trump did it.. it was bad and pointless and xenophobic. If he hadnt done it, I presume you would have thought they were a great idea and Trump was dithering callous and incompetent.
The claim of xenophobia is particularly amusing. So many countries have put in travel bans ...but Trump is the xenophobic one? riiiight.
And then in the same post you say that the US has had a pitiful response to the virus? Of course you think that... Trump is president. Eveb Democrat governors have admitted that the federal govt has performed well in this, it is just the Trump hating media who has claimed they have done badly. Of course it is becoming obvious that no govt can contain this easily.Trump plunging thw world into recessions.... not the chinese who unleashed it, not the atual virus, not other other countries reactions, not individual decsons of people ... its all on Trump.
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@MajorRage said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Blimey, Boris seems to be taking the sit back and let the people get sick.
I have to admit, there is actually quite a lot of logic in this. Ireland panics and closes the schools causing untold amounts of disruption to everywhere. UK says kids don't really get that sick with it, science says no need to do anything.
Who do you believe?
I wouldn't have a clue.
Boris's medical advisors explained that shutting schools will actually increase the risk as hygiene can be enforced in schools and kids sent home will mix more with grandparents and older people, which makes sense.
The whole strategy was explained at the presser as flattening and extending the peak to mid-May as that's the best way to beat it and the timing of interventions is, in their view, critical.
Was surprised the problem will take so long to control - they talked on many, many months.