Coronavirus - Overall
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@Frank The holding the breath test has been called out as incorrect, e.g. https://www.foxnews.com/us/stanford-disowns-breathing-test-claim-for-coronavirus-as-misinformation (among several news sources). Not sure about the rest of the advice. Holding your breath for ten seconds might be a good indication of lung capacity, but says less about any infection.
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@Virgil said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Cairns airport packed. I'm hissing at anyone who comes within 1.5m of me
The stupid prick who confirmed he has the virus flew in from your neck of the woods.
You should have done more to keep him there...I have nothing to do with that shithole
This flight is not that full. Which shows the effect this is having
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Travellers who can't convince border officials they have adequate arrangements for self-isolation could be sent home, Ministry of Health Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield says.
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Has anyone seen anything about the self iso rules and how they relay to transit? I'm flying back to NZ via Sydney, I just assumed I can transit there. Will be a little annoying if I had to iso there first!
They have a transit lounge don't they? I'd imagine you will be kept away from passengers getting off in Oz
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our tough border control....
my neighbour has an Air B'n'B cabin and they had an Israeli couple ask if they can book it for 14 days to isolate themselves!
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@voodoo you seen that Tom Hanks movie?
Terminal or Castaway, take your pick.
Love Terminal, great flick!
I reckon I could happily live at an airport for a couple of months.
Alone at least, not so much with the family.
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I live in Taiwan. We have been wearing masks at our schools for 2 weeks. Annoying but needed. Lots of cleaning protocols, too. The children wear masks all day, even when outside. It helps them stop touching their faces.
The population in general are very obedient to govt. directives and are very worried. They certainly don't have a "she'll be right" attitude towards it.
Taiwanese don't mind cutting down the fun time drastically and are much less invested in leisure needs than Westerners. Because they have much less free time anyway.
I wonder if these cultural differences might make it much more likely for the disease to explode in the West.
Anyway, here is some info' on why (touch wood), Taiwan has been very good at containing the disease so far.
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NZ's IT professionals preventing the Reserve Bank from doing something stupid like negative interest rates, by not being able to handle negative numbers in their systems.
Hooray for the NZ IT professionals.
I mean it.
This governor probably cut his own umbilical chord as a baby.
He cut OCR 50 basis points last year at the threat of a possible well overdue mildest of mild corrections.
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@taniwharugby just so long as it's not Philadelphia
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@chimoaus said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Bill Gates warning us all in 2015, no wonder the guy is a billionaire, he can see into the future.
And he will sell the vaccines to make lots more money out of it, while everyone else goes backwards