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@booboo said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@NTA said in Coronavirus - Australia:
What's a measly $60b ...
Fucken beer money.
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@NTA said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@booboo said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@NTA said in Coronavirus - Australia:
What's a measly $60b ...
Fucken beer money.
I'm struggling to understand how this is resulting in the usual dipshits taking a potshot at the Government? Govt estimates were based on the initial registrations, lots of people either fucked those up, or have not taken up the scheme, something you wouldn't know until the April reports were submitted in the 1st and 2nd week of May.
This is also a good thing. That's $60B of government money that's not being spent.
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@NTA A reporting error? That makes it sound like someone else's problem, rather than the clowns doing the modelling. How hard is it to look at the actual outgoings?
The outgoings only happened 2 weeks ago
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@NTA A reporting error? That makes it sound like someone else's problem, rather than the clowns doing the modelling. How hard is it to look at the actual outgoings?
Agreed.
The question really is: "How fucking hard is it to punch the headline tax return figures from ATO database into something marginally better than a spreadsheet, and query who would qualify as a rough number"?
On the plus side, at least we're not bankrupting future generations quite as hard as before
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@NTA A reporting error? That makes it sound like someone else's problem, rather than the clowns doing the modelling. How hard is it to look at the actual outgoings?
The outgoings only happened 2 weeks ago
DHS knows instantly how much it pumps out in every run. Perhaps the ATO and Treasury muppets could've asked...
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@mariner4life and $60B us taxpayers wont have to pay back
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@Nevorian said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@mariner4life and $60B us taxpayers wont have to pay back
Leader of the Opposition on ABC this morning complaining about that. Kept mentioning supporting the arts and entertainment industries. Newsflash Albo; most of them were on the dole before this. You need a job to be eligible for jobkeeper.
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@Nevorian said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@mariner4life and $60B us taxpayers wont have to pay back
Leader of the Opposition on ABC this morning complaining about that. Kept mentioning supporting the arts and entertainment industries. Newsflash Albo; most of them were on the dole before this. You need a job to be eligible for jobkeeper.
You know shit is going okay when the opposition suddenly reappear making retarded statements to stay relevant
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It's concerning, if these women were indeed infected 10 weeks, respectively two months, ago and got sick so long after exposure. How many people are walking around with inactive viruses and may fall ill later? And how long do these people stay contagious?
A passenger of the Ruby Princess who tested positive to coronavirus is suspected to have carried the "dormant" virus for almost 10 weeks before falling ill. The woman was diagnosed in Cairns on Monday, taking the total number of Queensland cases to 1057, with just 12 remaining active. Authorities suspect she is the latest coronavirus case to have carried the inactive virus and become sick weeks after exposure. Last week another woman in Queensland was diagnosed two months after returning from India. "We are monitoring that very closely to work out if it's directly related to the Ruby Princess or if it was acquired in some other way," Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk told reporters today. A spokesperson for the health minister told AAP the woman had returned a negative result after a recent test and it was not possible she was contagious since she left the ship on March 19.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/woman-ruby-princess-cruise-ship-likely-carried-virus-10-weeks
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ABC program Four Corners did something on Ruby Princess. The shorts looked like a publicly funded Today Tonight.
It does seem at odds with the data coming out of everywhere else I've read that people can be infected and not have an issue for months.
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Have made a few forays into the real world, even had dinner at a restaurant on Friday night. Brekky at a cafe on Sunday.
My initial observations are that most restaurants/cafes will probably survive, but it's casual staff that will feel the impact. The 10-50 person limit means that a place can operate as normal, but there will be a much lower need for waiters/bartenders.
They are the last ones who will be rehired, and I imagine that will be the case right across the retail/hospo/tourism sector, which will be the last sectors themselves to come back.
If I were the Government I'd be thinking about greater support for those 18-25 year olds who may be at uni or TAFE, who pay rent/fees by pulling beers or waiting tables. I can see it having a big impact on the rental market as many will just move back in with their parents, or downsize, or crash on someone's couch.
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have had a bit of "normalcy" over the past few days
Back working from the office full time with the kids back in school
Had friends over for drinks on the weekend
The wife and I went out for lunch on Monday as well. First time in a restaurant since Feb!
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Local shopping centre has come back to life progressively over the last two weeks. Every fluffybunny ignoring social distancing so I've started loudly saying "ONE POINT FIVE METRES THANKS" once I get the shits, which is about 3 people in. Fuck 'em.
Still about 30% of retailers shut, and the ones that are open have big signs up about number of customers.
We won't be back to normal until Bunnings are running Sausage Sizzles again.
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@NTA said in Coronavirus - Australia:
Local shopping centre has come back to life progressively over the last two weeks. Every fluffybunny ignoring social distancing so I've started loudly saying "ONE POINT FIVE METRES THANKS" once I get the shits, which is about 3 people in. Fuck 'em.
Still about 30% of retailers shut, and the ones that are open have big signs up about number of customers.
We won't be back to normal until Bunnings are running Sausage Sizzles again.
I'm the opposite TBH. Anyone who wants in my zone, I'm stoked. I'm good for high 5's, shoulder/chest bumps, random hugs.
Social dustuncing (best NZ accent there) is over for me.
Had lunch out today, can't have been more than 60cm from 2 ladies at the next table, who also didnt care. We needed a photo, the waitress happily took one on our phone.
Time to get back to normal.
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