Coronavirus - Australia
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One plus side to NOT being able to go on holiday: making a serious dent in the last car loan we took out, over the last few months. On a 5-year term we'll be done around the time we do our tax this year. * The loan opened in April last year.
Extremely lucky we're both in long-term jobs in industries that have been impacted minimally... though the wife's position in Aged Care has become significantly more tense.
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And as soon as we get rid of that loan, time to start saving for my Rivian R1T....
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a33548089/rivian-r1t-electric-pickup-long-way-up-tv/
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@Kiwiwomble said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@NTA similar here, grateful to currently still have work, saving loads from no toll's, tram fare, lunches
And while not going out as much sucks, it is pretty cheap...
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@Kiwiwomble said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@NTA similar here, grateful to currently still have work, saving loads from no toll's, tram fare, lunches
I have no idea where I spend my money normally. I don't have tolls, tram fares, and take my lunch 3 days out of 4. Yet I still saved bucketloads more than normal during Covid - without counting all the various travel/concert refunds either.
The past month, with eased restrictions I appear to be back to my normal spending .
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@Kiwiwomble said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@Nepia beers at home cheaper than the pub? have to enjoy the small silver linings
reports 331 today with another 19 deaths, another comparatively smaller number of new cases which is good
I don't actually drink much ... just the odd beers at gatherings etc. It's most likely eating out I guess.
Good that the case numbers are coming down but I was reading somewhere that the death numbers probably wont see a drop off as there is a roughly 30 day life cycle after infection.
22 new cases in NSW yesterday, including 1 at a school. I'm still bemused but happy that NSW have (so far) not had a massive upswing in cases.
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@Kiwiwomble said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@Nepia and a lot of the deaths are int he aged care facilities where there is obviously less chance of recovery
If I had a grandparent in an aged care facility I'd want to take them out and isolate them in a granny flat out the back (which we would need me to have a back and a granny flat ... and a living granparent).
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The Victoria situation is why the people saying 'we should imply protect the vulnerable and let everyone else live their lives' are misguided IMO.
It's so fkn hard to protect nursing homes from this, it seems. Once it's in the community it's very hard to stop. Even still there are new Victorian nursing homes picking up cases - how could that happen?
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@barbarian said in Coronavirus - Australia:
The Victoria situation is why the people saying 'we should imply protect the vulnerable and let everyone else live their lives' are misguided IMO.
It's so fkn hard to protect nursing homes from this, it seems. Once it's in the community it's very hard to stop. Even still there are new Victorian nursing homes picking up cases - how could that happen?
We get the fittest of the oldies to manage the place, the air force can drop supplies via helicopter.
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the paradox, as i see it, one of the many issues people have with the current lockdown is the inability to visit the elderly in rest homes but "better" management of these rest homes to allow other restrictions to ease would surely mean no one in or out of them other than staff
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@ACT-Crusader said in Coronavirus - Australia:
It goes a long way to explaining what a monumental fuck up it became. I bet there are PS trawling their email archive looking for something that says "isn't there a better qualified department to deal with quarantine?"
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@barbarian whilst it's primarily the elderly and then pre-existing conditions - it's not exclusively so.
Children are also dying from C-19. Just in small numbers.
Increase the number of cases at any one time and younger healthier people are at greater risk of dying
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@Kiwiwomble said in Coronavirus - Australia:
the paradox, as i see it, one of the many issues people have with the current lockdown is the inability to visit the elderly in rest homes but "better" management of these rest homes to allow other restrictions to ease would surely mean no one in or out of them other than staff
I almost wonder if staff become live in
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some of the shit coming out is unbelievable
the NT are closing their borders for 18 fucking months!!!!
I am very close to cancelling my accomodation in Sydney for New Years because that is looking dicey as hell.
We're all in this together my ass.