Coronavirus - Australia
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Australia:
well well well
I was so very happy to not hear from this woman for so long
but look, here she fucking is, announcing a new "Covid wave" and we are moving to an amber setting. this means fuck all as it is a set of guidelines. Wear masks and shit. Fuck off, Covid is dead lady, absolutely no one cares. I will also not be getting the 5th jab (i didn't get the 4th either).
The WHO were out today warning everyone this hasn't gone away. This is despite world wide weekly deaths from Covid, as of last week, being 9,400. Just to put that number in to context. 1.3 million people die every week in the world.
Fuck off fluffybunnies, no one cares.
Only yesterday:
In the parlance of the twitterverse; she's a cooker.
More a boiler
FFS is anyone going to take this seriously?
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Covid was absolutely perfect for some people
They could loudly and publicly show just how much they care for others, and what they are willing to sacrifice to help them
by literally staying at home and doing nothing. It was absolutely peak slacktivism
And that's very hard to let go of.
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@mariner4life thoughts and prayers. One like = one care.
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bloody covid finally caught me, was too fast for it and avoided it for over 3 years...it sucks, never needed 4 days off work/working from home before
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@Kiwiwomble said in Coronavirus - Australia:
bloody covid finally caught me, was too fast for it and avoided it for over 3 years...it sucks, never needed 4 days off work/working from home before
doesn't seem like you've needed 4 days off the Fern though mate...
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@Kiwiwomble said in Coronavirus - Australia:
bloody covid finally caught me, was too fast for it and avoided it for over 3 years...it sucks, never needed 4 days off work/working from home before
doesn't seem like you've needed 4 days off the Fern though mate...
Sure sign I had COVID/ got locked down was the spike in my posts, and the generally more angry tone of the content!
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Any one else get the feeling there are people out there desperate for COVID to be a thing again?
The ABC this morning were breathlessly reporting an aged car facility in teh NT on lockdown was a third of the residents tested positive.
The devil was in the detail, with most showing no symptoms at all, and one being take to hospital for observation only.Just for some form of comparison, 194 people have died of the regular flu this year, on the back of 2,500 hospital admissions. Zero ABC reporters outside hospitals.
the cynic in me thinks there are a bunch of people hoping they can go back to being paid to stay home and do fuck all
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Australia:
he cynic in me thinks there are a bunch of people hoping they can go back to being paid to stay home and do fuck all
that worked reallllly well last time
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@mariner4life I do wonder how compliant the public would have been had the mandates been if you were forced to do a 40 hour work-week and had to go outside and exercise for an hour a day.
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Australia:
Any one else get the feeling there are people out there desperate for COVID to be a thing again?
The ABC this morning were breathlessly reporting an aged car facility in teh NT on lockdown was a third of the residents tested positive.
The devil was in the detail, with most showing no symptoms at all, and one being take to hospital for observation only.Just for some form of comparison, 194 people have died of the regular flu this year, on the back of 2,500 hospital admissions. Zero ABC reporters outside hospitals.
the cynic in me thinks there are a bunch of people hoping they can go back to being paid to stay home and do fuck all
i think it might just as much be a case of a reporter trying to get clicks, my grandma had her home "lockdown" before and after COVID when they had gastro or the flu rolling through them...ie just no visitors for a while...but wasnt in the news
COVID is just on that list of illnesses now...but you can test for it so can give it a name rather than just "something going around"
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@mariner4life in saying that though...i have had people in my team tell me they dont want to come back to the office because when they work from home they can cook, and do washing, take breaks, go for a run etc...ie...not fucking working
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@Kiwiwomble said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@mariner4life in saying that though...i have had people in my team tell me they dont want to come back to the office because when they work from home they can cook, and do washing, take breaks, go for a run etc...ie...not fucking working
@voodoo i'll send up your bat signal on this one
i hate work from home. Home is for home, not work. I also lack the self discipline. I would be even less productive than i am here.
The WFH thing is a fucking nightmare from a management perspective. I fucking hate it. And it's making people even more shut in
Fucking COVID
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@mariner4life yeah, the "im more productive from home" argument is crumbling for lost of people (i know there are some thats true for)...but huge blow outs on jobs thats can directly be blamed on things like not being able to quick ask a question from the person next too you, or standing around the same screen to explain a problem
but the lack of irony when they say they prefer to work from home because they do less work is amazing
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I reckon I spent more time in Europe this year than in the office.
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@mariner4life I wasn't paying attention but on 3 this morning they were talking about covid, unsure what about, but first time I had heard it mentioned for ages...
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Anecdotal stuff, but in the last month I've had about 6 people in my circle come down with COVID, Mrs TA included. And they got hit hard, every one - all vacinnated. No word on whatever variant we're up to, but very few people reporting "just the sniffles".
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@Kiwiwomble said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@mariner4life ... huge blow outs on jobs thats can directly be blamed on things like not being able to quick ask a question from the person next too you, or standing around the same screen to explain a problem
Ah. You mean "all those fluffybunnies who come up to my desk and interrupt me with something that could have been done in an email, while I'm trying to solve actual problems through complex and brilliant code".
FUCK going into the office. The only benefit is the hot chicks and decent coffee. And my coffee machine goes alright.
The hot chicks factor is offset egregiously by having to put on long pants.
I get that some people need the social contact, and particularly those who are herding idiots need to have said idiots in their presence. I understand @mariner4life for example as a people-intensive business.
That aside, the people in corporate crying for it most loudly appear to be those with signficant investments in commercial real estate, or middle managers who have realised their entire job is meetings for the sake of meetings, not actual productive work.
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@NTA said in Coronavirus - Australia:
Anecdotal stuff, but in the last month I've had about 6 people in my circle come down with COVID, Mrs TA included. And they got hit hard, every one - all vacinnated. No word on whatever variant we're up to, but very few people reporting "just the sniffles".
Sounds like a good study for an inquiring mind.