Coronavirus - Overall
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@canefan hopefully we see a coming together and stocism the Brits were renowned for in the WWs.
I've seen numerous FB pages and lots of people offering to help the local community out (from my little village to Whangarei to Northland)
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@canefan hopefully we see a coming together and stocism the Brits were famous for in the WWs.
I've seen numerous FB pages and lots of people offering to help the local community out (from my little village to Whangarei to Northland)
Yeah, lots of apartment buildings in Oz are looking after the older folk in the complexes.
@Siam I saw some obedient shit in Thailand but that was more due to the military presence than community spirit ... I rode a bus from Bangkok to Cambodian border and we got stopped three times and all the Thais obediently hopped off while the 6 of us westerners were told to stay on the bus. I think it was during election time. But I expect you wouldn't even notice that stuff after living there.
Then I got to the Cambodian border and had to almost fight my way out of one of those dodgy fake border visa places and then do the old slip some dollars in the passport to the actual Cambodian border guards.
It was all very exciting in hindsight although I've never been comfortable seeing tiny dudes with assault rifles almost as large as them.
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@canefan hopefully we see a coming together and stocism the Brits were renowned for in the WWs.
I've seen numerous FB pages and lots of people offering to help the local community out (from my little village to Whangarei to Northland)
I hope so. At the moment there's just been to much mememememe shit
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@taniwharugby I have a feeling he was meaning people being selfish and talking about themselves not funny memes. I could be wrong of course.
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surreal and sad day, even though i have known it was coming eventually for at least a week
booze is the answer.
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@taniwharugby haha! You read it how I read it at first then. Not me-me-me-me-me.
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
surreal and sad day, even though i have known it was coming eventually for at least a week
booze is the answer.
HK has just banned the sale of booze.
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UK update ... so Matt Hancock (Health sec) goes on GMB to face Piers this morning. Piers has been arguably the most outspoken critic of the Govt handling, so this was always going to be fiery.
However, it was a complete let down. Piers, as I should have expected, didn't allow Hancock to answer one single question. Just continued to shout over the top of him with his thoughts / comments and tried to get Hancock to lose his rag. Credit to Hancock, he didn't, although he at times could have chosen his words better.
The government generally won't go on GMB, and I suspect that stance is only going to get stronger. I'll give an example ...
Piers was going on about NHS staff not going the PPE they need. Hancock said they have over a million kits to distribute, are doing it now, with the Army's help. So Piers then interrupts half way through to say the WHO warned about this in Jan, why is this only being done now ... and then continued on for about 30 more seconds on his own view. Now that is a fair question, but Hancock simply was never allowed to answer it.
So there you go. A man who I've stuck up for over the last two years quite strongly and I've been proven wrong. It's about him and nobody else.
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@MajorRage said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
surreal and sad day, even though i have known it was coming eventually for at least a week
booze is the answer.
HK has just banned the sale of booze.
Fuck off, that's not funny man.
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@Donsteppa said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Not sure how this will play out for Harvey Norman and co once there is a shut down. but for now in Oz:
Harvey Norman sales soar as home offices boom in the pandemic
I'd say 12% increase in sales with a 3% fall in share price tells a pretty accurate story of longer term projections.
It's scary out there. I thought about buying MQG today, cos if any bastards know how to capitalise on a crisis, its them. Then they fell fell 15% again today and I wimped out, because who the fck knows where this bottom is?
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@Rembrandt said in Coronavirus - Overall:
I don't like this
Are we potentially looking at food delivery places closing? I would have thought having a few key McDonalds open with uber eats delivery would do pretty well in this situation. I got uber eats last night and saw an option for the first time 'Leave at the door' seems logical.
I think we are looking at lock-down today.
Because selfish fucktards are using every excuse to carry on as normal despite what's being said over and over, day after day. The London Tube was as packed as ever today, according to newspaper reports. Apparently the excuse given is the government has been "unclear", though what's unclear about "stay at home, if you need fresh air or need to get food or medicine, stay at last 2m away from other people. Don't travel unless it is absolutely necessary" is beyond me.
They closed a forest near us yesterday for the first time ever as they were concerned the number of cars arriving was dangerous, FFS
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@Victor-Meldrew It's strange how different opinions on the success or otherwise of adherence to the "don't travel unless necessary" message manifest themselves.
This is an acquaintances train ride in:
Perhaps tube users are different. LOL
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Rembrandt said in Coronavirus - Overall:
I don't like this
Are we potentially looking at food delivery places closing? I would have thought having a few key McDonalds open with uber eats delivery would do pretty well in this situation. I got uber eats last night and saw an option for the first time 'Leave at the door' seems logical.
I think we are looking at lock-down today.
Because selfish fucktards are using every excuse to carry on as normal despite what's being said over and over, day after day. The London Tube was as packed as ever today, according to newspaper reports. Apparently the excuse given is the government has been "unclear", though what's unclear about "stay at home, if you need fresh air or need to get food or medicine, stay at last 2m away from other people. Don't travel unless it is absolutely necessary" is beyond me.
They closed a forest near us yesterday for the first time ever as they were concerned the number of cars arriving was dangerous, FFS
This is the product of unfettered freedoms. People think they have a choice, and that the rules don't apply to them. Pisses me off
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@antipodean yeah my train ride back from Manchester on Wednesday lunchtime (usually busy as on that line) had about 4-5 people in my carriage as opposed to 40-odd. Once I hit the tube (about 3pm) it was very quiet, probably only about 10-15 people in my carriage if that.
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Victor-Meldrew It's strange how different opinions on the success or otherwise of adherence to the "don't travel unless necessary" message manifest themselves.
This is an acquaintances train ride in:
Perhaps tube users are different. LOL
Seems to mainly the Tube then