Coronavirus - Overall
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - Overall:
This is gold. Watch until the very end with the sound on.
I think you'll find that's a Welsh 'shut the fuck up'
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@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus - Overall:
I think you'll find that's a Welsh 'shut the fuck up'
Nid oedd yn saesneg?
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@NTA said in Coronavirus - Overall:
So the measures here are little tighter than announced Sunday, particularly weddings (celebrant, couple, witnesses) and funerals (max 10) but then it gets confusing...
You're not allowed to congregate outside in groups of 10 UNLESS you're a personal trainer in which case 10 is fine as long as you observe the distancing rules of 1.5m
Beauty treatments are out BUT barbers/hairdressers are fine IF the appointment is 30 minutes.
Adult entertainment venues: out.
The press conference is much like Sunday's - confusing as fuck. But then I don't expect much else from this lot.
I thought Sundays was very clear. Today's was a mess
My mate's theory is they are staggering this to ease the burden on Centrelink. It has merit.
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
My mate's theory is they are staggering this to ease the burden on Centrelink. It has merit.
Centrelink is already overwhelmed, so they can't even do that right.
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
My mate's theory is they are staggering this to ease the burden on Centrelink. It has merit.
Centrelink is already overwhelmed, so they can't even do that right.
So imagine it if all the non essential retail workers turned up tomorrow?
But who knows. I just don't get it.
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I went into Watches of Switzerland this afternoon to pick up an order and the shopping centre was sparsely populated. Some shops had closed too - Apple, Nescafe etc. doors shut, lights off and a note on the door.
The scenes captured yesterday are really worrying and if you're in an affected industry it must be terrifying.
That's the queue at Surrey Hills Sydney. The MyGov website crashed because they thought 55,000 concurrent users would be sufficient capacity whereas 95,000 tried to log on.
State and Federal governments are making this up as they go along. Terrified of their own incompetence after a cruise ship of all things docked and the sick wandered off into the populace.
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Overall:
I went into Watches of Switzerland this afternoon to pick up an order and the shopping centre was sparsely populated. Some shops had closed too - Apple, Nescafe etc. doors shut, lights off and a note on the door.
The scenes captured yesterday are really worrying and if you're in an affected industry it must be terrifying.
That's the queue at Surrey Hills Sydney. The MyGov website crashed because they thought 55,000 concurrent users would be sufficient capacity whereas 95,000 tried to log on.
State and Federal governments are making this up as they go along. Terrified of their own incompetence after a cruise ship of all things docked and the sick wandered off into the populace.
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Tubeway blues.
Put police at the stations or we'll WALKOUT! Tfl staff demand Sadiq Khan takes control of public transport farce or they will strike after Tube, trains and buses are STILL rammed on day one of Britain's shutdown
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@Salacious-Crumb Love it. Threat of strike action during these strange times.
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Anyone heard of symptoms of loss of smell and taste? Two colleagues are off with usual viral symptoms one has lost smell and taste and apparently its a symptom of covid19??
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@R-L said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Anyone heard of symptoms of loss of smell and taste? Two colleagues are off with usual viral symptoms one has lost smell and taste and apparently its a symptom of covid19??
According to Gary Linneker, if you can't taste Walker's Salt n' Vinegar Crisps you've got it.
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@Salacious-Crumb said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Tubeway blues.
Put police at the stations or we'll WALKOUT! Tfl staff demand Sadiq Khan takes control of public transport farce or they will strike after Tube, trains and buses are STILL rammed on day one of Britain's shutdown
As Heath Secretary intimated: Sadiq Khan 'go' and DO your [insert expletive] job and run a full service. What a fluffybunny.
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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
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@Bones said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Not sure if this goes here or the fitness thread.
Absolutely speechless.
Probably the memes thread.
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Bones said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Not sure if this goes here or the fitness thread.
Absolutely speechless.
Health Minister.
Although it does appear she is actually the Health Minister, even if the rest is satirical.
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
In Australia hairdressers (and beauticians) are being deemed essential.
Limited to half hour appointments.
Nail salons and beauticians canned.
Mrs Boo thinks we're going to be very shabby looking zombies.
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I started my public service career in the Inland Revenue call centre - I was good at that, but it's basically the work equivalent of a battery farm. A lot of call centre theory and practices come from the USA, where it turns out most of the strictness is about having the ability to fire people for cause, either to avoid having to contribute to the unemployment benefits, or to avoid paying benefits like health insurance.