Coronavirus - Overall
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@booboo said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
@R-L said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
@Bones said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
Ducked to Sainsbury's yesterday. Only beer left that you can buy by the case is Corona. Stacks of it! And well priced too.
I think one of the most worrying things to come out of all this is how thick most of society is.
Anyone wanna buy toilet paper?
Our Sainsburys wasn't too bad apparently, obviously I didn't brave it, think it's timing. No loo Roll though. We've got enough for now.
Wellness check everyone? Feeling OK?
Don't ask me.
Any:
- sniff
- sneeze
- throat clearing
- wooziness (It's 32 deg and I'm in the garden)
- vaguely tickly throat
And I'm consigning myself to the undertaker ...
Fuck this shit ...
Affirmations darling, affirmations...
All is well.
I am healthy.
I am protected.And breathe.
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@Bones said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
Isolation is my default mode. Pig in shit.
You said it
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Australia has lost its fucking mind. NT has decided it's no longer part of the federation by closing its borders and police are threatening to arrest people for not practising social distancing on beaches.
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
Australia has lost its fucking mind. NT has decided it's no longer part of the federation by closing its borders and police are threatening to arrest people for not practising social distancing on beaches.
Huge fears over what this could do if it gets to aboriginal communities in the NT.
Beach goers are in for a rude awakening in a weeks time
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
Australia has lost its fucking mind. NT has decided it's no longer part of the federation by closing its borders and police are threatening to arrest people for not practising social distancing on beaches.
I'm astounded how readily people have accepted these massive restrictions on everyday life.
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Good to see sensible suggestions coming from the public. on Boris Johnson's Twitter feed.......
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
Australia has lost its fucking mind. NT has decided it's no longer part of the federation by closing its borders and police are threatening to arrest people for not practising social distancing on beaches.
These are defacto War Measures, and in a civil emergency — which is what this is — I’m okay with a little enforced “Civil Coordination” of a crowd that Darwin might have used as text book example of natural selection.
There is a contagion changing the behaviour of the planet and putting a lot of us out of work.
I can take 3-6 weeks without an income. What I have no patience for are people who want us to get sick and bleed financially for the next 18 months. This virus requires coordinated action NOW!
Go home and stay put ffs. It’s the least anybody who values their lives, their culture, and their wallets should be doing.
If the beach was getting shelled by missiles or a warning that a massive tsunami was coming, only suicidal idiots would be assembling at the beach. These irresponsible morons are no better than anti-vaxxers, ‘cos there ain’t no vaccine (yet) for this one. I got no problem with a cop taking the keys from a drunk driver.
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But beaches, like urinals, are natural social distancing locations. You put your towel exactly equi-distant between groups.
As for the young:
must be 100s of thousands in Sydney originally from elsewhere with no concern they can infect older loved ones.Myst be loads with social resentment at inflated asset prices, house prices.
Or in jobs they can't afford to self isolate from, crammed into a bus or handling stranger's eftpos cards on the Friday, not allowed to beach on the Saturday.
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@sparky said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
233 deaths now in the UK. Situation even worse in Italy, Spain and France. Grim! Grim! Grim!
Yep pretty grim over there. Hope our UK and European ferners look after themselves and their families.
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Look at this current chart, nearly all countries followed the same pattern. A slow response with gradual measures, did they ever work? It doesn't appear so. Why do any countries including Oz/NZ think they are any different. Lock down seems inevitable, why wait another week or two? All these countries had minimal cases only a month ago.
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@Rapido said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
As for the young:
must be 100s of thousands in Sydney originally from elsewhere with no concern they can infect older loved ones.Some young people aren't covering themselves in glory are they?. Reports here in the UK of them pushing in front of older people during reserved hours for seniors to supermarket shop, others organizing parties in public places like parks.
I'm sure there's loads of great things kids are doing, but sadly, it only takes one retard to infect loads of other, vulnerable people.
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@R-L said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
Our Sainsburys wasn't too bad apparently, obviously I didn't brave it, think it's timing. No loo Roll though. We've got enough for now.
Mrs M's niece is working her way thru Uni and is stacking shelves at Sainsbury's. Doing a Masters in Child Psych. She's learning a lot about crowd behaviour...
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@Victor-Meldrew yea I said earlier, surely there will be a massive disparity in figures as there is unlikely a uniform testing process.
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@Virgil said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
Yep pretty grim over there. Hope our UK and European ferners look after themselves and their families.
It's a weird situation. Country is both socially-isolating and coming together. No real panic - apart from the shopping. Almost a resignation that things need to change for a few months to a year, it's going to get bad, but let's work together make the best of it. Some great stuff going on to help vulnerable people.
Lived here for decades and the Brits seem to have this ability to be ignore each other for years, but when things go wrong they become the best neighbors or fellow commuters you ever had.
Hope it continues.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
@Virgil said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
Yep pretty grim over there. Hope our UK and European ferners look after themselves and their families.
It's a weird situation. Country is both socially-isolating and coming together. No real panic - apart from the shopping. Almost a resignation that things need to change for a few months to a year, it's going to get bad, but let's work together make the best of it. Some great stuff going on to help vulnerable people.
Lived here for decades and the Brits seem to have this ability to be ignore each other for years, but when things go wrong they become the best neighbors or fellow commuters you ever had.
Hope it continues.
Times like this always brings out the best of some people ( most people I’d like to think) but also the worst in others.
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@Virgil said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
but also the worst in others.
That's where social pressure (rather that rules) needs to kick in.
When I first came here several decades ago, I was taken aback how much drink-driving was frowned upon - vastly different attitude to NZ despite the UK having more lenient drink-driving laws. It something you just didn't do.
Just hope that attitude comes to the fore.
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