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(08-12-2020, 10:50 PM)kruddler date Wrote:But what about places like India where the population is through the roof. Covid could sweep through there pretty quick.
Of course, this could just be stage 1 and a more deadly virus could be on its way to compound our issues.
SARS wasn't that long ago.....and this is an upgraded version of that. Who knows what version 3.0 is.... Yes, I suppose the hope is the less mobile populations in countries like India, China and Africa contributes to braking the rate of spread. But who knows if a super-spreader gets into the dense population like Mumbai.
NZ, just 4 yesterday but 13 today, this is how it works and no amount of wishing or indifference is going to change that!
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(08-13-2020, 02:34 AM)LP link Wrote:Yes, I suppose the hope is the less mobile populations in countries like India, China and Africa contributes to braking the rate of spread. But who knows if a super-spreader gets into the dense population like Mumbai.
NZ, just 4 yesterday but 13 today, this is how it works and no amount of wishing or indifference is going to change that! Rumour has it, it has arrived with freight. Those people working in freight have contracted it and then spread it around the community.
COVID aint going anywhere, and todays lockdown will lead to future lock downs.
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(08-13-2020, 02:51 AM)Thryleon date Wrote:Rumour has it, it has arrived with freight. Those people working in freight have contracted it and then spread it around the community.
COVID aint going anywhere, and todays lockdown will lead to future lock downs. There are some rather disturbing early reports coming out of some regional centres as well. It looks like COVID deniers or disenfranchised youth may have been sneaking out of the city to visit country locations for a muck up, and have taken COVID with them!
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Not just young people. We now have over 170 active cases in Greater Geelong, and I'm hearing local business owners telling me that the well-to-do are coming down in their range rovers for a coffee or lunch and bragging loudly how easy it is to get through the police checkpoints
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(08-13-2020, 06:41 AM)Jack Burton link Wrote:Not just young people. We now have over 170 active cases in Greater Geelong, and I'm hearing local business owners telling me that the well-to-do are coming down in their range rovers for a coffee or lunch and bragging loudly how easy it is to get through the police checkpoints
One of our local Osteo's has said that he's only been stopped once in two weeks of two way daily travel from Pakenham to the Island for work. Reckons it's way too easy.
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I find the hypocrisy of coalition members, right wing shock jocks and media quite breathtaking.
When four or five people died during the the Pink Batts scheme implementation, all blame was sheeted home to the then Federal Labor Govt. No mention was made of the shortcomings of employers of the unfortunate workers who received little or no training.
Now with the hotel Covid situation it is all the Victorian Government's fault. No blame is attached to the employers who have not lived up to the terms of the contracts they signed. It appears that private industry cannot be trusted, or expected, to abide by the terms of signed contracts and there has to be direct government oversight of each and every contract.
Contrast that with the situation some years ago when a large private trucking company contracted with Shell in NSW to carry fuel. One of its trucks lost its brakes on a steep descent causing a fatal crash. The authorities found many trucks with faults and the company received multiple fines.
Interestingly, no blame was attached to Shell by the above mentioned. Applying the same standards to Shell as are expected of state and federal labor governments would have required Shell to have been responsible for the shortcomings of all private firms with which it had contracts.
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(08-15-2020, 09:52 AM)madbluboy link Wrote:https://youtu.be/pKQsIaSLz00
I heard a few days ago that all parking tickets given during stage 4 would not be requiring payment.
If true, why are they out there giving tickets at all?
Of course, i doubt anyone would consider them an essential worker.
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