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(03-27-2020, 01:16 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:We need a bit of that in Aus...got a feeling the Chinese military might be using some more permanent methods.. I went to the local grocery store to pick up some veggies, a cafe linked to the centre had people hanging around drinking coffee like life is normal. I then stopped at the chemist and again, a coffee shop a few doors down had people chatting having a coffee. Fark that, I rang the local plods as soon as I got home and let them know about it, they said they will be ramping up patrols in the areas I mentioned.
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(03-27-2020, 01:16 AM)ElwoodBlues1 date Wrote:We need a bit of that in Aus...got a feeling the Chinese military might be using some more permanent methods.. What about Kim "Rocket Man" Jong-Un, any cases reported there yet!
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They seem happy, all good there!
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(03-27-2020, 03:13 AM)Gointocarlton date Wrote:Fark that, I rang the local plods as soon as I got home and let them know about it, they said they will be ramping up patrols in the areas I mentioned. I feel sorry for them, there was another nutter today trying to get into everybody's space at the local lunch shops, loves all the attention and thinks it's a joke that he can force people backwards just by walking up to them with a smile!
btw., For those of you interested, Wired published a really nice analysis of the recent media frenzy and panic paracetamol buying related to the Ibuprofen rumor.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-ibuprofe...popular4-1
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More mixed messages. Andrews wants to shut it down due to the alarming increase in community transmission. Morrison then steps up with "Every day's extra work is a victory for small business" blah blah. So what is it.... Shut it down (which looks to be the sensible course of action) or attempt to keep the economy ticking over?
A shut down only works if we're all in, otherwise it's pointless. Morrison seems "half pregnant" on this issue.
And you were a week late in enforcing quarantine fellas, that horse has bolted.
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(03-27-2020, 04:48 AM)Professer E link Wrote:More mixed messages. Andrews wants to shut it down due to the alarming increase in community transmission. Morrison then steps up with "Every day's extra work is a victory for small business" blah blah. So what is it.... Shut it down (which looks to be the sensible course of action) or attempt to keep the economy ticking over?
A shut down only works if we're all in, otherwise it's pointless. Morrison seems "half pregnant" on this issue.
And you were a week late in enforcing quarantine fellas, that horse has bolted. Andrews will happily shut everything down, cripple businesses and livelihoods and then put his hand out to Scomo for $$$$.
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(03-27-2020, 05:08 AM)Gointocarlton date Wrote:Andrews will happily shut everything down, cripple businesses and livelihoods and then put his hand out to Scomo for $$$$.
Don't worry about the government, worry about the banks who are are taking the piss out of the situation.
All the goodwill surrounding those "postponed" loan repayments is gone, SMEs thought is was a pause and payments could resume with interest after six months. But the banks read that as a pause followed with an immediate balance due, at the end of six months you have to pay all that was due over the hiatus not just resume monthly payments in arrears. It also seems they keep charging you interest over the next six months.
Just for clarity, you can pause repayments for six months, but on the 1st day of the seventh month they want six months worth of repayments!
It's a worthless offer to most small and medium business, they aren't making any money now, and they won't be flushed with cash in six months!
Scomo has screwed the pooch, he's crapped out a Werribee Mullet and sold it to us as a bunt cake, what a ...................!
His balance sheet is heading south faster than sea warming, and I was just warming to his efforts when it turns out they are nothing more than deception! A turd wrapped in gold leaf!
I've been in contact with some SMEs companies today that intend pulling the pin for good next week, not just a temporary closure, they are going to default on loans, salaries, super, the whole freaking lot because of the brutality from the banking sector!
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(03-27-2020, 04:48 AM)Professer E link Wrote:More mixed messages. Andrews wants to shut it down due to the alarming increase in community transmission. Morrison then steps up with "Every day's extra work is a victory for small business" blah blah. So what is it.... Shut it down (which looks to be the sensible course of action) or attempt to keep the economy ticking over?
A shut down only works if we're all in, otherwise it's pointless. Morrison seems "half pregnant" on this issue.
And you were a week late in enforcing quarantine fellas, that horse has bolted.
You're not wrong, especially about the mixed messages, Professory.
You only have to look at Trump and his head medico, Anthony Fauci. Only Fauci is actually damn good and Trump is fortunate to have him and his measured, intelligent and informed advice, as opposed to Trumps bizarre, multi-flip offerings.
Scottie from Marketing is trying hard but this is not his forte... he has improved since the w/e though when he gave the vaguest report imaginable, at least now he's attempting specificity and clarity of message. As for Murphy... holy mackerel, the original Henny Penny Sky Is Falling medico. There must be someone better to communicate medical facts.
Dan is probably over-reacting but better that than the other way 'round. And, yes, the economic cost of such drastic measures is simply horrible. But, although extremely difficult, economies can be rebuilt but bringing the dead back to life is a much more difficult task.
As an aside did anyone else notice that when Trump said the other day that the 'cure (to Covid-19) is worse than the virus itself', A. Blot the very next day was saying the same thing in the HUN!
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(03-27-2020, 05:08 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:Andrews will happily shut everything down, cripple businesses and livelihoods and then put his hand out to Scomo for $$$$.
Cmon mate, thats a bit sinister.
Andrews wants to shut everything down because SCOMO is too piss weak to do it.
As a result, it may cripple everything, but he's not going to do it JUST to take a dig at scomo, he's doing it to save lives.
Will he take advantage of it politically when its all over? Probably, but that is not the reason for doing it....its just a by-product.
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(03-27-2020, 08:09 AM)kruddler link Wrote:Cmon mate, thats a bit sinister.
Andrews wants to shut everything down because SCOMO is too piss weak to do it.
As a result, it may cripple everything, but he's not going to do it JUST to take a dig at scomo, he's doing it to save lives.
Will he take advantage of it politically when its all over? Probably, but that is not the reason for doing it....its just a by-product. I'll just trust the PM and his team on this one.
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(03-27-2020, 09:03 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:I'll just trust the PM and his team on this one. The guy who says you can only have 5 people at a wedding....but go to school with potentially 1000 kids running around together is 100% fine?
That guy??
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