Coronavirus update

[davidc4430]

Coronavirus update: Formula One Grand Prix called off, Trump announces travel ban, Tom Hanks tests positive

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-12/coronavirus-live-updates-mclaren-lewis-hamilton-travel-ban/12...

[*kazumi*]

Good, all these events should be called off and cinemas closed.  Or at least people should have the good sense not to participate. 

[davidc4430]

[davidc4430]

Coronavirus update: Flight Centre to close 100 stores, Grand Prix cancelled, Justin Trudeau's wife infected

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-13/coronavirus-updates-wall-street-justin-trudeau-virgin-staff/1...

[davidc4430]

Sydney family trapped in Wuhan amid coronavirus lockdown sees their Centrelink payments cut

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-13/centrelink-cuts-payments-to-family-trapped-in-wuhan/12048808

sounds about right, your just a number to the system

[imastawka]

I'd like to know how a family on Centrelink benefits can afford overseas travel.

[domino-710]

Interesting - cheapest flights for 5 - 2 adults & 3 daughters = approx $4,000

Ad on Insurance for each for the time of travel - even if it is only for loss not health.

Ad on spending while holidaying.

Ad on rent on Guilford home.

Stuuufffed if I know.

[imastawka]

Exactly.   And they want sympathy.   pfffft

[rogespeed]

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@davidc4430 wrote:

Sydney family trapped in Wuhan amid coronavirus lockdown sees their Centrelink payments cut

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-13/centrelink-cuts-payments-to-family-trapped-in-wuhan/12048808

sounds about right, your just a number to the system

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Australians Trapped , 80,000+ cases , 3000+ dead , lock down , sulphur plume from cremated bodies overhead - and to resume benefits Centrelink wants evidence that the Grandmother is ill.....

And some think America is blighted by a bureaucratic swamp 

[rogespeed]

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@domino-710 wrote:

Interesting - cheapest flights for 5 - 2 adults & 3 daughters = approx $4,000

Ad on Insurance for each for the time of travel - even if it is only for loss not health.

Ad on spending while holidaying.

Ad on rent on Guilford home.

Stuuufffed if I know.

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Not all Centrelink recipients blow the discretionary portion of their benefits on Drugs , Alcohol, Gambling and some have the capacity and motivation to accumulate funding