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...

[davidc4430]

Coronavirus update: 84 million people under stay-at-home orders in US, Albania deploys Army to enforce curfew

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-22/coronavirus-update-australia-covid-19-latest-news-march-22/12...

the army cant leave the baracks which is making enforcing the curfew difficult

[davidc4430]

"British police apprehend toilet paper thieves"

is a headline i never thought i'd read!

[davidc4430]

[davidc4430]

Government's $66 billion coronavirus stimulus package seeks to keep businesses afloat and workers employed

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-22/coronavirus-second-stimulus-economy-federal-government/120789...

[icyfroth]

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@davidc4430 wrote:

"British police apprehend toilet paper thieves"

is a headline i never thought i'd read!

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Like the world revolves around toilet paper!

Were the Irish dependant on toilet paper during the Great Potato Famine?

No, they just needed to eat!

Were the subsequent impoverished migrants to the new land of Australia, of Scottish, Irish and English, dependant on somethiing to wipe their backsides with?

No, they just needed to live!

Further down the track, did subsequent refugees from the European wars migrate to Australia for lack of toilet paper?

No they just needed to make a new life for themselves.

Honestly, ppl, this coronavirus thing is going get a lot worse than toilet paper shortages than you think.

Try washing yourself down with water after a bowel movement  and drying yourself with a rag after you're finished, and you might understand what previous generations have gone through.

And you might get a glimpse of what to expect!

[myoclon1cjerk]

Another $750 payment to pensioners and $550 for the unemployed.

I mentioned Jair Bolsonaro on another post just above re his inaction on covid-19. If you're concerned about the environment, watch what is happening in the Amazon under his leadership on Four Corners tomorrow night. Criminal.

[icyfroth]

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@myoclon1cjerk wrote:

Another $750 payment to pensioners and $550 for the unemployed.

A desperate attempt at keeping the economy going. It won't. Keeping the economy going is creating infrastructure and industry to keep the population in work. Not injecting money to spend on toilet paper and pharmaceuticals. Not to mention gambling and alcohol.

I mentioned Jair Bolsonaro on another post just above re his inaction on covid-19. If you're concerned about the environment, watch what is happening in the Amazon under his leadership on Four Corners tomorrow night. Criminal.

Yes we (kind of,but skirt around)  know about the criminal activities of foriegn investors in developing countries, but we tend to dismiss it.

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[davidc4430]

a few short weeks abo there were calls to raise the unemployment benifits by abot $20 - $40

but were ignored by the govt

now we see them doubled!

in fact newstart is now higher than the pension!

i didnt hear any mention of raising the pension.

wake me up, this cant be a lib/nat govt!

[myoclon1cjerk]

The old booze and pokies argument *sigh*.

[icyfroth]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@myoclon1cjerk wrote:

Another $750 payment to pensioners and $550 for the unemployed.

A desperate attempt at keeping the economy going. It won't. Keeping the economy going is creating infrastructure and industry to keep the population in work. Not injecting money to spend on toilet paper and pharmaceuticals. Not to mention gambling and alcohol.

I mentioned Jair Bolsonaro on another post just above re his inaction on covid-19. If you're concerned about the environment, watch what is happening in the Amazon under his leadership on Four Corners tomorrow night. Criminal.

Yes we (kind of,but skirt around)  know about the criminal activities of foriegn investors in developing countries, but we tend to dismiss it.

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But "foreign interest"  tends to send profits to same "foreign interests", rather than returning it to local economies.

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