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*]

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@davidc4430 wrote:

Coronavirus concerns mean NSW Premier tells parents to keep children home from school

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-23/coronavirus-parents-told-to-keep-children-home-from-school/12...

this is exactly what i said should have been done from day one, keep schools open but if some parents were in a position to keep their kids home with supervision then do it.

all the time, our leaders are playing the catch up game.

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Victorian schools close tomorrow too.  Our Prime minister is still saying kids should be at school, while his own kids are being home schooled.  When the whole eastern Australia choked on smoke he took his own family to Hawaii.  Total hypocrite. 

[go-tazz]

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@*kazumi* wrote:

Update world wide and you can click on individual countries

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

latest 335,403 cases, 14,611 dead, 97,636 recovered.  

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So how has China managed to control it and have no new deaths if that chart is correct?

[davidc4430]

cant say they didnt see this coming

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY. 

http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/

[davidc4430]

Coronavirus devastates Bowen's fishing industry, farmers face uncertain winter

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-23/coronavirus-downturn-wreaks-havoc-in-bowen-coral-trout-indust...

why would you stop buying fresh fish?

i dont normally buy fresh fish as the fish i like are just too expensive these days

but if i heard the prices had dropped markedly id be back at the fish mongers having nice fish again.

[*kazumi*]

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@go-tazz wrote:

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@*kazumi* wrote:

Update world wide and you can click on individual countries

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

latest 335,403 cases, 14,611 dead, 97,636 recovered.  

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So how has China managed to control it and have no new deaths if that chart is correct?

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They shut down whole cities, tested people, isolated those infected even if they did not have symptoms, and 2 months later all their new cases are imported.  Therefore they have 2 weeks quarantine for anybody coming from o/s.  They even had no new cases for couple of days.

[davidc4430]

Coronavirus update: Victoria closes schools, Germany bans groups of more than two, pubs and clubs to close in Australia

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-23/coronavirus-update-covid-19-germany-rand-paul-centrelink-mygo...

[rogespeed]

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@*kazumi* wrote:

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

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48 hour martial law conditions declared for VIC and NSW - essential travel only

[rogespeed]

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@davidc4430 wrote:

Coronavirus update: Victoria closes schools, Germany bans groups of more than two, pubs and clubs to close in Australia

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-23/coronavirus-update-covid-19-germany-rand-paul-centrelink-mygo...

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48 hour martial law conditions declared for VIC and NSW - essential travel only , this is not a drill

SA and WA border to close , WA contemplating a covey recovery colony on Rottnest Island ( my opinion an ideal location as sunshine warm sand, fresh ocean air and presence of friendly cute critters can only help in the recovery process)

[chameleon54]

Somethings up - Normally our town is crawling with police. We regularly get stopped, followed etc. but havnt seen a police car on the roads for nearly a week. Are they taking leave before the S#it really hits the fan and very draconian measures are implemented or are they all off at training for something ? 

I dont know, but somethings definately going on. 

[chameleon54]

Daughter drove past the local Centrelink office today. The line was out the door and 100 metres down the street. Most of her late teenage friends are employed in hospitality and just about all have lost their jobs over the weekend.