greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 9^th, 2020 at 10:21am:


lol... yep, I was in agreement with nearly everything Bobby posted up until that one.

Please tell us you're just pulling our legs?

Carl D wrote on Mar 9^th, 2020 at 10:34am:


He must be.

No intelligent person takes shows like 60 Minutes, ACA, Sunrise, etc. seriously.

Bobby's just having a little morning troll.

Sir lastnail wrote on Mar 9^th, 2020 at 10:43am:


I know you're not asking me, but CDC, WHO and www.health.gov.au.

Any other sources shouldn't be immediately discounted, but don't take their word for it, check their sources and see what they have actually said or stated.

So much is opinion and not fact because we are lacking so much information at the moment.

Making grand statements of fact from these opinions, especially when you're trying to or inadvertently causing a panic, that's dangerous and I know I'll call out anything like that.

From what research I've been able to do, this is exactly what's caused the toilet paper issue.

There was a social media post that had a photo of an empty shelf of toilet paper because it was on special.  The notion of it being on special was left out of the post and they claimed it was because of the coronavirus.

It wasn't, it's just what always happens when there are these sorts of specials.

This spread of this post by people just accepting the claim and not fact-checking then triggered panic buying because people thought there was a shortage.

No, there was a half-price offer in this one Woolworths (maybe more).  There is lots of stock around the country but the logistics of such a big bulky item means there is only so much stock available at a given time.  It was a natural occurrence when these limited items per shelf space go on special.

But a hype bitch shared their opinion that it was because of the virus, left out the information about it being 1/2 price on special and then this post spreading, all of a sudden it's triggered the panic buying.

Stories like the 60 minutes are bad enough, but spreading misinformation and opinion about it is only going to lead to more panic buying, this time for more than toilet paper and rice (thanks to The Project)...

And it will stress people out.

Stressed people will be more susceptible to the virus.

We need to be alert but not anxious.  We need to all do out part, exercise restraint in posting bullshit and not forget how we all came together for the bushfires not so long ago.

Where did that go?  What happened?  How did we do such a sharp 180 and now it's every man for themselves?  That's now how you beat or mitigate something like COVID-19

The_Barnacle wrote on Mar 9^th, 2020 at 10:32am:



I did say that as a reason for climate change.

The sustainable carrying capacity of the Earth is only 500 million humans.
We have 14 times too many people.

KangAnon wrote on Mar 9^th, 2020 at 6:33am:


There are many more confirmed cases, twice as many, but these are cases that have gone from beginning to end, they are completed cases. We will only know the true outcome when all cases are completed cases. Completed cases, I believe, give the truest prediction of the outcome if things continue as they have. Still not panicking though, no point, it won't change anything.

Setanta wrote on Mar 9^th, 2020 at 11:52am:


Yes and no.  There is evidence of vast number of confirmed cases having little to no symptoms, presenting like a mild cold.  This means that many people are not even seeking medical attention and are going undiagnosed and recover without issue, to them.  They may very well infect others.

But they aren't being counted.  This means that it throws off the ratio of cases vs deaths and make it look like the frequency of deaths is much higher vs infections than it truly is.

This is why medical experts are warning against firstly following the daily numbers, and secondly rely on the death rate as it is not real-world accurate.

Our leaders and medical infrastructures should be taking the worst possible prediction into account to help to work towards dealing with it, but us on the ground, we shouldn't be.

Having people post misleading claims like 45 Million will be dead, minimum, and "we're all doomed", that's just dangerous stupidity and they should be ashamed.

KangAnon wrote on Mar 9^th, 2020 at 1:08pm:



I cant believe your serious...I live alone like so many and I am retired  if I get sick with flu like symptoms I will go to bed until I feel better    from previous experience the doctor can do nothing anyway...

only hypochondriacs rush to doctors with flu symptoms....

and you want our fragile health resources which are always stretched to be used for people who show signs of having a cold....omg..

mate you are getting worse......please stay home where you would at least be as safe as anyone.....

get everything delivered.. its the only way to keep safe...

me I went to a place that was jumping this morning full of people enjoying Canberra Day    not one mask in sight...NOT ONE>..

we cant help you folks who want to believe everything thats bad......me I prefer to believe the best ....and we are certainly in the best country to weather this storm...

come on sad you can do better than this.

chimera wrote on Mar 9^th, 2020 at 2:59pm:


Assuming this is true I'm wondering if viruses have a tendency to 'weaken' over a period of time? Sometimes a few years or hopefully in this case, months.

Pretty amazing that something like this can go on and on making 'perfect' replicas of itself. Surely there must be small changes occurring in the makeup of the virus during replication and transmission as time goes on (hopefully not more dangerous 'mutant' strains, of course).

Peoples' immune systems attacking the virus before it is passed on to others could possibly be slowly weakening it?

Perhaps that's why the flu seems to stop spreading after a certain point in time every year, not because people have had the flu shot (although it helps) but maybe the viruses gradually 'run out of steam' so to speak?

Like the SARS outbreak in 2002 (also from China).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome

There was a big commotion about that when it appeared as I remember (no Facebook or anything like that at the time to cause panic buying) but after 2004 no new cases appeared even though it hasn't really been eliminated.

Let's hope that this COVID-19 weakens over a fairly short period of time and it becomes (at worst) "just a bad case of the flu" from here on.