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Johnnie Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 12485 Gender:	Re: Corona virus Reply #1935 - Mar 16^th, 2020 at 3:46pm Carl D wrote on Mar 16^th, 2020 at 2:21pm: That's good news, John. And, we all could use some of that these days. Anne Murray - A Little Good News. Just as relevant today (even more so) as it was in 1983. This is not just good news, it sounds like a miracle.
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Mr Hammer Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 25212 Gender:	Re: Corona virus Reply #1936 - Mar 16^th, 2020 at 4:29pm I' m going to take everyone's mind off Corona for a while. I'm returning to putting needles in strawberries.
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Gordon Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 20793 Gordon Gender:	Re: Corona virus Reply #1937 - Mar 16^th, 2020 at 6:00pm OK so self isolation is a joke. This is a first hand story from a friend. His two step-daughters from Thailand arrived today. Told to self isolate, no details asked where they will stay, who they are staying with etc etc etc. Lucky for Australia they're responsible and plan to hunker down.
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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 49781 Gender:	Re: Corona virus Reply #1938 - Mar 16^th, 2020 at 6:04pm Anyone with Corona should be sent to China.
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Reply #1939 - Mar 16^th, 2020 at 6:07pm

Gordon wrote on Mar 16^th, 2020 at 6:00pm:

OK so self isolation is a joke. This is a first hand story from a friend.

His two step-daughters from Thailand arrived today.

Told to self isolate, no details asked where they will stay, who they are staying with etc etc etc. Lucky for Australia they're responsible and plan to hunker down.

Many people at work arrived from overseas today and
they are all in self isolation in motels -
under the new emergency laws.
They were on company business so they are being supplied
with food and will work via laptop.

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Reply #1940 - Mar 16^th, 2020 at 6:17pm

Bobby. wrote on Mar 16^th, 2020 at 6:07pm:

Gordon wrote on Mar 16^th, 2020 at 6:00pm:

OK so self isolation is a joke. This is a first hand story from a friend.

His two step-daughters from Thailand arrived today.

Told to self isolate, no details asked where they will stay, who they are staying with etc etc etc. Lucky for Australia they're responsible and plan to hunker down.

Many people at work arrived from overseas today and
they are all in self isolation in motels -
under the new emergency laws.
They were on company business so they are being supplied
with food and will work via laptop.

There was an interview on the news of a family returning back to go home, only to be faced with self isolation, and the mum said she didn’t do food shopping before they left. So how are they going to cope as a family? Will a supermarket understand and do quick delivery to them?
Hopefully family will help and shop for them, leaving it at front door for collection.

My other questions arising are, all those from international flights having to self isolate, whose driving them to their destinations?
We usually have our car at long term parking and need to call their shuttle bus to pick us up to take us to the depot.

So what of the Uber, taxi, and shuttle bus drivers?

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Reply #1941 - Mar 16^th, 2020 at 6:25pm

Sophia wrote on Mar 16^th, 2020 at 6:17pm:

Bobby. wrote on Mar 16^th, 2020 at 6:07pm:

Gordon wrote on Mar 16^th, 2020 at 6:00pm:

OK so self isolation is a joke. This is a first hand story from a friend.

His two step-daughters from Thailand arrived today.

Told to self isolate, no details asked where they will stay, who they are staying with etc etc etc. Lucky for Australia they're responsible and plan to hunker down.

Many people at work arrived from overseas today and
they are all in self isolation in motels -
under the new emergency laws.
They were on company business so they are being supplied
with food and will work via laptop.

There was an interview on the news of a family returning back to go home, only to be faced with self isolation, and the mum said she didn’t do food shopping before they left. So how are they going to cope as a family? Will a supermarket understand and do quick delivery to them?
Hopefully family will help and shop for them, leaving it at front door for collection.

My other questions arising are, all those from international flights having to self isolate, whose driving them to their destinations?
We usually have our car at long term parking and need to call their shuttle bus to pick us up to take us to the depot.

So what of the Uber, taxi, and shuttle bus drivers?

I don't know.

Our main office has been cleared out of as many people as possible
and they will work with a laptop from home.

We also have a 1.5 meter separation policy -
with hand sanitizer give to everyone and no hand shakes etc.

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Reply #1942 - Mar 16^th, 2020 at 6:36pm

Bill Gates... noble capitalist

Testing for the novel coronavirus in the Seattle area will get a huge boost in the coming weeks as a project funded by Bill Gates and his foundation begins offering home-testing kits that will allow people who fear they may be infected to swab their noses and send the samples back for analysis.

Results, which should be available in one to two days, will be shared with local health officials who will notify those who test positive. Via online forms, infected people can answer questions about their movements and contacts, making it easier for health officials to locate others who may need to be tested or quarantined, as well as to track the virus’ spread and identify possible hot spots.

The goal is to eventually be able to process thousands of tests a day, said Scott Dowell, leader of coronavirus response at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The project is ramping up as quickly as possible, but it’s not clear exactly when it will launch, he added. Among other things, software needs to be upgraded to handle the expected crush of requests, and a detailed questionnaire finalized for people who request tests.

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Reply #1943 - Mar 16^th, 2020 at 9:51pm

Hope the self isolation works out a bit better than what we've apparently had so far.

A letter writer in today's paper said he arrived at Perth Airport on Saturday night from a holiday in India. There were 4 planes full of Indian tourists and Australian citizens/residents and they all just waltzed through immigration as if nothing was amiss. No coronavirus checks. Nothing.

The only "security" at the time was a lone woman handing out A4 sheets with coronavirus information on them - most of which were just thrown on the floor and a few others screwed up and put in pockets.

If this is typical of what's been going on around Australia the past few months its no wonder coronavirus is on the loose all around the country.

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Reply #1944 - Mar 17^th, 2020 at 1:44am

I am not going through 130 pages to find out if someone else has posted this.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-simulator/?fbclid=IwAR...

Free-for-all
Attempted Quarantine
Moderate Distancing
Extensive Distancing

I see the theory behind it. But the way things are going to go, depending on the culture of the community, Australians are going to be acting somewhere between "attempted quarantine" and "moderate distancing". There would likely be extensive distancing in place at the moment, such as what is happening now.

50% of Australians, I assume, would likely get this virus sometime this year. There will be concerted efforts to quarantine. But, there will be a breakdown along the line and a pandemic will occur.

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At this stage...

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Reply #1945 - Mar 17^th, 2020 at 2:03am

GOOD ONYA QUEENSLAND

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Have they found a cure for the coronavirus?

Australian researchers claim two existing drugs could 'cure' COVID-19 after patients they tested responded 'very well' to treatment

A team of infectious disease experts at the University of Queensland in Brisbane say they have seen two existing medications manage to wipe out COVID-19 infections.

Chloroquine, an anti-malarial drug, and HIV-suppressing combination lopinavir/ritonavir have both reportedly shown promising results in human tests and

made the virus 'disappear' in infected patients.

The drugs are being tested as researchers and doctors around the world scramble to try and find a vaccine, cure or treatment for the deadly virus.

Queensland researcher, Professor David Paterson, said he hopes to enrol people in larger scale pharmaceutical trials by the end of the month.

Professor Paterson said it wouldn't be wrong to consider the drugs a possible 'treatment or cure' for the deadly respiratory infection.

He explained that when the HIV medication lopinavir/ritonavir was given to people infected with the coronavirus in Australia it

led to the 'disappearance of the virus'

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Reply #1946 - Mar 17^th, 2020 at 8:01am

Sophia wrote on Mar 16^th, 2020 at 6:17pm:

Bobby. wrote on Mar 16^th, 2020 at 6:07pm:

Gordon wrote on Mar 16^th, 2020 at 6:00pm:

OK so self isolation is a joke. This is a first hand story from a friend.

His two step-daughters from Thailand arrived today.

Told to self isolate, no details asked where they will stay, who they are staying with etc etc etc. Lucky for Australia they're responsible and plan to hunker down.

Many people at work arrived from overseas today and
they are all in self isolation in motels -
under the new emergency laws.
They were on company business so they are being supplied
with food and will work via laptop.

There was an interview on the news of a family returning back to go home, only to be faced with self isolation, and the mum said she didn’t do food shopping before they left. So how are they going to cope as a family? Will a supermarket understand and do quick delivery to them?
Hopefully family will help and shop for them, leaving it at front door for collection.

My other questions arising are, all those from international flights having to self isolate, whose driving them to their destinations?
We usually have our car at long term parking and need to call their shuttle bus to pick us up to take us to the depot.

So what of the Uber, taxi, and shuttle bus drivers?

2 of my close friends and their families are in the same situation, they've just come back from overseas (well, one family gets back on Friday), they've been trying to get home for weeks, and now they have to self isolate.

I've got as many basic supplies for them as I can, I'll be going again each morning after the pensioner hour but since the announcements on the weekend, the shops can't restock fast enough, even overnight.

I'll at least make them both like a pasta back or something and drop it off to them, but that's coming out of my pantry.

Don't feel so stupid now having a "cyclone kit" all these years.

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Reply #1947 - Mar 17^th, 2020 at 8:03am

aquascoot wrote on Mar 16^th, 2020 at 6:36pm:

Bill Gates... noble capitalist

It really puts Trump into perspective.

He has the might of the entire country behind him, not even using his own money, refuses test kits from the WHO, insists they make American ones, they don't work, helps spread not impede the virus.

What's the opposite of noble again?

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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 139758 Gender:	Re: Corona virus Reply #1948 - Mar 17^th, 2020 at 9:42am "Coronavirus: Trump says coronavirus crisis may last all summer". What? Just the other day he said it would "miraculously disappear when the weather gets warmer". What happened, Mr Trump?
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Reply #1949 - Mar 17^th, 2020 at 10:29am

greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 17^th, 2020 at 9:42am:

"Coronavirus: Trump says coronavirus crisis may last all summer".

What? Undecided

Just the other day he said it would "miraculously disappear when the weather gets warmer".

What happened, Mr Trump?

I think it's finally hit him just how bad it could get and someone explained to him that it's going to be what he will be most remembered for into the future. The president who oversaw potentially a million American deaths because he pretended it was 'fake news'.

I saw he gave an interview yesterday where, probably for the first time ever, he just gave the facts as he was told, with no exaggeration or embellishment and without trying to take the credit or pretend it wasn't going to happen. It was so unlike any other trump interview that I've seen that it was disconcerting

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Our esteemed leader:
I hope that bitch who was running their brothels for them gets raped with a cactus.

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