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@jegga said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Not sure, I was too busy ignoring @Catogrande s tick pun.
Doesn't sound like you were.
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Vacations are being extended (mandatory) in other provinces now, and activities curtailed.
- Suspend all fairs, gatherings and other events. All group dinners are forbidden in any restaurant. Reservations should be canceled or postponed. All cinemas, entertainment venues, public bathrooms, foot massage parlors, poker and mahjong rooms must shut down. Senior citizen homes and nursing institutes must be under quarantine.
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@Hooroo said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
I wish I read this thread (well only @Tim posts as the rest is dross) before the sales yesterday.
I can honestly say I gave the Chinese buyers that were essentially fresh off the plane a wide berth. (Even though I knew I was being silly in doing so)
RACIST!!!!
The ban on group tourism out of China is about to have a serious effect on several economies.
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@Tim although wasn't the use of limes originally to kill bacteria from unclean glasses?
They were talking about the impact to the economy on the radio, apparently SARS caused a 0.08% drop in our GDP, but they reckon this one will be a bit higher as our trading with China has increased considerably since then.
But more likely be tourists visiting NZ and the knock on in NZ and some of our high ticket exports (seafood) as they say demand for staples/basics like milk products is unlikely to change.
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Hooroo said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
I wish I read this thread (well only @Tim posts as the rest is dross) before the sales yesterday.
I can honestly say I gave the Chinese buyers that were essentially fresh off the plane a wide berth. (Even though I knew I was being silly in doing so)
RACIST!!!!
The ban on group tourism out of China is about to have a serious effect on several economies.
Or as my wife put it; now is the best time to travel...
Unless you're a school girl on a train in India.
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This is interesting. Caveat ojn accuracy of reporting obviously.
Hardly looks like a pandemic to me - perhaps I've been watching too many movies.
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Some silly stuff happening from reports from a colleague.
Police etc going door-to-door, or stopping people at checkpoints, in the cities that have had their holidays increased, and taking temperatures. This is just a way to generate false positives, whether by the far more common colds and flu's or statistical chance, and putting people who are uninfected, or already ill with another disease, and placing them in contact with the genuinely infected.
This is also a massively stupid way to squander hospital resources. Triage? Have you heard of it motherfucker?
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Australia's response is to put Australian citizens coming back from Wuchan into an Immigration detention centre on Christmas Island. That's right, citizenship means nothing here and you can be interned on an Island excised from Australia's migration zone.
Would you prefer a more inclusive quarantine program? Is this where we are now? Why can't we quarrantine people but keep them integrated into the community at the same time?
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@Tim said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@rotated They have hospitals in Australia, right?
Given Australia's geographic advantage of being on a dirty big island isolating these few early confirmed cases is the best possible thing they can do to stop the spread. Having them treated at Campbelltown General next to Bob who just had a hip operation and Steve who got his appendix out seems sub-optimal. Unless there is a major metropolitan research hospital which has the isolation areas and treatmant facilities available this seems like the only sensible solution.
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@Tim said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@rotated They're citizens, and Australia has many hospitals with quarantine facilities.
This a government led evacuation done on their dime and initiative - I have zero problem with them setting the rules on how they want to proceed. Current estimates are 600 people will be evacuated - from a logistical standpoint and for tracking and monitoring purposes keeping the group in one place surely makes better sense than letting them return to their local GP or hospital.
If the government is offering an evacuation either take it or leave it.
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