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@Bovidae said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Donsteppa said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Italy has just extended the northern lockdown to cover the entire country. Interesting times.
The Italian government have badly mismanaged the situation. They closed schools which meant all the kids did what they do over there - go to the shopping malls and cinemas.
I see they've now decreed that all people in Italy have to 'demonstrate a need to work, provide health conditions or give other limited reasons to travel outside the areas where they live.'
Greece tried the same thing, until they realised none of them work anyway.
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@canefan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Donsteppa said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Italy has just extended the northern lockdown to cover the entire country. Interesting times.
I have a staff member travelling through Italy on a Contiki tour. I wonder if they will be allowed now
they probably already caught everything they are going to...
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Bovidae said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Donsteppa said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Italy has just extended the northern lockdown to cover the entire country. Interesting times.
The Italian government have badly mismanaged the situation. They closed schools which meant all the kids did what they do over there - go to the shopping malls and cinemas.
I see they've now decreed that all people in Italy have to 'demonstrate a need to work, provide health conditions or give other limited reasons to travel outside the areas where they live.'
Probably too late now. There is a large number of people in Italy who live and work in the north but are originally from the south of the country. Once the panic started some would have left Lombardy via train and headed back home, as they usually do for the holidays. If any of those people had the virus but were asymptomatic, they potentially could have infected relatives/friends in others regions.
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@Donsteppa said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Italy has just extended the northern lockdown to cover the entire country. Interesting times.
At current growth rate Spain/France & Germany will be in the same boat in a week. UK & parts of the US a week after.
I wonder how this is going to be policed with tourists? My brother really has picked a bad time for his euro honeymoon.
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@Bovidae said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@antipodean said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Bovidae said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Donsteppa said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Italy has just extended the northern lockdown to cover the entire country. Interesting times.
The Italian government have badly mismanaged the situation. They closed schools which meant all the kids did what they do over there - go to the shopping malls and cinemas.
I see they've now decreed that all people in Italy have to 'demonstrate a need to work, provide health conditions or give other limited reasons to travel outside the areas where they live.'
Probably too late now. There is a large number of people in Italy who live and work in the north but are originally from the south of the country. Once the panic started some would have left Lombardy via train and headed back home, as they usually do for the holidays. If any of those people had the virus but where asymptomatic, they potentially could have infected relatives/friends in others regions.
2nd oldest population in the world, after Japan. And with a fucked economy. Great combination
better sort it out in the next couple of months
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After some heavy in depth analysis, listening the experts, scientists and facebook.. I have decided
I have no fucking idea what to think. Like none at all. I swing between just saying fuck it, lets just lift all bans and let it play out and get back to normal faster as the disease doesnt seem that bad, to lets lock everyone down it s gonna be a disaster.
I have now settled on... having no idea what to think about it. I have found myself agreeing with posts that contradict each other....
I do know I hate the media though.
And anyone who hoardes toilet paper should be stripped of the right to vote or drive a car.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
And anyone why hoardes toilet paper should be stripped of the right to vote or drive a car.
That will get the bad drivers off the road!
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Might not be the 2nd oldest if they don’t deal with it so well...
I heard someone argue for them to do (relatively) nothing to slow it down as if they lose a few thousands or tens of thousands of 70plusers then healthcare, social security etc costs come down while any of their wealth gets shifted down to the younger inheritants.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
After some heavy in depth analysis, listening the experts, scientists and facebook.. I ahve decided
I ahve no fucking idea what to think. Like none at all. I swing between just saying fuck it, lets just lift all bans and let it play out and get back to normal faster as the disease doesnt seem that bad, to lets lock everyone down it s gonna be a disaster.
I have now settled on... having no idea what to think about it. I have found myself agreeing with posts that contradict each other....
I do know I hate the media though.
And anyone why hoardes toilet paper should be stripped of the right to vote or drive a car.
We now have a ban on all Aircraft travel whether internal or abroad. I'm interested in what other large NZ based companies are doing.
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@Hooroo said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
After some heavy in depth analysis, listening the experts, scientists and facebook.. I ahve decided
I ahve no fucking idea what to think. Like none at all. I swing between just saying fuck it, lets just lift all bans and let it play out and get back to normal faster as the disease doesnt seem that bad, to lets lock everyone down it s gonna be a disaster.
I have now settled on... having no idea what to think about it. I have found myself agreeing with posts that contradict each other....
I do know I hate the media though.
And anyone why hoardes toilet paper should be stripped of the right to vote or drive a car.
We now have a ban on all Aircraft travel whether internal or abroad. I'm interested in what other large NZ based companies are doing.
the wife's firm has now banned all "non essential" travel, which included her trip this weekend.
I know of a large engineering firm that has banned all travel worldwide.
here in the tourism industry, we are of the opinion you should all come to the tropical North Queensland. and spend money.
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Authorities just aren't very good at explaining things really, are they?
As far as I can tell this is really a case of trying to slow down the spread so we aren't having to deal with numbers that overwhelm. Simple as that.
It isn't really that the virus is super deadly just that if we let it spread it will affect many more people than the system can cope with and will escalate. Obviously the more it escalates the more numbers make up the small % that die.
I think that the NZ approach is well focussed on measures to stop escalation beyond coping capacity. What we now need is for that message to get across and for people to do their part rather than concentrate on stockpiling. -
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Hooroo said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
After some heavy in depth analysis, listening the experts, scientists and facebook.. I ahve decided
I ahve no fucking idea what to think. Like none at all. I swing between just saying fuck it, lets just lift all bans and let it play out and get back to normal faster as the disease doesnt seem that bad, to lets lock everyone down it s gonna be a disaster.
I have now settled on... having no idea what to think about it. I have found myself agreeing with posts that contradict each other....
I do know I hate the media though.
And anyone why hoardes toilet paper should be stripped of the right to vote or drive a car.
We now have a ban on all Aircraft travel whether internal or abroad. I'm interested in what other large NZ based companies are doing.
the wife's firm has now banned all "non essential" travel, which included her trip this weekend.
I know of a large engineering firm that has banned all travel worldwide.
here in the tourism industry, we are of the opinion you should all come to the tropical North Queensland. and spend money.
Come to NQ - the Coronavirus won't have a chance if the crocs, stonefish, jellyfish, taipans and redbacks get you first
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@Crucial said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Hooroo said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
After some heavy in depth analysis, listening the experts, scientists and facebook.. I ahve decided
I ahve no fucking idea what to think. Like none at all. I swing between just saying fuck it, lets just lift all bans and let it play out and get back to normal faster as the disease doesnt seem that bad, to lets lock everyone down it s gonna be a disaster.
I have now settled on... having no idea what to think about it. I have found myself agreeing with posts that contradict each other....
I do know I hate the media though.
And anyone why hoardes toilet paper should be stripped of the right to vote or drive a car.
We now have a ban on all Aircraft travel whether internal or abroad. I'm interested in what other large NZ based companies are doing.
the wife's firm has now banned all "non essential" travel, which included her trip this weekend.
I know of a large engineering firm that has banned all travel worldwide.
here in the tourism industry, we are of the opinion you should all come to the tropical North Queensland. and spend money.
Come to NQ - the Coronavirus won't have a chance if the crocs, stonefish, jellyfish, taipans and redbacks get you first
locals.
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Hooroo said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
After some heavy in depth analysis, listening the experts, scientists and facebook.. I ahve decided
I ahve no fucking idea what to think. Like none at all. I swing between just saying fuck it, lets just lift all bans and let it play out and get back to normal faster as the disease doesnt seem that bad, to lets lock everyone down it s gonna be a disaster.
I have now settled on... having no idea what to think about it. I have found myself agreeing with posts that contradict each other....
I do know I hate the media though.
And anyone why hoardes toilet paper should be stripped of the right to vote or drive a car.
We now have a ban on all Aircraft travel whether internal or abroad. I'm interested in what other large NZ based companies are doing.
the wife's firm has now banned all "non essential" travel, which included her trip this weekend.
I know of a large engineering firm that has banned all travel worldwide.
here in the tourism industry, we are of the opinion you should all come to the tropical North Queensland. and spend money.
Wife is currently in Japan and says the discounting is enormous, particularly in hotels. It will have to be given the dollar is falling through the floor. Market bounce based on Wall St:
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Hooroo said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
After some heavy in depth analysis, listening the experts, scientists and facebook.. I ahve decided
I ahve no fucking idea what to think. Like none at all. I swing between just saying fuck it, lets just lift all bans and let it play out and get back to normal faster as the disease doesnt seem that bad, to lets lock everyone down it s gonna be a disaster.
I have now settled on... having no idea what to think about it. I have found myself agreeing with posts that contradict each other....
I do know I hate the media though.
And anyone why hoardes toilet paper should be stripped of the right to vote or drive a car.
We now have a ban on all Aircraft travel whether internal or abroad. I'm interested in what other large NZ based companies are doing.
the wife's firm has now banned all "non essential" travel, which included her trip this weekend.
I know of a large engineering firm that has banned all travel worldwide.
here in the tourism industry, we are of the opinion you should all come to the tropical North Queensland. and spend money.
Wife is currently in Japan and says the discounting is enormous, particularly in hotels.
How good would it be if you were one of the first diagnosed and recovered. Best time to go on a bit of a world tour taking up the cheap flights and hotels knowing you are likely immune from further infection.
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@Kirwan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Crucial said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Hooroo said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
After some heavy in depth analysis, listening the experts, scientists and facebook.. I ahve decided
I ahve no fucking idea what to think. Like none at all. I swing between just saying fuck it, lets just lift all bans and let it play out and get back to normal faster as the disease doesnt seem that bad, to lets lock everyone down it s gonna be a disaster.
I have now settled on... having no idea what to think about it. I have found myself agreeing with posts that contradict each other....
I do know I hate the media though.
And anyone why hoardes toilet paper should be stripped of the right to vote or drive a car.
We now have a ban on all Aircraft travel whether internal or abroad. I'm interested in what other large NZ based companies are doing.
the wife's firm has now banned all "non essential" travel, which included her trip this weekend.
I know of a large engineering firm that has banned all travel worldwide.
here in the tourism industry, we are of the opinion you should all come to the tropical North Queensland. and spend money.
Come to NQ - the Coronavirus won't have a chance if the crocs, stonefish, jellyfish, taipans and redbacks get you first
locals.
They come under the 'general ferals' category.
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@Rembrandt said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@antipodean said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Hooroo said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
After some heavy in depth analysis, listening the experts, scientists and facebook.. I ahve decided
I ahve no fucking idea what to think. Like none at all. I swing between just saying fuck it, lets just lift all bans and let it play out and get back to normal faster as the disease doesnt seem that bad, to lets lock everyone down it s gonna be a disaster.
I have now settled on... having no idea what to think about it. I have found myself agreeing with posts that contradict each other....
I do know I hate the media though.
And anyone why hoardes toilet paper should be stripped of the right to vote or drive a car.
We now have a ban on all Aircraft travel whether internal or abroad. I'm interested in what other large NZ based companies are doing.
the wife's firm has now banned all "non essential" travel, which included her trip this weekend.
I know of a large engineering firm that has banned all travel worldwide.
here in the tourism industry, we are of the opinion you should all come to the tropical North Queensland. and spend money.
Wife is currently in Japan and says the discounting is enormous, particularly in hotels.
How good would it be if you were one of the first diagnosed and recovered. Best time to go on a bit of a world tour taking up the cheap flights and hotels knowing you are likely immune from further infection.
i am thinking of cancelling all our accommodation and rebooking at cheaper rates.
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@Rembrandt said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@antipodean said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Hooroo said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
After some heavy in depth analysis, listening the experts, scientists and facebook.. I ahve decided
I ahve no fucking idea what to think. Like none at all. I swing between just saying fuck it, lets just lift all bans and let it play out and get back to normal faster as the disease doesnt seem that bad, to lets lock everyone down it s gonna be a disaster.
I have now settled on... having no idea what to think about it. I have found myself agreeing with posts that contradict each other....
I do know I hate the media though.
And anyone why hoardes toilet paper should be stripped of the right to vote or drive a car.
We now have a ban on all Aircraft travel whether internal or abroad. I'm interested in what other large NZ based companies are doing.
the wife's firm has now banned all "non essential" travel, which included her trip this weekend.
I know of a large engineering firm that has banned all travel worldwide.
here in the tourism industry, we are of the opinion you should all come to the tropical North Queensland. and spend money.
Wife is currently in Japan and says the discounting is enormous, particularly in hotels.
How good would it be if you were one of the first diagnosed and recovered. Best time to go on a bit of a world tour taking up the cheap flights and hotels knowing you are likely immune from further infection.
I know people that are taking holidays for that very reason - unbelievable deals.
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Best value holiday I ever booked was immediately after Sadaam invaded Kuwait. 10 days in Luxor - flights 5 star accommodation, own guide - basically a Platinum holiday package at budget pricing.
Poor old Egypt was almost empty of tourists - apparently because a majority of Yanks were too afraid to travel anywhere within 1,000kms of Iraq.
There are already some very tasty holiday deals on the market. Kerala's got a functioning health system and is looking quite good. Only thing giving me pause is the rest of India could get quite... interesting - very quickly.
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