Coronavirus - Overall
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
we've sort of been prepping for this scenario. My biggest concern is if you grind everything to a halt for that long, how long does it take for the wheels to start turning again after? does 1 month of no business easily slip in to 2? Who can survive that?
Isn't the point of slowing it down to give the medical system a chance to respond, and therefore save more lives? I think it's a tradeoff though - economic slowdowns have real impacts on mortality; in some ways getting through this and moving on is critical.
I'm not a disease expert, but the ones I have read seem to say this doesn't mutate like the flu - so once you're immune, you're immune. So get it, then get crusiing
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Working from home today (have a bit of a cold ... well at least I hope that's all it is) and there's seagulls going crazy all over my balcony. I've never seen a seagull on my balcony. It's the end of days.
Also on the people going crazy thing, the supermarkets in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney were as hammered as any of the "Asian" suburbs. Tip for Aussies out there, Mitre 10's have toilet paper in stock if you get desperate.
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My two cents worth on the panic buying. I'm going to assume a lot of the initial "panic buyers" that are being mentioned on these boards are recent immigrants from mainland China. They will be communicating mainly in Chinese still, will get most of their information from the internet in Chinese based in China, will have strong communications with family and friends back "home", and will be somewhat isolated from the general society in which they live (Auckland/Sydney). In other words, rightly or wrongly they would have been living the "horror" of the situation in China. Really confusing for the average laid back Kiwi seeing all these shocked looking people buying lots of shit they didn't need.
Saying "Oi, recent immigrants from China, just calm the f%#k down" is probably not a problem. The trouble is the idiotic natural tendency of people to say "Oi, Asians, just calm the f%#k down".
During the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake here in Japan, the foreign community behaved similarly. Being cut off linguistically and somewhat isolated from the general society, a lot panicked and went full retard. One guy left his wife and small kids here in Japan and ran back to Germany! -
so yeah, i am actively investigating binning our Europe trip in June.
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@Old-Samurai-Jack said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
My two cents worth on the panic buying. I'm going to assume a lot of the initial "panic buyers" that are being mentioned on these boards are recent immigrants from mainland China. They will be communicating mainly in Chinese still, will get most of their information from the internet in Chinese based in China, will have strong communications with family and friends back "home", and will be somewhat isolated from the general society in which they live (Auckland/Sydney). In other words, rightly or wrongly they would have been living the "horror" of the situation in China. Really confusing for the average laid back Kiwi seeing all these shocked looking people buying lots of shit they didn't need.
Saying "Oi, recent immigrants from China, just calm the f%#k down" is probably not a problem. The trouble is the idiotic natural tendency of people to say "Oi, Asians, just calm the f%#k down".
During the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake here in Japan, the foreign community behaved similarly. Being cut off linguistically and somewhat isolated from the general society, a lot panicked and went full retard. One guy left his wife and small kids here in Japan and ran back to Germany!Lots of that. Lot's of caucasian folks at our local too. One guy had 7 jumbo bottles of Listerine in his basket, I'm thinking WTF
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@canefan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Old-Samurai-Jack said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
My two cents worth on the panic buying. I'm going to assume a lot of the initial "panic buyers" that are being mentioned on these boards are recent immigrants from mainland China. They will be communicating mainly in Chinese still, will get most of their information from the internet in Chinese based in China, will have strong communications with family and friends back "home", and will be somewhat isolated from the general society in which they live (Auckland/Sydney). In other words, rightly or wrongly they would have been living the "horror" of the situation in China. Really confusing for the average laid back Kiwi seeing all these shocked looking people buying lots of shit they didn't need.
Saying "Oi, recent immigrants from China, just calm the f%#k down" is probably not a problem. The trouble is the idiotic natural tendency of people to say "Oi, Asians, just calm the f%#k down".
During the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake here in Japan, the foreign community behaved similarly. Being cut off linguistically and somewhat isolated from the general society, a lot panicked and went full retard. One guy left his wife and small kids here in Japan and ran back to Germany!Lots of that. Lot's of caucasian folks at our local too. One guy had 7 jumbo bottles of Listerine in his basket, I'm thinking WTF
plan on giving a lot of blowjobs?
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ASX rallied above 5000 and then fell through the floor. Dead cat bounce.
Shit time to retire on your super.
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I was working in China in January and February, and the city was on lockdown for a couple of weeks of that. Main problem was the combination of that and Chinese New Year made it difficult to get deliveries (you could still go to the supermarket) locally and from JD and Taobao. Those were returning to normal as I left though (the day before I left, a two week delayed order of produce from JD arrived).
In the supermarkets there was everything except about half of the produce, especially lettuce etc. That was returning to normal though apparently.
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@nzzp said in Blues v Lions:
Anyone think there's a risk of this being played in an empty stadium (jokes about Blues crowds aside)? Pasifika done, ODI and F1 behind closed doors; are we goign the same way?
Well, it's going ahead at the moment. Brave call by Super; I'm going out on a limb and betting that by next weekend the games will be heavily affected; either not being played, or with no crowds.
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@JK said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Nepia said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Oh also, fuck coronavirus - Pixies cancelled this weekend.
No consolation but they were awesome last friday!
No consolation? That's more like kicking me when I'm down.
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@Nepia said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@JK said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Nepia said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Oh also, fuck coronavirus - Pixies cancelled this weekend.
No consolation but they were awesome last friday!
No consolation? That's more like kicking me when I'm down.
I should mention I'm now sick working from home but think its just friday-itis. Usually clears by about 3pm
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@JK said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Nepia said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@JK said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Nepia said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Oh also, fuck coronavirus - Pixies cancelled this weekend.
No consolation but they were awesome last friday!
No consolation? That's more like kicking me when I'm down.
I should mention I'm now sick working from home but think its just friday-itis. Usually clears by about 3pm
Yeah, mine should clear up in time for the rugby this afternoon, although I was meeting a mate at a new ribs place to watch it near work which I was looking forward to, but, he's a banker so he'll probably have to stay in the office anyway.
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
so yeah, i am actively investigating binning our Europe trip in June.
Might have the place to yourself.
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@Virgil said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
so yeah, i am actively investigating binning our Europe trip in June.
Might have the place to yourself.
that is a very good point