Coronavirus - Overall
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Those of you that have young adult children, as I do. How are you finding it trying to convince them to take this shit seriously?
I came home early yesterday and the womanchild had made herself pancakes(got the first batch wrong which I found in the bin), toasted sandwiches(which she did not fully eat) and several fruit smoothies. All in all she used 6 eggs, half a pack of bacon, a can of spaghetti, 3 apples, half a pack of frozen blueberries, 2 banana, half a loaf of bread and half a pack of flour.
It was like Danny Mcbride in this is the end.
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@raznomore That's annoying, I think it would be hard enough to get adults adjusted to the concept of not having enough food let alone teens. I had a chat with my Mrs last night regarding this, we are prepped for an easy 3 weeks but as there is so much unknown we're going to start reducing portions immediately. Nothing drastic but just try and get an extra few days out of it..not to mention family that suddenly realise that maybe the folk whose warnings weeks ago you thought were alarmist bs might actually have some spare food.
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@nzzp said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
@dogmeat nice work,
I just kegged a NEIPA, with another 35L ready for the boys at the weekend. Can't wait to work from home too... overdue to do another brisket.
I didn't realise I was a closeted gay man until just now
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
I've made another 20 litres of beer, got three more bags of charcoal and have a lamb and half a beast in the freezer.
I'm ready to ….work… from home.
You sound ready to lead the charge on the BBQ/food thread
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@Old-Samurai-Jack We are pretty bad for diabetes (about 2x the rate of UK). China's age adjusted rate is even higher than ours. Not sure of it in the elderly population (lot of smokers though).
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@Catogrande said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
It's difficult for them to pass on interest rate cuts for fixed rate lending, over and above the fact that it's fixed rate The lenders will have borrowed long at a fixed rate and then leveraged that to their borrowers. It will take time for the lenders to arrange new long term fixed rate money to offer new borrowers at lower fixed rates. if this is possible at all in the current climate.
Well ANZ have cut fixed ..... others to follow in due course
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@Tim said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
@Old-Samurai-Jack We are pretty bad for diabetes (about 2x the rate of UK). China's age adjusted rate is even higher than ours. Not sure of it in the elderly population (lot of smokers though).
Non insulin diabetics are generally of poorer health because their lifestyle choices got them there. They will be at significant risk
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Quite a good piece on assessing the risk:
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So I flew into Queenstown today from Bali via transit in Sydney. Single temp check at the airport in Bali. No checks in Oz in transit, but that's not surprising.
In Queenstown we had an extra form to complete at arrival in terminal, then they had a couple of nurses advising the self iso procedures. No temperature checks, and no proof required of our self iso plans (we have14 days accom booked here in QT).
Pretty easy to bluff your way through if you planned to ignore the rules.
The worst thing - my 11yr old gets to our accom and realised he has left his phone on the plane. Of course there is no chance of getting someone at the airport on the phone to help find it, and as I'm isolating I can't go back to the airport.
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@Tim Made for an interesting read, there are a few things we do know.
In Italy they are at 2,503 deaths and going at around 300 deaths a day due to coronavirus. They have lots of restrictions in place.
A study between 2013-2017 recorded 68,000 deaths from influenza. Or roughly 46 a day on average. And this is with no restrictions in place.In the last year they had 2 million cases of the flu. Now if 2 million people got Corona I wonder what the death count would be.
*https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971219303285
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@MajorRage said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
Well that seals it. I’m now officiallly miffed.
IR35 has been canned.
That 30 % pay cut was worth it. Although job security prob not such a bad thing at the moment.
Fucken IR35! All I've heard about for months from Bonesetta. She'd be stoked about that...but of course is now worried her contract is in jeopardy...
I might stay in Manchester.
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@Nepia said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
So I just missed out on TP at the Supermarket this morning ... I have a pack at home but would like to get another just in case one!
Got a bunch of cans of soup etc just in case and they had frozen veggies back so got a couple of 1kg bags.
Bro why are you buying cans of soup? Buy cans of stuff to make soup! Not like you won't have time...
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@JK said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
@Catogrande said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
It's difficult for them to pass on interest rate cuts for fixed rate lending, over and above the fact that it's fixed rate The lenders will have borrowed long at a fixed rate and then leveraged that to their borrowers. It will take time for the lenders to arrange new long term fixed rate money to offer new borrowers at lower fixed rates. if this is possible at all in the current climate.
Well ANZ have cut fixed ..... others to follow in due course
For existing borrowers? Surely that would be against the terms of the contract. Also very difficult to justify as interest rates generally have reduced.
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@Bones said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
@Nepia said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
So I just missed out on TP at the Supermarket this morning ... I have a pack at home but would like to get another just in case one!
Got a bunch of cans of soup etc just in case and they had frozen veggies back so got a couple of 1kg bags.
Bro why are you buying cans of soup? Buy cans of stuff to make soup! Not like you won't have time...
Most likely because I'm lazy ... and I hate cooking.
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
The worst thing - my 11yr old gets to our accom and realised he has left his phone on the plane. Of course there is no chance of getting someone at the airport on the phone to help find it, and as I'm isolating I can't go back to the airport.
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14 days in isolation without his phone?
That boy is in a time machine back to the '90s!