Coronavirus - Australia
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@kiwiwomble If you're talking about the Peacock Inn in Melbourne, maybe try getting your facts right. Pub was shut and the booze was bought at a different site.
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@kiwiwomble said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@canefan apparently not, given the pub crawl over the weekend and even a local pub that was taking the piss just selling to a big crowd out front they are hopefully just being super cautious
This one. The owner has been on the news for the last couple of days
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@tkh I wasn't, hence why I didn't name them...like you have
I was referring to the north port hotel in Port Melbourne who after selling out of take away food within a couple of hours proceeded to keep selling booze in take away cups to the crowd on the road in front
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@kiwiwomble said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@tkh I wasn't, hence why I didn't name them...like you have
I was referring to the north port hotel in Port Melbourne who after selling out of take away food within a couple of hours proceeded to keep selling booze in take away cups to the crowd on the road in front
Yeah, sure thing. That owner has been copping it everywhere and just looked broken yesterday
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Australia:
Troops on the Qld/NSW border
Typical. Our dystopian overlords love an opportunity to have the army involve in civilian life.
Imagine staying at the Mantra Twins and wanting some McDonalds.
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@crazy-horse said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Australia:
Troops on the Qld/NSW border
Sounds sinister but it isn't. Police need a helping hand. They are stretched close to breaking. Hotel security, home compliance checks, border check points, investigating Covid breaches, needing to isolate because of possible exposure...all on top of normal duties for which police are under staffed and under resourced for anyway.
It's either the army or private security. I know who I would prefer helping.
yeah i massively over-egged it on purpose.
Not an untrue statement however, and that's what makes it interesting times
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My wife's most common comment whenever I mention the Oz actions towards Covid is always 'Oz, right? Not North Korea?'
She lived there a decade ago, and is finding it hard to match up her experience with that is happening now, especially in comparison to Japan, where people might expect that the government would be very strict but in reality are very limited in how they can influence local people going about their everyday lives.
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@canefan said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Australia:
Which begs the question, how is covid19 going in Afghanistan?
the women are all in masks, the army socially distanced, they kneel down to pray (Covid only operates at normal standing head height apparently). So they are all good
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fuckety fuck fuck...57 In vic
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@kiwiwomble said in Coronavirus - Australia:
fuckety fuck fuck...57 In vic
you guys need to lock down harder. why is your government so passive? Why won't people in Melbourne do the right thing like people in checks notes to see who is left Queensland?
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@kiwiwomble said in Coronavirus - Australia:
fuckety fuck fuck...57 In vic
Not as bad as the headline suggests. 41 of those are day 13 quarantine tests, because 13 days ago was when they had the Al Taqua college cases that put hundreds of people in isolation.
Significant Vic numbers are 3 mystery cases, and 13 in the community for at least part of the time. Much better than 57, but still not really shifting the right way
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Australia:
That's a bold call when 75% of cases the status is 'under investigation'.
I think she's talking about the ones they've managed to track down.
Which, given it has been 30% minimum per day, is quite the backlog.
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@majorrage said in Coronavirus - Australia:
So what do people think here. Are these numbers recoverable to zero-covid, or is is now a matter of living with it?
How big were the Melbourne numbers which they contained back to zero, and how long was their lockdown?
Not sure we can get them back to zero, and NSW has never really had a zero policy. It’s always been a manage numbers with contact tracing. The state Premier is waiting on vaccinations and then she’ll ease some of the public health orders.
Vic might be able to get back down closer to zero if they’re able to contain things down there. I think they hit 700 odd at their peak.