Coronavirus - Australia
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@nta I love the irony. You drive past any school during the day right now and it is RAMMED with kids playing basketball together, scootering, hanging out. Kids can even do camps at schools for coding because it's educational.
You just can't use a school for, you know, learning stuff.
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Its pretty obvious though right?, no one likes a lockdown so tell the media its not going to happen even until the last minute. Wait until the media make a big deal out of the new numbers as they blow everything out of proportion and use that excuse to start it. Once they are in it and some are a little more comfortable with it, leaking the extension will then not come across as such a shock. For me it is just about how to minimise blow back from the majority..no surprises here
At some stage the minority will become the majority and they will not be able to play that card anymore, but until that time we will be playing that game..
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Just completed the second part of my 5G chip upload. Much quicker this time round - they seem to have their systems working a bit better.
Weirdly, I think I’m easily the oldest in the waiting area and by some distance. Did I miss the announcement that it was open to the 20s-30s?
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@nepia said in Coronavirus - Australia:
Just completed the second part of my 5G chip upload. Much quicker this time round - they seem to have their systems working a bit better.
Weirdly, I think I’m easily the oldest in the waiting area and by some distance. Did I miss the announcement that it was open to the 20s-30s?
wil be interested to hear how you feel a bit later..and if you try sell all your apple ecosystem then we will also know that there was success
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@bayimports said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@nepia said in Coronavirus - Australia:
Just completed the second part of my 5G chip upload. Much quicker this time round - they seem to have their systems working a bit better.
Weirdly, I think I’m easily the oldest in the waiting area and by some distance. Did I miss the announcement that it was open to the 20s-30s?
wil be interested to hear how you feel a bit later..and if you try sell all your apple ecosystem then we will also know that there was success
It's already more noticeable than the first one, I've got a low grade headache going on. I'll update on my Macbook tomorrow ... hopefully.
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@nepia you P-fizzy?
I finished Zenecaing my Astra yesterday ( was about 15 week gap rather than 12: had booked in for 21 June, but had to reschedule and this was the earliest available. Could perhaps have pushed and gone elsewhere but was just as easy going to same place.)
Absolutely no reaction whatsoever. Not even a sore arm.
And contrary to you Neps, was still, at 53, easily the youngest in the room (by 20+ years).
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@nepia said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@bayimports said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@nepia said in Coronavirus - Australia:
Just completed the second part of my 5G chip upload. Much quicker this time round - they seem to have their systems working a bit better.
Weirdly, I think I’m easily the oldest in the waiting area and by some distance. Did I miss the announcement that it was open to the 20s-30s?
wil be interested to hear how you feel a bit later..and if you try sell all your apple ecosystem then we will also know that there was success
It's already more noticeable than the first one, I've got a low grade headache going on. I'll update on my Macbook tomorrow ... hopefully.
Why would you need a Macbook?
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@booboo said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@nepia said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@bayimports said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@nepia said in Coronavirus - Australia:
Just completed the second part of my 5G chip upload. Much quicker this time round - they seem to have their systems working a bit better.
Weirdly, I think I’m easily the oldest in the waiting area and by some distance. Did I miss the announcement that it was open to the 20s-30s?
wil be interested to hear how you feel a bit later..and if you try sell all your apple ecosystem then we will also know that there was success
It's already more noticeable than the first one, I've got a low grade headache going on. I'll update on my Macbook tomorrow ... hopefully.
Why would you need a Macbook?
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Macbook piston wristed gibbon
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@booboo Yep P-fizzy for me.
Yeah, my mate who's an old bastard like you could pick and choose when and where he did his second Astra. But, he rocked up to his appointment and his Medicare card was out of date and they wouldn't do it even though they'd done it first time round with the same out of date card and a Medicare card isn't officially needed. He's rebooked for tomorrow after getting a new card.
As for side effects, still have a thumping headache and doubled the amount of time I slept last night - I usually have about 6, zonked out for nearly 12 after watching the Wobblies v France.
Typed on my Surface that arrived by courier this morning, which I don't remember ordering. The chip works fast.
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In completely unsurprising news, ACT has determined that its mask mandate isn't actually necessary so that finishes at midnight Friday. In any competently run jurisdiction once you'd worked out you didn't need to do something, you wouldn't wait a few days to fix the problem entirely of your own making.
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lots more cases today here, expect lockdown to be tightened surely - has to be a case for a NZ L4-style week or so to put a nail in this
Edit - I say that in the context of the current approach by other States and the Feds, it's not my preferred path if I had total control
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@voodoo they're already sending a 100-strong police taskforce (some mounted as well) into Southwest Sydney to help with the problem, so yeah something like that.
If they'd had 100 police on Bondi beach they probably could have generated a shitload of revenue and helped stop the problem but yeah it's The Poors in SW Sydney that are the issue
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@nta said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@voodoo they're already sending a 100-strong police taskforce (some mounted as well) into Southwest Sydney to help with the problem, so yeah something like that.
If they'd had 100 police on Bondi beach they probably could have generated a shitload of revenue and helped stop the problem but yeah it's The Poors in SW Sydney that are the issue
This has been a weird story. We've had people just doing what they want to do all lockdown in the city and the East (picnics in the park with police patrolling in Pyrmont FFS), yet as soon as it spreads from the East to the West they go in to full police mode. Yet, from discussions with friends out West they've been adhering to the Stay At Home Order better than us city folk and those plastic lipped twats out East.
Looks like Gladys has apologised after a night with her marketing team, similar to when she spent a night with them and then started saying lockdown after refusing to for a day.
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@nepia said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@nta said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@voodoo they're already sending a 100-strong police taskforce (some mounted as well) into Southwest Sydney to help with the problem, so yeah something like that.
If they'd had 100 police on Bondi beach they probably could have generated a shitload of revenue and helped stop the problem but yeah it's The Poors in SW Sydney that are the issue
This has been a weird story. We've had people just doing what they want to do all lockdown in the city and the East (picnics in the park with police patrolling in Pyrmont FFS), yet as soon as it spreads from the East to the West they go in to full police mode. Yet, from discussions with friends out West they've been adhering to the Stay At Home Order better than us city folk and those plastic lipped twats out East.
Looks like Gladys has apologised after a night with her marketing team, similar to when she spent a night with them and then started saying lockdown after refusing to for a day.
I'm not sure thats accurate Neps, if you believe this graph - it shows folk in the Liverpool/Campbelltown/Camden region have not slowed movements anywhere as much as the inner city latte-sippers or the Northern Beaches: