Coronavirus

[Sintiger]

the Libs core ideology is so bankrupt.

Its 'small government' when it comes to spending;

'big government' when it comes to subsidising business, handing out public minerals or water to their family and friends, or deporting people

and 'what government?' when it comes to accountibility.

Anyone who votes for them, who doesnt own a coal mine or a cotton farm or plan on tendering for a secret govt contract,

Is a) stupid, or b) a *smile*

This is what they are going to run with in the election. “ Labor wants to take over your lives, we believe in people making their own choices” . It is obvious that this is their election slogan come up with by the political marketing gurus.
The scary thing is that it might work.

 

[jb03]

What does "personal responsibility" even mean. Geez the glib *smile* throwaway headlines are nonsensical and grate.

 

[Baloo]

What does "personal responsibility" even mean. Geez the glib *smile* throwaway headlines are nonsensical and grate.

That's the problem with the Press in this country, they don't push him. He mase some comment about not enforcing sunscreen in summer, yet kids at school do have a No Hat No Play policy.

 

[MD Jazz]

so anyway, my work Xmas party was last Friday. i didn’t go because I was still quarantine. The restaurant is now an exposure site. With testing sites stretched in the leadup to Xmas, I’m expecting everyone to be off for the rest of the week. our work Xmas volumes are 33% higher than last years records. crazy times.

Yeh I work in logistics and its insane right now. Labour hire companies cannot get staff, transport companies cannot get staff and you lump on work related cases and the associated absences and the pressure is immense.

I cannot understand why no one seems to want to work in transport and distribution anymore. The pay is ok, although the work can be at times physical & monotonous. But there is a massive shortage of people looking and willing to work.

We got an Aust Post delivery today at work and I was speaking with the driver and he said he usually works in the office but like heaps of others from the office is out on the road delivering parcels!

The pressure people are under right now is pretty intense and combined with the current uncertainty around covid I can see a lot of family distress over this xmas/new year period. Hopefully everyone can keep their heads together and show each other some kindness and empathy.

 

[Jason King]

The SA government doesn't even provide timely information or exposure sites anymore. We went from covid zero to hundreds of cases a day that we know about and health and safety has gone out the window.

All this just as a new variant was discovered.

 

[Jason King]

Yeah mask wearing isn't being enforced in any places I've been to recently, although i did go to Chadstone a couple of weeks ago and a security guard handing out masks to those without them at the entrance.

I just think that mask wearing is such a simple thing to do that they might as well mandate it again in all public indoor settings. I doubt it'll be policed much if at all but making it official would increase compliance in public places. Scomo's recent anti-lockdown comments were typically irresponsible, if the ICU's do fill up to capacity there's not going to be much of a choice. Fingers crossed this variant is milder, the hospitals can cope and we don't have to go back into any sort of lockdown, but until we know for sure I reckon some of the simpler measures to minimise the spread should return.

If everyone wears a mask then transmission is severely halted. I don't get the pushback.

It's not like we are being asked to break stones in the summer heat. China would just disappear people with this attitude.

 

[Harry]

If everyone wears a mask then transmission is severely halted. I don't get the pushback.

It's not like we are being asked to break stones in the summer heat. China would just disappear people with this attitude.

we should be more like China

 

[Tigers of Old]

Personal responsibility.

 

[eZyT]

What does "personal responsibility" even mean. Geez the glib *smile* throwaway headlines are nonsensical and grate.

In this context, it means

'Too hard, you deal with it, how good is 'straya?'

Essentially, as they see the *smile* on an unavoidible collision course with the fan,

They are saying 'ok then, we suppose you can hold the fan'

While they'lle do what they do best ; gaslight, victim blame, misdirect public funds.

 

[Jason King]

we should be more like China

In some respects we should be, as much as it pains me to say that. What happened to the Australian way being to care and lookout for our own? Or was that just a fallacy.

 

[eZyT]

In some respects we should be, as much as it pains me to say that. What happened to the Australian way being to care and lookout for our own? Or was that just a fallacy.

Its a total fallacy.

Since its been written, Australian history is a blood soaked, treacherous, horror show.

 

[MD Jazz]

The thing about personal responsibility is it requires demonstrable leadership. When our politicians and business leaders (of all persuasions) are unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions and decisions what hope have we got of the population doing it? When there are no consequences for actions its kinda pointless. I'm all for personal responsibility but you can't be selective about it.

 

[MD Jazz]

Its a total fallacy.

Since its been written, Australian history is a blood soaked, treacherous, horror show.

you could insert World for Australia

 

[tommystigers]

Over 3700 in NSW last 24 hours, 1500+ in Vic.

And here comes QLD - 186
Let's go Queensland Let's Go! Around the 3 or 4th January I am predicting we will be about 1000 or so.

What a bunch of morons. Absolute muppets on the Gold Coast. A very small percentage check-in, wear masks, sanitise, or socially distance. They are all over each other. Up in each others faces in public. The sheer number of punters that touch the rubber escalator rails and every other public item they can find then sit down to coffee and food without washing or sanitising their hands is staggering.

And the southern hordes are arriving in numbers.

And our hospital system will choke itself because it is already stretched before any significant Covid cases.

I guess Freedom Day is about to arrive. Freedom to infest every-one you know for Christmas. Cough cough hack hack.

 

[TigerForce]

 

[tigerman]

When is Morrison going to open up Australia, put on more flights, and allow even more Australians to come home and just tell them to use common sense. No need to quarantine in hotels or quarantine facilities.

He is pathetic, and will do anything that he thinks will get him a vote.

 

[Brodders17]

In some respects we should be, as much as it pains me to say that. What happened to the Australian way being to care and lookout for our own? Or was that just a fallacy.

I think this government does lead by example there. All they do is lookout for "their own."

 

[Jason King]

Its a total fallacy.

Since its been written, Australian history is a blood soaked, treacherous, horror show.

Wish I had a solution mate. This is one hell of a depressing year.

 

[Panthera Tigris]

And here comes QLD - 186
Let's go Queensland Let's Go! Around the 3 or 4th January I am predicting we will be about 1000 or so.

What a bunch of morons. Absolute muppets on the Gold Coast. A very small percentage check-in, wear masks, sanitise, or socially distance. They are all over each other. Up in each others faces in public. The sheer number of punters that touch the rubber escalator rails and every other public item they can find then sit down to coffee and food without washing or sanitising their hands is staggering.

And the southern hordes are arriving in numbers.

And our hospital system will choke itself because it is already stretched before any significant Covid cases.

I guess Freedom Day is about to arrive. Freedom to infest every-one you know for Christmas. Cough cough hack hack.

Yes, as per my earlier post. My wife and I and our two little kids have a trip booked to fly to SE QLD in late Jan-early Feb. Supposed to stay some time at Coolangatta-Tweed area then head on up to Noosa for a bit of time. Given the likely spread in SE QLD and the extra management measures this will then entail. It all seems too hard. Looking at pulling the pin now and stay home to do some gardening. Not sure if I'll get my accommodation deposits back. But the flights are flexible.

 

[larabee]

Mary and Joseph denied entry to inn after failing to get negative COVID test 72 hours prior to arrival in Bethlehem

Mary and Joseph have been left scrambling for accommodation options after failing to provide a negative test result at the Bethlehem border, as per guidelines set out by Bethlehem authorities. The couple had booked a night at a Bethlehem inn which they will no longer be able to access.

Describing the queues for testing in his hometown of Nazareth as ‘*smile* ridiculous’, Joseph said he and his wife did get a test yesterday, but the results were yet to come through.

“We went to a testing site yesterday, waited for six hours, only to be told once we got to the front of the queue that it was walk-in only and that they weren’t accepting people on donkeys,” Joseph said. “So then we had to go to another site and wait another four hours. So yeah, we haven’t got our results yet”.

He said the authorities at the Bethlehem wall weren’t open to negotiation. “We explained that we’d travelled here all the way from Nazareth, with my wife pregnant, and that we hadn’t received news yet of our test result, which wasn’t our fault. He wasn’t having any of it. He said the rules were clearly stated on the publicly-available scrolls in the town square, and that they had been clearly updated two days ago. It’s such a confusing system”.

Things got worse for the couple when they realised they had forgotten to link their vaccination certificate to their check-in app, meaning they will not be able to stay in official Bethlehem inns, even once their results come through, and may have to settle for a last-minute shared barn on Airbnb.

Joseph did attempt to access his vaccination certificate at the border, but in the end decided that staying in a barn with farm animals with a pregnant wife would be less stressful than trying to navigate the MyGov website.

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Mary and Joseph denied entry to inn after failing to get negative COVID test 72 hours prior to arrival in Bethlehem

“The queues for testing are *smile* ridiculous"

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