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IMPORTANT // Please look after your loved ones, yourself and be kind to others. If you are feeling that the world is too hard to handle there is always help - I implore you not to hesitate in contacting one of these wonderful organisations Lifeline and Beyond Blue ... and I'm sure reaching out to our PRE community we will find a way to help. T.
Coronavirus
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Imagine if they locked everything down back then and there were only half a dozen new infections a day. They had to wait for a pre-defined point before pulling the trigger (the Ruby Princess positives may have hastened the decision). No idea whether they've got it right, but they've managed well to date.
Australia - first case January 25, 1200 infections
Germany - first case January 27, 22K infections
Italy - first case January 31, 54K infections
I'm hopeful we'll be able to keep the medical load manageable.
All the best to all PREnders and their families. I hope you all get through the next 6 months or so, both health wise and financially.
This hideous virus has certainly reinforced to me what is important in life, family, friends and the Tigers.
I going to pull out a bottle of red and listen to some old CD's that I have listened to for way too long.
Stay healthy every one.
This hideous virus has certainly reinforced to me what is important in life, family, friends and the Tigers.
I going to pull out a bottle of red and listen to some old CD's that I have listened to for way too long.
Stay healthy every one.
We'd still be getting today's numbers. It's the numbers that come in a week's time we'd be avoiding.
With a 14 day incubation you need to see where you are 2 weeks after a lockdown.
Yep.
Cant be expecting peeps to pay mortgages and car loans, insurance premiums including health and utility bills if they cant gain a wage.
yeah, but those people are paying for their beers easy...fortunately, the Tiger Army are very well drilled for this
Im thinking of starting a consultancy firm.
i hope those selfish *smile* don’t get a mild doseNSW Health has confirmed 18 passengers have tested positive to COVID-19 from the Ruby Princess cruise ship which docked in Sydney on March 19.
Coronavirus infects Bondi backpackers
Coronavirus has infected "several" backpackers near Sydney's famous Bondi Beach, which has been shut down after hundreds ignored urgent public health warnings.www.news.com.au
They tell me every cloud has a silver lining n I'm almost starting to believe it's true. Ever since the Coroner man has started strutting his stuff, I haven't heard a peep out of Greta Thunderpants n her Greenie mates going off. Who knows, maybe the Coroner man might wipe out everyone long before we get around to cooking the world n we won't have to put up with the city blockades n faux Greenies rabbiting on at us.
Maybe we can eliminate a few of those panic buyers on the way through as well. Bad enough they hog all the bog rolls n rice / spags etc. But hogging the booze is a disgrace. Lucky for me I did a normal bulk buy a month ago, might not have to ration too hard in the coming weeks while waiting for *smile* to return to normal
Maybe we can eliminate a few of those panic buyers on the way through as well. Bad enough they hog all the bog rolls n rice / spags etc. But hogging the booze is a disgrace. Lucky for me I did a normal bulk buy a month ago, might not have to ration too hard in the coming weeks while waiting for *smile* to return to normal
What are the players going to do for at least 9 weeks or especially the whole season. They can't just train weekly and sit out weekends. Do you get it now?
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Still scratching my head re Morrison's decision Friday week ago to wait until the Monday whilst he went to the footy & his Hillsong buddy's function finished.
Sent entirely the wrong message to the Australian public. Was pathetic then & is negligent now. Now at panic stations.
Sent entirely the wrong message to the Australian public. Was pathetic then & is negligent now. Now at panic stations.
L2 this is just purely factual!
How dare the government not have stopped this before it left China. Hell why didnt they stop it in Hubei before it left those city limits.
These knockers are just plain painful tossers.
Keep up the good posting.
Christ. If anyone is already feeling scared then don't watch the PM's presser going on right now. Never seen such a train wreck.
The states are lucky they have Premiers who seem to have a better handle on the messaging and leadership.
The states are lucky they have Premiers who seem to have a better handle on the messaging and leadership.
Australia population 25.5 million (size 7.692 million square kilometers)
Germany population 85 million (size 357,021 square kilometers)
Italy population 60.60 million (size 301,300 km square kilometers)
We're not comparing apples to apples here.
You reckon?
“Let’s cut to the chase,” he fires down the phone line, before even being asked a question. “They were warned 12 weeks ago by WHO [the World Health Organization] and others what was coming. They did not accumulate test kits. They did not accumulate the necessary emergency equipment. They did not undertake a public education campaign. They gave no money to science, no money to research, no money to the International Vaccine Institute, no money to WHO. They diligently did not do anything useful.”
Bowtell is an adjunct professor at the Kirby Institute for infection and immunity at the University of New South Wales. He was the architect of Australia’s world-leading response to the AIDS epidemic several decades ago. More recently, he worked for 15 years with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He knows a bit about the insidious way diseases spread.
“I am deeply scared,” he says, twice, before substituting the more moderate word “concerned”. But the examples he cites are more than concerning: they are scary.
New coronavirus cases in Spain are growing exponentially. In Denmark, infections are up tenfold in a week. In Norway, up sixfold. Italy, where the authorities acted way too late, has had almost 36,000 confirmed cases and 3000 deaths.
In contrast, Bowtell and other public health experts point to a handful of nations – China, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong – that responded early and decisively and have succeeded in flattening the curve of infections, if not stopping the spread of Covid-19 almost completely. We should have been emulating them, says Bowtell, but instead Australia’s response to the plague has been more akin to Europe and America.
“WE WERE OUT THERE THUMPING OUR CHESTS AND PUTTING PEOPLE ON CHRISTMAS ISLAND, BUT WE SHOULD HAVE AT THE SAME TIME BEEN SAYING, ‘OKAY, WHAT ARE THE SCENARIOS FROM HERE? CAN WE ORDER SOME ICU MACHINES? WHAT ELSE WILL WE NEED?’ ”
Australia’s slow reaction is all the more unforgiveable because we were granted, largely due to good luck and geographic isolation, the luxury of time to watch and learn. But we were slow learners. Now, the spread of the disease is showing up deficiencies in our short-term response as well as pre-existing shortcomings in Australia’s health system.
What Morrison did wrong on coronavirus
As the number of cases escalates, experts say the PM moved too slowly to contain the threat of Covid-19, straining our already under-resourced health system.
Yes these are stats that suggest we have done ok but from what I understand the next 2-3 weeks are crucial. Our curve is flatter than the European countries for sure but we need to keep it there or we are going to have some hospitals in major cities that will be 80% intensive care beds.
This is what has caused all the problems in Italy, the spike was very quick and their health system (which is actually very good) got completely overwhelmed. Hospitals in northern Italy are now largely intensive care, palliative care and morgues.
We can’t allow this to happen here which is why these actions are so important.
Please everyone, if you are not essential services then stay home
Yeah we botched it. And all the sports should have ceased immediately as it was the wrong message to send to the people and thus the general apathy that existed a week or two ago. Same as the Grand Prix too but there seem to be some dollars involved there with state government depending on who pulled the pin.
