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Coronavirus (COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2) outbreak discussion

Will the "Corona Virus" turn into a worldwide epidemic or fizzle out?

  • Yes

    Votes: 37 49.3%

  • No

    Votes: 9 12.0%

  • Bigger than SARS, but not worldwide epidemic (Black Death/bubonic plague)

    Votes: 25 33.3%

  • Undecided

    Votes: 4 5.3%
  • Total voters
    75
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qldfrog said:
As for tourism import weight, let's be honest: we should add the so called education sector (fee paying foreign students in our unis and barista courses) and backpacker economic input;
all that would vanish
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and I say would, but should probably say will
 
Did the UK do a big revision down overnight?

According to Worldometers their number of cases increased approximately 1,000 overnight, but their number of deaths fell from 46,628 to 41,329 , or per million deaths 686 to 608.
 
sptrawler said:
If Victorians hadn't been such dicks, they would no doubt be up in Queensland, why everyone is making it out to be such an economic disaster is BS.
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Can you please provide some intellect to the conversation.

Really, let see overtime if you QLD's are as immune to stupidity as us Victorian's.

Really, need to think about what you say, before you say it, ah!
 
bellenuit said:
Did the UK do a big revision down overnight?

According to Worldometers their number of cases increased approximately 1,000 overnight, but their number of deaths fell from 46,628 to 41,329 , or per million deaths 686 to 608.
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https://www.ft.com/content/f51d161d-86c7-40cd-a5f6-cb72ab52b026

Edit:May need to google search to see above linked article without subscription.
Alternatively: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...oll-in-england-revised-down-by-more-than-5000
 
This was totally avoidable.

Qantas and Virgin knew the Ruby Princess was a coronavirus time bomb but were powerless to stop it
When TV networks beamed vision of passengers disembarking the Ruby Princess on the morning of March 19, airline executives were horrified.

Key points:
  • Airline bosses repeatedly had to ask Border Force whether they were flying Ruby Princess passengers
  • In the days after the ship docked, dozens of coronavirus cases flew from Sydney around Australia
  • Some Qantas crew were distressed at the prospect of working with Ruby Princess passengers
They, like most Australians, had heard the whispers the cruise ship was carrying COVID-19.

The Ruby Princess did indeed have passengers with COVID-19, although this wasn't confirmed until the day after it berthed at the Sydney Overseas Passenger Terminal.

But airlines were not wanting to take any chances. They had seen the Diamond Princess disaster unfold in Japan — an incident that saw more than 700 of the 3,711 people on board infected and 14 die from the virus.

Of course, the airlines could not have known the Ruby Princess would turn out to be even worse than its sister ship: 662 infections and at least 21 attributable
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08...s-qantas-virgin-manifest-coronavirus/12550558
 
Saw someone in their twenties died of it yesterday in Victoria.
 
Garpal Gumnut said:
Thanks for the post @satanoperca

Absolute bøllox. Lotsa nutters out there.

Conspiracy theorist. Fact check is below.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08...-aged-care-coronavirus-payment-death/12554278

gg
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Indeed. And it doesn't take much to check it out - if one wants to do so as distinct from just uncritically passing on stuff they find on the net.

Of course doing a fact check suggest one believes such authorities and the whole point of being a conspiracy theorist nutter is - not believing authorities because they are in on the conspiracy aren't they !
 
wayneL said:
Can anyone confirm or deny?

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This happened in qld. But that was during the early stages and to justify border closure. The guy was labelled a "Covid death" even though his wife called bs. It wasn't until much later that it was revealed that he didn't in fact have it. And yes its all verifiable.

Similar events in US.
 
For all this discussion about European countries it'll be interesting to see what happens over the coming months noting that they're approaching the end of summer now.
 
Hearing today about the vaccine being tested local now there are concerns with the virus not only mutating but changing over time to be as lethal or worse than the 1st SARs outbreak.

Apparently the changes being seen are a real problem.

Hoping there are smart enough people working on this to solve the problem.
 
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