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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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rederob said:
And then I said you are still sending your kids to school and there is no testing happening at all.
When I asked if they knew if other school kid's parents had recently travelled overseas the penny dropped.
Tomorrow their kids are staying home and wont' be returning to school until the threat is over...
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Have had my kids out of school completely since last Wednesday.... one couldn't get out of bed on the Tuesday... the other one went to sick bay, sore throat and headache, so picked her up.
Didn't send them back after the missus came back from Beijing in the Thursday.
Duty of care and all that....was going to send them on Friday... just to rattle a few cages...:cool::D but didn't want a bun fight.

F.Rock
 
Drove past centrelink this morning and the line was around the block. Huge mix of people.
 
Humid said:
https://www.kegland.com.au/fermzilla-27l-conical-uni-tank-fermenter-now-with-stainless-handle.html
I'm looking at one of these if we go into serious lock down
Or even if we don't
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Looks good but cleaning it out post-brewing may be an issue, through that small opening at the top. Or to take SG readings.
A good old food grade plastic brewing pail, with a snap on lid is so much easier.
But yes home brewing might get a boost in these times, I heard there runs on bottle shops recently
 
a personal story: Australia is still in denial;
Going for flu shot yesterday at local chemist: relatively upper class northwest Brisbane suburbs
drive, park, 3 of us put on surgical masks (purchased on eBay in January) and here we go;
Obviously the only people around with masks, stared as we were aliens, wonder if we are on facebook now...
waited in chemist in line for 20min, none of the chemist assistants were wearing either mask or gloves, people lining for their prescription coughing, etc...
A big sign saying "avoid touching surface etc" and every single customer touching the counter putting phone down, just having hands on the glass surface...till the next one;
From memory 20,000 people in local population, high level of consultants executives etc so flying in out, traveling, working in hospitals, etc => it is nearly impossible statistically for no infected person visiting that chemist in the last week or so...And this is a relatively lengthy process
line, wait, give prescription to chemist , line again and wait then take prescription and potentially line wait and pay, a COVID19 paradise....
This is absolutely crazy.I contacted the owner privately and her answer is that she follows the state guidelines..and no doubt she does but ...
If they were just wearing masks, at the very least it could maybe trigger a wake up call in the population, and even save their lives and or some of their patients/community members
Asians are in disbelief with the way westerners are NOT using masks, this is denial
 
i think i'm at risk, considerably. one here is a nurse, and they're preparing for battle very soon.

U know there was a spike in summer here with the flu. the media reported it. i also had a strange flu which did tax me a little. same thing however happened with the 1918 flu - preceding summer had a spike in flu. maybe many of us already got it in summer
 
The authorities must be annoyed, with the complete lack of regard you are talking about frog.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...irus-in-sydney-hospitals-20200323-p54cy3.html
It all boils back to attitude and Australia has plenty of that.:(

NAB sacks an employee who falsified a positive corona virus test result.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/ban...itive-covid-19-diagnosis-20200323-p54d6u.html
From the article:

Last Tuesday (17 March) we advised that a colleague who worked on the ground floor at 700 Bourke Street had tested positive to COVID-19. We vacated the building for a pandemic clean and our colleagues from 700 Bourke have since been working remotely," Ms Ferrier wrote in the email, seen by The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
"We have since determined the testing information provided by the colleague appears to have been falsified. The colleague subsequently undertook a test which was negative. Reflecting the severity of this matter, the colleague will not be returning to NAB.
"We certainly regret the uncertainty this has caused for our colleagues in 700 Bourke Street, particularly those working closely with the colleague in question. We have spoken to them and offered assistance, given the stress this situation would have caused.
 
i think a good tip is to keep your throat moist. just assume you'll get it, and start sipping warm tea etc. every day. and gargle salt.
 
Logique said:
Looks good but cleaning it out post-brewing may be an issue, through that small opening at the top. Or to take SG readings.
A good old food grade plastic brewing pail, with a snap on lid is so much easier.
But yes home brewing might get a boost in these times, I heard there runs on bottle shops recently
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Yeah I know what you mean but the decanting is worth it ithink
 
u know those 95 masks don't protect you. or they do at times... maybe one can just shut their mouth when around people and hold your breath in. i was doing that today.
 
Hydroxychloroquine is showing promise. A few cases where it has cured symptoms. Getting a bad rap from media because trump talked about it.
 
if the stock market further crashes (goes down further to gfc levels), how will things be , u think, anyone?
 
moXJO said:
Hydroxychloroquine is showing promise. A few cases where it has cured symptoms. Getting a bad rap from media because trump talked about it.
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Trump was late, testing was already under way but he claimed credit, his own medical experts played it down as efficacy still to be proven.

Anodotley supplies started running short for those that normally actually need it.
 
F---k, doesn't anyone, or is everyone just apathetic to this situation. Australians have no fighting spirit left.

This virus was released, whether intentionally or deliberate to cause chaos on western societies and financial institutions.

We have been played, by the best players in the world, the Chinese.

It has not disappeared magically from China, and total lock downs are not going to solve this issue.

A govnuts released it to cause damage, to fight a trade war, while being well aware there are going to be causalities.

Address the problem, the origin, then build a solution, our govnuts are weak and are playing exactly into the hand of the chinese. Please don't call be racist, look at facts, draw reasonable conclusions, we have all be played by the masters of concur by trade and not force.

The USA have missed this, they will enviably caused more destruction to it's people than this virus.
 
satanoperca said:
F---k, doesn't anyone, or is everyone just apathetic to this situation. Australians have no fighting spirit left.

This virus was released, whether intentionally or deliberate to cause chaos on western societies and financial institutions.

We have been played, by the best players in the world, the Chinese.

It has not disappeared magically from China, and total lock downs are not going to solve this issue.

A govnuts released it to cause damage, to fight a trade war, while being well aware there are going to be causalities.

Address the problem, the origin, then build a solution, our govnuts are weak and are playing exactly into the hand of the chinese. Please don't call be racist, look at facts, draw reasonable conclusions, we have all be played by the masters of concur by trade and not force.

The USA have missed this, they will enviably caused more destruction to it's people than this virus.
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you don't seem open to the notion of this being natural. it's happened before - the 1918 flu. it happens often throughout history.
 
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