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spooly74 said:
Long Copper in the Brave New World that awaits?

https://www.fastcompany.com/90476550/copper-kills-coronavirus-why-arent-our-surfaces-covered-in-it

https://cuverro.com/products/antimicrobial-copper-iphone-case
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Maybe one reason why coins have had such a high copper content historically, albeit not the main reason. Money has always been labelled a 'dirty' transmitter of diseases, I guess the copper has insufficient contact with the nasty little bacterii when transferred from one hand to another.
Interesting, maybe surfaces particularly taps and door handles may start to return to copper or brass.

Think about this and spread the message (I don't see it much in the clean hands procedure). Before and after washing your hands for 20 seconds thoroughly you touch the SAME tap. The bugs are put on the tap then wait there while you clean your hands and jump back on (figuratively speaking) when you turn off the tap.
Give the tap a wash or wipe with sterilizer too.
 
In case you are now wondering about copper content in our coins...(ok ok you weren't)...
Right now all circulating Australian coins are made of two different metal alloys. 5 cent, 10 cent, 20 cent, and 50 cent coins are silvery grey in colour and made from an alloy of 75% copper and 25% nickel. This alloy is typically referred to as Copper/Nickel or sometimes CuNi. The other two coins you’re going to find in your change the one dollar and two dollar coins and are pale gold in colour. These are made from alloy of 92% copper and 8% aluminium which is called Aluminium Bronze or AlBr.

https://www.australian-coins.com/collecting-coins/what-are-australian-coins-made-of/
 
jbocker said:
In case you are now wondering about copper content in our coins...(ok ok you weren't)...
Right now all circulating Australian coins are made of two different metal alloys. 5 cent, 10 cent, 20 cent, and 50 cent coins are silvery grey in colour and made from an alloy of 75% copper and 25% nickel. This alloy is typically referred to as Copper/Nickel or sometimes CuNi. The other two coins you’re going to find in your change the one dollar and two dollar coins and are pale gold in colour. These are made from alloy of 92% copper and 8% aluminium which is called Aluminium Bronze or AlBr.

https://www.australian-coins.com/collecting-coins/what-are-australian-coins-made-of/
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If we do end up with cash less or even coinless currency, I wonder if there will be a noticeable drop in demand for copper and nickel.
 
jbocker said:
Think about this and spread the message (I don't see it much in the clean hands procedure). Before and after washing your hands for 20 seconds thoroughly you touch the SAME tap. The bugs are put on the tap then wait there while you clean your hands and jump back on (figuratively speaking) when you turn off the tap.
Give the tap a wash or wipe with sterilizer too.
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My other half is an ex nurse, she was talking to me about that exact problem and showed me how to overcome it, I have forgotten what she said, actually I don't think I was listening very well at the time.:oops:
 
wash your hands like normal and when they are dry use hand sanitiser.

then wipe the hand sanitiser bottle with sanitiser wipes as the bottle is now infected.

then wash the sanitiser wipes container with soap as that is now infected.

then you need to sanitise the taps now, cause you just used them again.. woops. maybe use the sanitiser wipes again to clean the tap, then sanitise your hands.

woops, your pockets were dirty where you kept the hand sanitiser, take your pants off and sanitise your pant shorts and you should be good to go.

woops you just used that hand sanitiser again, maybe wash that one more time to be sure.

now go to your front door and out you go. damn it you touched the door handle and forgot to put your pants on... ffs.

go back to the bathroom and start again.
 
The solution for the tap problem in public toilets and so on is to simply have a sensor in the tap which automatically switches the water on when hands are placed under.

That works provided that the temperature and flow rate are set properly and not to a cold, miserly drizzle by those who prioritise saving a few $ over people washing their hands properly.

Have the doors so that they open outwards and can be foot operated, no touching required, or better still sliding door that opens automatically.
 
I'll simply say that a definite pattern is forming in Victoria and that something is seriously wrong when individuals are being directed by police to not engage in lawful activity, failing to do which then leaves them exposed to substantial costs financially.

https://www.realestate.com.au/news/...t-homes-still-ok/?rsf=syn:news:nca:hs:article

Fair enough it's an emergency and so on but to the extent there's an excuse it's for failing to enforce a new law due to lack of awareness, not for enforcing laws which have never existed.

My thinking is it'll go one of two ways. Either Victoria achieves a substantially superior medical outcome and the means of achieving it is overlooked or the heavy handed "guilty until proven innocent, take us to court" enforcement approach ends up as a political and economic problem in the absence of clear benefits compared to the approach taken in other states. :2twocents
 
We are the world's leading nanny state Smurf....as you have observed by the signage at the State borders.

We seem to love being one. Friends of ours two days ago had a lane party where they blocked off the lane behind their house and everyone celebrated by partying in their section of the lane, whete their particular house is, for a 60th birthday.

Someone told the police! They all got their names taken and warned.
 
Knobby22 said:
We are the world's leading nanny state Smurf....as you have observed by the signage at the State borders.

We seem to love being one. Friends of ours two days ago had a lane party where they blocked off the lane behind their house and everyone celebrated by partying in their section of the lane, whete their particular house is, for a 60th birthday.

Someone told the police! They all got their names taken and warned.
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You may snicker but most of the usual libertarians are actually happy with the measures taken, with the exception of the odd (and oddball) ones displayng a "Free the refugees" in relation to rents.

Duh well what do you expect? Then "everyone" else would start doing it and our nanny state would end up looking like a Ruby Princess party for 60 year olds trying to catch their breath.
 
""The crisis is set to amplify three trends. First, a quicker adoption of new technologies. The planet is having a crash course in e-commerce, digital payments and remote working. More medical innovations beckon, including gene-editing technologies. Second, global supply chains will be recast, speeding the shift since the trade war began. Apple has just 10 days’ worth of inventory, and its main supplier in Asia, Foxconn, 41 days. Firms will seek bigger safety buffers and a critical mass of production close to home using highly automated factories. Cross-border business investment could drop by 30-40 per cent this year. Global firms will become less profitable but more resilient.

The last long-term shift is less certain and more unwelcome: a further rise in corporate concentration and cronyism, as government cash floods the private sector and big firms grow even more dominant. Already, two-thirds of US industries have become more concentrated since the 1990s, sapping the economy’s vitality. Now powerful bosses are heralding a new era of co-operation between politicians and businesses — especially those on the ever-expanding list of firms that are considered “strategic”.

Voters, consumers and investors should fight this idea since it will mean more graft, less competition and slower growth.""

The Economist
 
Knobby22 said:
We are the world's leading nanny state Smurf....as you have observed by the signage at the State borders.

We seem to love being one. Friends of ours two days ago had a lane party where they blocked off the lane behind their house and everyone celebrated by partying in their section of the lane, whete their particular house is, for a 60th birthday.

Someone told the police! They all got their names taken and warned.
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Knobby dont know about Vic but WA has taken it seriously couldn't actually image its happening here
 
Dona Ferentes said:
Second, global supply chains will be recast, speeding the shift since the trade war began. Apple has just 10 days’ worth of inventory, and its main supplier in Asia, Foxconn, 41 days. Firms will seek bigger safety buffers and a critical mass of production close to home using highly automated factories. Cross-border business investment could drop by 30-40 per cent this year. Global firms will become less profitable but more resilient.
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The supply chains are not the problem, it's the "just in time" part of the supply chain that has proven to be the problem, easy fix is hold more stock.
 
So_Cynical said:
The supply chains are not the problem, it's the "just in time" part of the supply chain that has proven to be the problem, easy fix is hold more stock.
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Sounds great, but why hold more stock, less stock, increased profit and cash flows.

Stock holdings, have always been a balancing act, nothing has changed.

And who cares, if you cannot buy a iphone for the next 2 years, how is that going to impact on society?

I guess, it will make the appreciate what they have and that is not the latest phone, that for all intensive purposes does the same as the last 3 generations of phones.
 
an interesting experiment to see how we can function in a Covid world.

Coronavirus: Germany puts on crowded concerts to study risks

Scientists in Germany have held three pop concerts in a single day to investigate the risks posed by mass indoor events during the pandemic. About 1,500 healthy volunteers aged between 18 and 50 - only a third of the expected number - took part.

But the head of the study, which was carried out in Leipzig by Halle University, said he was "very satisfied" with how the event unfolded.
Singer-songwriter Tim Bendzko agreed to perform at all three successive gigs.
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The first of Saturday's three concerts aimed to simulate an event before the pandemic, with no safety measures in place. The second involved greater hygiene and some social distancing, while the third involved half the numbers and each person standing 1.5m apart.

All participants were tested for Covid-19 before taking part, and given face masks and tracking devices to measure their distancing. Researchers reportedly also used fluorescent disinfectants to track which surfaces audience members touched the most.
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